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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 110 188
Rank change year-on-year -96 +78 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 181 519 354
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 2.99% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.23% 12.07% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 159 483 220
10th Percentile £49,650 £62,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £61,250 £77,500 £56,401
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +48.28% -3.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.22% +20.00% -

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 2,200 4,299 4,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.36% 24.77% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,648 2,650 3,877
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,304 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +15.51% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £94,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 20 December 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 53 (29.28%) Apache
2 48 (26.52%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (7.18%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.76%) SAS
5 3 (1.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 102 (56.35%) Azure
2 76 (41.99%) AWS
3 57 (31.49%) Snowflake
4 51 (28.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 46 (25.41%) dbt
5 46 (25.41%) Power Platform
6 42 (23.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 29 (16.02%) SaaS
8 21 (11.60%) GitHub
9 17 (9.39%) Amazon S3
10 16 (8.84%) GCP
11 15 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (8.29%) Serverless
12 14 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.87%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
17 4 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) VPN
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (43.65%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (27.07%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (23.76%) Power BI
4 42 (23.20%) Apache Iceberg
5 41 (22.65%) Apache Arrow
5 41 (22.65%) Apache Ignite
5 41 (22.65%) Dremio
6 34 (18.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (12.15%) Metadata
8 19 (10.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 15 (8.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (7.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (7.18%) Data Mining
11 13 (7.18%) Data Vault
12 10 (5.52%) Delta Lake
13 6 (3.31%) BigQuery
13 6 (3.31%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.31%) Tableau
14 5 (2.76%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 9 (4.97%) Git
2 4 (2.21%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.21%) ERwin
2 4 (2.21%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.10%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) git-flow
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 101 (55.80%) Finance
2 49 (27.07%) Banking
3 42 (23.20%) Front Office
4 41 (22.65%) Investment Banking
5 33 (18.23%) Social Skills
6 21 (11.60%) Retail
7 17 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.87%) Law
9 7 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.21%) Legal
11 4 (2.21%) Marketing
11 4 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.21%) Retail Banking
11 4 (2.21%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.66%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.66%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.55%) Advertising
13 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 85 (46.96%) Senior
2 62 (34.25%) Data Engineer
3 43 (23.76%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (23.76%) Python Engineer
4 41 (22.65%) AWS Software Engineer
4 41 (22.65%) Java Engineer
4 41 (22.65%) Java Software Engineer
4 41 (22.65%) Python Software Engineer
4 41 (22.65%) Software Engineer
5 39 (21.55%) Senior Java Engineer
5 39 (21.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 39 (21.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 28 (15.47%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (13.81%) Architect
8 21 (11.60%) Data Architect
9 18 (9.94%) Azure Architect
10 14 (7.73%) Azure Data Architect
10 14 (7.73%) Data Manager
11 10 (5.52%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.97%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.76%) NumPy
1 43 (23.76%) Pandas
2 41 (22.65%) gRPC
2 41 (22.65%) Protocol Buffers
2 41 (22.65%) SciPy
3 12 (6.63%) PySpark
4 5 (2.76%) Kafka
5 2 (1.10%) .NET
5 2 (1.10%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.10%) Middleware
5 2 (1.10%) XML
6 1 (0.55%) EDI
6 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.55%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.20%) Hedge funds
2 41 (22.65%) Derivative
2 41 (22.65%) Equities
2 41 (22.65%) Fixed Income
2 41 (22.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (22.65%) Pricing Data
3 19 (10.50%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.97%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.21%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.66%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.66%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (53.04%) Agile
2 80 (44.20%) Data Modelling
3 75 (41.44%) Analytics
4 71 (39.23%) ETL
5 63 (34.81%) Data Engineering
6 59 (32.60%) Data Pipeline
7 51 (28.18%) Asset Management
8 48 (26.52%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (22.65%) CI/CD
9 41 (22.65%) Investment Management
9 41 (22.65%) Software Engineering
10 40 (22.10%) Data Science
10 40 (22.10%) DevOps
11 36 (19.89%) Data Integration
12 35 (19.34%) Mentoring
13 34 (18.78%) Data Governance
14 31 (17.13%) AI
15 26 (14.36%) Coaching
16 25 (13.81%) Data Architecture
16 25 (13.81%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 104 (57.46%) SQL
2 92 (50.83%) Python
3 48 (26.52%) Java
4 41 (22.65%) JavaScript
4 41 (22.65%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.29%) Scala
6 14 (7.73%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.31%) Bicep
8 5 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.10%) C#
10 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (4.42%) AWS Certification
1 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (3.87%) Degree
3 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.31%) DBS Check
4 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.10%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.55%) CITP
7 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (25.97%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.31%) GDPR
3 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (4.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (12.15%) Terraform
2 5 (2.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (45.86%) Databricks
2 34 (18.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.42%) Google
4 4 (2.21%) IBM
4 4 (2.21%) Informatica
5 3 (1.66%) Oracle
5 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Planon
7 1 (0.55%) VMware