Lakehouse Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Lakehouse
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 250 219 265
Rank change year-on-year -31 +46 -29
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 20 15 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17 8 17
10th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £59,625 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% -4.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £93,959 - £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,353 4,933 8,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.70% 84.67% 77.70%
Number of salaries quoted 7,405 2,962 4,673
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
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 the Midlands

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the Midlands

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -26 11 £70,000 +16.67%
East Midlands -25 9 £45,000 -14.29%
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Google Ads
3 4 (20.00%) Meta Ads
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Power BI
2 6 (30.00%) Delta Lake
3 5 (25.00%) Star Schema
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.00%) Parquet
5 1 (5.00%) Pentaho
5 1 (5.00%) Power Query
5 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Technology Director
3 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.00%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) PySpark
2 5 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 11 (55.00%) Analytics
2 11 (55.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) Decision-Making
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Data Architecture
4 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (25.00%) API Integration
5 5 (25.00%) ETL
6 4 (20.00%) Cohort Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) Customer Segmentation
6 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (20.00%) Data Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 4 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (20.00%) Use Case
7 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 4 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Denodo
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI