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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 233 221
Rank change year-on-year -68 -12 +73
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 585 1,243 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 1.24% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.34% 7.47% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 328 1,007 961
10th Percentile £45,675 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £57,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +22.58% +3.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -

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 7,973 16,647 17,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.25% 16.58% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,965 11,160 12,345
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -67 563 £76,250 -27.38% 298
London -88 291 £105,000 -8.70% 193
UK excluding London +61 277 £60,000 -2.04% 138
Work from Home -171 223 £105,000 -8.70% 162
South East +115 140 £63,750 -8.93% 42
North of England -8 52 £67,500 +21.62% 39
Midlands +69 51 £48,500 -19.17% 10
East Midlands +53 31 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire +39 26 £71,991 +25.20% 13
North West -49 23 £67,500 +22.73% 24
West Midlands +43 20 £63,750 +6.25% 7
South West +65 15 £70,000 +3.70% 23
East of England +29 10 £70,000 -9.68% 5
Scotland +38 7 £67,250 +41.58% 14
North East +32 3 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Wales +25 2 £57,500 +24.65% 5

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 93 (15.90%) Apache
1 93 (15.90%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (8.03%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.30%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (2.22%) Maya
1 13 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.68%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.51%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.17%) Lorenzo
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 344 (58.80%) Azure
2 241 (41.20%) AWS
3 173 (29.57%) Power Platform
4 136 (23.25%) Snowflake
5 118 (20.17%) GCP
6 81 (13.85%) dbt
7 71 (12.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 67 (11.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 54 (9.23%) Power Automate
10 36 (6.15%) Amazon S3
10 36 (6.15%) PowerApps
11 35 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (5.64%) Serverless
13 32 (5.47%) SaaS
14 21 (3.59%) PaaS
15 19 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 18 (3.08%) Entra ID
16 18 (3.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.25%) Firewall
2 18 (3.08%) VPN
3 16 (2.74%) DNS
3 16 (2.74%) SD-WAN
3 16 (2.74%) WAN
4 9 (1.54%) Network Security
5 2 (0.34%) SAN
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (32.82%) Data Warehouse
2 164 (28.03%) Power BI
3 89 (15.21%) Amazon Athena
4 78 (13.33%) Apache Ignite
5 77 (13.16%) Apache Iceberg
6 76 (12.99%) Apache Arrow
6 76 (12.99%) Dremio
7 71 (12.14%) Big Data
8 66 (11.28%) Metadata
9 53 (9.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 51 (8.72%) SQL Server
10 51 (8.72%) Tableau
11 40 (6.84%) NoSQL
12 31 (5.30%) Hadoop
13 29 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (4.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 25 (4.27%) BigQuery
15 24 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 18 (3.08%) Relational Database
17 16 (2.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (7.01%) Git
2 11 (1.88%) JIRA
3 10 (1.71%) ER Studio
4 8 (1.37%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.03%) MLflow
7 4 (0.68%) Subversion
8 2 (0.34%) ERwin
8 2 (0.34%) GitLab
9 1 (0.17%) JUnit
9 1 (0.17%) kappa
9 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) TestComplete
General
1 240 (41.03%) Finance
2 174 (29.74%) Social Skills
3 155 (26.50%) Law
4 135 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (21.03%) Banking
6 98 (16.75%) Front Office
7 76 (12.99%) Investment Banking
8 65 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
9 46 (7.86%) Retail
10 41 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (4.44%) Marketing
12 23 (3.93%) Financial Institution
13 22 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (3.76%) Retail Banking
14 12 (2.05%) Games
15 11 (1.88%) Public Sector
16 10 (1.71%) Legal
16 10 (1.71%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.54%) Advertising
18 6 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 198 (33.85%) Senior
2 113 (19.32%) Data Engineer
3 106 (18.12%) Architect
4 104 (17.78%) Lead
5 89 (15.21%) Software Engineer
6 85 (14.53%) AWS Engineer
7 79 (13.50%) AWS Software Engineer
8 76 (12.99%) Java Engineer
8 76 (12.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 76 (12.99%) Senior Software Engineer
9 71 (12.14%) Senior Java Engineer
9 71 (12.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 69 (11.79%) Python Engineer
11 65 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
12 49 (8.38%) Data Architect
13 41 (7.01%) Developer
14 38 (6.50%) Senior Data Engineer
15 28 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
16 25 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
17 23 (3.93%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.68%) Pandas
2 76 (12.99%) gRPC
2 76 (12.99%) NumPy
2 76 (12.99%) Protocol Buffers
2 76 (12.99%) SciPy
3 41 (7.01%) PySpark
4 22 (3.76%) Kafka
5 8 (1.37%) .NET
5 8 (1.37%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.37%) REST
5 8 (1.37%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.20%) Spring
7 5 (0.85%) Node.js
7 5 (0.85%) OAuth
7 5 (0.85%) RESTful
7 5 (0.85%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (0.68%) EDI
8 4 (0.68%) JSON
8 4 (0.68%) pytest
8 4 (0.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 95 (16.24%) Hedge funds
2 94 (16.07%) Derivative
2 94 (16.07%) Equities
2 94 (16.07%) Fixed Income
2 94 (16.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 65 (11.11%) Pricing Data
4 52 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 36 (6.15%) Cloud Native
6 35 (5.98%) Product Ownership
7 33 (5.64%) Management Information System
8 27 (4.62%) Data Structures
9 19 (3.25%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.91%) NHS
11 16 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (2.22%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.37%) Reinsurance
14 7 (1.20%) Tandem
15 6 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
16 5 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
16 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (49.23%) Analytics
2 261 (44.62%) Agile
3 200 (34.19%) Business Intelligence
4 171 (29.23%) Data Modelling
5 167 (28.55%) ETL
6 150 (25.64%) Data Engineering
7 140 (23.93%) Roadmaps
8 131 (22.39%) Data Governance
9 130 (22.22%) Data Management
10 129 (22.05%) Data Science
11 127 (21.71%) Asset Management
12 116 (19.83%) Data Pipeline
13 109 (18.63%) CI/CD
13 109 (18.63%) Data Architecture
14 104 (17.78%) DevOps
14 104 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
15 102 (17.44%) Migration
16 99 (16.92%) Software Engineering
17 97 (16.58%) Data Strategy
18 96 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 251 (42.91%) SQL
2 235 (40.17%) Python
3 119 (20.34%) Java
4 83 (14.19%) JavaScript
5 80 (13.68%) TypeScript
6 38 (6.50%) T-SQL
7 25 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 24 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 21 (3.59%) R
10 20 (3.42%) Bicep
11 18 (3.08%) Scala
12 9 (1.54%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.20%) C#
14 4 (0.68%) Julia
14 4 (0.68%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.68%) VBA
15 3 (0.51%) Bash
16 2 (0.34%) Ruby
17 1 (0.17%) Erlang
17 1 (0.17%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 126 (21.54%) Degree
2 66 (11.28%) Azure Certification
3 38 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (6.15%) AWS Certification
4 36 (6.15%) Master's Degree
5 19 (3.25%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.37%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.03%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.85%) PhD
8 5 (0.85%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.85%) PMP
9 4 (0.68%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.51%) MBA
11 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (17.78%) Data Quality
2 41 (7.01%) QA
3 32 (5.47%) Accessibility
4 24 (4.10%) GDPR
5 10 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.03%) MiFID
7 4 (0.68%) GxP
7 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.68%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
8 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) DICOM
9 1 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
2 17 (2.91%) Docker
3 7 (1.20%) HDFS
4 5 (0.85%) Apache Flume
5 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (4.79%) Terraform
2 16 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (1.88%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.85%) Oozie
4 5 (0.85%) SCCM
5 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.34%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 169 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 134 (22.91%) Databricks
3 45 (7.69%) SAP
4 39 (6.67%) Google
5 34 (5.81%) ServiceNow
6 31 (5.30%) Salesforce
7 27 (4.62%) Oracle
8 16 (2.74%) Dell
8 16 (2.74%) Meraki
9 12 (2.05%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.88%) Adobe
11 9 (1.54%) Cloudera
12 8 (1.37%) Teradata
13 5 (0.85%) Blue Prism
13 5 (0.85%) Facebook
13 5 (0.85%) Informatica
13 5 (0.85%) UiPath
14 4 (0.68%) IBM
14 4 (0.68%) Infor
14 4 (0.68%) Splunk