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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 139 308
Rank change year-on-year -164 +169 -68
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 23 184 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 2.06% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.69% 15.02% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 21
10th Percentile - £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,313 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -2.08% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year - -29.55% +41.48%

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 1,357 1,225 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.88% 13.71% 14.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 658 1,397
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,128 £83,750 £83,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.83% -3.20% -3.85%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -110 12 £47,500 - 7
Buckinghamshire -2 8 £47,500 - 6
Surrey -18 6 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Berkshire -84 3 £83,750 +97.06% 1
East Sussex -17 2 - -
Hampshire -42 2 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Kent -14 1 - - 2
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 2 (8.70%) 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 20 (86.96%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (39.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (34.78%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Broadband
1 1 (4.35%) Modbus
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Power BI
2 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (13.04%) Metadata
5 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) PowerPivot
6 1 (4.35%) SAP BW
6 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
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%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Developer
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%) Solutions 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%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
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 18 (78.26%) Analytics
2 16 (69.57%) Data Modelling
3 15 (65.22%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (56.52%) Data Governance
4 13 (56.52%) ETL
5 12 (52.17%) DevOps
6 11 (47.83%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
9 6 (26.09%) Data Architecture
10 5 (21.74%) Data Science
10 5 (21.74%) Data Strategy
10 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
11 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
11 4 (17.39%) Data Acquisition
11 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
11 4 (17.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) SAP