Data Lake Jobs in England

Data Lakes
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 257 250
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 613 924 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.24% 1.07% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.82% 6.05% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 413 763 935
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £152,500 £148,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,950 15,279 19,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.02% 17.69% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,607 11,423 11,986
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in England.

Salary trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +13 350 £110,000 -2.22% 280
South East +103 117 £65,000 +2.36% 117
North of England -19 59 £67,500 +22.73% 63
Midlands +38 50 £52,500 -8.70% 27
Yorkshire +54 28 £71,991 +6.65% 24
West Midlands +25 27 £61,250 +6.52% 18
East Midlands +20 23 £48,500 +2.11% 7
North West -53 19 £67,500 +50.00% 26
South West +67 13 £70,000 -0.82% 23
East of England +37 13 £70,000 +21.74% 4
North East +32 12 £62,779 -16.30% 15
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 83 (13.54%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (13.38%) Apache
3 38 (6.20%) Apache Spark
4 31 (5.06%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.82%) Confluence
6 4 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.28%) Maya
3 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.98%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.65%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.49%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.16%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.16%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 309 (50.41%) Azure
2 220 (35.89%) AWS
3 164 (26.75%) Power Platform
4 110 (17.94%) Snowflake
5 109 (17.78%) GCP
6 81 (13.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 79 (12.89%) dbt
8 62 (10.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 48 (7.83%) Power Automate
10 44 (7.18%) Serverless
11 43 (7.01%) Amazon S3
12 34 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
13 32 (5.22%) PowerApps
14 30 (4.89%) Dagster
14 30 (4.89%) SaaS
15 29 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (4.24%) PaaS
17 23 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.94%) DNS
2 15 (2.45%) Firewall
2 15 (2.45%) SD-WAN
2 15 (2.45%) VPN
2 15 (2.45%) WAN
3 4 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (28.55%) Data Warehouse
2 161 (26.26%) Power BI
3 82 (13.38%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (12.23%) Dremio
5 70 (11.42%) Apache Iceberg
5 70 (11.42%) Big Data
6 67 (10.93%) Apache Ignite
7 64 (10.44%) Apache Arrow
8 55 (8.97%) Metadata
9 54 (8.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (8.81%) Tableau
10 51 (8.32%) SQL Server
11 28 (4.57%) NoSQL
12 27 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 23 (3.75%) Hadoop
14 21 (3.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 21 (3.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (2.77%) Relational Database
16 15 (2.45%) MySQL
17 13 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (6.36%) Git
2 8 (1.31%) CircleCI
2 8 (1.31%) JIRA
3 7 (1.14%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.82%) MLflow
6 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.49%) ERwin
6 3 (0.49%) GitLab
6 3 (0.49%) Subversion
7 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) ESLint
8 1 (0.16%) JMeter
8 1 (0.16%) kappa
8 1 (0.16%) Sinon.JS
8 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 300 (48.94%) Finance
2 180 (29.36%) Front Office
3 133 (21.70%) Social Skills
4 124 (20.23%) Law
5 118 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
6 113 (18.43%) Banking
7 64 (10.44%) Investment Banking
8 33 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (5.06%) Retail
10 24 (3.92%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.75%) Retail Banking
12 16 (2.61%) Marketing
12 16 (2.61%) Public Sector
13 14 (2.28%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.96%) Games
15 9 (1.47%) Advertising
16 8 (1.31%) Legal
17 4 (0.65%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 159 (25.94%) Senior
2 125 (20.39%) Data Engineer
2 125 (20.39%) Lead
3 100 (16.31%) Architect
4 79 (12.89%) AWS Engineer
5 71 (11.58%) Software Engineer
6 66 (10.77%) AWS Software Engineer
7 57 (9.30%) Java Engineer
7 57 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
8 54 (8.81%) Python Engineer
9 53 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 48 (7.83%) Senior Java Engineer
10 48 (7.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 45 (7.34%) Python Software Engineer
12 44 (7.18%) Data Architect
13 41 (6.69%) Senior Data Engineer
14 34 (5.55%) Analyst
14 34 (5.55%) Developer
15 32 (5.22%) Data Governance Manager
15 32 (5.22%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.58%) Pandas
2 67 (10.93%) NumPy
2 67 (10.93%) SciPy
3 65 (10.60%) PySpark
4 64 (10.44%) gRPC
4 64 (10.44%) Protocol Buffers
5 25 (4.08%) Kafka
6 11 (1.79%) REST
7 7 (1.14%) EDI
8 6 (0.98%) .NET
8 6 (0.98%) JSON
8 6 (0.98%) RESTful
9 5 (0.82%) OAuth
9 5 (0.82%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (0.82%) Spring
10 4 (0.65%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (0.65%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.65%) pytest
11 3 (0.49%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.49%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 174 (28.38%) Equities
2 173 (28.22%) Hedge funds
3 170 (27.73%) Derivative
3 170 (27.73%) Fixed Income
3 170 (27.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 61 (9.95%) Product Ownership
5 38 (6.20%) Pricing Data
6 32 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (4.73%) Cloud Native
8 23 (3.75%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.94%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.61%) NHS
11 15 (2.45%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.47%) Algorithms
14 8 (1.31%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.98%) Reference Data
16 5 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (49.92%) Agile
2 252 (41.11%) Analytics
3 211 (34.42%) Data Governance
4 204 (33.28%) Roadmaps
5 196 (31.97%) Migration
6 193 (31.48%) Business Intelligence
6 193 (31.48%) Data Management
7 157 (25.61%) ETL
8 150 (24.47%) Data Modelling
9 147 (23.98%) Data Engineering
9 147 (23.98%) Investment Management
10 126 (20.55%) Asset Management
11 121 (19.74%) Data Architecture
12 115 (18.76%) Regulatory Compliance
13 107 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
14 99 (16.15%) Data Strategy
15 97 (15.82%) CI/CD
16 95 (15.50%) DevOps
17 91 (14.85%) Data Science
18 85 (13.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 239 (38.99%) SQL
2 226 (36.87%) Python
3 100 (16.31%) Java
4 73 (11.91%) JavaScript
5 66 (10.77%) TypeScript
6 29 (4.73%) T-SQL
7 27 (4.40%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 21 (3.43%) Scala
10 20 (3.26%) R
11 17 (2.77%) Bicep
12 12 (1.96%) C#
13 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.65%) X++
14 3 (0.49%) Bash
14 3 (0.49%) Julia
14 3 (0.49%) VBA
15 2 (0.33%) Ruby
16 1 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 119 (19.41%) Degree
2 66 (10.77%) Azure Certification
3 35 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 26 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.77%) DBS Check
6 16 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.28%) Security Cleared
8 13 (2.12%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.49%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.16%) PhD
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) PMP
11 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (16.15%) Data Quality
2 52 (8.48%) MiFID
3 39 (6.36%) QA
4 32 (5.22%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.77%) GDPR
6 7 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.98%) GxP
8 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.33%) NIST
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.33%) SEPA
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) DICOM
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (3.59%) Docker
2 17 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.82%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.49%) HDFS
5 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (3.59%) Terraform
2 15 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (2.12%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.82%) Oozie
5 3 (0.49%) Ansible
5 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.33%) Grafana
6 2 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 164 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 117 (19.09%) Databricks
3 27 (4.40%) SAP
4 26 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.75%) Google
6 22 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.77%) Oracle
8 15 (2.45%) Meraki
9 12 (1.96%) Dell
10 11 (1.79%) Adobe
10 11 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.63%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.98%) Infor
13 5 (0.82%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.65%) Nimble Storage
14 4 (0.65%) Reuters
15 3 (0.49%) IBM
15 3 (0.49%) Informatica
15 3 (0.49%) Snowplow
15 3 (0.49%) Zoho