Data Lake Jobs in the South East

Data Lakes
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 305 252
Rank change year-on-year +112 -53 +71
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 139 75 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.35% 0.45% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.94% 2.96% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 22 57 74
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,875
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £67,875
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +3.13% -3.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,000 £97,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year -28.57% +31.86% +6.18%

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 1,271 2,533 2,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.33% 15.16% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 705 1,841 1,584
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,625
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the South East

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the South East

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the South East over the 6 months to 18 July 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 18 July 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 +113 121 £42,500 - 11
Berkshire +99 114 £42,500 +13.33% 7
Surrey +46 6 £65,000 - 5
Hampshire +45 6 £51,250 -39.71% 6
Oxfordshire +39 4 £77,500 +29.17% 1
Kent +27 3 £82,500 +29.92% 1
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £45,000 +5.88% 3
Middlesex - 2 - -
East Sussex +25 1 - -
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (18.71%) SharePoint
2 15 (10.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.32%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 124 (89.21%) Azure
2 44 (31.65%) Power Platform
3 39 (28.06%) AWS
4 35 (25.18%) GCP
5 31 (22.30%) Power Automate
6 26 (18.71%) PowerApps
7 24 (17.27%) Snowflake
8 11 (7.91%) SaaS
9 7 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.32%) IaaS
10 6 (4.32%) PaaS
11 4 (2.88%) Azure AI
11 4 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) DNS
1 4 (2.88%) Firewall
1 4 (2.88%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.88%) VPN
1 4 (2.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (32.37%) Big Data
2 44 (31.65%) Power BI
3 42 (30.22%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (20.14%) Tableau
5 26 (18.71%) Metadata
6 11 (7.91%) Hadoop
7 9 (6.47%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.88%) MySQL
9 4 (2.88%) Parquet
9 4 (2.88%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.44%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.44%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.44%) HBase
10 2 (1.44%) Impala
10 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Git
2 1 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 111 (79.86%) Law
2 55 (39.57%) Social Skills
3 43 (30.94%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (28.06%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.16%) Finance
6 2 (1.44%) Retail
7 1 (0.72%) Billing
7 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.72%) Legal
7 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (46.76%) Senior
2 60 (43.17%) Lead
3 9 (6.47%) Data Analytics Director
4 8 (5.76%) Architect
4 8 (5.76%) Data Engineer
5 5 (3.60%) Analyst
5 5 (3.60%) Data Analyst
5 5 (3.60%) Developer
6 4 (2.88%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (2.88%) Data Architect
6 4 (2.88%) Design Engineer
6 4 (2.88%) Development Engineer
6 4 (2.88%) Software Developer
7 2 (1.44%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (1.44%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) Geospatial Analyst
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI Developer
8 1 (0.72%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.47%) Kafka
2 5 (3.60%) REST
3 4 (2.88%) .NET
3 4 (2.88%) EDI
3 4 (2.88%) Pandas
3 4 (2.88%) PySpark
4 1 (0.72%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.72%) JSON
4 1 (0.72%) pydantic
4 1 (0.72%) pytest
4 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.88%) NHS
4 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (90.65%) Analytics
2 75 (53.96%) Data Science
3 65 (46.76%) Data Governance
4 64 (46.04%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (46.04%) Data Engineering
5 59 (42.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (40.29%) Machine Learning
7 55 (39.57%) Roadmaps
8 53 (38.13%) Agile
9 52 (37.41%) Data Modelling
10 50 (35.97%) Data Management
11 45 (32.37%) Data Architecture
12 43 (30.94%) Data Analytics
13 41 (29.50%) Actionable Insight
13 41 (29.50%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (28.78%) ETL
15 39 (28.06%) Co-Creation
15 39 (28.06%) Innovative Thinking
15 39 (28.06%) Predictive Modelling
15 39 (28.06%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 58 (41.73%) SQL
2 39 (28.06%) Python
3 4 (2.88%) Bicep
3 4 (2.88%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.88%) VB.NET
4 2 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.44%) Java
4 2 (1.44%) Ruby
5 1 (0.72%) C#
5 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (45.32%) Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Azure Certification
3 12 (8.63%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.60%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.72%) PhD
6 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (41.01%) Data Quality
2 27 (19.42%) Accessibility
3 25 (17.99%) QA
4 10 (7.19%) GDPR
5 9 (6.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.44%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.71%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.91%) Databricks
3 11 (7.91%) Google
4 10 (7.19%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.19%) SAP
5 4 (2.88%) Meraki
5 4 (2.88%) Oracle
6 2 (1.44%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.44%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.44%) MapR