Data Lake Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Lakes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 377 305
Rank change year-on-year +38 -72 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 268 464 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.62% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.91% 3.74% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 124 290 325
10th Percentile £41,325 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £84,625 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% +14.29%

All Database and 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 4,537 12,396 11,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.43% 16.55% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 8,109 6,561
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,062 £40,855 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £79,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
South East +105 131 £65,000 +2.36% 34
North of England -30 56 £70,000 +27.27% 45
Midlands +34 44 £52,500 -8.70% 25
Yorkshire +44 25 £71,991 +10.76% 18
East Midlands +42 25 £48,500 +2.11% 8
North West -48 21 £67,500 +50.00% 20
West Midlands +26 19 £62,500 +8.70% 16
South West +74 15 £70,000 -0.82% 19
East of England +47 12 £70,000 +21.74% 6
North East +44 10 £63,750 -15.00% 7
Scotland +47 7 £85,000 +27.82% 18
Wales +36 3 £80,000 +73.42% 4
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.70%) SharePoint
2 23 (8.58%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.10%) Apache
4 3 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.24%) Infor M3
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.12%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 192 (71.64%) Azure
2 96 (35.82%) Power Platform
3 85 (31.72%) AWS
4 43 (16.04%) Power Automate
5 39 (14.55%) GCP
6 33 (12.31%) Snowflake
7 30 (11.19%) PowerApps
8 27 (10.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (8.96%) Amazon S3
11 21 (7.84%) SaaS
12 16 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (5.97%) IaaS
12 16 (5.97%) PaaS
12 16 (5.97%) Serverless
13 15 (5.60%) Entra ID
14 14 (5.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (5.22%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (5.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.22%) DNS
1 14 (5.22%) Firewall
1 14 (5.22%) SD-WAN
1 14 (5.22%) VPN
1 14 (5.22%) WAN
2 4 (1.49%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (36.57%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (34.70%) Power BI
3 59 (22.01%) Big Data
4 35 (13.06%) Tableau
5 31 (11.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 30 (11.19%) SQL Server
7 29 (10.82%) Metadata
8 22 (8.21%) NoSQL
9 20 (7.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (5.22%) MySQL
11 13 (4.85%) Hadoop
11 13 (4.85%) Relational Database
12 11 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.24%) Parquet
15 5 (1.87%) RDBMS
16 4 (1.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 4 (1.49%) BigQuery
16 4 (1.49%) PowerPivot
16 4 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 22 (8.21%) Git
2 4 (1.49%) Subversion
3 3 (1.12%) GitLab
3 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.75%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.37%) ERwin
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) JIRA
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 122 (45.52%) Law
2 95 (35.45%) Social Skills
3 69 (25.75%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (17.91%) Finance
5 43 (16.04%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (4.48%) Retail
7 9 (3.36%) Banking
8 6 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.49%) Advertising
10 4 (1.49%) Marketing
11 3 (1.12%) Back Office
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Legal
12 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.37%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (31.72%) Senior
2 66 (24.63%) Lead
3 45 (16.79%) Data Engineer
4 41 (15.30%) Architect
5 24 (8.96%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (7.46%) Analyst
7 17 (6.34%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (5.97%) Developer
9 13 (4.85%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.48%) DBA
11 10 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.73%) SQL DBA
12 9 (3.36%) Administrator
12 9 (3.36%) Data Analytics Director
12 9 (3.36%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.99%) Data Analyst
14 7 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (2.61%) Data Manager
15 5 (1.87%) Azure Data Engineer
15 5 (1.87%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.34%) PySpark
2 15 (5.60%) Kafka
3 7 (2.61%) REST
4 5 (1.87%) EDI
4 5 (1.87%) RESTful
4 5 (1.87%) Spring
5 4 (1.49%) .NET
5 4 (1.49%) AWS CDK
5 4 (1.49%) Pandas
6 3 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.12%) Web Services
7 2 (0.75%) J2EE
7 2 (0.75%) JSON
8 1 (0.37%) CSS
8 1 (0.37%) D3.js
8 1 (0.37%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.37%) Highcharts JS
8 1 (0.37%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.37%) pytest
8 1 (0.37%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 27 (10.07%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.34%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.60%) Data Structures
5 14 (5.22%) Data Centre
5 14 (5.22%) NHS
6 10 (3.73%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.49%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.12%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.12%) Equities
8 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) FMCG
10 1 (0.37%) Life Science
10 1 (0.37%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (72.39%) Analytics
2 123 (45.90%) Business Intelligence
3 98 (36.57%) ETL
4 90 (33.58%) Data Engineering
5 89 (33.21%) Data Science
6 86 (32.09%) Data Modelling
7 85 (31.72%) Agile
8 84 (31.34%) Data Governance
9 78 (29.10%) Roadmaps
10 76 (28.36%) Data Architecture
11 66 (24.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (24.25%) Data Pipeline
13 59 (22.01%) Data Management
14 57 (21.27%) Data Analytics
15 55 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (20.15%) Computer Science
16 54 (20.15%) Data Strategy
16 54 (20.15%) Mentoring
17 53 (19.78%) Machine Learning
18 51 (19.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 150 (55.97%) SQL
2 79 (29.48%) Python
3 23 (8.58%) T-SQL
4 18 (6.72%) Java
4 18 (6.72%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.22%) Bicep
6 10 (3.73%) R
7 6 (2.24%) Scala
8 5 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.49%) Julia
9 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.49%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.49%) VBA
10 2 (0.75%) Ruby
11 1 (0.37%) C#
11 1 (0.37%) Erlang
11 1 (0.37%) F#
11 1 (0.37%) Haskell
11 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.37%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 83 (30.97%) Degree
2 29 (10.82%) Azure Certification
3 16 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.60%) DBS Check
5 13 (4.85%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.73%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.99%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.61%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.37%) MBA
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (32.09%) Data Quality
2 32 (11.94%) Accessibility
3 27 (10.07%) QA
4 13 (4.85%) GDPR
5 10 (3.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (2.24%) GxP
7 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.75%) SEPA
7 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (2.61%) Docker
3 3 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.22%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.87%) Terraform
4 3 (1.12%) Ansible
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.12%) SCCM
5 2 (0.75%) Grafana
5 2 (0.75%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 80 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 59 (22.01%) Databricks
3 26 (9.70%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.97%) SAP
5 14 (5.22%) Meraki
6 12 (4.48%) Google
7 10 (3.73%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.24%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.24%) Infor
9 5 (1.87%) Oracle
10 4 (1.49%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.49%) IBM
10 4 (1.49%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.12%) Blue Prism
11 3 (1.12%) Facebook
11 3 (1.12%) Informatica
11 3 (1.12%) Moogsoft
11 3 (1.12%) Splunk
11 3 (1.12%) UiPath