Data Lake Job Trends in the North of England

Data Lakes
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 227 274
Rank change year-on-year -50 +47 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 43 60 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.79% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.88% 5.07% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 34 45 108
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,168 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,125 £84,000 £100,064
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,491 1,183 2,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.09% 15.61% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 934 800 2,280
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +14.00% -7.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,925 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
North West +1 26 £75,000 +9.09% 7
Yorkshire -65 14 £66,250 -7.97% 4
North East -47 3 - - 1
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (25.58%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (16.28%) Apache Spark
3 6 (13.95%) Apache
4 3 (6.98%) SAS
5 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) Azure
2 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) GCP
3 13 (30.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (30.23%) Power Platform
4 12 (27.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.95%) dbt
6 5 (11.63%) Snowflake
7 4 (9.30%) SaaS
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.98%) Serverless
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub
10 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.33%) Figma
10 1 (2.33%) IaaS
10 1 (2.33%) PaaS
10 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (55.81%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (27.91%) BigQuery
2 12 (27.91%) Power BI
3 9 (20.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (13.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (11.63%) Metadata
5 5 (11.63%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (11.63%) Tableau
6 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (6.98%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
8 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.65%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) LSMW
1 1 (2.33%) MLflow
1 1 (2.33%) NUnit
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Advertising
4 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Data Engineer
2 17 (39.53%) Senior
3 12 (27.91%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (20.93%) Architect
5 6 (13.95%) Technical Architect
6 5 (11.63%) Lead
6 5 (11.63%) Principal Data Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Developer
9 1 (2.33%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Architect
9 1 (2.33%) GCP Data Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Kafka
2 6 (13.95%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.33%) Google Maps API
3 1 (2.33%) LangChain
3 1 (2.33%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (2.33%) pgvector
3 1 (2.33%) Playwright
3 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) RESTful
3 1 (2.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.33%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.33%) Clustering
4 1 (2.33%) Lidar
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Android
1 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Data Engineering
1 23 (53.49%) ETL
2 19 (44.19%) Data Modelling
3 18 (41.86%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (41.86%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (39.53%) Analytics
4 17 (39.53%) Data Governance
5 15 (34.88%) Mentoring
6 11 (25.58%) Agile
7 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
7 10 (23.26%) Data Architecture
7 10 (23.26%) Data Science
8 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
9 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.28%) Coaching
10 7 (16.28%) Data Ingestion
11 6 (13.95%) AI
11 6 (13.95%) DevOps
11 6 (13.95%) Dimensional Modelling
11 6 (13.95%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) SQL
2 24 (55.81%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) Java
3 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.33%) Bicep
4 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (32.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Grafana
2 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) Databricks
2 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
3 10 (23.26%) Google
4 3 (6.98%) SAP
5 2 (4.65%) Informatica
5 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.33%) Dell
6 1 (2.33%) DevExpress
6 1 (2.33%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.33%) Nintex