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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 147 303
Rank change year-on-year -127 +156 -49
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 20 138 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 1.77% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.70% 11.92% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 76
10th Percentile £45,125 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.36% -9.29%
75th Percentile £66,563 £71,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £88,625 £95,000
England median annual salary £76,250 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -7.58% -8.33% +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 1,178 1,158 2,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.18% 14.82% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 777 671 2,026
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 15 £47,500 +11.76% 3
Buckinghamshire +2 8 £47,500 - 1
Berkshire -76 7 £66,250 +55.88% 1
Hampshire -42 3 £65,000 +23.81% 1
Surrey -13 2 £62,500 -3.85%
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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) Camunda
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
1 1 (5.00%) Modbus
1 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (25.00%) Metadata
2 4 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (5.00%) PowerPivot
4 1 (5.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) gRPC
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Life Science
2 1 (5.00%) LIMS
2 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Data Modelling
2 16 (80.00%) Analytics
2 16 (80.00%) ETL
3 14 (70.00%) Data Governance
4 10 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (50.00%) DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) AI
8 4 (20.00%) Data Management
9 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
9 3 (15.00%) Data Strategy
9 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
10 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCA
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Pega
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) UiPath