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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 176 138
Rank change year-on-year +4 -38 +89
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 2 4 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.060% 0.095% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.56% 0.79% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £94,982 £50,050
25th Percentile - £97,068 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £107,048 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.42% +65.38%
75th Percentile - £118,025 £111,250
90th Percentile - £120,710 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.93% +43.33% -

All Database and 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 360 505 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 10.86% 12.00% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 276 244 260
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £36,200
25th Percentile £27,500 £45,000 £43,015
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £50,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -9.91% +0.91%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £71,250 £78,750 £83,825
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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
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 14 October 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +18 1 - - 3
Essex -10 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki