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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 130 222
Rank change year-on-year -102 +92 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 154 412 415
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 2.63% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.15% 10.19% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 132 373 321
10th Percentile £48,000 £59,334 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -9.68%
75th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £84,250 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.39% +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 2,153 4,044 6,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.26% 25.80% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,561 2,429 5,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,686 £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 14 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 26 (16.88%) Apache
1 26 (16.88%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.19%) SAS
4 3 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 98 (63.64%) Azure
2 52 (33.77%) Azure Data Factory
3 50 (32.47%) AWS
4 42 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 32 (20.78%) Power Platform
5 32 (20.78%) Snowflake
6 30 (19.48%) SaaS
7 22 (14.29%) GitHub
8 21 (13.64%) GCP
9 20 (12.99%) dbt
10 17 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (8.44%) Amazon S3
12 12 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (7.79%) Serverless
13 10 (6.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (2.60%) Alation
17 4 (2.60%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (53.90%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (20.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (20.13%) Power BI
3 22 (14.29%) Metadata
4 21 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (11.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 15 (9.74%) Apache Iceberg
7 14 (9.09%) Apache Arrow
7 14 (9.09%) Apache Ignite
7 14 (9.09%) Delta Lake
7 14 (9.09%) Dremio
7 14 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (8.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (8.44%) BigQuery
8 13 (8.44%) Data Mining
9 10 (6.49%) Data Vault
10 7 (4.55%) Tableau
11 6 (3.90%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.25%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Git
2 4 (2.60%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.60%) ERwin
2 4 (2.60%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) git-flow
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 74 (48.05%) Finance
2 30 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.94%) Banking
4 18 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (11.69%) Retail
5 17 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.74%) Front Office
7 14 (9.09%) Investment Banking
8 9 (5.84%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.55%) Law
10 4 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.60%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.95%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.95%) Legal
11 3 (1.95%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.30%) Marketing
12 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 65 (42.21%) Data Engineer
2 57 (37.01%) Senior
3 26 (16.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (14.94%) Architect
5 18 (11.69%) Data Manager
6 17 (11.04%) Data Architect
6 17 (11.04%) Python Engineer
7 16 (10.39%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
8 14 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 13 (8.44%) Azure Architect
9 13 (8.44%) Senior Architect
10 12 (7.79%) Senior Java Engineer
10 12 (7.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 12 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (6.49%) Azure Data Architect
12 9 (5.84%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.04%) PySpark
2 15 (9.74%) NumPy
2 15 (9.74%) Pandas
3 14 (9.09%) gRPC
3 14 (9.09%) Protocol Buffers
3 14 (9.09%) SciPy
4 7 (4.55%) Kafka
5 5 (3.25%) EDI
6 1 (0.65%) .NET
6 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.65%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.65%) Middleware
6 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.74%) Hedge funds
3 14 (9.09%) Derivative
3 14 (9.09%) Equities
3 14 (9.09%) Fixed Income
3 14 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (9.09%) Pricing Data
4 10 (6.49%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.90%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.60%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.95%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.95%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (52.60%) Data Modelling
2 80 (51.95%) ETL
3 71 (46.10%) Agile
3 71 (46.10%) Analytics
4 70 (45.45%) Data Engineering
5 58 (37.66%) Data Pipeline
6 47 (30.52%) Data Science
7 42 (27.27%) Data Integration
8 41 (26.62%) Data Governance
9 38 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (24.68%) DevOps
9 38 (24.68%) Mentoring
10 37 (24.03%) CI/CD
11 31 (20.13%) Coaching
12 30 (19.48%) Data Architecture
12 30 (19.48%) Data Strategy
13 24 (15.58%) AI
13 24 (15.58%) Asset Management
13 24 (15.58%) Decision-Making
14 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 101 (65.58%) SQL
2 63 (40.91%) Python
3 19 (12.34%) Java
4 16 (10.39%) Scala
5 14 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.44%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.95%) Bicep
8 2 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.65%) C#
9 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (5.19%) Degree
2 6 (3.90%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.90%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.25%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.25%) CITP
3 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.30%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.95%) GDPR
3 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (14.94%) Terraform
2 4 (2.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 82 (53.25%) Databricks
2 26 (16.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.84%) Google
4 7 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.25%) Informatica
5 5 (3.25%) Planon
6 4 (2.60%) IBM
7 3 (1.95%) Oracle
8 2 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud