Data Lake Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Lakes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 307 429
Rank change year-on-year -168 +122 -139
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 155 274 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.81% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 6.06% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 103 126 211
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £41,328
25th Percentile £51,875 £46,563 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £97,250 £81,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -21.05% +22.58%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,502 4,524 10,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.62% 13.33% 14.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,766 2,871 6,880
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £59,063
% change year-on-year -1.22% +2.85% -5.50%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
North of England -36 48 £65,000 -3.70% 15
South West -47 30 £55,000 -21.43% 5
North West -7 26 £67,500 - 7
East of England -3 25 £95,000 +35.71% 3
South East -135 24 £60,000 -5.88% 20
Midlands -62 18 £82,500 +70.10% 16
West Midlands -20 16 £82,500 +26.92% 12
Yorkshire -43 15 £65,000 -9.71% 3
North East -43 7 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Scotland +17 5 £125,000 +85.87% 5
Wales -51 5 £55,000 -4.35% 2
East Midlands -45 2 £45,550 +1.22% 4
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (10.97%) Apache Spark
2 15 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (5.81%) Apache
4 4 (2.58%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.94%) SAS
6 2 (1.29%) IIS
6 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.65%) Camunda
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.29%) Infor M3
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 110 (70.97%) Azure
2 61 (39.35%) AWS
3 59 (38.06%) Power Platform
4 45 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 39 (25.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 36 (23.23%) GCP
7 30 (19.35%) Snowflake
8 17 (10.97%) dbt
9 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.87%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (3.23%) GitHub
12 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.94%) Azure AI
13 3 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.94%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.94%) SaaS
14 2 (1.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) Broadband
2 2 (1.29%) MQTT
3 1 (0.65%) LTE
3 1 (0.65%) Modbus
3 1 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (36.77%) Power BI
2 49 (31.61%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (12.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (12.26%) Tableau
4 17 (10.97%) Metadata
5 15 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 13 (8.39%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.81%) Looker
8 8 (5.16%) Big Data
8 8 (5.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (4.52%) Data Vault
9 7 (4.52%) Delta Lake
9 7 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (4.52%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.23%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.58%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.45%) Git
1 10 (6.45%) MLflow
2 3 (1.94%) GitLab
3 2 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.65%) NUnit
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 37 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (20.00%) Finance
3 17 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.87%) Retail
5 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.94%) Advertising
6 3 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.29%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.29%) Automotive
7 2 (1.29%) Billing
7 2 (1.29%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.29%) Legal
7 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.65%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 52 (33.55%) Data Engineer
2 38 (24.52%) Architect
3 31 (20.00%) Senior
4 23 (14.84%) Data Architect
5 16 (10.32%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (9.03%) Analyst
7 13 (8.39%) Azure Data Engineer
7 13 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (8.39%) Lead
8 8 (5.16%) Consultant
9 7 (4.52%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (4.52%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.87%) Data Management Specialist
10 6 (3.87%) Developer
10 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Product Specialist
10 6 (3.87%) Report Analyst
10 6 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.55%) PySpark
2 17 (10.97%) Kafka
3 9 (5.81%) pgvector
4 8 (5.16%) PyTorch
4 8 (5.16%) TensorFlow
5 7 (4.52%) LangChain
5 7 (4.52%) LlamaIndex
5 7 (4.52%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.58%) Middleware
7 2 (1.29%) .NET
7 2 (1.29%) EDI
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.29%) REST
8 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (0.65%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.65%) Pandas
8 1 (0.65%) RESTful
8 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.74%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (5.81%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.16%) Clustering
6 6 (3.87%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.94%) IoT
9 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.29%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.29%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.29%) Robotics
10 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.94%) Windows
1 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.65%) Android
2 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (56.77%) Analytics
2 81 (52.26%) Business Intelligence
3 73 (47.10%) Data Modelling
4 66 (42.58%) ETL
5 64 (41.29%) Data Engineering
6 63 (40.65%) Data Governance
7 59 (38.06%) AI
8 55 (35.48%) Data Pipeline
9 54 (34.84%) Data Architecture
10 40 (25.81%) CI/CD
11 34 (21.94%) Data Science
12 33 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (20.00%) Data Strategy
14 30 (19.35%) DevOps
15 29 (18.71%) Agile
16 28 (18.06%) Decision-Making
17 27 (17.42%) Machine Learning
18 26 (16.77%) Roadmaps
19 25 (16.13%) Data Management
20 23 (14.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 88 (56.77%) SQL
2 78 (50.32%) Python
3 12 (7.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.52%) R
5 6 (3.87%) Bicep
6 5 (3.23%) Java
6 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.58%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.29%) Bash
8 2 (1.29%) VBA
9 1 (0.65%) C#
9 1 (0.65%) Scala
9 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (11.61%) Degree
2 11 (7.10%) Azure Certification
3 10 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.58%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.29%) CITP
9 1 (0.65%) CCA
9 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) MCT
9 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (25.81%) Data Quality
2 19 (12.26%) GDPR
3 11 (7.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.23%) QA
5 2 (1.29%) IFRS
5 2 (1.29%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.29%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (12.26%) Terraform
2 2 (1.29%) Grafana
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 63 (40.65%) Databricks
2 61 (39.35%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.68%) SAP
4 14 (9.03%) Dell
5 10 (6.45%) Google
6 7 (4.52%) Cloudera
6 7 (4.52%) Informatica
6 7 (4.52%) Oracle
7 6 (3.87%) Cognos
7 6 (3.87%) Denodo
7 6 (3.87%) Infor
7 6 (3.87%) MicroStrategy
7 6 (3.87%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.87%) Teradata
8 4 (2.58%) Epicor
8 4 (2.58%) IFS
9 2 (1.29%) Meraki
9 2 (1.29%) Planon
9 2 (1.29%) Splunk
10 1 (0.65%) Zoho