Data Lakes
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 264 305
Rank change year-on-year -35 +41 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 935 1,462 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 1.40% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.17% 6.47% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 715 1,053 1,131
10th Percentile £42,250 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £143,750 £130,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Top 18 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 27 April 2024. 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 -29 812 £80,000 - 183
Work from Home +1 501 £87,500 +8.98% 95
UK excluding London -51 441 £62,500 +2.04% 85
London -11 440 £110,000 +22.22% 100
North of England +14 118 £55,000 -15.38% 23
South East 0 103 £70,000 - 24
Scotland -36 77 £82,500 +26.92% 10
Midlands -24 67 £47,500 -13.64% 10
North West -4 63 £45,000 -28.00% 17
South West -37 52 £72,500 +7.41% 7
West Midlands -2 44 £56,250 +3.93% 6
Yorkshire +63 37 £70,000 +1.71% 6
East Midlands -20 23 £47,500 -13.64% 4
North East 0 18 £72,500 +31.82%
East of England -7 15 £57,500 - 9
Wales +7 5 £46,131 -20.46% 4
Northern Ireland +27 2 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

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
1 183 (19.57%) Apache Airflow
2 174 (18.61%) Apache
3 120 (12.83%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.60%) Confluence
5 10 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.32%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.64%) Primavera
5 3 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.21%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) HFM
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 617 (65.99%) Azure
2 410 (43.85%) AWS
3 284 (30.37%) Power Platform
4 249 (26.63%) Snowflake
5 246 (26.31%) GCP
6 185 (19.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 175 (18.72%) dbt
8 146 (15.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (6.10%) Matillion
10 56 (5.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 51 (5.45%) Serverless
12 50 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (5.13%) PowerApps
14 44 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (3.74%) SaaS
16 29 (3.10%) GitHub
16 29 (3.10%) IaaS
16 29 (3.10%) PaaS
17 26 (2.78%) Power Automate
18 21 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.35%) Wireless
2 18 (1.93%) DSL
3 9 (0.96%) Network Security
4 6 (0.64%) DNS
5 4 (0.43%) Firewall
6 3 (0.32%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
7 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (41.39%) Data Warehouse
2 274 (29.30%) Power BI
3 174 (18.61%) SQL Server
4 172 (18.40%) Big Data
5 167 (17.86%) Dremio
6 163 (17.43%) Amazon Athena
7 162 (17.33%) Apache Arrow
8 149 (15.94%) Apache Ignite
9 86 (9.20%) NoSQL
10 78 (8.34%) Tableau
11 74 (7.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 61 (6.52%) Metadata
13 59 (6.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 51 (5.45%) Star Schema
15 49 (5.24%) Relational Database
16 48 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
16 48 (5.13%) Hadoop
17 45 (4.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 44 (4.71%) Qlik Sense
19 40 (4.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 39 (4.17%) GitLab
2 25 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 25 (2.67%) JIRA
3 23 (2.46%) Git
4 16 (1.71%) CircleCI
5 10 (1.07%) Selenium
6 9 (0.96%) JUnit
6 9 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.86%) MLflow
7 8 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.64%) ERwin
8 6 (0.64%) RStudio
9 4 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.11%) Gradle
12 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 433 (46.31%) Finance
2 220 (23.53%) Banking
3 176 (18.82%) Social Skills
4 152 (16.26%) Investment Banking
5 148 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (14.12%) Front Office
7 95 (10.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (9.84%) Law
9 64 (6.84%) Legal
10 56 (5.99%) Marketing
11 46 (4.92%) Retail
12 33 (3.53%) Financial Institution
13 31 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (2.14%) Public Sector
14 20 (2.14%) Retail Banking
15 16 (1.71%) Billing
15 16 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.28%) Games
16 12 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.18%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 342 (36.58%) Data Engineer
2 201 (21.50%) Senior
3 200 (21.39%) Architect
4 147 (15.72%) Lead
5 119 (12.73%) Software Engineer
6 111 (11.87%) Data Architect
7 105 (11.23%) Developer
8 84 (8.98%) Senior Data Engineer
9 79 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
10 70 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
11 66 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
12 62 (6.63%) Azure Data Engineer
13 61 (6.52%) Python Engineer
14 53 (5.67%) Consultant
15 43 (4.60%) Python Software Engineer
16 42 (4.49%) Java Engineer
16 42 (4.49%) Java Software Engineer
17 40 (4.28%) AWS Software Engineer
17 40 (4.28%) Data Consultant
17 40 (4.28%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (17.33%) gRPC
1 162 (17.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 147 (15.72%) Pandas
3 132 (14.12%) NumPy
3 132 (14.12%) SciPy
4 104 (11.12%) PySpark
5 65 (6.95%) Kafka
6 19 (2.03%) Apache Beam
6 19 (2.03%) OpenID
7 18 (1.93%) JSON
8 16 (1.71%) XML
9 15 (1.60%) RESTful
10 14 (1.50%) .NET
11 9 (0.96%) MDX
12 8 (0.86%) Apache Avro
12 8 (0.86%) Spark Streaming
13 6 (0.64%) REST
13 6 (0.64%) Web Services
14 5 (0.53%) React
15 4 (0.43%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 162 (17.33%) Hedge funds
2 132 (14.12%) Derivative
2 132 (14.12%) Equities
2 132 (14.12%) Fixed Income
2 132 (14.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 74 (7.91%) Algorithms
4 64 (6.84%) Data Structures
5 43 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (4.39%) Product Ownership
7 40 (4.28%) Onboarding
8 36 (3.85%) Cloud Native
9 35 (3.74%) Management Information System
10 31 (3.32%) Clustering
11 29 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
12 24 (2.57%) Public Cloud
13 19 (2.03%) Blockchain
13 19 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (2.03%) Mainframe
14 14 (1.50%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.89%) Unix
2 11 (1.18%) Linux
3 6 (0.64%) Windows
4 3 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (44.39%) Agile
2 317 (33.90%) Business Intelligence
3 309 (33.05%) Analytics
4 273 (29.20%) ETL
5 256 (27.38%) Data Modelling
6 255 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
7 240 (25.67%) Data Engineering
8 237 (25.35%) Machine Learning
9 222 (23.74%) Software Engineering
10 212 (22.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 202 (21.60%) Asset Management
12 183 (19.57%) CI/CD
13 163 (17.43%) Visualisation
14 156 (16.68%) Investment Management
15 148 (15.83%) DevOps
16 143 (15.29%) Data Strategy
17 142 (15.19%) Data Science
18 133 (14.22%) Roadmaps
19 122 (13.05%) Data Architecture
20 116 (12.41%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 483 (51.66%) Python
1 483 (51.66%) SQL
2 271 (28.98%) Java
3 167 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 135 (14.44%) TypeScript
5 95 (10.16%) T-SQL
6 55 (5.88%) Scala
7 45 (4.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 40 (4.28%) Go
9 32 (3.42%) C#
10 25 (2.67%) R
11 21 (2.25%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.07%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.96%) U-SQL
14 5 (0.53%) C
15 3 (0.32%) Bash
15 3 (0.32%) C++
16 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (9.09%) Degree
2 58 (6.20%) Azure Certification
3 43 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 18 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.39%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.39%) Security Cleared
7 11 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.64%) CIMA
10 3 (0.32%) MCP
10 3 (0.32%) MCSE
11 2 (0.21%) MCSA
11 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.11%) HND
12 1 (0.11%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.11%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (19.36%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.45%) GDPR
3 20 (2.14%) SLA
4 13 (1.39%) QA
5 8 (0.86%) PSD2
6 6 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.32%) PMO
8 1 (0.11%) GMP
8 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (2.89%) Docker
2 8 (0.86%) HDFS
3 7 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.63%) Terraform
3 30 (3.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.21%) Argo
5 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 288 (30.80%) Databricks
2 272 (29.09%) Microsoft
3 69 (7.38%) Alteryx
4 65 (6.95%) Google
5 44 (4.71%) Oracle
6 22 (2.35%) Cognos
7 18 (1.93%) Sybase
8 16 (1.71%) SAP
9 14 (1.50%) Teradata
10 12 (1.28%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.86%) Duck Creek
11 8 (0.86%) Informatica
11 8 (0.86%) Talend
12 7 (0.75%) Adobe
13 6 (0.64%) Apple
13 6 (0.64%) IBM
14 4 (0.43%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.43%) SnapLogic
15 3 (0.32%) Citrix
15 3 (0.32%) Veracode