Data Lakehouse
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 407 551 727
Rank change year-on-year +144 +176 +20
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 444 124 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.25% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.28% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 309 85 51
10th Percentile £49,850 £55,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £113,000 £111,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% +4.35% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80,399 44,438 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 88.74% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55,793 25,365 40,468
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,803
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.50% -6.94%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the UK

Lakehouse
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the UK

Lakehouse
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the UK 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
England +140 406 £80,000 -5.88% 221
London +70 211 £85,170 +0.20% 174
UK excluding London +53 196 £68,750 +14.58% 74
Work from Home +44 108 £86,731 -0.88% 78
North of England +12 78 £75,000 +22.45% 24
South East -4 43 £50,000 - 11
North West +22 36 £72,500 -3.33% 15
Yorkshire -6 36 £80,000 -8.57% 6
East of England +5 23 £65,000 - 4
Midlands -31 20 £67,000 +12.37% 9
South West -60 18 £86,731 -27.72% 5
Scotland +13 12 £110,000 +83.33% 13
West Midlands -26 11 £70,000 +16.67% 2
East Midlands -25 9 £45,000 -14.29% 7
North East -60 6 £61,250 +28.95% 3
Wales -62 6 £71,750 - 3

Lakehouse
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 79 (17.79%) Apache Spark
2 44 (9.91%) Apache
3 42 (9.46%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.45%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.45%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 298 (67.12%) Azure
2 135 (30.41%) Power Platform
3 133 (29.95%) AWS
4 104 (23.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (21.40%) Snowflake
6 87 (19.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 74 (16.67%) GCP
8 59 (13.29%) Azure Databricks
9 51 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (9.23%) dbt
11 39 (8.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 35 (7.88%) Amazon S3
13 32 (7.21%) GitHub
13 32 (7.21%) Serverless
14 19 (4.28%) Azure Functions
15 18 (4.05%) Amazon EMR
16 17 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
18 13 (2.93%) SaaS
19 12 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) MQTT
2 1 (0.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (35.14%) Data Warehouse
2 152 (34.23%) Data Lake
3 127 (28.60%) Power BI
4 78 (17.57%) Metadata
5 74 (16.67%) Delta Lake
6 48 (10.81%) Tableau
7 46 (10.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 35 (7.88%) Star Schema
9 32 (7.21%) Data Vault
10 30 (6.76%) BigQuery
11 27 (6.08%) Snowflake Schema
12 26 (5.86%) Looker
12 26 (5.86%) Spark SQL
13 23 (5.18%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (5.18%) Milvus
13 23 (5.18%) Semantic Layer
14 21 (4.73%) SQL Server
15 9 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (8.11%) MLflow
2 24 (5.41%) Git
3 8 (1.80%) GitLab
4 5 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.68%) JUnit
5 3 (0.68%) NUnit
5 3 (0.68%) Postman
5 3 (0.68%) Selenium
5 3 (0.68%) Snyk
5 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.45%) ERwin
6 2 (0.45%) Poetry
6 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.23%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.23%) JIRA
7 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 97 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.02%) Finance
3 73 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.73%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.38%) Law
6 11 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.25%) Marketing
8 8 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.35%) Legal
10 6 (1.35%) Retail
11 4 (0.90%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.90%) Military
12 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.68%) Games
12 3 (0.68%) Local Government
13 2 (0.45%) Automotive
13 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 163 (36.71%) Data Engineer
2 137 (30.86%) Architect
3 107 (24.10%) Data Architect
4 98 (22.07%) Senior
5 71 (15.99%) Lead
6 47 (10.59%) Databricks Engineer
7 43 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 36 (8.11%) Lead Data Engineer
9 34 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (7.21%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 30 (6.76%) Microsoft Engineer
12 23 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (5.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (5.18%) Systems Engineer
13 22 (4.95%) Azure Data Engineer
14 21 (4.73%) Developer
15 20 (4.50%) Data Management Specialist
15 20 (4.50%) Product Specialist
16 19 (4.28%) Databricks Architect
17 12 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (26.35%) PySpark
2 64 (14.41%) Terraform
3 51 (11.49%) Kafka
4 25 (5.63%) pgvector
5 24 (5.41%) scikit-learn
6 23 (5.18%) LangChain
6 23 (5.18%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (5.18%) PyTorch
6 23 (5.18%) TensorFlow
7 16 (3.60%) REST
8 11 (2.48%) Pandas
9 10 (2.25%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.58%) Node.js
10 7 (1.58%) React
11 4 (0.90%) .NET
11 4 (0.90%) Django
11 4 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.90%) Flask
11 4 (0.90%) JSON
11 4 (0.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.86%) Clustering
3 23 (5.18%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.15%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.70%) Data Fabric
7 11 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.03%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.80%) NHS
10 6 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.13%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.13%) Replication
12 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.90%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (63.29%) Analytics
2 257 (57.88%) Data Modelling
3 220 (49.55%) Data Engineering
4 209 (47.07%) Business Intelligence
5 208 (46.85%) AI
6 175 (39.41%) ETL
7 172 (38.74%) Data Pipeline
8 160 (36.04%) Data Governance
9 158 (35.59%) CI/CD
10 143 (32.21%) Data Architecture
11 120 (27.03%) Machine Learning
12 119 (26.80%) Decision-Making
13 105 (23.65%) DevOps
14 100 (22.52%) Data Science
15 88 (19.82%) Use Case
16 81 (18.24%) Roadmaps
17 78 (17.57%) Data Strategy
18 73 (16.44%) Technical Leadership
19 64 (14.41%) Data Management
19 64 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 279 (62.84%) SQL
2 241 (54.28%) Python
3 36 (8.11%) Scala
4 23 (5.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (4.28%) Bicep
6 9 (2.03%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.80%) Java
8 7 (1.58%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.13%) R
10 4 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.68%) Go
11 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.23%) C#
12 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (13.51%) Degree
2 56 (12.61%) Security Cleared
3 40 (9.01%) Azure Certification
4 33 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.60%) SnowPro
8 10 (2.25%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.80%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.58%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.90%) OCP
11 4 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.23%) CCA
14 1 (0.23%) MCT
14 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (32.21%) Data Quality
2 39 (8.78%) GDPR
3 24 (5.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.90%) NIST
5 4 (0.90%) QA
5 4 (0.90%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.45%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (2.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.68%) Ansible
2 3 (0.68%) Grafana
2 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 278 (62.61%) Databricks
2 177 (39.86%) Microsoft
3 45 (10.14%) Dell
4 24 (5.41%) Cloudera
5 22 (4.95%) Informatica
5 22 (4.95%) Teradata
6 21 (4.73%) Denodo
7 18 (4.05%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.70%) Google
9 8 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.80%) SAP
10 4 (0.90%) Oracle
10 4 (0.90%) Palantir
10 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.90%) Sage
11 3 (0.68%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.68%) Workday
12 2 (0.45%) Infor
12 2 (0.45%) Meraki
13 1 (0.23%) Foundry