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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 291 269
Rank change year-on-year +113 -22 +8
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 137 98 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.42% 0.55% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.46% 3.61% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18 77 75
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £45,250
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -9.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% +6.67%

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 1,195 2,718 2,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.35% 15.21% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 679 2,008 1,654
10th Percentile £32,250 £35,175 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,019
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,969
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +118 117 £42,500 -17.07% 142
Berkshire +105 114 £42,500 +6.25% 77
Hampshire +47 7 £52,500 -38.24% 54
Surrey +57 6 £65,000 - 40
Kent +39 4 £82,500 +29.92% 37
Oxfordshire +30 2 £65,000 +8.33% 26
Middlesex - 2 - -
East Sussex +25 1 - - 18
Buckinghamshire +13 1 - - 39
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 (18.98%) SharePoint
2 16 (11.68%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 120 (87.59%) Azure
2 43 (31.39%) AWS
3 41 (29.93%) Power Platform
4 35 (25.55%) GCP
5 30 (21.90%) Power Automate
6 26 (18.98%) PowerApps
7 25 (18.25%) Snowflake
8 10 (7.30%) Amazon S3
8 10 (7.30%) SaaS
9 6 (4.38%) IaaS
9 6 (4.38%) PaaS
10 4 (2.92%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) DNS
1 4 (2.92%) Firewall
1 4 (2.92%) SD-WAN
1 4 (2.92%) VPN
1 4 (2.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (33.58%) Big Data
2 44 (32.12%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (29.93%) Power BI
4 28 (20.44%) Tableau
5 26 (18.98%) Metadata
6 12 (8.76%) Hadoop
7 9 (6.57%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.92%) MySQL
8 4 (2.92%) Parquet
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.19%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.19%) Impala
10 2 (1.46%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.46%) Bigtable
10 2 (1.46%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.46%) HBase
10 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Git
2 1 (0.73%) ERwin
2 1 (0.73%) MLflow
General
1 110 (80.29%) Law
2 52 (37.96%) Social Skills
3 43 (31.39%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (28.47%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Finance
6 1 (0.73%) Banking
6 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 66 (48.18%) Senior
2 60 (43.80%) Lead
3 9 (6.57%) Data Analytics Director
4 8 (5.84%) Architect
4 8 (5.84%) Data Engineer
5 4 (2.92%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (2.92%) Data Architect
5 4 (2.92%) Design Engineer
5 4 (2.92%) Developer
5 4 (2.92%) Development Engineer
5 4 (2.92%) Software Developer
6 3 (2.19%) Analyst
6 3 (2.19%) Data Analyst
6 3 (2.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (1.46%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (1.46%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (0.73%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.57%) Kafka
2 7 (5.11%) PySpark
3 5 (3.65%) REST
4 4 (2.92%) .NET
4 4 (2.92%) EDI
4 4 (2.92%) Pandas
5 1 (0.73%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.73%) pydantic
5 1 (0.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.92%) NHS
5 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (89.78%) Analytics
2 76 (55.47%) Data Science
3 69 (50.36%) Data Governance
4 63 (45.99%) Data Engineering
5 59 (43.07%) Business Intelligence
5 59 (43.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 55 (40.15%) Roadmaps
7 54 (39.42%) Machine Learning
8 53 (38.69%) Agile
9 52 (37.96%) Data Modelling
10 51 (37.23%) Data Management
11 48 (35.04%) Data Architecture
12 42 (30.66%) Data Analytics
13 40 (29.20%) Actionable Insight
13 40 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (28.47%) Co-Creation
14 39 (28.47%) Innovative Thinking
14 39 (28.47%) People Analytics
14 39 (28.47%) Strategic Roadmap
14 39 (28.47%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (37.96%) SQL
2 40 (29.20%) Python
3 4 (2.92%) Bicep
3 4 (2.92%) PL/SQL
3 4 (2.92%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.92%) VB.NET
4 3 (2.19%) Java
5 2 (1.46%) Ruby
6 1 (0.73%) C#
6 1 (0.73%) Scala
6 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (45.26%) Degree
2 14 (10.22%) Azure Certification
3 12 (8.76%) Master's Degree
4 10 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.57%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.92%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.73%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (42.34%) Data Quality
2 26 (18.98%) Accessibility
3 25 (18.25%) QA
4 9 (6.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (6.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.46%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (1.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (26.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.98%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.03%) Google
4 10 (7.30%) Databricks
4 10 (7.30%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.30%) SAP
5 4 (2.92%) Meraki
5 4 (2.92%) Oracle
6 3 (2.19%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.46%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.46%) MapR
8 1 (0.73%) Informatica