Delta Lake Job Trends in the West Midlands

Delta Lake
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 197 167
Rank change year-on-year +35 -30 +116
Permanent jobs citing Delta Lake 16 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.048% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.43% 0.38% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 10
10th Percentile - £67,100 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £68,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £74,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% +32.14% -20.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £79,300 £81,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -9.38%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 467 521 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.83% 12.58% 18.32%
Number of salaries quoted 354 273 616
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,200 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Delta Lake
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Delta Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Delta Lake

Delta Lake
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Delta Lake in the West Midlands

Delta Lake
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Delta Lake within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Solihull - 12 £60,000 - 1
Birmingham +28 8 £60,000 -18.92% 2
Herefordshire - 3 £90,000 -
Coventry - 1 £55,200 - 1
Delta Lake
England

Delta Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (25.00%) Parquet
4 1 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
General
1 3 (18.75%) Automotive
1 3 (18.75%) Retail
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Data Engineer
2 12 (75.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 12 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Python Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Python Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Data Engineering
1 13 (81.25%) ETL
2 5 (31.25%) AI
2 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
3 3 (18.75%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
5 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (6.25%) DataOps
5 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.25%) Metadata Management
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) SEO
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Control-M
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Databricks
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Talend