Data Lake Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Lakes
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 191 172
Rank change year-on-year +88 -19 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 93 54 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.71% 0.80% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.85% 4.94% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6 39 44
10th Percentile - £36,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -32.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65,313 £65,000 £88,438
90th Percentile £89,375 £80,500 £100,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% -9.29% +16.67%

All Database and 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 552 1,093 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.09% 16.25% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 305 768 664
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,500 £44,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,375 £96,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,408
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.19% +4.38%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 2025. 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 +83 90 £42,500 +6.25% 22
Oxfordshire +30 2 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Buckinghamshire +17 1 - -
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (27.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 88 (94.62%) Azure
2 33 (35.48%) AWS
2 33 (35.48%) Power Platform
3 30 (32.26%) GCP
4 28 (30.11%) Power Automate
5 26 (27.96%) PowerApps
6 25 (26.88%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.15%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.15%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.15%) IaaS
7 2 (2.15%) PaaS
7 2 (2.15%) SaaS
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) DNS
1 2 (2.15%) Firewall
1 2 (2.15%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.15%) VPN
1 2 (2.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (35.48%) Big Data
1 33 (35.48%) Power BI
2 31 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (27.96%) Tableau
4 24 (25.81%) Metadata
5 7 (7.53%) Hadoop
6 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.15%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.15%) MySQL
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.08%) Impala
8 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.08%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) ERwin
2 1 (1.08%) MLflow
General
1 84 (90.32%) Law
2 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (19.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.08%) Banking
5 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 60 (64.52%) Lead
2 42 (45.16%) Senior
3 6 (6.45%) Data Analytics Director
4 4 (4.30%) Developer
4 4 (4.30%) Software Developer
5 3 (3.23%) Architect
6 2 (2.15%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (2.15%) Data Engineer
7 1 (1.08%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) Kafka
2 4 (4.30%) .NET
2 4 (4.30%) EDI
3 1 (1.08%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.08%) pydantic
3 1 (1.08%) pytest
3 1 (1.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (10.75%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.15%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (93.55%) Analytics
2 58 (62.37%) Data Engineering
3 57 (61.29%) Data Governance
4 56 (60.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (54.84%) Data Science
6 50 (53.76%) Data Management
7 47 (50.54%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (45.16%) Data Modelling
9 40 (43.01%) Data Architecture
10 34 (36.56%) Data Strategy
11 33 (35.48%) Computer Science
11 33 (35.48%) Data Analytics
12 32 (34.41%) ETL
13 30 (32.26%) Roadmaps
14 29 (31.18%) Data Integration
15 28 (30.11%) Project Management
15 28 (30.11%) Service Management
16 27 (29.03%) Mentoring
17 26 (27.96%) ITSM
17 26 (27.96%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) SQL
2 26 (27.96%) Python
3 4 (4.30%) VB.NET
4 2 (2.15%) Bicep
4 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.08%) Java
5 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (61.29%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) Azure Certification
3 7 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.53%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (54.84%) Data Quality
2 25 (26.88%) QA
3 24 (25.81%) Accessibility
4 6 (6.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (6.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (27.96%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.75%) Salesforce
3 10 (10.75%) SAP
4 6 (6.45%) Google
5 4 (4.30%) Databricks
6 2 (2.15%) Meraki
7 1 (1.08%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.08%) Informatica