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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 240 232
Rank change year-on-year +35 -8 -34
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 50 76 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.70% 0.63% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.46% 3.98% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45 56 70
10th Percentile £36,750 - £42,438
25th Percentile £41,500 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.98% -18.08%
75th Percentile £66,389 £65,813 £63,438
90th Percentile £81,250 £89,375 £80,500
England median annual salary £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% +14.29%

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 774 1,908 1,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.82% 15.89% 19.56%
Number of salaries quoted 530 1,434 1,080
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -0.98%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £73,150
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 17 May 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 17 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
West Midlands +33 27 £61,250 +6.52% 18
East Midlands +17 23 £48,500 +2.11% 7
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 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (78.00%) Azure
2 26 (52.00%) Power Platform
3 12 (24.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (22.00%) Serverless
5 10 (20.00%) AWS
5 10 (20.00%) Azure Functions
5 10 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (14.00%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (10.00%) IaaS
7 5 (10.00%) PaaS
7 5 (10.00%) SaaS
8 4 (8.00%) Azure AI
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
8 4 (8.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) DNS
2 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (8.00%) VPN
2 4 (8.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (52.00%) Power BI
2 23 (46.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (34.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (32.00%) SQL Server
6 8 (16.00%) Relational Database
6 8 (16.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (10.00%) RDBMS
8 4 (8.00%) MySQL
8 4 (8.00%) Power Query
8 4 (8.00%) PowerPivot
9 3 (6.00%) Data Mining
10 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.00%) HDInsight
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (2.00%) Big Data
11 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
11 1 (2.00%) Metadata
11 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
11 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) ER Studio
General
1 16 (32.00%) Law
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Retail
5 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Architect
2 12 (24.00%) Data Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) DBA
3 8 (16.00%) Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Administrator
4 7 (14.00%) Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Data Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 7 (14.00%) SQL DBA
5 4 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) SQL Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Head of Data Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) PySpark
2 2 (4.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) NHS
3 2 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Analytics
2 29 (58.00%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (42.00%) ETL
4 19 (38.00%) Data Analysis
5 18 (36.00%) DevOps
6 13 (26.00%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (22.00%) Data Architecture
8 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 10 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 9 (18.00%) Migration
10 8 (16.00%) Data Modelling
10 8 (16.00%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (16.00%) Reverse Engineering
10 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (14.00%) Data Integration
11 7 (14.00%) Validation
12 6 (12.00%) Agile
12 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (12.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 44 (88.00%) SQL
2 20 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 11 (22.00%) Python
4 4 (8.00%) Bicep
4 4 (8.00%) C#
4 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.00%) X++
5 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) Databricks
2 22 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) Meraki
4 1 (2.00%) IBM