Delta Lake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 641 813
Rank change year-on-year -10 +172 +49
Permanent jobs citing Delta Lake 85 30 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.068% 0.069%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.07% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 59 11 64
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £46,875 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £57,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -30.30% -1.49%
75th Percentile £115,000 £73,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,750 £75,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -23.53% +6.25%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,916 7,287 17,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.55% 16.44% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,015 4,726 12,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,960 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in the UK

Delta Lake
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Delta Lake

Delta Lake
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 June 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
England -16 71 £82,000 +42.61% 41
London +13 46 £100,000 +81.82% 26
Work from Home +29 33 £86,500 +57.27% 24
UK excluding London -47 28 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Midlands - 10 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £70,000 -
North of England - 8 £55,000 - 6
North West - 6 £55,000 - 4
Scotland - 4 £85,000 -
South West - 3 £84,000 - 3
South East -33 2 £55,750 -14.23% 8
North East - 2 £72,500 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1
Wales - 1 £95,000 - 1

Delta Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 24 (28.24%) Apache Spark
2 16 (18.82%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (12.94%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 69 (81.18%) Azure
2 32 (37.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (30.59%) AWS
4 25 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (25.88%) GCP
6 20 (23.53%) Power Platform
7 19 (22.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (21.18%) GitHub
9 14 (16.47%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (14.12%) Amazon SageMaker
10 12 (14.12%) Azure Machine Learning
10 12 (14.12%) Serverless
11 11 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (11.76%) Snowflake
13 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
13 9 (10.59%) Dagster
13 9 (10.59%) Vertex AI
14 7 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (7.06%) Azure Functions
16 4 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.12%) Data Lake
2 25 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (23.53%) Metadata
4 16 (18.82%) Apache Iceberg
4 16 (18.82%) Power BI
4 16 (18.82%) Tableau
5 15 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (14.12%) Spark SQL
7 10 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (11.76%) BigQuery
7 10 (11.76%) Data Vault
7 10 (11.76%) Looker
8 9 (10.59%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (10.59%) Pinecone
8 9 (10.59%) Weaviate
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
10 4 (4.71%) Big Data
10 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) MLflow
2 12 (14.12%) Git
3 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (36.47%) Finance
2 22 (25.88%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Marketing
6 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Retail
7 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (42.35%) Data Engineer
2 28 (32.94%) Senior
3 17 (20.00%) Architect
3 17 (20.00%) Lead
4 14 (16.47%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (15.29%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (14.12%) Data Architect
7 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (10.59%) Consultant
7 9 (10.59%) Data Consultant
7 9 (10.59%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (8.24%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Architect
10 3 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Architect
11 2 (2.35%) Data Scientist
12 1 (1.18%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (54.12%) PySpark
2 9 (10.59%) Faiss
2 9 (10.59%) PyTorch
2 9 (10.59%) TensorFlow
2 9 (10.59%) vLLM
3 8 (9.41%) Kafka
4 4 (4.71%) REST
5 3 (3.53%) JSON
6 1 (1.18%) Apollo GraphQL
6 1 (1.18%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.18%) D3.js
6 1 (1.18%) Django
6 1 (1.18%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.18%) Flask
6 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.18%) Pandas
6 1 (1.18%) Plotly
6 1 (1.18%) React
6 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 14 (16.47%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.06%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.71%) Reinsurance
6 3 (3.53%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.35%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.18%) Derivative
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Equities
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.18%) Replication
8 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.06%) Data Engineering
2 49 (57.65%) Analytics
3 48 (56.47%) CI/CD
4 45 (52.94%) Data Modelling
4 45 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (52.94%) ETL
5 38 (44.71%) Data Governance
6 34 (40.00%) DevOps
7 33 (38.82%) AI
8 31 (36.47%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (31.76%) Machine Learning
10 26 (30.59%) Data Science
11 20 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (21.18%) Data Architecture
12 18 (21.18%) Roadmaps
13 17 (20.00%) Use Case
14 16 (18.82%) Computer Science
14 16 (18.82%) Translating Business Requirements
15 15 (17.65%) Metadata Management
15 15 (17.65%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 67 (78.82%) SQL
2 64 (75.29%) Python
3 29 (34.12%) Scala
4 9 (10.59%) Bash
4 9 (10.59%) Go
4 9 (10.59%) Java
5 6 (7.06%) Bicep
6 3 (3.53%) R
7 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.18%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Degree
2 8 (9.41%) Azure Certification
3 7 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (42.35%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.06%) GDPR
2 6 (7.06%) Solvency II
3 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.53%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) IFRS
4 2 (2.35%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (24.71%) Terraform
2 6 (7.06%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) Control-M
Vendors
1 71 (83.53%) Databricks
2 20 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.59%) Palantir
4 3 (3.53%) BMC
4 3 (3.53%) IBM
4 3 (3.53%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.53%) Talend
5 2 (2.35%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.18%) Confluent
6 1 (1.18%) Informatica
6 1 (1.18%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.18%) Teradata