Data Lake Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Lakes
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 59 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 3 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.53% 1.73% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.92% 13.51% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile - £49,875 £39,625
25th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £41,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +40.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £61,875
90th Percentile - - £75,625
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +40.00% -41.18%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 61 74 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 10.83% 12.78% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42 46 64
10th Percentile £28,500 £41,119 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,125 £43,059 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £55,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% +23.89% -24.93%
75th Percentile £60,750 £83,750 £59,063
90th Percentile £73,475 £95,000 £65,977
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £48,897 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.10% +22.22% -18.18%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Information Assurance
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Nimble Storage