Data Lake Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Lakes
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 4 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.65% 0.34% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 2.56% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £45,875 - £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £59,168 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,779 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +25.56% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,389 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,750 - £58,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £79,632
% change year-on-year -4.43% -21.16% +2.75%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 64 78 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.42% 13.36% 22.18%
Number of salaries quoted 45 36 111
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,625 £31,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,887 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% +1.77% -
75th Percentile £56,000 £68,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £80,000 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.21% +5.00% -13.04%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Lake
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in South Yorkshire

Data Lake
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Sheffield +7 3 £57,500 -8.41%
Doncaster - 1 £45,000 -
Data Lake
Yorkshire

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Physical Data Model
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) ETL Development
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft