Data Lake Jobs in the Midlands

Data Lakes
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 275 227
Rank change year-on-year +72 -48 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 45 72 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 0.50% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.75% 3.63% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 41 54 61
10th Percentile £36,250 - £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £56,250 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +5.63% -18.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% +6.67%

All Database and 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 783 1,981 1,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.66% 13.81% 20.20%
Number of salaries quoted 534 1,447 1,081
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,162 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 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
East Midlands +54 28 £47,250 -0.53% 66
West Midlands +43 17 £60,000 +4.35% 78
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (80.00%) Azure
2 25 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 14 (31.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (17.78%) AWS
6 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
6 6 (13.33%) Serverless
7 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (11.11%) SaaS
8 4 (8.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (8.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
8 4 (8.89%) GCP
8 4 (8.89%) IaaS
8 4 (8.89%) PaaS
8 4 (8.89%) Power Automate
8 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) DNS
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
1 4 (8.89%) SD-WAN
1 4 (8.89%) VPN
1 4 (8.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (55.56%) Power BI
2 20 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 19 (42.22%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (37.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (17.78%) Relational Database
5 8 (17.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 5 (11.11%) RDBMS
7 4 (8.89%) BigQuery
7 4 (8.89%) MySQL
7 4 (8.89%) Power Query
7 4 (8.89%) PowerPivot
8 3 (6.67%) Data Mining
9 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.44%) HDInsight
10 1 (2.22%) Big Data
10 1 (2.22%) SAP BW
10 1 (2.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.44%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.22%) JUnit
4 1 (2.22%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) TestComplete
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Law
3 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Data Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) DBA
3 8 (17.78%) Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Administrator
4 7 (15.56%) Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) SQL DBA
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.89%) SQL Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) SQL Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Database Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Data Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) NHS
3 2 (4.44%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) Analytics
2 27 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (44.44%) ETL
4 17 (37.78%) Data Analysis
5 16 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (35.56%) DevOps
6 12 (26.67%) Visualisation
7 11 (24.44%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (20.00%) Migration
9 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
9 8 (17.78%) Data Integration
9 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
9 8 (17.78%) Reverse Engineering
9 8 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (15.56%) Data Architecture
10 7 (15.56%) Dimensional Modelling
10 7 (15.56%) Validation
11 6 (13.33%) Data Engineering
11 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
11 6 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 41 (91.11%) SQL
2 24 (53.33%) T-SQL
3 10 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (8.89%) Bicep
4 4 (8.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.89%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Databricks
2 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Meraki
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) SAP