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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 231 77
Rank change year-on-year -80 -154 +106
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 153 208 826
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 1.23% 3.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.83% 7.76% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 97 173 785
10th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.35% +60.06%
75th Percentile £93,750 £120,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £83,750 £107,500
% change year-on-year -10.45% -22.09% +43.33%

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 3,168 2,680 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.71% 15.89% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,450 1,843 3,108
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £39,425
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £139,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,950
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.92%

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 2 October 2026.

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 15 (9.80%) Apache Spark
2 12 (7.84%) SharePoint
3 11 (7.19%) Apache
3 11 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (3.27%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.27%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.65%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.65%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 91 (59.48%) Azure
2 57 (37.25%) Power Platform
3 35 (22.88%) AWS
4 29 (18.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (15.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (13.73%) GCP
7 18 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 15 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (9.80%) PowerApps
10 14 (9.15%) GitHub
11 13 (8.50%) Serverless
12 12 (7.84%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (7.84%) Entra ID
13 11 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (5.88%) Collibra
15 8 (5.23%) Azure Functions
15 8 (5.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) 4G
2 1 (0.65%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 56 (36.60%) Power BI
3 22 (14.38%) SQL Server
4 21 (13.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (11.76%) Tableau
6 16 (10.46%) Metadata
7 14 (9.15%) Big Data
8 13 (8.50%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (7.84%) SAP BW
10 11 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.23%) Delta Lake
12 7 (4.58%) Parquet
13 6 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
14 5 (3.27%) BigQuery
14 5 (3.27%) DynamoDB
14 5 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (3.27%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (20.26%) Git
2 5 (3.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.31%) JIRA
3 2 (1.31%) MLflow
3 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (35.29%) Finance
2 47 (30.72%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.84%) Banking
7 9 (5.88%) Marketing
7 9 (5.88%) Retail
8 6 (3.92%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.27%) Legal
10 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.31%) Billing
12 2 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.31%) Local Government
12 2 (1.31%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Front Office
13 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (37.25%) Data Engineer
2 25 (16.34%) Architect
2 25 (16.34%) Lead
2 25 (16.34%) Senior
3 19 (12.42%) Data Architect
3 19 (12.42%) Developer
4 15 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
5 14 (9.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 13 (8.50%) Azure Data Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.88%) Analyst
7 9 (5.88%) Data Manager
8 8 (5.23%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Big Data Manager
10 6 (3.92%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.27%) Consultant
11 5 (3.27%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.27%) Service Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.69%) PySpark
2 18 (11.76%) Terraform
3 12 (7.84%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (7.19%) JSON
5 8 (5.23%) Kafka
6 7 (4.58%) Middleware
7 6 (3.92%) Apache Avro
7 6 (3.92%) FastAPI
7 6 (3.92%) Flask
8 5 (3.27%) XML
9 4 (2.61%) .NET
9 4 (2.61%) Django
9 4 (2.61%) Node.js
9 4 (2.61%) React
10 3 (1.96%) ADO
11 2 (1.31%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.31%) PostGIS
11 2 (1.31%) RESTful
11 2 (1.31%) WebSockets
12 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.34%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.15%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.84%) Social Media
4 11 (7.19%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.27%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.27%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.61%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.31%) Blog
9 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.31%) NHS
9 2 (1.31%) PMI
9 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (51.63%) Analytics
2 67 (43.79%) Data Pipeline
3 65 (42.48%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (39.22%) Data Engineering
5 59 (38.56%) Data Modelling
5 59 (38.56%) ETL
6 49 (32.03%) Agile
7 46 (30.07%) Data Architecture
8 44 (28.76%) AI
8 44 (28.76%) CI/CD
9 39 (25.49%) DevOps
10 34 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 34 (22.22%) Decision-Making
10 34 (22.22%) ERP
11 31 (20.26%) Data Science
12 29 (18.95%) Data Integration
13 28 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (16.99%) Mentoring
14 26 (16.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (54.25%) SQL
2 70 (45.75%) Python
3 16 (10.46%) C#
4 10 (6.54%) Java
5 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.96%) Bash
9 2 (1.31%) Bicep
9 2 (1.31%) R
9 2 (1.31%) VBA
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 18 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.19%) Degree
3 9 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.31%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CITP
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) MCT
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.65%) PhD
7 1 (0.65%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.88%) GDPR
3 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.27%) QA
5 4 (2.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.31%) IFRS
6 2 (1.31%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.31%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.65%) IASME
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (5.23%) Grafana
2 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.65%) Control-M
Vendors
1 65 (42.48%) Microsoft
2 55 (35.95%) Databricks
3 22 (14.38%) Oracle
4 17 (11.11%) SAP
5 11 (7.19%) HP
6 9 (5.88%) Informatica
7 8 (5.23%) Google
8 4 (2.61%) Epicor
8 4 (2.61%) IFS
8 4 (2.61%) Infor
8 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.65%) Foundry
9 1 (0.65%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.65%) IBM
9 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.65%) Planon
9 1 (0.65%) YouTube