Lakehouse Job Trends in London

Data Lakehouse
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 312 433
Rank change year-on-year +70 +121 +53
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 211 82 30
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 0.68% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.72% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 136 64 22
10th Percentile £67,125 £63,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,170 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +30.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £107,500 £93,750 £80,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,875 £96,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,688 11,363 17,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.42% 94.14% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,348 7,203 11,157
10th Percentile £40,806 £38,825 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in London

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in London

Lakehouse
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the London region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 +7 28 £86,500 +8.13% 9
West London - 11 £70,500 - 6
South London - 10 - - 3
North London - 3 £85,000 - 1
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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 45 (21.33%) Apache Spark
2 22 (10.43%) Apache
3 20 (9.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 154 (72.99%) Azure
2 72 (34.12%) Snowflake
3 65 (30.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 64 (30.33%) AWS
5 62 (29.38%) Power Platform
6 55 (26.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 47 (22.27%) GCP
8 35 (16.59%) Azure Databricks
9 33 (15.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 29 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (11.37%) dbt
12 19 (9.00%) GitHub
13 13 (6.16%) Amazon S3
14 12 (5.69%) Serverless
15 9 (4.27%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (4.27%) Azure Functions
16 8 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (3.32%) Azure Machine Learning
17 7 (3.32%) SaaS
18 6 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (49.29%) Data Lake
2 90 (42.65%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (27.01%) Power BI
4 50 (23.70%) Delta Lake
5 46 (21.80%) Metadata
6 29 (13.74%) Tableau
7 26 (12.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (12.32%) Data Vault
8 22 (10.43%) BigQuery
9 19 (9.00%) Snowflake Schema
9 19 (9.00%) Star Schema
10 17 (8.06%) Looker
11 16 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (7.58%) Milvus
12 9 (4.27%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (3.79%) Spark SQL
14 7 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (2.84%) Apache Iceberg
16 5 (2.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (11.37%) MLflow
2 10 (4.74%) Git
3 2 (0.95%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.43%) Finance
3 37 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (2.84%) Marketing
6 5 (2.37%) Retail
7 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.42%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.95%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Advertising
10 1 (0.47%) Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (41.23%) Architect
2 74 (35.07%) Data Architect
3 54 (25.59%) Senior
4 49 (23.22%) Data Engineer
5 29 (13.74%) Lead
6 23 (10.90%) Databricks Engineer
7 21 (9.95%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (7.58%) Databricks Architect
8 16 (7.58%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 16 (7.58%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (7.11%) Data Management Specialist
9 15 (7.11%) Product Specialist
10 10 (4.74%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) Senior Architect
13 6 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.84%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.84%) Technical Architect
14 5 (2.37%) Developer
14 5 (2.37%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (25.12%) PySpark
2 31 (14.69%) Kafka
2 31 (14.69%) Terraform
3 17 (8.06%) scikit-learn
4 16 (7.58%) LangChain
4 16 (7.58%) LlamaIndex
4 16 (7.58%) pgvector
4 16 (7.58%) PyTorch
4 16 (7.58%) TensorFlow
5 10 (4.74%) Pandas
6 4 (1.90%) Django
6 4 (1.90%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.90%) Flask
6 4 (1.90%) Node.js
6 4 (1.90%) React
7 2 (0.95%) REST
8 1 (0.47%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.47%) NumPy
8 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.70%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.53%) Clustering
3 16 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 16 (7.58%) Public Cloud
4 14 (6.64%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.27%) Reinsurance
6 7 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.84%) Data Fabric
8 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.42%) Replication
11 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.47%) Multi-touch
12 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (72.51%) Analytics
2 145 (68.72%) Data Modelling
3 140 (66.35%) AI
4 112 (53.08%) Business Intelligence
4 112 (53.08%) Data Engineering
5 88 (41.71%) ETL
6 86 (40.76%) CI/CD
6 86 (40.76%) Data Governance
7 82 (38.86%) Data Architecture
7 82 (38.86%) Data Pipeline
8 75 (35.55%) Data Science
9 67 (31.75%) Machine Learning
10 63 (29.86%) Use Case
11 60 (28.44%) Decision-Making
12 54 (25.59%) Roadmaps
13 53 (25.12%) Data Strategy
13 53 (25.12%) DevOps
14 48 (22.75%) Technical Leadership
15 41 (19.43%) Data Management
16 36 (17.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 149 (70.62%) SQL
2 132 (62.56%) Python
3 23 (10.90%) Scala
4 18 (8.53%) Bicep
5 6 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.95%) Java
8 2 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.47%) R
9 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (17.06%) Degree
2 33 (15.64%) Azure Certification
3 23 (10.90%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (7.58%) SnowPro
6 14 (6.64%) SC Cleared
7 11 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.74%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.32%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.47%) PhD
12 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (37.91%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.53%) GDPR
3 16 (7.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (3.79%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.90%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 163 (77.25%) Databricks
2 80 (37.91%) Microsoft
3 33 (15.64%) Dell
4 18 (8.53%) Salesforce
5 16 (7.58%) Cloudera
5 16 (7.58%) Teradata
6 15 (7.11%) Denodo
6 15 (7.11%) Informatica
7 5 (2.37%) Google
7 5 (2.37%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.90%) Sage
9 3 (1.42%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.42%) Workday
10 1 (0.47%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.47%) Braze
10 1 (0.47%) Foundry
10 1 (0.47%) Netezza
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle
10 1 (0.47%) Remedy