Delta Lake Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Delta Lake
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 522 636
Rank change year-on-year -2 +114 +104
Permanent jobs citing Delta Lake 21 15 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.050% 0.076%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 0.29% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 37
10th Percentile £53,960 - £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £66,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -14.12% +6.25%
75th Percentile £81,250 £79,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,000 - -
UK median annual salary £73,500 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +33.64% -31.25% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Delta 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 4,124 5,109 10,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.98% 17.05% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,430 2,936 7,785
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Delta Lake
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Delta Lake
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Delta Lake in the UK excluding London

Delta 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 Delta Lake within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
West Midlands +21 13 £70,000 -4.11% 4
Midlands +12 13 £70,000 -4.11% 4
North of England - 4 £55,000 - 1
South West - 2 £55,200 -
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
South East -8 1 £77,500 - 7
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 £55,000 -
Wales - 1 £95,000 -
Delta Lake
UK

Delta 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (28.57%) Metadata
3 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
4 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (14.29%) Data Vault
4 3 (14.29%) Parquet
5 2 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (9.52%) DB2
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.76%) Big Data
6 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Azure Data Engineer
2 10 (47.62%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 14 (66.67%) ETL
2 6 (28.57%) AI
2 6 (28.57%) Analytics
2 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 5 (23.81%) Data Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Metadata Management
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) Observability
5 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.52%) DataOps
6 2 (9.52%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (9.52%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Databricks
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) BMC
3 2 (9.52%) IBM
3 2 (9.52%) Talend