Data Lake Job Trends in England

Data Lakes
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 229 225
Rank change year-on-year -33 -4 +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 424 623 690
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 1.29% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.28% 7.22% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 257 520 522
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,875 £41,263
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +27.52% -8.93%
75th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,000 £148,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £90,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -7.22% +27.52% -8.93%

All Database & 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 5,827 8,627 9,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.03% 17.92% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,870 4,853 7,988
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,780 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in England

Data Lake
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
London -54 227 £105,000 -2.33% 68
South East +75 91 £50,000 -28.57% 70
North of England -3 49 £65,000 +3.54% 39
Midlands +21 38 £62,000 +12.73% 36
North West +19 28 £75,000 +19.47% 16
West Midlands +15 23 £62,750 +0.18% 16
Yorkshire -12 18 £60,000 -4.43% 14
East Midlands -4 13 £48,500 -7.62% 20
South West +8 6 £67,000 -0.74% 22
North East +1 3 £72,500 +15.49% 9
East of England +21 2 £55,000 -21.43% 33
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 56 (13.21%) Apache
2 51 (12.03%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (8.02%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.42%) SAS
5 4 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 67 (15.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.30%) Maya
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.94%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle CRM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 284 (66.98%) Azure
2 175 (41.27%) Power Platform
3 120 (28.30%) AWS
4 105 (24.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 86 (20.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 58 (13.68%) GCP
7 45 (10.61%) dbt
7 45 (10.61%) Snowflake
8 41 (9.67%) SaaS
9 25 (5.90%) Amazon S3
9 25 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (5.19%) Serverless
11 21 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (4.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 18 (4.25%) GitHub
14 15 (3.54%) Boomi
14 15 (3.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 14 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (3.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) VPN
2 2 (0.47%) BGP
2 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.47%) Firewall
2 2 (0.47%) MQTT
2 2 (0.47%) OSPF
2 2 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.47%) RTMP
2 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.47%) VLAN
2 2 (0.47%) WAN
2 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.47%) Wireless
3 1 (0.24%) DNS
3 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (39.62%) Power BI
2 141 (33.25%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (17.69%) Metadata
4 63 (14.86%) SAP BW
5 54 (12.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
7 33 (7.78%) Apache Iceberg
7 33 (7.78%) SQL Server
8 29 (6.84%) Apache Arrow
8 29 (6.84%) Apache Ignite
8 29 (6.84%) Dremio
9 25 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (5.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 25 (5.90%) Tableau
10 19 (4.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 19 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 18 (4.25%) Data Vault
12 14 (3.30%) BigQuery
12 14 (3.30%) Delta Lake
13 13 (3.07%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (4.48%) Git
2 5 (1.18%) ER Studio
2 5 (1.18%) ERwin
2 5 (1.18%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (0.94%) GitLab
4 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.71%) MLflow
5 2 (0.47%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.24%) JIRA
6 1 (0.24%) LSMW
General
1 207 (48.82%) Finance
2 153 (36.08%) Social Skills
3 112 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (16.75%) Banking
5 44 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (8.49%) Retail
7 32 (7.55%) Financial Institution
7 32 (7.55%) Front Office
8 31 (7.31%) Investment Banking
9 30 (7.08%) Law
9 30 (7.08%) Retail Banking
10 20 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (4.25%) Marketing
12 14 (3.30%) Games
12 14 (3.30%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.89%) Legal
16 6 (1.42%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 119 (28.07%) Data Engineer
2 118 (27.83%) Senior
3 99 (23.35%) Architect
4 70 (16.51%) Data Architect
5 61 (14.39%) Lead
6 53 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 40 (9.43%) Analyst
8 34 (8.02%) Report Analyst
9 33 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (7.78%) Python Engineer
10 32 (7.55%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 29 (6.84%) AWS Software Engineer
11 29 (6.84%) Java Engineer
11 29 (6.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (6.84%) Python Software Engineer
11 29 (6.84%) Software Engineer
12 28 (6.60%) Sustainability Analyst
13 27 (6.37%) Senior Java Engineer
13 27 (6.37%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 27 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.02%) Pandas
2 31 (7.31%) NumPy
3 29 (6.84%) gRPC
3 29 (6.84%) Protocol Buffers
3 29 (6.84%) SciPy
4 22 (5.19%) PySpark
5 12 (2.83%) PyTorch
6 11 (2.59%) Keras
6 11 (2.59%) TensorFlow
7 10 (2.36%) FHIR
7 10 (2.36%) Kafka
8 6 (1.42%) EDI
9 3 (0.71%) .NET
10 2 (0.47%) FastAPI
10 2 (0.47%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.47%) RESTful
10 2 (0.47%) Spring
10 2 (0.47%) WebRTC
10 2 (0.47%) XML
11 1 (0.24%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.31%) Equities
3 30 (7.08%) Hedge funds
3 30 (7.08%) Management Information System
4 29 (6.84%) Derivative
4 29 (6.84%) Fixed Income
4 29 (6.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (6.84%) Pricing Data
5 16 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.07%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.36%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (2.36%) Life Science
9 10 (2.36%) Omics
10 8 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.65%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (54.25%) Analytics
1 230 (54.25%) Data Modelling
2 183 (43.16%) Business Intelligence
3 137 (32.31%) Agile
4 134 (31.60%) Data Governance
4 134 (31.60%) ETL
5 118 (27.83%) Data Pipeline
6 117 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (25.71%) Data Engineering
8 107 (25.24%) Data Architecture
9 96 (22.64%) Data Strategy
10 91 (21.46%) AI
11 85 (20.05%) Decision-Making
12 77 (18.16%) Data Management
13 76 (17.92%) Data Science
13 76 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 75 (17.69%) CI/CD
15 66 (15.57%) Data Integration
16 63 (14.86%) DevOps
16 63 (14.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 173 (40.80%) SQL
2 129 (30.42%) Python
3 50 (11.79%) Java
4 30 (7.08%) JavaScript
4 30 (7.08%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.19%) Scala
6 19 (4.48%) T-SQL
7 10 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.18%) Bicep
9 3 (0.71%) C#
9 3 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.24%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.24%) Julia
10 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.24%) R
10 1 (0.24%) Ruby
10 1 (0.24%) VBA
10 1 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 128 (30.19%) Degree
2 40 (9.43%) Azure Certification
3 39 (9.20%) AWS Certification
4 23 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.25%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.36%) PhD
8 9 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.65%) IIBA
9 7 (1.65%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.65%) PMP
10 6 (1.42%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.42%) Security Cleared
11 5 (1.18%) CITP
12 4 (0.94%) SC Cleared
12 4 (0.94%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (36.79%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.66%) GDPR
3 13 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.36%) CDISC
4 10 (2.36%) GxP
4 10 (2.36%) HL7
5 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.47%) IFRS
7 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.47%) QA
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
7 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.24%) GAAP
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (4.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) NFS
4 1 (0.24%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (7.55%) Terraform
2 11 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.71%) Ansible
4 3 (0.71%) Argo
5 2 (0.47%) Grafana
5 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 129 (30.42%) Databricks
2 128 (30.19%) Microsoft
3 82 (19.34%) SAP
4 27 (6.37%) Dell
5 22 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 19 (4.48%) Oracle
7 15 (3.54%) Adobe
7 15 (3.54%) MuleSoft
8 14 (3.30%) Google
9 11 (2.59%) NVIDIA
10 8 (1.89%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.89%) Anaplan
11 7 (1.65%) Informatica
12 5 (1.18%) IBM
12 5 (1.18%) Planon
13 3 (0.71%) Ariba
13 3 (0.71%) Zoho
14 2 (0.47%) MikroTik
14 2 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.47%) Ubiquiti