Lakehouse Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Lakehouse
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 196 170 203
Rank change year-on-year -26 +33 -6
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 11 9 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 17
10th Percentile £63,775 £49,200 -
25th Percentile £67,000 £54,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74,375 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,500 - £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,966 2,923 4,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.15% 84.60% 78.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,485 1,853 2,895
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,600 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Lakehouse
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Lakehouse in the West Midlands

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -28 9 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Staffordshire +8 1 £57,500 -2.75%
Shropshire - 1 - -
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Google Ads
2 4 (36.36%) Meta Ads
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Power BI
2 6 (54.55%) Delta Lake
3 5 (45.45%) Star Schema
4 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (18.18%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Parquet
5 1 (9.09%) Pentaho
5 1 (9.09%) Power Query
5 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) PySpark
2 4 (36.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Analytics
2 10 (90.91%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (90.91%) Data Modelling
3 9 (81.82%) Decision-Making
4 8 (72.73%) Data Engineering
5 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
6 5 (45.45%) ETL
7 4 (36.36%) API Integration
7 4 (36.36%) Cohort Analysis
7 4 (36.36%) Customer Segmentation
7 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
7 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (36.36%) Use Case
8 3 (27.27%) AI
8 3 (27.27%) DevOps
8 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
8 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 1 (9.09%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 5 (45.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Databricks
2 4 (36.36%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Denodo
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI