Data Lake Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Lakes
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 175 274
Rank change year-on-year -64 +99 -50
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 18 50 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.89% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 6.37% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 17 44 35
10th Percentile £53,500 £37,825 £38,750
25th Percentile £59,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £48,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +70.10% -19.17% +12.68%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £77,125 £79,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -28.57% +31.86%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 951 785 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.13% 13.92% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 640 560 1,153
10th Percentile £32,475 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,650 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the Midlands

Data Lake
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
West Midlands -24 16 £82,500 +26.92% 12
East Midlands -44 2 £45,550 +1.22% 4
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) AWS
3 11 (61.11%) GCP
4 9 (50.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.56%) Datadog
7 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 13 (72.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Billing
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Architect
1 10 (55.56%) Data Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Integration Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) EDI
3 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) PMI
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Data Governance
2 13 (72.22%) Data Architecture
3 12 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 12 (66.67%) Roadmaps
4 10 (55.56%) AI
4 10 (55.56%) Analytics
4 10 (55.56%) Data Sharing
5 9 (50.00%) Machine Learning
6 6 (33.33%) ETL
7 5 (27.78%) Data Integration
7 5 (27.78%) Data Transformation
8 4 (22.22%) Agile
8 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 4 (22.22%) CRM
8 4 (22.22%) Data Strategy
8 4 (22.22%) DevOps
9 3 (16.67%) Data Management
9 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Bicep
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CITP
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Databricks
2 6 (33.33%) SAP
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Planon
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.56%) Google