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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 288 217
Rank change year-on-year +140 -71 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 148 39 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.66% 0.34% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.10% 2.13% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16 27 48
10th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £41,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,501 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.69% +4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £75,313 £73,375 £67,188
90th Percentile £89,375 £88,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -

All Database and 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 1,050 1,827 1,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.77% 16.11% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 601 1,010 1,223
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025. 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 +109 140 £55,000 +20.22% 23
Berkshire +89 128 £90,000 +130.77% 22
Buckinghamshire +9 8 £47,500 -37.70%
Oxfordshire - 4 £77,500 - 1
Surrey +17 3 £62,500 -12.28% 1
Hampshire +20 2 - - 5
Kent - 2 £73,750 - 3
Middlesex - 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 7 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 64 (43.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 134 (90.54%) Azure
2 76 (51.35%) Power Platform
3 17 (11.49%) AWS
4 13 (8.78%) GCP
5 12 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (4.05%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.38%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.38%) SaaS
8 4 (2.70%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.70%) IaaS
8 4 (2.70%) PaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.68%) H2O.ai
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) DNS
1 4 (2.70%) Firewall
1 4 (2.70%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.70%) VPN
1 4 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (51.35%) Power BI
2 63 (42.57%) SAP BW
3 17 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (11.49%) Metadata
4 7 (4.73%) Big Data
4 7 (4.73%) Hadoop
4 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.70%) MySQL
6 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.35%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.68%) Power Query
9 1 (0.68%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 95 (64.19%) Social Skills
2 69 (46.62%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (35.81%) Law
4 39 (26.35%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (9.46%) Finance
6 4 (2.70%) Retail
7 2 (1.35%) Automotive
7 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Billing
8 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (31.76%) Senior
2 45 (30.41%) Lead
3 37 (25.00%) Analyst
4 34 (22.97%) Report Analyst
5 29 (19.59%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 28 (18.92%) Sustainability Analyst
7 7 (4.73%) Architect
7 7 (4.73%) Data Analytics Director
8 6 (4.05%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (2.03%) Data Analyst
10 3 (2.03%) Data Architect
11 2 (1.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 2 (1.35%) Data Manager
11 2 (1.35%) Developer
11 2 (1.35%) Power BI Developer
11 2 (1.35%) Service Manager
12 1 (0.68%) Head of Data Management
12 1 (0.68%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
12 1 (0.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.76%) FHIR
2 7 (4.73%) Kafka
3 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.68%) JSON
3 1 (0.68%) Keras
3 1 (0.68%) pydantic
3 1 (0.68%) pytest
3 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.68%) REST
3 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (6.76%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.76%) Life Science
2 10 (6.76%) Omics
3 9 (6.08%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.38%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.70%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (94.59%) Analytics
2 105 (70.95%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (55.41%) Business Intelligence
4 80 (54.05%) Data Modelling
5 72 (48.65%) Actionable Insight
6 61 (41.22%) Machine Learning
7 57 (38.51%) Data Governance
8 56 (37.84%) Data Science
9 54 (36.49%) Agile
10 43 (29.05%) Roadmaps
11 39 (26.35%) Co-Creation
11 39 (26.35%) Innovative Thinking
11 39 (26.35%) People Analytics
11 39 (26.35%) Predictive Modelling
11 39 (26.35%) Scorecard
11 39 (26.35%) Strategic Roadmap
11 39 (26.35%) Thought Leadership
12 38 (25.68%) Data Cleansing
13 31 (20.95%) ERP
14 29 (19.59%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.27%) SQL
2 10 (6.76%) Python
3 4 (2.70%) Bicep
3 4 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (61.49%) Degree
2 11 (7.43%) Azure Certification
2 11 (7.43%) PhD
3 9 (6.08%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.38%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (48.65%) Data Quality
2 17 (11.49%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.76%) CDISC
3 10 (6.76%) GxP
3 10 (6.76%) HL7
4 9 (6.08%) GDPR
5 7 (4.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (4.73%) QA
6 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (42.57%) SAP
2 11 (7.43%) Databricks
3 7 (4.73%) Google
4 5 (3.38%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.70%) Meraki
6 1 (0.68%) Dell
6 1 (0.68%) NVIDIA