Data Lake Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 215 293
Rank change year-on-year +1 +78 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 501 690 857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.48% 1.60% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.50% 6.52% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 429 527 542
10th Percentile £36,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,294 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% +14.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £142,500 £105,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,707 10,589 19,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.84% 24.54% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,192 7,275 11,106
10th Percentile £37,042 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 172 (34.33%) Apache Airflow
2 153 (30.54%) Apache
3 57 (11.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.40%) Confluence
4 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Primavera
2 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 278 (55.49%) Azure
2 234 (46.71%) AWS
3 232 (46.31%) Snowflake
4 167 (33.33%) dbt
5 116 (23.15%) Power Platform
6 111 (22.16%) GCP
7 82 (16.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 78 (15.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 51 (10.18%) Matillion
10 40 (7.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 33 (6.59%) Serverless
12 23 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.39%) GitHub
14 15 (2.99%) PowerApps
15 13 (2.59%) Power Automate
16 10 (2.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 9 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
18 8 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.39%) Wireless
2 9 (1.80%) Network Security
3 3 (0.60%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (41.92%) Data Warehouse
2 166 (33.13%) Dremio
3 163 (32.53%) Amazon Athena
4 162 (32.34%) Apache Arrow
5 132 (26.35%) Apache Ignite
6 114 (22.75%) Power BI
7 112 (22.36%) Big Data
8 94 (18.76%) SQL Server
9 39 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (6.59%) Star Schema
11 31 (6.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 31 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
11 31 (6.19%) NoSQL
12 27 (5.39%) Metadata
12 27 (5.39%) Tableau
13 26 (5.19%) BigQuery
13 26 (5.19%) Relational Database
14 19 (3.79%) Delta Lake
15 18 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (2.59%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 31 (6.19%) GitLab
2 9 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.60%) MLflow
4 7 (1.40%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.20%) Git
5 6 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.80%) ERwin
7 3 (0.60%) JIRA
7 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 260 (51.90%) Finance
2 152 (30.34%) Banking
3 132 (26.35%) Front Office
3 132 (26.35%) Investment Banking
4 72 (14.37%) Social Skills
5 56 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.79%) Retail
7 27 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (3.79%) Public Sector
9 14 (2.79%) Billing
10 12 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.40%) Marketing
10 12 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.80%) Back Office
12 7 (1.40%) Legal
13 5 (1.00%) Games
14 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.80%) Wearables
15 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 153 (30.54%) Data Engineer
2 109 (21.76%) Senior
3 104 (20.76%) Lead
4 98 (19.56%) Architect
5 75 (14.97%) AWS Engineer
6 73 (14.57%) Software Engineer
7 58 (11.58%) Data Architect
8 57 (11.38%) Python Engineer
9 55 (10.98%) Developer
10 48 (9.58%) Solutions Architect
11 43 (8.58%) Senior Data Engineer
12 42 (8.38%) Java Engineer
12 42 (8.38%) Java Software Engineer
12 42 (8.38%) Python Software Engineer
13 40 (7.98%) AWS Software Engineer
14 39 (7.78%) Consultant
15 36 (7.19%) Azure Engineer
16 35 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 35 (6.99%) Technical Leader
17 34 (6.79%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (32.34%) gRPC
1 162 (32.34%) Protocol Buffers
2 140 (27.94%) Pandas
3 132 (26.35%) NumPy
3 132 (26.35%) SciPy
4 34 (6.79%) PySpark
5 17 (3.39%) Kafka
6 9 (1.80%) Apache Beam
7 7 (1.40%) JSON
8 6 (1.20%) XML
9 5 (1.00%) Web Services
10 4 (0.80%) MDX
10 4 (0.80%) YAML
11 3 (0.60%) .NET
11 3 (0.60%) RESTful
12 2 (0.40%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.40%) Flask
13 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.20%) Node.js
13 1 (0.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 162 (32.34%) Hedge funds
2 132 (26.35%) Derivative
2 132 (26.35%) Equities
2 132 (26.35%) Fixed Income
2 132 (26.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 50 (9.98%) Data Structures
4 31 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (5.99%) Clustering
6 18 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.99%) Cloud Native
8 14 (2.79%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.40%) Pricing Data
10 11 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.60%) IoT
13 7 (1.40%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 5 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
16 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
17 3 (0.60%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.40%) Unix
2 2 (0.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) AIX
3 1 (0.20%) Solaris
3 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (42.12%) Agile
2 162 (32.34%) Asset Management
3 160 (31.94%) Analytics
4 155 (30.94%) Investment Management
5 151 (30.14%) Data Pipeline
6 142 (28.34%) Software Engineering
7 139 (27.74%) ETL
8 130 (25.95%) Data Engineering
9 129 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
10 124 (24.75%) Data Modelling
11 115 (22.95%) Data Science
12 113 (22.55%) Artificial Intelligence
13 110 (21.96%) Machine Learning
14 86 (17.17%) DevOps
15 78 (15.57%) CI/CD
16 69 (13.77%) Data Architecture
17 67 (13.37%) Data Integration
17 67 (13.37%) Line Management
18 66 (13.17%) Data Analytics
19 60 (11.98%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 309 (61.68%) Python
2 218 (43.51%) SQL
3 190 (37.92%) Java
4 162 (32.34%) JavaScript
5 132 (26.35%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.78%) T-SQL
7 38 (7.58%) Go
8 22 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 19 (3.79%) C#
10 13 (2.59%) R
11 12 (2.40%) Scala
12 9 (1.80%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.80%) U-SQL
13 3 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.20%) Bash
15 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (6.59%) Azure Certification
2 30 (5.99%) Degree
3 25 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.80%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.80%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.20%) CIMA
9 3 (0.60%) MCP
10 1 (0.20%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.20%) LPIC
10 1 (0.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (23.35%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.19%) GDPR
3 6 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.40%) PMO
6 1 (0.20%) GMP
6 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.20%) QA
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (3.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 51 (10.18%) Terraform
3 30 (5.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Argo
4 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 129 (25.75%) Databricks
2 87 (17.37%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.79%) Google
4 16 (3.19%) SAP
5 13 (2.59%) Oracle
6 8 (1.60%) Teradata
7 7 (1.40%) Talend
8 6 (1.20%) Adobe
8 6 (1.20%) Apple
9 3 (0.60%) IBM
9 3 (0.60%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.20%) Ariba
11 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.20%) Reuters
11 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.20%) Sparx
11 1 (0.20%) UiPath
11 1 (0.20%) VMware
11 1 (0.20%) Workday