Hybrid/Remote Data Lake Job Trends

Data Lakes
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Lake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 234 102
Rank change year-on-year -95 -132 +72
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 116 215 803
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 1.30% 2.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.84% 6.70% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 85 180 760
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,125 £62,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £103,750 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% -9.78% +43.75%
75th Percentile £91,250 £118,750 £143,750
90th Percentile £111,650 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -26.83% +32.26%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,017 3,209 5,938
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.92% 19.46% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,425 2,151 4,816
10th Percentile £36,552 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,163 £46,375 £45,893
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,091 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +5.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -4.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lake and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Lake
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 12 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.62%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.90%) Apache
4 4 (3.45%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.59%) SAS
6 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.17%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.31%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.59%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.86%) HFM
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 66 (56.90%) Azure
2 42 (36.21%) Power Platform
3 25 (21.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (20.69%) AWS
4 24 (20.69%) GCP
5 19 (16.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (6.90%) GitHub
8 7 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.03%) dbt
8 7 (6.03%) OCI
9 6 (5.17%) Collibra
9 6 (5.17%) Serverless
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.31%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.45%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.45%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.21%) Broadband
2 3 (2.59%) Modbus
2 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) 4G
3 1 (0.86%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (40.52%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (34.48%) Power BI
3 17 (14.66%) Metadata
4 16 (13.79%) Tableau
5 12 (10.34%) SAP BW
6 10 (8.62%) BigQuery
6 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
7 9 (7.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (7.76%) Big Data
7 9 (7.76%) Delta Lake
8 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
9 6 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (5.17%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (3.45%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Git
2 2 (1.72%) GitLab
2 2 (1.72%) MLflow
2 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.86%) JIRA
3 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 40 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 37 (31.90%) Finance
3 18 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.76%) Banking
6 8 (6.90%) Retail
7 7 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.45%) Marketing
10 3 (2.59%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.72%) Billing
11 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Law
12 1 (0.86%) Legal
12 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (35.34%) Data Engineer
2 23 (19.83%) Architect
3 19 (16.38%) Lead
4 17 (14.66%) Senior
5 11 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (9.48%) Data Architect
6 9 (7.76%) Analyst
6 9 (7.76%) Azure Data Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.90%) Developer
7 8 (6.90%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (5.17%) Service Owner
9 5 (4.31%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Analytics Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Consultant
10 4 (3.45%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.79%) PySpark
2 12 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (6.03%) Kafka
4 6 (5.17%) .NET
5 4 (3.45%) Django
5 4 (3.45%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.45%) Flask
5 4 (3.45%) Middleware
5 4 (3.45%) Node.js
5 4 (3.45%) React
5 4 (3.45%) REST
5 4 (3.45%) XML
6 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.59%) ADO
6 3 (2.59%) gRPC
7 2 (1.72%) EDI
7 2 (1.72%) JSON
8 1 (0.86%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.86%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.93%) Data Structures
2 15 (12.93%) Product Ownership
3 12 (10.34%) Social Media
4 6 (5.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (5.17%) Reference Data
5 5 (4.31%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.31%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.72%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.86%) PMI
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.41%) Analytics
1 55 (47.41%) Data Modelling
2 52 (44.83%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (42.24%) ETL
4 47 (40.52%) Data Pipeline
5 46 (39.66%) Data Engineering
6 37 (31.90%) AI
7 33 (28.45%) Data Architecture
8 32 (27.59%) CI/CD
9 30 (25.86%) Data Governance
10 29 (25.00%) Agile
11 28 (24.14%) Decision-Making
12 25 (21.55%) ERP
13 24 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (18.10%) Translating Business Requirements
15 20 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
16 19 (16.38%) Data Integration
16 19 (16.38%) Data Science
16 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (15.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 61 (52.59%) SQL
2 57 (49.14%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) C#
3 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.59%) Bicep
6 3 (2.59%) Java
7 2 (1.72%) Bash
7 2 (1.72%) R
7 2 (1.72%) Scala
7 2 (1.72%) VBA
8 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.62%) Azure Certification
1 10 (8.62%) Degree
2 7 (6.03%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.72%) CITP
6 2 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.86%) MCT
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.86%) PhD
7 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (39.66%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.76%) GDPR
3 5 (4.31%) QA
4 4 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.59%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.72%) IFRS
6 2 (1.72%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.86%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (6.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.07%) Terraform
2 8 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 37 (31.90%) Databricks
3 23 (19.83%) Oracle
4 18 (15.52%) SAP
5 10 (8.62%) Google
6 7 (6.03%) Informatica
7 6 (5.17%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.45%) Epicor
8 4 (3.45%) IFS
8 4 (3.45%) Infor
9 2 (1.72%) Planon
10 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.86%) Foundry
10 1 (0.86%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.86%) IBM
10 1 (0.86%) OpenAI