Lakehouse Job Trends in South Wales

Data Lakehouse
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales 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 98 58 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 4 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.21% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.18% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 - -
Wales median annual salary £71,750 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 548 704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 68.71% 83.28% 63.54%
Number of salaries quoted 984 420 520
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,500 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £73,750 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £49,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% -1.31%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in South Wales

Lakehouse
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the South Wales 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
Cardiff -32 3 £63,500 - 3
Bridgend - 1 £63,500 -
Lakehouse
Wales

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) dbt
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) DataOps
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks