Data Lake Job Trends in the East of England

Data Lakes
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 151 191
Rank change year-on-year -4 +40 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 15 7 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.28% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 1.52% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 15
10th Percentile £57,750 £65,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -9.68% +34.78%
75th Percentile £100,625 £72,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £109,250 - £112,000
England median annual salary £81,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +28.57% -12.50%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 345 460 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.45% 16.83% 16.68%
Number of salaries quoted 215 298 770
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,594 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Hertfordshire - 9 - - 4
Cambridgeshire - 4 - - 1
Bedfordshire +17 1 £110,000 +57.14% 1
Norfolk -8 1 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Snowflake
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (20.00%) AWS
5 3 (20.00%) dbt
5 3 (20.00%) GCP
6 2 (13.33%) H2O.ai
6 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (20.00%) Looker
3 3 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (20.00%) Tableau
4 2 (13.33%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Data Management Specialist
2 4 (26.67%) Product Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 5 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) LangChain
2 3 (20.00%) LlamaIndex
2 3 (20.00%) pgvector
2 3 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (13.33%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) AI
2 9 (60.00%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Data Management
2 9 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 7 (46.67%) Data Science
3 7 (46.67%) Use Case
4 6 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 5 (33.33%) Presales
5 5 (33.33%) Storytelling
6 4 (26.67%) AI Transformation
6 4 (26.67%) Conversational AI
6 4 (26.67%) Conversational UI
6 4 (26.67%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (26.67%) MLOps
6 4 (26.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Databricks
2 9 (60.00%) Dell
3 4 (26.67%) Denodo
3 4 (26.67%) Informatica
3 4 (26.67%) Teradata
4 3 (20.00%) Cloudera
5 2 (13.33%) NVIDIA