Lakehouse Job Trends in the South East

Data Lakehouse
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 293 334
Rank change year-on-year -4 +41 -26
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 43 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.022% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.025% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 40 0 1
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile £49,250 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £47,500
75th Percentile £64,688 - £51,250
90th Percentile £90,000 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,603 7,945 10,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.35% 87.69% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,057 4,294 6,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,913 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the South East

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the South East over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the South East

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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 - 36 £50,000 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 26 £50,000 -
Berkshire - 9 £90,000 - 2
Hampshire -47 5 £60,000 -
Surrey - 3 £51,500 - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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 3 (6.98%) Apache
1 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 37 (86.05%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (23.26%) Azure Databricks
4 8 (18.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) AWS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) SQL Server
2 8 (18.60%) Data Lake
3 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (11.63%) Metadata
4 5 (11.63%) Star Schema
5 4 (9.30%) Power BI
6 2 (4.65%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.65%) Power Query
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.33%) Big Data
7 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
General
1 8 (18.60%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (67.44%) Data Engineer
2 24 (55.81%) Microsoft Engineer
3 16 (37.21%) Azure Data Engineer
3 16 (37.21%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (23.26%) Architect
5 8 (18.60%) Data Architect
6 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
8 2 (4.65%) Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Business Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Databricks Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Developer Analyst
9 1 (2.33%) Data Manager
9 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) PySpark
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (6.98%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (46.51%) ETL
3 16 (37.21%) Analytics
4 14 (32.56%) Data Architecture
5 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
5 13 (30.23%) Data Modelling
6 11 (25.58%) Agile
7 10 (23.26%) DevOps
8 9 (20.93%) Data Governance
9 8 (18.60%) Data Engineering
9 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (11.63%) Data Integration
13 4 (9.30%) Decision-Making
13 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 4 (9.30%) Machine Learning
13 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
14 3 (6.98%) Observability
14 3 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) SQL
2 13 (30.23%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.33%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) SLA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 31 (72.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (30.23%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle