Lakehouse Job Trends in Scotland

Data Lakehouse
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 129 142 212
Rank change year-on-year +13 +70 -50
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 12 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 0.039% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.044% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £64,839 - -
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% - -
75th Percentile £117,500 £65,000 -
90th Percentile £132,500 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,551 2,288 4,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.49% 90.08% 86.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 1,016 1,825
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,763 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Scotland

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in Scotland

Lakehouse
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 7 £90,000 -
Glasgow +13 5 £125,000 +108.33%
Lakehouse
UK

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (41.67%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) MQTT
2 1 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (25.00%) Metadata
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (16.67%) Neo4j
4 2 (16.67%) Pinecone
4 2 (16.67%) Tableau
5 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (16.67%) Automotive
2 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
2 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Principal Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Principal Data Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Databricks Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) pgvector
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (25.00%) IoT
3 2 (16.67%) Data Fabric
3 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (16.67%) Robotics
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) AI
1 7 (58.33%) Analytics
1 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) Data Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) ETL
3 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Insight
5 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Lineage
5 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) MCT
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Meraki