Data Lake Jobs in the North West

Data Lakes
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 226 222
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 18 63 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 0.65% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.65% 3.50% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10 54 37
10th Percentile £59,168 - £39,544
25th Percentile £60,313 £35,000 £46,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -25.00% +0.45%
75th Percentile £80,625 £64,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £77,500 £89,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% +14.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 679 1,801 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.96% 18.53% 19.17%
Number of salaries quoted 451 1,286 887
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.07% +3.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,613 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,759 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +45 15 £77,500 +55.00% 20
Lancashire -49 2 £65,139 +53.27% 8
Merseyside +33 1 £70,000 +75.00% 3
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.11%) IaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.11%) Data Mart
3 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Neo4j
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.56%) Parquet
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Retail
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Billing
6 1 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (5.56%) J2EE
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Fabric
1 3 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Analytics
2 11 (61.11%) Roadmaps
3 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 6 (33.33%) ETL
4 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
6 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
6 4 (22.22%) Coaching
6 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
6 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 4 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (16.67%) Backlog Management
7 3 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
7 3 (16.67%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) SEPA
2 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) StreamSets