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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 126 301
Rank change year-on-year -182 +175 -72
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 24 198 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 2.18% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.79% 16.50% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 23
10th Percentile - £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £84,750 £87,125 £82,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% -25.00% +41.94%

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 1,338 1,200 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.59% 13.23% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 643 1,319
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year - +0.46% -4.78%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% -2.31%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -119 11 £47,500 -7.32% 7
Buckinghamshire 0 7 £47,500 - 4
Surrey -14 6 £75,000 +17.65% 2
Kent -18 3 - - 2
Berkshire -91 3 £83,750 -14.10% 3
Hampshire -52 2 £60,000 +20.00% 3
East Sussex - 2 - -
Oxfordshire -28 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 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (41.67%) Power Platform
4 8 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.33%) AWS
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.17%) GCP
8 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
1 1 (4.17%) Modbus
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) Power BI
2 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (12.50%) Metadata
5 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.17%) PowerPivot
6 1 (4.17%) SAP BW
6 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Databricks Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Report Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.17%) gRPC
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) FMCG
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Analytics
2 15 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 14 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (54.17%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (54.17%) DevOps
5 12 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 12 (50.00%) ETL
6 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 8 (33.33%) Lakehouse
8 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
9 5 (20.83%) Data Science
9 5 (20.83%) Data Strategy
9 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
10 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (16.67%) Data Acquisition
10 4 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 4 (16.67%) ERP
11 3 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) Databricks
3 3 (12.50%) HP
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Alteryx
5 1 (4.17%) SAP