Lakehouse Job Trends in England

Data Lakehouse
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 539 683
Rank change year-on-year +140 +144 +16
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 406 118 66
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.27% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.30% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 284 80 51
10th Percentile £49,250 £54,963 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,263 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £94,000 £93,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,625 £96,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,357 38,940 57,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.80% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50,719 22,637 35,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in England

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in England over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in England

Lakehouse
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the England region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 +70 211 £85,170 +0.20% 174
North of England +12 78 £75,000 +22.45% 24
South East -4 43 £50,000 - 11
North West +22 36 £72,500 -3.33% 15
Yorkshire -6 36 £80,000 -8.57% 6
East of England +5 23 £65,000 - 4
Midlands -31 20 £67,000 +12.37% 9
South West -60 18 £86,731 -27.72% 5
West Midlands -26 11 £70,000 +16.67% 2
East Midlands -25 9 £45,000 -14.29% 7
North East -60 6 £61,250 +28.95% 3
Lakehouse
UK

Lakehouse
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 75 (18.47%) Apache Spark
2 40 (9.85%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (9.61%) Apache
4 2 (0.49%) Luigi
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.49%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 278 (68.47%) Azure
2 119 (29.31%) Power Platform
3 117 (28.82%) AWS
4 102 (25.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 89 (21.92%) Snowflake
6 87 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 65 (16.01%) GCP
8 57 (14.04%) Azure Databricks
9 48 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (9.61%) dbt
11 38 (9.36%) Microsoft Purview
12 33 (8.13%) Amazon S3
13 32 (7.88%) Serverless
14 29 (7.14%) GitHub
15 19 (4.68%) Azure Functions
16 16 (3.94%) Amazon EMR
16 16 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
18 12 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (35.47%) Data Warehouse
2 143 (35.22%) Data Lake
3 113 (27.83%) Power BI
4 74 (18.23%) Metadata
5 71 (17.49%) Delta Lake
6 46 (11.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 46 (11.33%) Tableau
7 34 (8.37%) Star Schema
8 31 (7.64%) Data Vault
9 30 (7.39%) BigQuery
10 26 (6.40%) Looker
10 26 (6.40%) Snowflake Schema
10 26 (6.40%) Spark SQL
11 23 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (5.67%) Milvus
11 23 (5.67%) Semantic Layer
12 19 (4.68%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.72%) Big Data
14 7 (1.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (8.62%) MLflow
2 19 (4.68%) Git
3 8 (1.97%) GitLab
4 5 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.74%) JUnit
5 3 (0.74%) NUnit
5 3 (0.74%) Postman
5 3 (0.74%) Selenium
5 3 (0.74%) Snyk
5 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.49%) ERwin
6 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.25%) JIRA
7 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 89 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 73 (17.98%) Finance
3 66 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.19%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.69%) Law
6 11 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.46%) Marketing
8 6 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.48%) Retail
9 5 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.99%) Legal
10 4 (0.99%) Military
11 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Games
11 3 (0.74%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.25%) iGaming
13 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 150 (36.95%) Data Engineer
2 123 (30.30%) Architect
3 98 (24.14%) Data Architect
4 92 (22.66%) Senior
5 64 (15.76%) Lead
6 47 (11.58%) Databricks Engineer
7 37 (9.11%) Senior Data Engineer
8 33 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
8 33 (8.13%) Lead Data Engineer
9 32 (7.88%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 30 (7.39%) Microsoft Engineer
11 23 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 23 (5.67%) Systems Engineer
12 21 (5.17%) Azure Data Engineer
12 21 (5.17%) Developer
13 20 (4.93%) Data Management Specialist
13 20 (4.93%) Product Specialist
14 18 (4.43%) Databricks Architect
15 11 (2.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (26.85%) PySpark
2 61 (15.02%) Terraform
3 49 (12.07%) Kafka
4 24 (5.91%) scikit-learn
5 23 (5.67%) LangChain
5 23 (5.67%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (5.67%) pgvector
5 23 (5.67%) PyTorch
5 23 (5.67%) TensorFlow
6 16 (3.94%) REST
7 11 (2.71%) Pandas
8 10 (2.46%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.72%) Node.js
9 7 (1.72%) React
10 4 (0.99%) .NET
10 4 (0.99%) Django
10 4 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.99%) Flask
10 4 (0.99%) JSON
10 4 (0.99%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.40%) Clustering
3 23 (5.67%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.20%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.22%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.72%) NHS
9 6 (1.48%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.23%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.99%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.74%) Replication
13 2 (0.49%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (62.32%) Analytics
2 237 (58.37%) Data Modelling
3 206 (50.74%) Data Engineering
4 193 (47.54%) Business Intelligence
5 186 (45.81%) AI
6 164 (40.39%) ETL
7 163 (40.15%) Data Pipeline
8 149 (36.70%) CI/CD
9 146 (35.96%) Data Governance
10 124 (30.54%) Data Architecture
11 108 (26.60%) Decision-Making
12 103 (25.37%) Machine Learning
13 100 (24.63%) DevOps
14 97 (23.89%) Data Science
15 86 (21.18%) Use Case
16 77 (18.97%) Roadmaps
17 66 (16.26%) Data Strategy
18 65 (16.01%) Technical Leadership
19 61 (15.02%) Data Management
19 61 (15.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 256 (63.05%) SQL
2 221 (54.43%) Python
3 35 (8.62%) Scala
4 22 (5.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (4.43%) Bicep
6 8 (1.97%) Java
7 7 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.72%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.23%) R
9 4 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.74%) Go
10 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.25%) C#
11 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (14.78%) Degree
2 51 (12.56%) Security Cleared
3 38 (9.36%) Azure Certification
4 33 (8.13%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.94%) SnowPro
8 10 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.99%) OCP
11 4 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.25%) CCA
14 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (33.00%) Data Quality
2 39 (9.61%) GDPR
3 24 (5.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (3.20%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.99%) NIST
5 4 (0.99%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.74%) QA
7 2 (0.49%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 9 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.74%) Ansible
2 3 (0.74%) Grafana
2 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 262 (64.53%) Databricks
2 161 (39.66%) Microsoft
3 45 (11.08%) Dell
4 24 (5.91%) Cloudera
5 22 (5.42%) Informatica
5 22 (5.42%) Teradata
6 21 (5.17%) Denodo
7 18 (4.43%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.96%) Google
9 6 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.99%) Oracle
10 4 (0.99%) Palantir
10 4 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.99%) Sage
10 4 (0.99%) SAP
11 3 (0.74%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.74%) Workday
12 2 (0.49%) Infor
13 1 (0.25%) Foundry
13 1 (0.25%) Splunk