Data Lake Job Trends in London

Data Lakes
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 117 210
Rank change year-on-year -81 +93 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 211 416 319
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.35% 2.79% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.96% 12.25% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 136 341 231
10th Percentile £71,500 £70,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +43.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £152,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +28.57% -12.50%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,355 3,396 4,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.07% 22.75% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,543 2,074 3,608
10th Percentile £42,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +17.24% -3.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in London

Data Lake
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the London region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Central London +33 35 £85,000 - 13
West London - 3 £90,000 - 2
South London - 2 - - 2
East London - 2 £80,000 - 1
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 25 (11.85%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (11.37%) Apache
3 18 (8.53%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.42%) SAS
7 2 (0.95%) nginx
8 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (5.21%) Maya
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.90%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.47%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 158 (74.88%) Azure
2 79 (37.44%) AWS
3 68 (32.23%) Power Platform
4 65 (30.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (26.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 47 (22.27%) GCP
7 22 (10.43%) Snowflake
8 20 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (9.48%) dbt
8 20 (9.48%) SaaS
9 19 (9.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (7.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (7.11%) GitHub
11 14 (6.64%) Amazon S3
12 12 (5.69%) Boomi
12 12 (5.69%) ChatGPT
12 12 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 12 (5.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 12 (5.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) BGP
1 2 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (0.95%) Firewall
1 2 (0.95%) MQTT
1 2 (0.95%) OSPF
1 2 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (0.95%) RTMP
1 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.95%) VLAN
1 2 (0.95%) VPN
1 2 (0.95%) WAN
1 2 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (0.95%) Wireless
2 1 (0.47%) 4G
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
2 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (35.07%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (30.33%) Power BI
3 54 (25.59%) Metadata
4 29 (13.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (10.43%) SQL Server
6 19 (9.00%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (7.58%) Tableau
8 15 (7.11%) Data Vault
8 15 (7.11%) Delta Lake
9 14 (6.64%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (4.74%) Apache Arrow
11 10 (4.74%) Apache Ignite
11 10 (4.74%) Data Mining
11 10 (4.74%) Dremio
12 9 (4.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 9 (4.27%) Big Data
13 8 (3.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.64%) Git
2 5 (2.37%) ER Studio
2 5 (2.37%) ERwin
2 5 (2.37%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (1.90%) GitLab
4 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.42%) MLflow
5 2 (0.95%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (64.45%) Finance
2 66 (31.28%) Social Skills
3 50 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (23.70%) Banking
4 33 (15.64%) Financial Institution
5 30 (14.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (14.22%) Retail
6 28 (13.27%) Retail Banking
7 20 (9.48%) Law
8 15 (7.11%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (6.64%) Front Office
10 13 (6.16%) Marketing
11 12 (5.69%) Investment Banking
12 11 (5.21%) Games
13 10 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.84%) Manufacturing
15 5 (2.37%) Legal
16 3 (1.42%) General Ledger
17 2 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 88 (41.71%) Architect
2 63 (29.86%) Data Architect
3 56 (26.54%) Data Engineer
4 54 (25.59%) Senior
5 24 (11.37%) Senior Architect
6 16 (7.58%) Azure Architect
7 14 (6.64%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Python Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (6.16%) Azure Data Architect
9 12 (5.69%) Salesforce Architect
10 11 (5.21%) CRM Architect
10 11 (5.21%) IT Architect
10 11 (5.21%) Lead
11 10 (4.74%) Data Manager
11 10 (4.74%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.00%) PySpark
2 11 (5.21%) NumPy
2 11 (5.21%) Pandas
3 10 (4.74%) gRPC
3 10 (4.74%) Kafka
3 10 (4.74%) Protocol Buffers
3 10 (4.74%) SciPy
4 6 (2.84%) Keras
4 6 (2.84%) PyTorch
4 6 (2.84%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.95%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.95%) Keycloak
5 2 (0.95%) Streamlit
5 2 (0.95%) WebRTC
6 1 (0.47%) EDI
6 1 (0.47%) LDAP
6 1 (0.47%) MDX
6 1 (0.47%) Middleware
6 1 (0.47%) OAuth
6 1 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.48%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.69%) Equities
4 11 (5.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (5.21%) Hedge funds
5 10 (4.74%) Derivative
5 10 (4.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (4.74%) Fixed Income
5 10 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (4.74%) Pricing Data
6 8 (3.79%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.84%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.84%) Reinsurance
9 5 (2.37%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Linux
1 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (54.50%) Analytics
2 112 (53.08%) Data Modelling
3 80 (37.91%) Data Architecture
4 78 (36.97%) Business Intelligence
5 75 (35.55%) Agile
5 75 (35.55%) Data Governance
6 73 (34.60%) Data Pipeline
7 72 (34.12%) Data Strategy
8 67 (31.75%) ETL
9 62 (29.38%) AI
10 61 (28.91%) Data Engineering
11 56 (26.54%) Roadmaps
12 54 (25.59%) CI/CD
13 53 (25.12%) Data Management
14 45 (21.33%) Migration
15 44 (20.85%) Metadata Management
16 40 (18.96%) Decision-Making
16 40 (18.96%) DevOps
16 40 (18.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 38 (18.01%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 86 (40.76%) SQL
2 81 (38.39%) Python
3 21 (9.95%) Java
4 17 (8.06%) Scala
5 10 (4.74%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.74%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.27%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.47%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.47%) C#
9 1 (0.47%) VBA
9 1 (0.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 44 (20.85%) Degree
2 36 (17.06%) AWS Certification
2 36 (17.06%) Azure Certification
3 16 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.64%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (3.79%) IIBA
6 8 (3.79%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.79%) PMP
7 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.37%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.90%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.47%) CFA
9 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (32.70%) Data Quality
2 20 (9.48%) GDPR
3 3 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.95%) IFRS
4 2 (0.95%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.95%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.47%) GAAP
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (5.69%) Docker
2 5 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) NFS
Systems Management
1 27 (12.80%) Terraform
2 7 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.95%) Argo
5 2 (0.95%) Grafana
5 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (41.23%) Microsoft
2 79 (37.44%) Databricks
3 19 (9.00%) Dell
4 15 (7.11%) Oracle
5 14 (6.64%) SAP
6 12 (5.69%) Adobe
6 12 (5.69%) MuleSoft
6 12 (5.69%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.79%) Alteryx
7 8 (3.79%) Anaplan
8 6 (2.84%) Google
8 6 (2.84%) Informatica
8 6 (2.84%) NVIDIA
9 4 (1.90%) IBM
10 3 (1.42%) Zoho
11 2 (0.95%) Ariba
11 2 (0.95%) Cisco
11 2 (0.95%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.95%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.95%) Ubiquiti