Data Lake Jobs in London

Data Lakes
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 160 171
Rank change year-on-year +42 +11 +83
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 368 460 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.89% 1.95% 2.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.32% 9.06% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 292 390 629
10th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £71,563 £70,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% +16.13%
75th Percentile £136,875 £142,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £152,500 £155,665 £140,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% +14.29%

All Database and 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 2,763 5,075 8,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.69% 21.49% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,936 3,825 6,088
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £117,236
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Central London +25 24 £85,000 +21.43% 19
West London +45 2 £58,750 -6.00% 4
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 98 (26.63%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (21.20%) Apache
3 21 (5.71%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.09%) Confluence
5 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (3.80%) Maya
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 146 (39.67%) AWS
2 125 (33.97%) Azure
3 90 (24.46%) dbt
3 90 (24.46%) Snowflake
4 82 (22.28%) GCP
5 61 (16.58%) Power Platform
6 47 (12.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 39 (10.60%) Dagster
8 37 (10.05%) Amazon EC2
9 36 (9.78%) Amazon ECS
9 36 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (9.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (6.52%) Serverless
12 20 (5.43%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (2.99%) Boomi
15 11 (2.99%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 10 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
17 9 (2.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (24.73%) Amazon Athena
2 85 (23.10%) Dremio
3 80 (21.74%) Apache Iceberg
4 76 (20.65%) Apache Ignite
4 76 (20.65%) Data Warehouse
5 73 (19.84%) Apache Arrow
6 59 (16.03%) Power BI
7 28 (7.61%) Metadata
8 27 (7.34%) SQL Server
9 19 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.08%) Tableau
11 14 (3.80%) Big Data
12 13 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (3.53%) Hadoop
13 10 (2.72%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.17%) NoSQL
14 8 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (1.90%) Data Mining
15 7 (1.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (4.89%) Git
2 8 (2.17%) CircleCI
3 6 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.63%) JIRA
4 4 (1.09%) ERwin
5 2 (0.54%) MLflow
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.27%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.27%) JMeter
6 1 (0.27%) kappa
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 270 (73.37%) Finance
2 196 (53.26%) Front Office
3 115 (31.25%) Banking
4 73 (19.84%) Investment Banking
5 57 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (15.49%) Social Skills
6 33 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.79%) Financial Institution
8 23 (6.25%) Retail Banking
9 21 (5.71%) Retail
10 17 (4.62%) Law
11 12 (3.26%) Marketing
12 11 (2.99%) Games
12 11 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.63%) Legal
14 6 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.36%) Advertising
16 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 89 (24.18%) Senior
2 87 (23.64%) AWS Engineer
3 80 (21.74%) Data Engineer
4 78 (21.20%) Software Engineer
5 75 (20.38%) AWS Software Engineer
6 66 (17.93%) Lead
7 63 (17.12%) Python Engineer
8 62 (16.85%) Java Engineer
8 62 (16.85%) Java Software Engineer
9 57 (15.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 52 (14.13%) Architect
11 51 (13.86%) Senior Java Engineer
11 51 (13.86%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 50 (13.59%) Python Software Engineer
13 36 (9.78%) Data Governance Analyst
13 36 (9.78%) Data Governance Manager
13 36 (9.78%) Governance Manager
14 31 (8.42%) Data Architect
15 30 (8.15%) Head of Finance
16 26 (7.07%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (21.20%) NumPy
1 78 (21.20%) Pandas
1 78 (21.20%) SciPy
2 73 (19.84%) gRPC
2 73 (19.84%) Protocol Buffers
3 59 (16.03%) PySpark
4 16 (4.35%) Kafka
5 6 (1.63%) FastAPI
6 5 (1.36%) OAuth
6 5 (1.36%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (1.09%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (1.09%) Flask
7 4 (1.09%) JSON
7 4 (1.09%) REST
8 3 (0.82%) Node.js
8 3 (0.82%) pytest
8 3 (0.82%) RESTful
8 3 (0.82%) Spring
9 2 (0.54%) CSS
9 2 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 185 (50.27%) Derivative
1 185 (50.27%) Equities
1 185 (50.27%) Fixed Income
1 185 (50.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 185 (50.27%) Hedge funds
2 42 (11.41%) Product Ownership
3 39 (10.60%) Pricing Data
4 18 (4.89%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.09%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.54%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (70.11%) Agile
2 181 (49.18%) Migration
3 156 (42.39%) Investment Management
4 145 (39.40%) Roadmaps
5 135 (36.68%) Data Governance
6 134 (36.41%) Data Management
7 113 (30.71%) Regulatory Compliance
8 109 (29.62%) Asset Management
9 96 (26.09%) Software Engineering
10 65 (17.66%) Data Modelling
11 60 (16.30%) Data Engineering
12 59 (16.03%) Analytics
13 58 (15.76%) ETL
14 56 (15.22%) CI/CD
15 55 (14.95%) Business Intelligence
16 46 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (10.87%) DevOps
18 39 (10.60%) Data Architecture
19 38 (10.33%) Data Strategy
19 38 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 158 (42.93%) Python
2 94 (25.54%) Java
3 90 (24.46%) SQL
4 81 (22.01%) JavaScript
5 75 (20.38%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (3.26%) Scala
8 8 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.90%) R
10 5 (1.36%) C#
10 5 (1.36%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.82%) Bash
12 2 (0.54%) Go
13 1 (0.27%) Bicep
13 1 (0.27%) C++
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 36 (9.78%) Azure Certification
1 36 (9.78%) Degree
2 28 (7.61%) AWS Certification
3 13 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (0.54%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.54%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (14.95%) MiFID
2 11 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.99%) QA
3 6 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.36%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.54%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) SEPA
7 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (4.62%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (5.43%) Terraform
2 10 (2.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.36%) Oozie
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 74 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 54 (14.67%) Databricks
3 13 (3.53%) Oracle
4 12 (3.26%) Google
5 11 (2.99%) Adobe
5 11 (2.99%) Dell
5 11 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 11 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.99%) SAP
6 6 (1.63%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.82%) Snowplow
7 3 (0.82%) Zoho
8 2 (0.54%) Cribl.io
8 2 (0.54%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.54%) Teradata
9 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.27%) Sparx