Data Lake Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Lakes
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 48 164
Rank change year-on-year -14 +116 -56
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 1 2 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.12% 0.48% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.79% 2.56% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £117,500 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.52%
75th Percentile £132,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - £73,250
Scotland median annual salary £125,000 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +117.39% -30.30% +18.80%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 56 78 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.51% 18.66% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 19 33 189
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,250 £40,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £71,900
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki