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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 156 208
Rank change year-on-year -4 +52 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 26 13 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.41% 0.44% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.78% 3.47% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 11
10th Percentile £55,125 £61,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% +21.74% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile - £76,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.86% +9.38%

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 450 375 916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.18% 12.74% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 287 281 779
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,720 £39,878 £35,264
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £93,793 £83,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 - 14 - -
Bedfordshire +15 6 £110,000 +57.14% 1
Cambridgeshire -26 4 - -
Norfolk -18 1 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Suffolk - 1 £95,000 -
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 6 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Infor M3
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) Snowflake
3 11 (42.31%) Power Platform
4 8 (30.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (23.08%) AWS
5 6 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (23.08%) dbt
5 6 (23.08%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.85%) H2O.ai
7 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Broadband
1 1 (3.85%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (42.31%) Power BI
3 7 (26.92%) Tableau
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (23.08%) BigQuery
4 6 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (23.08%) Looker
4 6 (23.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.69%) Metadata
6 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
7 1 (3.85%) SAP BW
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) MLflow
General
1 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Data Management Specialist
2 6 (23.08%) Product Specialist
2 6 (23.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Head of Technology
5 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) PyTorch
1 7 (26.92%) TensorFlow
2 6 (23.08%) Kafka
2 6 (23.08%) LangChain
2 6 (23.08%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (23.08%) pgvector
2 6 (23.08%) scikit-learn
3 2 (7.69%) PySpark
4 1 (3.85%) Keras
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 6 (23.08%) Clustering
1 6 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (65.38%) AI
3 15 (57.69%) Analytics
4 14 (53.85%) Data Engineering
5 13 (50.00%) Data Management
5 13 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 13 (50.00%) Use Case
6 12 (46.15%) Data Science
7 11 (42.31%) Data Governance
8 10 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (34.62%) Data Modelling
10 8 (30.77%) Dimensional Modelling
10 8 (30.77%) ETL
11 7 (26.92%) Generative AI
11 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
11 7 (26.92%) Presales
11 7 (26.92%) Storytelling
12 6 (23.08%) AI Transformation
12 6 (23.08%) Conversational AI
12 6 (23.08%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Databricks
2 13 (50.00%) Dell
3 6 (23.08%) Cloudera
3 6 (23.08%) Denodo
3 6 (23.08%) Informatica
3 6 (23.08%) Teradata
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.69%) Infor
5 2 (7.69%) SAP
6 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle