Data Lake Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Lakes
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 172 155
Rank change year-on-year +84 -17 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 86 9 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.13% 0.27% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.38% 1.36% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 34
10th Percentile - £36,050 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £67,188
90th Percentile £66,250 £90,000 £85,875
South East median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +12.00% -10.71%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 468 663 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.61% 19.59% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 225 381 551
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £75,750 £92,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £59,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.75% +7.50% -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

Data Lake
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Berkshire +64 80 £50,000 +9.29% 19
Buckinghamshire +11 5 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 63 (73.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 75 (87.21%) Azure
2 68 (79.07%) Power Platform
3 12 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.16%) AWS
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.16%) dbt
5 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (77.91%) Power BI
2 63 (73.26%) SAP BW
3 12 (13.95%) Metadata
4 6 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.81%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.16%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.16%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.16%) SAS EBI
7 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 43 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (38.37%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (19.77%) Finance
4 2 (2.33%) Automotive
4 2 (2.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (45.35%) Lead
2 35 (40.70%) Analyst
3 34 (39.53%) Report Analyst
4 29 (33.72%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 28 (32.56%) Sustainability Analyst
6 8 (9.30%) Data Engineer
7 2 (2.33%) Data Manager
7 2 (2.33%) Service Manager
8 1 (1.16%) Data Analyst
8 1 (1.16%) Head of Data Management
8 1 (1.16%) Principal Data Engineer
8 1 (1.16%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) FHIR
2 1 (1.16%) PySpark
2 1 (1.16%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Algorithms
1 10 (11.63%) Life Science
1 10 (11.63%) Omics
2 1 (1.16%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (95.35%) Analytics
2 70 (81.40%) Data Modelling
3 67 (77.91%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (74.42%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (52.33%) Data Governance
6 36 (41.86%) Data Cleansing
7 31 (36.05%) Actionable Insight
8 30 (34.88%) ERP
9 28 (32.56%) GAP Analysis
9 28 (32.56%) Quality Management
9 28 (32.56%) Source to Pay
10 18 (20.93%) Decision-Making
10 18 (20.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (16.28%) AI
12 13 (15.12%) Data Architecture
13 12 (13.95%) Machine Learning
14 10 (11.63%) Data Science
14 10 (11.63%) Data Strategy
14 10 (11.63%) Hematology
14 10 (11.63%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.63%) SQL
2 2 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 75 (87.21%) Degree
2 10 (11.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (76.74%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.63%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.63%) CDISC
2 10 (11.63%) GxP
2 10 (11.63%) HL7
3 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 63 (73.26%) SAP
2 2 (2.33%) Databricks
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft