Lakehouse Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Lakehouse
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 36 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.52% - 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 34 0 1
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile £48,125 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £47,500
75th Percentile £62,500 - £51,250
90th Percentile £90,000 - -
South East median annual salary £50,000 - £47,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,880 3,490 4,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.18% 89.69% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,465 1,503 2,397
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the Thames Valley

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Buckinghamshire - 26 £50,000 -
Berkshire - 9 £90,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
Lakehouse
South East

Lakehouse
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 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 30 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Azure Databricks
3 8 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (19.44%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.78%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Law
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 23 (63.89%) Microsoft Engineer
3 16 (44.44%) Azure Data Engineer
3 16 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Architect
5 7 (19.44%) Data Architect
5 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Databricks Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (41.67%) ETL
3 13 (36.11%) Analytics
3 13 (36.11%) Data Architecture
4 12 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (27.78%) Agile
6 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 8 (22.22%) Data Governance
8 7 (19.44%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.11%) Data Engineering
10 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
11 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 3 (8.33%) Observability
11 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
12 2 (5.56%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (30.56%) Databricks