Data Lake Job Trends in the South East

Data Lakes
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 240 215
Rank change year-on-year +60 -25 +74
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 89 54 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.83% 0.61% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.52% 3.41% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 12 43 89
10th Percentile £42,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £59,688 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £67,375 £100,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +28.57% -12.50%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 935 1,585 1,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.73% 17.82% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 535 811 1,540
10th Percentile £30,800 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £68,875 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the South East over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the South East

Data Lake
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 January 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
Thames Valley +80 85 £50,000 -20.00% 35
Berkshire +69 80 £50,000 +9.29% 18
Buckinghamshire +3 4 £55,000 -38.89% 9
Hampshire +8 2 £65,000 -13.04% 9
Middlesex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 8
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 - 8
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (70.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 77 (86.52%) Azure
2 69 (77.53%) Power Platform
3 13 (14.61%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (10.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.25%) AWS
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.12%) dbt
6 1 (1.12%) H2O.ai
6 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (76.40%) Power BI
2 63 (70.79%) SAP BW
3 14 (15.73%) Metadata
4 9 (10.11%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.62%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.12%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.12%) Big Data
8 1 (1.12%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.12%) SAS EBI
8 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Git
General
1 43 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 33 (37.08%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.22%) Finance
4 2 (2.25%) Automotive
5 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (43.82%) Lead
2 35 (39.33%) Analyst
3 34 (38.20%) Report Analyst
4 29 (32.58%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (31.46%) Sustainability Analyst
6 9 (10.11%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.25%) Data Manager
7 2 (2.25%) Senior
7 2 (2.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (2.25%) Service Manager
8 1 (1.12%) Architect
8 1 (1.12%) Consultant
8 1 (1.12%) Data Analyst
8 1 (1.12%) Data Architect
8 1 (1.12%) Data Consultant
8 1 (1.12%) Head of Data Management
8 1 (1.12%) Principal Data Engineer
8 1 (1.12%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (1.12%) Senior Architect
8 1 (1.12%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) FHIR
2 2 (2.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.12%) Keras
3 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.12%) Snowpark
3 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Algorithms
1 10 (11.24%) Life Science
1 10 (11.24%) Omics
2 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.12%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (95.51%) Analytics
2 72 (80.90%) Data Modelling
3 68 (76.40%) Business Intelligence
4 65 (73.03%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (52.81%) Data Governance
6 36 (40.45%) Data Cleansing
7 31 (34.83%) Actionable Insight
8 30 (33.71%) ERP
9 28 (31.46%) GAP Analysis
9 28 (31.46%) Quality Management
9 28 (31.46%) Source to Pay
10 19 (21.35%) Decision-Making
11 18 (20.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (17.98%) AI
13 14 (15.73%) Data Architecture
14 13 (14.61%) Machine Learning
15 12 (13.48%) Metadata Management
16 11 (12.36%) Computer Science
16 11 (12.36%) Data Strategy
17 10 (11.24%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.48%) SQL
2 5 (5.62%) Python
Qualifications
1 76 (85.39%) Degree
2 10 (11.24%) PhD
3 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (75.28%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.24%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.24%) CDISC
2 10 (11.24%) GxP
2 10 (11.24%) HL7
3 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.25%) SLA
Vendors
1 63 (70.79%) SAP
2 5 (5.62%) Databricks
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.12%) Dell
4 1 (1.12%) Google
4 1 (1.12%) NVIDIA