Lakehouse Job Trends in the City of London

Data Lakehouse
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 118 159
Rank change year-on-year +6 +41 +33
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 28 20 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.83% 1.11% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.16% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 3
10th Percentile £77,500 £63,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £82,250 £77,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,500 £80,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +22.14% -40.45%
75th Percentile £108,625 £84,375 £78,625
90th Percentile £122,000 £97,200 £85,450
Central London median annual salary £86,500 £80,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +8.13% +22.14% -40.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,705 1,723 2,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.22% 95.88% 92.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,962 1,345 1,914
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,574
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,000 £73,400
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +0.82% -2.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the City of London

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the City of London

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (35.71%) Apache Spark
2 6 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) Azure
2 15 (53.57%) Power Platform
3 11 (39.29%) Snowflake
4 10 (35.71%) AWS
5 9 (32.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (32.14%) GCP
6 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) dbt
7 4 (14.29%) GitHub
7 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
10 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (64.29%) Data Lake
2 15 (53.57%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (50.00%) Power BI
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (25.00%) Delta Lake
4 7 (25.00%) Tableau
5 6 (21.43%) BigQuery
5 6 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (21.43%) Looker
5 6 (21.43%) Milvus
5 6 (21.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (14.29%) Metadata
6 4 (14.29%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.57%) Big Data
7 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
7 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MLflow
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Data Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Data Management Specialist
4 5 (17.86%) Product Specialist
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Databricks Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Databricks Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) PySpark
2 7 (25.00%) Kafka
3 6 (21.43%) LangChain
3 6 (21.43%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (21.43%) pgvector
3 6 (21.43%) PyTorch
3 6 (21.43%) scikit-learn
3 6 (21.43%) TensorFlow
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (21.43%) Clustering
2 6 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Analytics
2 21 (75.00%) AI
3 20 (71.43%) Data Engineering
4 19 (67.86%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
6 16 (57.14%) Data Governance
7 15 (53.57%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (50.00%) Data Science
9 13 (46.43%) Machine Learning
9 13 (46.43%) Use Case
10 12 (42.86%) Data Management
10 12 (42.86%) ETL
11 11 (39.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 9 (32.14%) Generative AI
13 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
13 8 (28.57%) DevOps
13 8 (28.57%) Presales
14 7 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
14 7 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
14 7 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 13 (46.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (25.00%) GDPR
3 6 (21.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.57%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Databricks
2 11 (39.29%) Dell
3 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (21.43%) Cloudera
5 5 (17.86%) Denodo
5 5 (17.86%) Informatica
5 5 (17.86%) Teradata
6 1 (3.57%) Remedy