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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 111 186
Rank change year-on-year -56 +75 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 229 437 320
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 2.84% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.70% 12.21% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 152 378 233
10th Percentile £71,850 £70,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £80,260 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £107,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +35.00% -6.32%
75th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £149,875 £128,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -5.56% +27.52% -8.93%

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 2,360 3,579 4,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.86% 23.22% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,542 2,169 3,193
10th Percentile £42,525 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £56,868
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +36 35 £85,000 +7.94% 19
West London +6 2 £90,000 -10.00% 5
East London - 2 £80,000 -
South London - 1 - - 4
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 41 (17.90%) Apache
1 41 (17.90%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (7.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.31%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.31%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (6.11%) Maya
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (6.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.75%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 151 (65.94%) Azure
2 97 (42.36%) AWS
3 69 (30.13%) Power Platform
4 60 (26.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (22.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 47 (20.52%) GCP
7 41 (17.90%) Snowflake
8 35 (15.28%) dbt
9 20 (8.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 18 (7.86%) SaaS
11 17 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (6.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (6.55%) Boomi
12 15 (6.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 14 (6.11%) Amazon S3
13 14 (6.11%) GitHub
14 13 (5.68%) Serverless
15 12 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (4.37%) OpenShift
17 9 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) BGP
1 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (0.87%) Firewall
1 2 (0.87%) MQTT
1 2 (0.87%) OSPF
1 2 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (0.87%) RTMP
1 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.87%) VLAN
1 2 (0.87%) VPN
1 2 (0.87%) WAN
1 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (0.87%) Wireless
2 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (30.57%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (28.38%) Power BI
3 56 (24.45%) Metadata
4 37 (16.16%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (13.10%) Apache Iceberg
6 29 (12.66%) Apache Arrow
6 29 (12.66%) Apache Ignite
6 29 (12.66%) Dremio
7 28 (12.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (10.04%) SQL Server
9 19 (8.30%) Tableau
10 15 (6.55%) Data Vault
11 12 (5.24%) Delta Lake
12 11 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (4.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 10 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (3.49%) Big Data
14 8 (3.49%) Data Mining
15 7 (3.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (2.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 12 (5.24%) Git
2 5 (2.18%) ER Studio
2 5 (2.18%) ERwin
2 5 (2.18%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (1.75%) GitLab
4 3 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.31%) MLflow
5 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 158 (69.00%) Finance
2 71 (31.00%) Banking
2 71 (31.00%) Social Skills
3 54 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (14.41%) Retail
5 32 (13.97%) Financial Institution
5 32 (13.97%) Front Office
6 31 (13.54%) Investment Banking
7 30 (13.10%) Retail Banking
8 25 (10.92%) Law
9 21 (9.17%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (6.99%) Marketing
11 14 (6.11%) Games
12 11 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (3.93%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.75%) Legal
15 3 (1.31%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 90 (39.30%) Architect
2 76 (33.19%) Senior
3 64 (27.95%) Data Architect
4 54 (23.58%) Data Engineer
5 33 (14.41%) Python Engineer
6 31 (13.54%) AWS Engineer
7 29 (12.66%) AWS Software Engineer
7 29 (12.66%) Java Engineer
7 29 (12.66%) Java Software Engineer
7 29 (12.66%) Python Software Engineer
7 29 (12.66%) Software Engineer
8 27 (11.79%) Senior Java Engineer
8 27 (11.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 27 (11.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (10.92%) Senior Architect
10 16 (6.99%) Azure Architect
10 16 (6.99%) Senior Data Engineer
11 15 (6.55%) Salesforce Architect
12 14 (6.11%) CRM Architect
12 14 (6.11%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.54%) NumPy
1 31 (13.54%) Pandas
2 29 (12.66%) gRPC
2 29 (12.66%) Protocol Buffers
2 29 (12.66%) SciPy
3 17 (7.42%) PySpark
4 10 (4.37%) PyTorch
5 9 (3.93%) Kafka
5 9 (3.93%) Keras
5 9 (3.93%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.87%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.87%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.87%) WebRTC
6 2 (0.87%) XML
7 1 (0.44%) EDI
7 1 (0.44%) LDAP
7 1 (0.44%) MDX
7 1 (0.44%) Middleware
7 1 (0.44%) OAuth
7 1 (0.44%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.54%) Equities
2 30 (13.10%) Hedge funds
3 29 (12.66%) Derivative
3 29 (12.66%) Fixed Income
3 29 (12.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 29 (12.66%) Pricing Data
4 26 (11.35%) Cloud Native
5 23 (10.04%) Management Information System
6 15 (6.55%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (6.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (4.37%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.93%) Data Centre
10 8 (3.49%) Data Structures
10 8 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (3.06%) AI Agents
12 6 (2.62%) Reinsurance
13 5 (2.18%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
15 3 (1.31%) Reference Data
15 3 (1.31%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (48.91%) Data Modelling
2 108 (47.16%) Analytics
3 90 (39.30%) Agile
4 77 (33.62%) Data Architecture
5 75 (32.75%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (31.44%) Data Pipeline
7 69 (30.13%) Data Strategy
8 68 (29.69%) Data Governance
9 64 (27.95%) ETL
10 63 (27.51%) AI
11 56 (24.45%) Asset Management
12 54 (23.58%) Data Management
13 53 (23.14%) CI/CD
14 52 (22.71%) Roadmaps
15 51 (22.27%) Data Engineering
16 47 (20.52%) Metadata Management
17 45 (19.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 44 (19.21%) Decision-Making
18 44 (19.21%) Migration
19 39 (17.03%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (42.36%) Python
2 82 (35.81%) SQL
3 42 (18.34%) Java
4 29 (12.66%) JavaScript
4 29 (12.66%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.86%) Scala
6 10 (4.37%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.44%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.44%) VBA
9 1 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 47 (20.52%) Degree
2 37 (16.16%) AWS Certification
2 37 (16.16%) Azure Certification
3 17 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.42%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.93%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (3.06%) IIBA
5 7 (3.06%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.06%) PMP
6 6 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.75%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.87%) MBA
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.44%) CFA
9 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (27.07%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.30%) GDPR
3 3 (1.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.87%) IFRS
4 2 (0.87%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.87%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.44%) GAAP
System Software
1 12 (5.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) NFS
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (11.35%) Terraform
2 8 (3.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.31%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) Argo
5 2 (0.87%) Grafana
5 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 90 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 81 (35.37%) Databricks
3 25 (10.92%) Dell
4 19 (8.30%) Oracle
5 17 (7.42%) SAP
6 15 (6.55%) Adobe
6 15 (6.55%) MuleSoft
6 15 (6.55%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.93%) Anaplan
7 9 (3.93%) NVIDIA
8 7 (3.06%) Alteryx
8 7 (3.06%) Google
9 6 (2.62%) Informatica
10 4 (1.75%) IBM
11 3 (1.31%) Zoho
12 2 (0.87%) Ariba
12 2 (0.87%) Cisco
12 2 (0.87%) Concur
12 2 (0.87%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.87%) Starlink