Data Lake Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Lakes
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 112 182
Rank change year-on-year -63 +70 -53
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 3 31 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.057% 1.39% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.77% 11.15% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3 27 11
10th Percentile £39,690 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,025 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60,625 £50,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £58,150 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -22.50% +25.58%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 390 278 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.43% 12.51% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 206 197 380
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,038 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £68,750 £68,075
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the East Midlands

Data Lake
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lincolnshire - 2 £45,550 - 1
Nottinghamshire -23 1 £65,000 -13.33%
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Design
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Housing Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Management
3 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft