Lakehouse Job Trends in the North of England

Data Lakehouse
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 274 286 322
Rank change year-on-year +12 +36 -11
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 78 13 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.34% 0.14% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 62 6 11
10th Percentile £42,625 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +16.67% -19.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £79,688 £60,000
90th Percentile - £86,250 £60,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,125 8,408 11,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.34% 88.14% 78.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12,101 4,299 7,111
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,971
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
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 North of England

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the North of England

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the North of England 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
North West +22 36 £72,500 -3.33%
Yorkshire -6 36 £80,000 -8.57%
North East -60 6 £61,250 +28.95%
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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 15 (19.23%) Apache Spark
2 9 (11.54%) Apache
3 7 (8.97%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (61.54%) Azure
2 28 (35.90%) AWS
3 24 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (28.21%) Power Platform
5 15 (19.23%) Serverless
6 12 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 11 (14.10%) Azure Databricks
7 11 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (12.82%) GCP
9 9 (11.54%) Azure Functions
9 9 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (8.97%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (6.41%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (6.41%) dbt
13 4 (5.13%) GitHub
13 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.21%) Data Warehouse
1 22 (28.21%) Power BI
2 16 (20.51%) Spark SQL
3 11 (14.10%) Delta Lake
3 11 (14.10%) Semantic Layer
4 10 (12.82%) Data Lake
5 9 (11.54%) Metadata
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (10.26%) Tableau
7 4 (5.13%) Big Data
8 3 (3.85%) Data Vault
8 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.85%) OLAP
8 3 (3.85%) Power Query
8 3 (3.85%) PowerPivot
8 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) MLflow
2 3 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.28%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.26%) Finance
4 6 (7.69%) Law
5 5 (6.41%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Games
7 1 (1.28%) iGaming
7 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (65.38%) Data Engineer
2 28 (35.90%) Lead
3 22 (28.21%) Lead Data Engineer
4 19 (24.36%) Databricks Engineer
5 18 (23.08%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 14 (17.95%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (17.95%) Senior
7 13 (16.67%) Architect
8 11 (14.10%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (12.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (12.82%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (11.54%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 5 (6.41%) Technical Architect
14 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
15 3 (3.85%) Data Architect
15 3 (3.85%) Developer
15 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
15 3 (3.85%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (44.87%) PySpark
2 17 (21.79%) Terraform
3 9 (11.54%) ARM Templates
3 9 (11.54%) REST
4 7 (8.97%) Kafka
5 3 (3.85%) JSON
6 1 (1.28%) LangChain
6 1 (1.28%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.28%) pgvector
6 1 (1.28%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.28%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.41%) Operational Technology
2 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.28%) Clustering
4 1 (1.28%) Life Science
4 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (55.13%) Data Engineering
2 42 (53.85%) Analytics
3 35 (44.87%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (44.87%) Data Modelling
4 33 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (41.03%) CI/CD
6 25 (32.05%) ETL
7 22 (28.21%) Data Governance
8 21 (26.92%) DevOps
9 18 (23.08%) AI
9 18 (23.08%) Test Automation
10 16 (20.51%) Data Transformation
10 16 (20.51%) Decision-Making
10 16 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (19.23%) Machine Learning
11 15 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (16.67%) Data Architecture
12 13 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 13 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 51 (65.38%) SQL
2 45 (57.69%) Python
3 10 (12.82%) Scala
4 5 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.85%) R
6 2 (2.56%) Java
6 2 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
2 9 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 9 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (39.74%) Data Quality
2 10 (12.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (64.10%) Databricks
2 27 (34.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.85%) SAP
4 2 (2.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.28%) Dell
5 1 (1.28%) Google
5 1 (1.28%) Splunk