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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 146 162
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 +93
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 352 520 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.73% 2.20% 2.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.96% 10.03% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 274 450 620
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,900 £57,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £112,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +25.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £152,500 £165,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +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 2,716 5,187 8,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.07% 21.95% 24.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,847 3,826 5,827
10th Percentile £49,150 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £96,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £126,875 £116,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -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 16 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 16 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 +23 23 £85,000 +25.93% 15
West London +36 2 £58,750 -16.07% 2
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 83 (23.58%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (19.60%) Apache
3 15 (4.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (3.98%) Maya
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.85%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.28%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.28%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 134 (38.07%) AWS
2 125 (35.51%) Azure
3 80 (22.73%) Snowflake
4 76 (21.59%) dbt
5 72 (20.45%) GCP
6 62 (17.61%) Power Platform
7 47 (13.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 30 (8.52%) Dagster
10 29 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (5.68%) Serverless
13 18 (5.11%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.13%) Boomi
15 11 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 10 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
17 8 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.28%) VPN
2 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (22.73%) Amazon Athena
2 77 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (20.17%) Dremio
4 69 (19.60%) Apache Iceberg
5 67 (19.03%) Apache Ignite
6 64 (18.18%) Apache Arrow
7 60 (17.05%) Power BI
8 27 (7.67%) Metadata
9 21 (5.97%) SQL Server
10 19 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (4.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 16 (4.55%) Tableau
13 14 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (3.69%) Big Data
15 11 (3.13%) Hadoop
16 10 (2.84%) BigQuery
16 10 (2.84%) NoSQL
17 8 (2.27%) Power Query
18 7 (1.99%) Data Mining
19 6 (1.70%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (5.11%) Git
2 8 (2.27%) CircleCI
3 7 (1.99%) JIRA
4 6 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.57%) ERwin
5 2 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.28%) JMeter
6 1 (0.28%) kappa
6 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 255 (72.44%) Finance
2 182 (51.70%) Front Office
3 103 (29.26%) Banking
4 64 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 62 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (16.76%) Social Skills
7 33 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (6.82%) Financial Institution
9 23 (6.53%) Retail Banking
10 21 (5.97%) Retail
11 18 (5.11%) Law
12 14 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.41%) Games
13 12 (3.41%) Marketing
14 6 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.42%) Advertising
15 5 (1.42%) Legal
15 5 (1.42%) Public Sector
16 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (23.30%) Senior
2 74 (21.02%) AWS Engineer
3 71 (20.17%) Data Engineer
4 69 (19.60%) Software Engineer
5 66 (18.75%) AWS Software Engineer
6 59 (16.76%) Lead
7 57 (16.19%) Java Engineer
7 57 (16.19%) Java Software Engineer
8 52 (14.77%) Python Engineer
8 52 (14.77%) Senior Software Engineer
9 51 (14.49%) Architect
10 48 (13.64%) Senior Java Engineer
10 48 (13.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 45 (12.78%) Python Software Engineer
12 34 (9.66%) Data Governance Analyst
12 34 (9.66%) Data Governance Manager
12 34 (9.66%) Governance Manager
13 30 (8.52%) Head of Finance
14 29 (8.24%) Data Architect
15 26 (7.39%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (19.03%) NumPy
1 67 (19.03%) Pandas
1 67 (19.03%) SciPy
2 64 (18.18%) gRPC
2 64 (18.18%) Protocol Buffers
3 49 (13.92%) PySpark
4 13 (3.69%) Kafka
5 5 (1.42%) OAuth
5 5 (1.42%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (1.14%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (1.14%) JSON
6 4 (1.14%) REST
7 3 (0.85%) Node.js
7 3 (0.85%) pytest
7 3 (0.85%) RESTful
7 3 (0.85%) Spring
8 2 (0.57%) CSS
8 2 (0.57%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.57%) Shiny
8 2 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (48.86%) Derivative
1 172 (48.86%) Equities
1 172 (48.86%) Fixed Income
1 172 (48.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 172 (48.86%) Hedge funds
2 38 (10.80%) Pricing Data
2 38 (10.80%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.40%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (1.42%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) NHS
10 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (69.03%) Agile
2 172 (48.86%) Migration
3 149 (42.33%) Investment Management
4 139 (39.49%) Roadmaps
5 132 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 132 (37.50%) Data Management
6 110 (31.25%) Regulatory Compliance
7 98 (27.84%) Asset Management
8 82 (23.30%) Software Engineering
9 67 (19.03%) Data Modelling
10 64 (18.18%) Analytics
11 58 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
11 58 (16.48%) ETL
12 55 (15.63%) Data Engineering
13 54 (15.34%) CI/CD
14 41 (11.65%) DevOps
15 39 (11.08%) Data Pipeline
16 38 (10.80%) Data Architecture
16 38 (10.80%) Data Strategy
16 38 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 143 (40.63%) Python
2 86 (24.43%) SQL
3 82 (23.30%) Java
4 72 (20.45%) JavaScript
5 66 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (2.84%) R
7 10 (2.84%) Scala
8 8 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.42%) C#
11 3 (0.85%) Bash
12 2 (0.57%) Bicep
13 1 (0.28%) C
13 1 (0.28%) C++
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (11.65%) Degree
2 37 (10.51%) Azure Certification
3 28 (7.95%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.85%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.57%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.28%) CBAP
8 1 (0.28%) PhD
8 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.28%) PMP
8 1 (0.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (15.06%) MiFID
2 12 (3.41%) QA
3 11 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.70%) GDPR
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.57%) NIST
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.28%) DICOM
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) SEPA
7 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (3.98%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (5.11%) Terraform
2 5 (1.42%) Oozie
3 4 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 53 (15.06%) Databricks
3 14 (3.98%) Google
4 12 (3.41%) Dell
4 12 (3.41%) Oracle
4 12 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.13%) Adobe
5 11 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 11 (3.13%) SAP
6 6 (1.70%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.85%) Snowplow
7 3 (0.85%) Zoho
8 2 (0.57%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.28%) Cerner
9 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.28%) Meraki
9 1 (0.28%) Palantir
9 1 (0.28%) Sparx
9 1 (0.28%) StreamSets