Lakehouse Job Trends in the South West

Data Lakehouse
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 224 164 241
Rank change year-on-year -60 +77 -
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 18 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.14% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.17% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £40,000 £109,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £111,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,731 £120,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.72% - -
75th Percentile £93,959 £135,125 -
90th Percentile - £141,200 -
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,732 2,870 5,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.02% 82.33% 75.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 1,868 3,881
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 West

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the South West

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the South West

Lakehouse
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the South West 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
Wiltshire - 11 £91,550 -
Bristol -31 4 £70,000 -41.67%
Gloucestershire - 2 £40,000 -
Somerset - 1 £38,979 -
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) dbt
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.11%) Fivetran
5 2 (11.11%) OCI
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (22.22%) Metadata
3 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) ZAP BI
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.56%) Flink
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) Looker
5 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JUnit
1 3 (16.67%) NUnit
1 3 (16.67%) Postman
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
1 3 (16.67%) Snyk
1 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.56%) ERwin
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Military
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Games
3 2 (11.11%) Health Technology
3 2 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Technology Director
2 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Head of Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Principal Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 3 (16.67%) Keycloak
2 3 (16.67%) Node.js
2 3 (16.67%) pytest
2 3 (16.67%) React
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 9 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Data Integration
2 7 (38.89%) DevSecOps
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 6 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) AI
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
5 4 (22.22%) API Management
5 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Observability
5 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Go
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) OCP
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GDPR
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Sparx