Data Lake Job Trends in Surrey

Data Lakes
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 92 123
Rank change year-on-year -24 +31 -33
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 6 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.25% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.11% 2.08% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £64,250 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £55,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,875 -
90th Percentile £78,250 £67,250 -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £58,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +27.66% +30.56% -14.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 193 144 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 8.02% 12.36% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 156 98 172
10th Percentile £39,891 £35,875 £35,070
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £96,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,533 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.96% +0.97% -4.35%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Surrey

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in Surrey

Data Lake
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Esher +1 1 £62,500 -3.85%
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Acquisition
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Order to Cash
4 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (16.67%) Record to Report
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP