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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 292 268
Rank change year-on-year +104 -24 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 106 99 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.14% 0.59% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.72% 3.72% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24 82 77
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £45,000 £53,284
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -9.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £84,688 £92,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

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 1,215 2,658 2,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.02% 15.80% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 734 1,990 1,723
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £44,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +83 79 £42,500 -22.73% 24
Berkshire +89 76 £42,500 +6.25% 19
Hampshire +41 10 £73,750 -13.24% 8
Surrey +56 8 £65,000 - 3
Kent +33 6 £65,000 +2.36% 3
Oxfordshire +26 2 £65,000 +8.33% 9
Middlesex - 2 - - 2
East Sussex +27 1 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +18 1 - - 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 (24.53%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.49%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.66%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 87 (82.08%) Azure
2 42 (39.62%) Power Platform
3 33 (31.13%) AWS
4 30 (28.30%) Power Automate
5 26 (24.53%) PowerApps
6 25 (23.58%) GCP
7 22 (20.75%) Snowflake
8 10 (9.43%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.43%) SaaS
9 7 (6.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (5.66%) IaaS
10 6 (5.66%) PaaS
11 4 (3.77%) Azure AI
11 4 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) DNS
1 4 (3.77%) Firewall
1 4 (3.77%) SD-WAN
1 4 (3.77%) VPN
1 4 (3.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (39.62%) Power BI
2 41 (38.68%) Big Data
3 38 (35.85%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (26.42%) Tableau
5 23 (21.70%) Metadata
6 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.77%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (3.77%) MySQL
7 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.77%) Parquet
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.83%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.83%) Impala
9 2 (1.89%) Bigtable
9 2 (1.89%) HBase
9 2 (1.89%) Redis
9 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) ESLint
2 2 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.89%) Sinon.JS
2 2 (1.89%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.89%) webpack
3 1 (0.94%) ERwin
3 1 (0.94%) MLflow
General
1 73 (68.87%) Law
2 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.32%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.89%) Finance
5 2 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (0.94%) Banking
6 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 59 (55.66%) Lead
2 38 (35.85%) Senior
3 8 (7.55%) Data Engineer
4 7 (6.60%) Architect
5 6 (5.66%) Developer
6 4 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (3.77%) Design Engineer
6 4 (3.77%) Development Engineer
6 4 (3.77%) Software Developer
7 3 (2.83%) Analyst
7 3 (2.83%) Data Analyst
7 3 (2.83%) Data Architect
7 3 (2.83%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (1.89%) C# Developer
8 2 (1.89%) Data Analytics Director
8 2 (1.89%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (1.89%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (1.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) PySpark
1 7 (6.60%) REST
2 6 (5.66%) .NET
3 4 (3.77%) EDI
3 4 (3.77%) Pandas
4 2 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.89%) Jest
4 2 (1.89%) Kafka
4 2 (1.89%) React
5 1 (0.94%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.94%) pydantic
5 1 (0.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.77%) NHS
4 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.89%) IoT
4 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (83.96%) Analytics
2 62 (58.49%) Data Governance
3 55 (51.89%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (51.89%) Data Engineering
4 51 (48.11%) Data Management
5 49 (46.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (40.57%) Data Architecture
6 43 (40.57%) Data Science
7 42 (39.62%) Data Modelling
8 39 (36.79%) Data Strategy
9 35 (33.02%) Data Analytics
10 33 (31.13%) Data Integration
11 32 (30.19%) Service Management
12 30 (28.30%) Project Management
12 30 (28.30%) Roadmaps
13 29 (27.36%) Computer Science
13 29 (27.36%) Data Analysis
14 28 (26.42%) Mentoring
15 27 (25.47%) ETL
16 26 (24.53%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.51%) SQL
2 37 (34.91%) Python
3 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.77%) Bicep
4 4 (3.77%) PL/SQL
4 4 (3.77%) VB.NET
5 3 (2.83%) C#
5 3 (2.83%) Java
6 2 (1.89%) Ruby
7 1 (0.94%) Scala
7 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (49.06%) Degree
2 10 (9.43%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.72%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.77%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (53.77%) Data Quality
2 23 (21.70%) Accessibility
3 22 (20.75%) QA
4 3 (2.83%) GDPR
5 2 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.89%) Hadoop YARN
2 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (34.91%) Microsoft
2 26 (24.53%) ServiceNow
3 14 (13.21%) Databricks
4 10 (9.43%) Salesforce
4 10 (9.43%) SAP
5 4 (3.77%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Meraki
5 4 (3.77%) Oracle
6 3 (2.83%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.89%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.89%) MapR
8 1 (0.94%) Informatica