Data Lake Job Trends in West London

Data Lakes
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 57 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 -20 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 2 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 0.38% 0.26% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.17% 1.59% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +81.82% -33.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £68,000
London median annual salary £105,000 £107,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -2.33% +35.00% -6.32%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West London

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 in West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 48 63 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 9.01% 16.36% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 34 23 41
10th Percentile £32,750 £49,050 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £61,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,450 £87,500 £78,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in West London

Data Lake
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the West London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Richmond upon Thames -2 1 - -
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) H2O.ai
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Development
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA