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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 132 225
Rank change year-on-year -103 +93 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 150 409 395
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.92% 2.63% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.96% 10.07% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 127 370 314
10th Percentile £47,200 £61,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +48.15% -15.63%
75th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.22% +28.57% -12.50%

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 2,156 4,061 6,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.23% 26.13% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,411 5,796
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 17 February 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 22 (14.67%) Apache
1 22 (14.67%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (9.33%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.33%) SAS
4 3 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (64.67%) Azure
2 52 (34.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 46 (30.67%) AWS
4 42 (28.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 31 (20.67%) Power Platform
6 29 (19.33%) SaaS
7 28 (18.67%) Snowflake
8 22 (14.67%) GitHub
9 21 (14.00%) GCP
10 17 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (10.67%) dbt
12 13 (8.67%) Amazon S3
13 12 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (8.00%) Serverless
14 10 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (4.67%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
18 4 (2.67%) Alation
18 4 (2.67%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (56.00%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (20.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (20.67%) Power BI
3 22 (14.67%) Metadata
4 18 (12.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 17 (11.33%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (9.33%) Delta Lake
6 14 (9.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (9.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (8.67%) BigQuery
7 13 (8.67%) Data Mining
8 11 (7.33%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (6.67%) Apache Arrow
9 10 (6.67%) Apache Ignite
9 10 (6.67%) Data Vault
9 10 (6.67%) Dremio
10 7 (4.67%) Tableau
11 6 (4.00%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.33%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (2.67%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.67%) ERwin
2 4 (2.67%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) git-flow
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 69 (46.00%) Finance
2 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.67%) Banking
4 18 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (12.00%) Retail
5 17 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.33%) Front Office
7 10 (6.67%) Investment Banking
8 9 (6.00%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.67%) Law
10 4 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.67%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.00%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.00%) Legal
11 3 (2.00%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.33%) Marketing
12 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 66 (44.00%) Data Engineer
2 54 (36.00%) Senior
3 27 (18.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (14.67%) Architect
5 18 (12.00%) Data Manager
6 17 (11.33%) Data Architect
7 13 (8.67%) Python Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Senior Architect
8 12 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Azure Architect
9 10 (6.67%) AWS Software Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Azure Data Architect
9 10 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Lead
10 9 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Data Architect
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.33%) PySpark
2 11 (7.33%) NumPy
2 11 (7.33%) Pandas
3 10 (6.67%) gRPC
3 10 (6.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 10 (6.67%) SciPy
4 7 (4.67%) Kafka
5 5 (3.33%) EDI
6 1 (0.67%) .NET
6 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.33%) Hedge funds
3 10 (6.67%) Derivative
3 10 (6.67%) Equities
3 10 (6.67%) Fixed Income
3 10 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.67%) Pricing Data
4 6 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.67%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.00%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.00%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (54.67%) Data Modelling
2 81 (54.00%) ETL
3 71 (47.33%) Data Engineering
4 70 (46.67%) Analytics
5 67 (44.67%) Agile
6 58 (38.67%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (31.33%) Data Science
8 42 (28.00%) Data Integration
9 41 (27.33%) Data Governance
10 38 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (25.33%) DevOps
11 37 (24.67%) CI/CD
11 37 (24.67%) Mentoring
12 31 (20.67%) Coaching
13 30 (20.00%) Data Architecture
13 30 (20.00%) Data Strategy
14 24 (16.00%) Decision-Making
15 23 (15.33%) AI
16 21 (14.00%) Data Management
17 20 (13.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (67.33%) SQL
2 60 (40.00%) Python
3 16 (10.67%) Scala
4 15 (10.00%) Java
5 13 (8.67%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.33%) Bicep
7 2 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.67%) C#
8 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (5.33%) Degree
2 6 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.33%) CITP
3 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.33%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.67%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.00%) GDPR
3 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.33%) Terraform
2 4 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 82 (54.67%) Databricks
2 27 (18.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.00%) Google
4 7 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.33%) Informatica
5 5 (3.33%) Planon
6 4 (2.67%) IBM
7 3 (2.00%) Oracle
8 2 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud