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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 80 179
Rank change year-on-year -134 +99 +69
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 178 669 400
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.13% 3.42% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.71% 15.01% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 164 633 256
10th Percentile £53,825 £67,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £66,125 £79,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £110,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +56.50% -6.28%
75th Percentile £115,625 £142,500 £84,292
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% -

All Database and 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 2,309 4,458 5,501
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.70% 22.76% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,776 2,684 4,398
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,750 £39,579
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £94,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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

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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 11 November 2025.

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

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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 73 (41.01%) Apache
2 65 (36.52%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (6.74%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.81%) SAS
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 95 (53.37%) AWS
2 82 (46.07%) Azure
3 73 (41.01%) Snowflake
4 65 (36.52%) dbt
5 43 (24.16%) Power Platform
6 29 (16.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (15.17%) SaaS
8 25 (14.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (9.55%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.55%) GCP
10 15 (8.43%) Serverless
11 14 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (6.18%) GitHub
13 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (2.25%) Alation
16 4 (2.25%) Cloud Composer
16 4 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) VPN
2 3 (1.69%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (38.76%) Amazon Athena
2 64 (35.96%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (34.27%) Apache Arrow
3 61 (34.27%) Apache Iceberg
3 61 (34.27%) Apache Ignite
3 61 (34.27%) Dremio
4 39 (21.91%) Power BI
5 25 (14.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (11.24%) Metadata
7 14 (7.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (7.87%) Data Vault
8 13 (7.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 13 (7.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (6.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.49%) Data Mining
11 7 (3.93%) Delta Lake
11 7 (3.93%) Tableau
12 5 (2.81%) SAS EBI
13 4 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.25%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 4 (2.25%) ER Studio
1 4 (2.25%) ERwin
1 4 (2.25%) Git
1 4 (2.25%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 107 (60.11%) Finance
2 68 (38.20%) Banking
3 61 (34.27%) Front Office
3 61 (34.27%) Investment Banking
4 30 (16.85%) Social Skills
5 19 (10.67%) Retail
6 9 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.81%) Legal
8 5 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.81%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.25%) Law
9 4 (2.25%) Marketing
9 4 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.25%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 105 (58.99%) Senior
2 63 (35.39%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (34.27%) AWS Software Engineer
3 61 (34.27%) Java Engineer
3 61 (34.27%) Java Software Engineer
3 61 (34.27%) Python Engineer
3 61 (34.27%) Python Software Engineer
3 61 (34.27%) Software Engineer
4 59 (33.15%) Senior Java Engineer
4 59 (33.15%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 59 (33.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 51 (28.65%) Data Engineer
6 27 (15.17%) Architect
6 27 (15.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 23 (12.92%) Data Architect
8 17 (9.55%) Azure Architect
9 14 (7.87%) Azure Data Architect
10 12 (6.74%) Data Manager
11 9 (5.06%) Lead
11 9 (5.06%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (34.83%) NumPy
1 62 (34.83%) Pandas
2 61 (34.27%) gRPC
2 61 (34.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 61 (34.27%) SciPy
3 8 (4.49%) PySpark
4 4 (2.25%) Kafka
5 3 (1.69%) XML
6 2 (1.12%) Middleware
7 1 (0.56%) .NET
7 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.56%) JSON
7 1 (0.56%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 61 (34.27%) Derivative
1 61 (34.27%) Equities
1 61 (34.27%) Fixed Income
1 61 (34.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 61 (34.27%) Hedge funds
1 61 (34.27%) Pricing Data
2 15 (8.43%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.81%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (56.74%) Agile
2 67 (37.64%) Asset Management
3 66 (37.08%) Data Modelling
4 61 (34.27%) Investment Management
4 61 (34.27%) Software Engineering
5 55 (30.90%) Analytics
5 55 (30.90%) ETL
6 52 (29.21%) Data Engineering
7 45 (25.28%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (24.72%) Data Pipeline
9 38 (21.35%) Mentoring
10 35 (19.66%) Data Science
11 29 (16.29%) Data Integration
12 28 (15.73%) CI/CD
13 26 (14.61%) Data Governance
14 23 (12.92%) AI
14 23 (12.92%) Data Strategy
14 23 (12.92%) DevOps
15 22 (12.36%) Coaching
16 21 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 99 (55.62%) Python
2 83 (46.63%) SQL
3 69 (38.76%) Java
4 61 (34.27%) JavaScript
4 61 (34.27%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.74%) Scala
6 9 (5.06%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.25%) Bicep
8 4 (2.25%) R
9 1 (0.56%) C#
9 1 (0.56%) Julia
9 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (5.06%) Azure Certification
2 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.93%) Degree
3 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.37%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.56%) PhD
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.43%) Terraform
2 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (36.52%) Databricks
2 25 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.06%) Google
4 5 (2.81%) Informatica
5 4 (2.25%) IBM
5 4 (2.25%) Oracle
6 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.69%) SAP
7 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) VMware