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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 244 201
Rank change year-on-year +58 -43 +86
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 92 52 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.89% 0.57% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.66% 3.11% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 15 42 56
10th Percentile £43,500 £41,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +13.36% -11.79%
75th Percentile £61,875 £87,500 £76,375
90th Percentile £67,000 £100,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +24.14% -6.45%

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 952 1,673 1,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.23% 18.35% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 524 883 1,167
10th Percentile £31,438 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 5 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 5 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 +82 87 £50,000 -20.00% 25
Berkshire +65 80 £50,000 +9.29% 18
Buckinghamshire +9 6 £55,000 -38.89% 5
Surrey -5 2 £58,750 -30.88% 7
Hampshire +19 1 £65,000 -18.75% 9
Middlesex - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (68.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 79 (85.87%) Azure
2 71 (77.17%) Power Platform
3 15 (16.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (11.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.09%) AWS
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.09%) dbt
5 1 (1.09%) H2O.ai
5 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.09%) SaaS
5 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (76.09%) Power BI
2 63 (68.48%) SAP BW
3 13 (14.13%) Metadata
4 10 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.43%) Data Mining
6 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.09%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.09%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.09%) SAS EBI
8 1 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Git
General
1 45 (48.91%) Social Skills
2 34 (36.96%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (19.57%) Finance
4 2 (2.17%) Automotive
4 2 (2.17%) Retail
5 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (42.39%) Lead
2 35 (38.04%) Analyst
3 34 (36.96%) Report Analyst
4 29 (31.52%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (30.43%) Sustainability Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.17%) Data Manager
7 2 (2.17%) Service Manager
8 1 (1.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 1 (1.09%) Consultant
8 1 (1.09%) Data Analyst
8 1 (1.09%) Data Consultant
8 1 (1.09%) Developer
8 1 (1.09%) Head of Data Management
8 1 (1.09%) Power BI Developer
8 1 (1.09%) Principal Data Engineer
8 1 (1.09%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (1.09%) Senior
8 1 (1.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) FHIR
2 2 (2.17%) PySpark
3 1 (1.09%) Keras
3 1 (1.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.09%) Snowpark
3 1 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Algorithms
1 10 (10.87%) Life Science
1 10 (10.87%) Omics
2 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (94.57%) Analytics
2 72 (78.26%) Data Modelling
3 71 (77.17%) Business Intelligence
4 66 (71.74%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (50.00%) Data Governance
6 36 (39.13%) Data Cleansing
7 33 (35.87%) Actionable Insight
8 30 (32.61%) ERP
9 29 (31.52%) GAP Analysis
10 28 (30.43%) Quality Management
10 28 (30.43%) Source to Pay
11 22 (23.91%) Decision-Making
12 19 (20.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (17.39%) AI
14 14 (15.22%) Machine Learning
15 13 (14.13%) Data Architecture
15 13 (14.13%) Data Strategy
16 11 (11.96%) Computer Science
16 11 (11.96%) ETL
16 11 (11.96%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.22%) SQL
2 6 (6.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 76 (82.61%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) PhD
3 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (73.91%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.96%) Accessibility
3 10 (10.87%) CDISC
3 10 (10.87%) GxP
3 10 (10.87%) HL7
4 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.17%) GDPR
5 2 (2.17%) SLA
Vendors
1 63 (68.48%) SAP
2 6 (6.52%) Databricks
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.09%) Dell
4 1 (1.09%) NVIDIA