Data Lake Job Trends in Sunderland

Data Lakes
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Sunderland 2.69% - 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.15% - 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,125 - -
90th Percentile £55,750 - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% -3.33% +15.38%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 33 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 17.74% 18.03% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 29 11 8
10th Percentile £41,000 £39,000 £43,475
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,665 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £51,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -21.54% +4.42%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £73,063
90th Percentile £80,000 - £75,425
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,000 £42,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +22.35% -27.66% +6.82%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Sunderland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft