Lakehouse Job Trends in the North West

Data Lakehouse
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 214 236 250
Rank change year-on-year +22 +14 -27
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 36 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.29% 0.058% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.064% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 31 1 6
10th Percentile £42,500 - £48,125
25th Percentile £52,500 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +36.36% -
75th Percentile £80,000 - £60,563
90th Percentile £97,500 - £62,250
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,828 4,685 6,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.22% 89.89% 77.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,709 2,288 4,011
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
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 West

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the North West

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the North West

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the North West 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
Manchester -10 22 £72,500 -3.33% 11
Merseyside -11 7 £55,000 - 2
Cheshire - 4 £85,000 - 2
Lancashire - 3 £55,000 -
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 8 (22.22%) Apache
3 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Azure
2 20 (55.56%) AWS
3 11 (30.56%) Amazon S3
4 8 (22.22%) GCP
4 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 7 (19.44%) Amazon EMR
6 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (16.67%) Serverless
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (11.11%) GitHub
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (22.22%) Power BI
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 6 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 4 (11.11%) Tableau
4 3 (8.33%) Big Data
4 3 (8.33%) Metadata
4 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.33%) OLAP
4 3 (8.33%) Power Query
4 3 (8.33%) PowerPivot
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.56%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) MLflow
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Law
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Games
4 1 (2.78%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Data Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Architect
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Databricks Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Architect
7 4 (11.11%) Lead
8 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
10 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
10 1 (2.78%) Head of Engineering
10 1 (2.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) PySpark
2 6 (16.67%) Kafka
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Analytics
2 18 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (44.44%) Data Engineering
4 15 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (30.56%) Data Modelling
6 10 (27.78%) Data Transformation
6 10 (27.78%) Decision-Making
7 8 (22.22%) AI
7 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 8 (22.22%) Data Architecture
7 8 (22.22%) ETL
7 8 (22.22%) Validation
8 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
8 7 (19.44%) Migration
9 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.67%) Workflow
10 5 (13.89%) Data Science
10 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) Python
2 21 (58.33%) SQL
3 10 (27.78%) Scala
4 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (8.33%) R
6 2 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.78%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (52.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Databricks
2 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) SAP