Lakehouse Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Lakehouse
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 457 510 618
Rank change year-on-year +53 +108 -38
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 196 38 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.11% 0.069%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.13% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 152 17 29
10th Percentile £43,875 £46,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £123,500 £71,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,489 30,277 45,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.26% 86.74% 78.21%
Number of salaries quoted 40,012 16,652 27,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,803
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.50% -6.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the UK excluding London

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +12 78 £75,000 +22.45%
South East -4 43 £50,000 -
North West +22 36 £72,500 -3.33%
Yorkshire -6 36 £80,000 -8.57%
East of England +5 23 £65,000 -
Midlands -31 20 £67,000 +12.37%
South West -60 18 £86,731 -27.72%
Scotland +13 12 £110,000 +83.33%
West Midlands -26 11 £70,000 +16.67%
East Midlands -25 9 £45,000 -14.29%
North East -60 6 £61,250 +28.95%
Wales -62 6 £71,750 -
Lakehouse
UK

Lakehouse
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 28 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 20 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) Luigi
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 128 (65.31%) Azure
2 63 (32.14%) Power Platform
3 49 (25.00%) AWS
4 44 (22.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (12.24%) Azure Databricks
6 21 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (10.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (9.18%) GCP
9 17 (8.67%) Serverless
10 16 (8.16%) dbt
10 16 (8.16%) Snowflake
11 13 (6.63%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (5.61%) GitHub
13 10 (5.10%) Azure Functions
14 9 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) MQTT
2 1 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (31.63%) Power BI
2 58 (29.59%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (20.92%) Data Lake
4 24 (12.24%) Metadata
5 22 (11.22%) Delta Lake
6 17 (8.67%) Spark SQL
6 17 (8.67%) Tableau
7 16 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (7.65%) SQL Server
8 15 (7.65%) Star Schema
9 11 (5.61%) Semantic Layer
10 9 (4.59%) Looker
11 8 (4.08%) BigQuery
12 7 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (3.57%) Milvus
12 7 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (3.06%) Power Query
14 5 (2.55%) Big Data
15 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.63%) Git
2 10 (5.10%) MLflow
3 6 (3.06%) GitLab
4 4 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.53%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.53%) JUnit
5 3 (1.53%) NUnit
5 3 (1.53%) Postman
5 3 (1.53%) Selenium
5 3 (1.53%) Snyk
5 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.51%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.51%) ERwin
7 1 (0.51%) JIRA
7 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (16.84%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.73%) Finance
4 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.10%) Law
6 5 (2.55%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.04%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.04%) Legal
7 4 (2.04%) Marketing
7 4 (2.04%) Military
8 3 (1.53%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.53%) Games
9 2 (1.02%) Automotive
9 2 (1.02%) Local Government
9 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) iGaming
10 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (53.06%) Data Engineer
2 39 (19.90%) Senior
3 34 (17.35%) Lead
4 33 (16.84%) Architect
5 28 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (12.76%) Lead Data Engineer
6 25 (12.76%) Microsoft Engineer
7 21 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (10.20%) Data Architect
8 20 (10.20%) Databricks Engineer
8 20 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (9.69%) Azure Data Engineer
9 19 (9.69%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 16 (8.16%) Developer
11 10 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (4.08%) Analyst
13 8 (4.08%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (28.57%) PySpark
2 29 (14.80%) Terraform
3 17 (8.67%) Kafka
4 14 (7.14%) REST
5 9 (4.59%) ARM Templates
5 9 (4.59%) pgvector
6 7 (3.57%) LangChain
6 7 (3.57%) LlamaIndex
6 7 (3.57%) PyTorch
6 7 (3.57%) scikit-learn
6 7 (3.57%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.04%) .NET
7 4 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.04%) RESTful
8 3 (1.53%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.53%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.53%) JSON
8 3 (1.53%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.53%) Node.js
8 3 (1.53%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.08%) Clustering
2 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.55%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.53%) IoT
6 3 (1.53%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.53%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.02%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.02%) Replication
7 2 (1.02%) Robotics
7 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.51%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (51.53%) Analytics
2 90 (45.92%) Data Engineering
3 89 (45.41%) Business Intelligence
4 87 (44.39%) Data Modelling
5 79 (40.31%) Data Pipeline
6 78 (39.80%) ETL
7 65 (33.16%) CI/CD
8 57 (29.08%) Data Governance
9 53 (27.04%) AI
10 47 (23.98%) Data Architecture
11 45 (22.96%) DevOps
12 43 (21.94%) Decision-Making
13 39 (19.90%) Machine Learning
14 30 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (13.78%) Test Automation
16 26 (13.27%) Agile
16 26 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (13.27%) Data Integration
16 26 (13.27%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 110 (56.12%) SQL
2 96 (48.98%) Python
3 16 (8.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (6.63%) Scala
5 6 (3.06%) Java
5 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.04%) R
7 3 (1.53%) Go
7 3 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.51%) Bicep
9 1 (0.51%) C#
9 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (11.73%) Degree
2 16 (8.16%) SC Cleared
2 16 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.06%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.04%) OCP
5 4 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) CCA
7 1 (0.51%) MCT
7 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (28.06%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.71%) GDPR
3 8 (4.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.04%) NIST
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) QA
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (2.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.53%) Grafana
2 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (47.45%) Databricks
2 85 (43.37%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.12%) Dell
4 8 (4.08%) Cloudera
5 7 (3.57%) Google
6 6 (3.06%) Denodo
6 6 (3.06%) Informatica
7 5 (2.55%) Teradata
8 4 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.04%) SAP
9 3 (1.53%) Oracle
10 2 (1.02%) Infor
10 2 (1.02%) Meraki
11 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.51%) Sparx
11 1 (0.51%) Splunk