Data Lake Jobs

Data Lakes
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 296 262
Rank change year-on-year +50 -34 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 632 949 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 0.96% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.50% 5.23% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 451 731 1,056
10th Percentile £49,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £122,500 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £152,500 £143,750 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +59 603 £90,000 +12.50% 275
London +40 366 £110,000 - 155
Work from Home +64 331 £107,500 +19.44% 152
UK excluding London +52 238 £65,000 +4.00% 118
South East +105 96 £70,000 - 34
North of England +23 57 £68,750 +25.00% 34
Midlands +42 48 £52,500 +10.53% 20
Yorkshire +58 25 £71,991 +2.84% 7
West Midlands +32 25 £60,000 +6.67% 13
East Midlands +49 23 £48,500 +2.11% 6
North West -12 18 £68,750 +52.78% 25
North East +48 14 £63,889 -11.88% 2
South West +78 13 £70,000 -3.45% 14
East of England +55 12 £70,000 +21.74% 6
Scotland +57 8 £85,000 +14.09% 6
Wales +39 4 £80,000 +73.42% 2

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 98 (15.51%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (14.56%) Apache
3 48 (7.59%) Apache Spark
4 29 (4.59%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.79%) Confluence
5 5 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.22%) Maya
3 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.95%) Infor M3
3 5 (0.79%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.47%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 292 (46.20%) Azure
2 231 (36.55%) AWS
3 161 (25.47%) Power Platform
4 126 (19.94%) Snowflake
5 125 (19.78%) GCP
6 93 (14.72%) dbt
7 91 (14.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 73 (11.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 54 (8.54%) Amazon S3
9 54 (8.54%) Serverless
10 48 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (6.17%) Dagster
12 38 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (4.91%) Power Automate
15 30 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (4.75%) PowerApps
16 22 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
17 20 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
18 18 (2.85%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) DNS
1 5 (0.79%) Network Security
2 4 (0.63%) Internet
2 4 (0.63%) SAN
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (28.80%) Data Warehouse
2 159 (25.16%) Power BI
3 96 (15.19%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (14.24%) Dremio
5 81 (12.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 76 (12.03%) Apache Ignite
7 75 (11.87%) Big Data
8 73 (11.55%) Apache Arrow
9 62 (9.81%) Tableau
10 60 (9.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 58 (9.18%) SQL Server
12 56 (8.86%) Metadata
13 35 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (5.06%) Hadoop
15 25 (3.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 25 (3.96%) NoSQL
16 22 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 19 (3.01%) BigQuery
18 17 (2.69%) Relational Database
19 14 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (3.96%) Git
2 18 (2.85%) JIRA
3 13 (2.06%) Visual Studio
4 8 (1.27%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.11%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.95%) GitLab
7 5 (0.79%) ERwin
7 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.63%) MLflow
9 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.32%) ESLint
10 2 (0.32%) kappa
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.32%) Sinon.JS
10 2 (0.32%) Subversion
10 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.32%) webpack
11 1 (0.16%) JMeter
11 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 319 (50.47%) Finance
2 196 (31.01%) Front Office
3 137 (21.68%) Social Skills
4 124 (19.62%) Banking
5 105 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
6 98 (15.51%) Law
7 73 (11.55%) Investment Banking
8 35 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (5.06%) Retail
10 25 (3.96%) Financial Institution
11 23 (3.64%) Retail Banking
12 21 (3.32%) Public Sector
13 18 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (2.69%) Marketing
15 15 (2.37%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.74%) Games
17 11 (1.74%) Legal
18 10 (1.58%) Advertising
19 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (22.47%) Senior
2 136 (21.52%) Data Engineer
3 135 (21.36%) Lead
4 103 (16.30%) Architect
5 95 (15.03%) AWS Engineer
6 81 (12.82%) Software Engineer
7 75 (11.87%) AWS Software Engineer
8 64 (10.13%) Python Engineer
9 62 (9.81%) Java Engineer
9 62 (9.81%) Java Software Engineer
10 58 (9.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 53 (8.39%) Data Architect
12 51 (8.07%) Senior Java Engineer
12 51 (8.07%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 50 (7.91%) Python Software Engineer
14 41 (6.49%) Senior Data Engineer
15 39 (6.17%) Developer
16 36 (5.70%) Analyst
16 36 (5.70%) Data Governance Manager
16 36 (5.70%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (12.97%) Pandas
2 78 (12.34%) NumPy
2 78 (12.34%) SciPy
3 76 (12.03%) PySpark
4 73 (11.55%) gRPC
4 73 (11.55%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (4.59%) Kafka
6 13 (2.06%) REST
7 11 (1.74%) .NET
8 10 (1.58%) OAuth
9 8 (1.27%) CSS
10 7 (1.11%) AWS CDK
10 7 (1.11%) EDI
11 6 (0.95%) FastAPI
11 6 (0.95%) JSON
12 5 (0.79%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.79%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.79%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (0.79%) HTML5
12 5 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 190 (30.06%) Equities
2 188 (29.75%) Hedge funds
3 185 (29.27%) Derivative
3 185 (29.27%) Fixed Income
3 185 (29.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 70 (11.08%) Product Ownership
5 39 (6.17%) Pricing Data
6 26 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 25 (3.96%) Cloud Native
8 22 (3.48%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.27%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.95%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (47.15%) Agile
2 226 (35.76%) Analytics
3 220 (34.81%) Data Governance
4 203 (32.12%) Data Management
5 202 (31.96%) Migration
6 201 (31.80%) Business Intelligence
7 191 (30.22%) Roadmaps
8 157 (24.84%) Data Engineering
8 157 (24.84%) ETL
9 156 (24.68%) Investment Management
10 145 (22.94%) Data Modelling
11 133 (21.04%) Data Architecture
12 132 (20.89%) Asset Management
13 122 (19.30%) Data Pipeline
14 117 (18.51%) Regulatory Compliance
15 107 (16.93%) Data Strategy
16 100 (15.82%) Software Engineering
17 94 (14.87%) DevOps
18 93 (14.72%) CI/CD
19 87 (13.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 249 (39.40%) Python
2 234 (37.03%) SQL
3 115 (18.20%) Java
4 82 (12.97%) JavaScript
5 74 (11.71%) TypeScript
6 28 (4.43%) T-SQL
7 26 (4.11%) Scala
8 21 (3.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 18 (2.85%) C#
10 16 (2.53%) R
11 15 (2.37%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.63%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.63%) X++
14 3 (0.47%) Bash
14 3 (0.47%) Bicep
15 2 (0.32%) Go
15 2 (0.32%) Julia
15 2 (0.32%) Ruby
15 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (18.99%) Degree
2 53 (8.39%) Azure Certification
3 33 (5.22%) AWS Certification
4 31 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 17 (2.69%) Security Cleared
7 15 (2.37%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.79%) PMP
10 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.63%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.47%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.32%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (16.93%) Data Quality
2 55 (8.70%) MiFID
3 32 (5.06%) Accessibility
4 31 (4.91%) QA
5 10 (1.58%) GDPR
6 6 (0.95%) GxP
7 5 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.47%) SEPA
9 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.32%) NIST
9 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (4.75%) Docker
2 7 (1.11%) HDFS
3 5 (0.79%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (4.59%) Terraform
2 24 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.95%) Ansible
3 6 (0.95%) Progress Chef
4 5 (0.79%) Oozie
5 3 (0.47%) Grafana
6 2 (0.32%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 176 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 117 (18.51%) Databricks
3 39 (6.17%) SAP
4 33 (5.22%) Google
5 26 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.64%) Oracle
7 22 (3.48%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.90%) Teradata
9 11 (1.74%) Adobe
9 11 (1.74%) Dell
9 11 (1.74%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.58%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.95%) Infor
12 5 (0.79%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.79%) Informatica
12 5 (0.79%) Reuters
13 4 (0.63%) Nimble Storage
13 4 (0.63%) StreamSets
14 3 (0.47%) Snowplow
14 3 (0.47%) Zoho