Data Lake Job Trends in the North East

Data Lakes
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 77 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 -24 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 3 12 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.29% 1.22% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.75% 10.53% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile - £51,925 £40,675
25th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,389 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% +26.46% -38.24%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £69,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -1.80%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 109 114 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 10.62% 11.59% 18.10%
Number of salaries quoted 68 65 91
10th Percentile £28,500 £42,049 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,738 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,750 £74,145 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £86,500 £69,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the North East

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the North East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Tyne and Wear +2 3 £72,500 +3.57% 12
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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