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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 159 306
Rank change year-on-year -136 +147 -54
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 23 139 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 1.62% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 11.30% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 43
10th Percentile - £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,188 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +0.39% +1.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -28.57% +31.86%

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 1,329 1,230 2,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.32% 14.30% 14.66%
Number of salaries quoted 993 684 1,696
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,438 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,156 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £84,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -90 14 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Buckinghamshire -2 8 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Surrey -26 5 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Berkshire -75 5 £83,750 +97.06% 2
East Sussex -11 2 - -
Hampshire -40 2 £60,000 +17.07% 1
Oxfordshire -17 1 - -
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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Camunda
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (39.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.04%) AWS
6 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Broadband
1 1 (4.35%) Modbus
1 1 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (17.39%) Metadata
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) PowerPivot
5 1 (4.35%) SAP BW
5 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Data Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Azure Data Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Operations Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Report Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) gRPC
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
3 1 (4.35%) Life Science
3 1 (4.35%) LIMS
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Analytics
2 17 (73.91%) Data Modelling
3 14 (60.87%) Data Governance
3 14 (60.87%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (56.52%) ETL
5 11 (47.83%) DevOps
6 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
8 5 (21.74%) AI
8 5 (21.74%) Data Architecture
8 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
8 5 (21.74%) Data Science
8 5 (21.74%) Data Strategy
8 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
9 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (17.39%) Data Management
9 4 (17.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) SQL
2 12 (52.17%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Accessibility
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.35%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (4.35%) Pega
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) UiPath