Data Lake Jobs in the North of England

Data Lakes
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 264 260
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 59 127 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.50% 0.72% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.87% 4.09% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 45 105 86
10th Percentile £48,500 £35,000 £39,544
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £82,000 £100,000 £85,625
England median annual salary £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% +9.38% +10.34%

All Database and 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 1,211 3,103 3,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.32% 17.55% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 825 2,292 1,798
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,723
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.10% +6.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £83,063 £80,000
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 North of England

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the North of England

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
Yorkshire +59 28 £71,991 +6.65% 23
North West -60 19 £67,500 +50.00% 22
North East +37 12 £62,779 -16.30% 17
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) Apache
2 4 (6.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (42.37%) AWS
2 24 (40.68%) Azure
3 12 (20.34%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.25%) Amazon S3
5 7 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.17%) SaaS
6 6 (10.17%) Serverless
7 5 (8.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.47%) IaaS
7 5 (8.47%) PaaS
7 5 (8.47%) Power Automate
7 5 (8.47%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.78%) Azure AI
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) SAN
2 4 (6.78%) SD-WAN
2 4 (6.78%) VPN
2 4 (6.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.51%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (18.64%) Power BI
3 9 (15.25%) Big Data
3 9 (15.25%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.78%) Dremio
6 4 (6.78%) MySQL
6 4 (6.78%) Tableau
7 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.39%) Parquet
7 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.69%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git
General
1 22 (37.29%) Finance
2 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Banking
5 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.47%) Retail
7 4 (6.78%) Advertising
7 4 (6.78%) Back Office
7 4 (6.78%) Law
7 4 (6.78%) Marketing
8 3 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.39%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.69%) Billing
10 1 (1.69%) Legal
10 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Data Engineer
2 22 (37.29%) Senior
3 19 (32.20%) Architect
4 15 (25.42%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (23.73%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) DBA
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Product Owner
8 3 (5.08%) SQL DBA
8 3 (5.08%) SQL Server DBA
9 2 (3.39%) Administrator
9 2 (3.39%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Lead
9 2 (3.39%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) Kafka
2 4 (6.78%) PySpark
3 3 (5.08%) RESTful
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
4 2 (3.39%) Spring
5 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.69%) CSS
5 1 (1.69%) D3.js
5 1 (1.69%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (1.69%) J2EE
5 1 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.69%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.47%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (8.47%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.78%) Equities
4 4 (6.78%) NHS
4 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.78%) Reference Data
5 3 (5.08%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.39%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) ETL
2 29 (49.15%) Analytics
3 24 (40.68%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (37.29%) Mentoring
5 18 (30.51%) Agile
5 18 (30.51%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (28.81%) Roadmaps
7 16 (27.12%) Data Engineering
8 15 (25.42%) Data Architecture
8 15 (25.42%) Data Strategy
8 15 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (22.03%) Domain-Driven Design
10 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (18.64%) DevOps
12 10 (16.95%) CI/CD
13 9 (15.25%) Computer Science
13 9 (15.25%) Microservices
13 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (13.56%) Enterprise Architecture
14 8 (13.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) SQL
2 19 (32.20%) Python
3 12 (20.34%) Java
4 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.86%) R
6 4 (6.78%) Bicep
6 4 (6.78%) Scala
7 1 (1.69%) Elixir
7 1 (1.69%) Elm
7 1 (1.69%) Erlang
7 1 (1.69%) F#
7 1 (1.69%) Haskell
7 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.69%) Lisp
7 1 (1.69%) PureScript
7 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) Azure Certification
3 5 (8.47%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
1 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (33.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (28.81%) Databricks
3 5 (8.47%) Bloomberg
4 4 (6.78%) Meraki
4 4 (6.78%) Nimble Storage
4 4 (6.78%) Reuters
5 1 (1.69%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.69%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.69%) Facebook
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Informatica
5 1 (1.69%) Moogsoft
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) UiPath