Data Lake Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Lakes
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 96 120
Rank change year-on-year -35 +24 -17
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 10 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.24% 0.82% 0.095%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.47% 8.02% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 2
10th Percentile - £57,500 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -7.69% -18.37%
75th Percentile £74,125 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £80,000 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year - -9.43% -5.36%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 288 162 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.90% 10.27% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 192 127 146
10th Percentile £38,772 £40,750 £31,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +13.21% -3.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £68,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,600 £80,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £49,274
% change year-on-year -8.33% +21.77% -6.14%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Lake
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in West Yorkshire

Data Lake
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Leeds -48 9 £64,500 +7.50% 10
Data Lake
Yorkshire

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
5 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
6 2 (20.00%) dbt
6 2 (20.00%) GCP
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Change Management
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Observability
5 3 (30.00%) SFIA
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Google