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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 129 230
Rank change year-on-year -111 +101 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 144 394 374
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 2.57% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.76% 9.83% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 121 355 312
10th Percentile £46,750 £61,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +53.85% -18.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 2,129 4,010 6,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.00% 26.15% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 2,420 5,776
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £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 £93,375 £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 22 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 20 (13.89%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (13.19%) Apache
3 13 (9.03%) Apache Spark
4 8 (5.56%) SAS
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (65.97%) Azure
2 50 (34.72%) Azure Data Factory
3 43 (29.86%) AWS
4 40 (27.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 31 (21.53%) Power Platform
6 27 (18.75%) SaaS
7 26 (18.06%) Snowflake
8 22 (15.28%) GitHub
9 20 (13.89%) GCP
10 17 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (9.03%) Amazon S3
11 13 (9.03%) dbt
12 12 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (8.33%) Serverless
13 10 (6.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (2.78%) Alation
17 4 (2.78%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (56.25%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (21.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (21.53%) Power BI
3 21 (14.58%) Metadata
4 18 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 15 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (9.72%) Delta Lake
6 14 (9.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (9.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (9.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (9.03%) BigQuery
7 13 (9.03%) Data Mining
8 10 (6.94%) Data Vault
9 9 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (5.56%) Apache Arrow
10 8 (5.56%) Apache Ignite
10 8 (5.56%) Dremio
11 7 (4.86%) Tableau
12 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
13 5 (3.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (2.78%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.78%) ERwin
2 4 (2.78%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) git-flow
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 67 (46.53%) Finance
2 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (12.50%) Retail
4 17 (11.81%) Banking
5 16 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.25%) Front Office
6 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.17%) Law
9 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.78%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.08%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.08%) Legal
10 3 (2.08%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.39%) Marketing
11 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 65 (45.14%) Data Engineer
2 50 (34.72%) Senior
3 27 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Architect
5 17 (11.81%) Data Manager
6 16 (11.11%) Data Architect
7 13 (9.03%) Senior Architect
8 11 (7.64%) Azure Architect
8 11 (7.64%) Python Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.25%) Azure Data Architect
10 9 (6.25%) Lead
10 9 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Senior Data Architect
11 8 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.11%) PySpark
2 9 (6.25%) NumPy
2 9 (6.25%) Pandas
3 8 (5.56%) gRPC
3 8 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 8 (5.56%) SciPy
4 6 (4.17%) Kafka
5 5 (3.47%) EDI
6 1 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.69%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.94%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.25%) Hedge funds
4 8 (5.56%) Derivative
4 8 (5.56%) Equities
4 8 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (5.56%) Pricing Data
5 6 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.78%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.08%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.08%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (54.17%) Data Modelling
2 77 (53.47%) ETL
3 68 (47.22%) Analytics
3 68 (47.22%) Data Engineering
4 63 (43.75%) Agile
5 57 (39.58%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (30.56%) Data Science
7 40 (27.78%) Data Governance
7 40 (27.78%) Data Integration
8 38 (26.39%) DevOps
9 37 (25.69%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (25.69%) CI/CD
10 34 (23.61%) Mentoring
11 29 (20.14%) Coaching
11 29 (20.14%) Data Architecture
11 29 (20.14%) Data Strategy
12 23 (15.97%) Decision-Making
13 22 (15.28%) AI
14 21 (14.58%) Data Management
15 20 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 99 (68.75%) SQL
2 57 (39.58%) Python
3 15 (10.42%) Scala
4 13 (9.03%) T-SQL
5 12 (8.33%) Java
6 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.39%) Bicep
7 2 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.69%) C#
8 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (5.56%) Degree
2 6 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 6 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.47%) CITP
3 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.39%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (36.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.39%) GDPR
2 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.97%) Terraform
2 4 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 78 (54.17%) Databricks
2 26 (18.06%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.25%) Google
4 7 (4.86%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.47%) Informatica
5 5 (3.47%) Planon
6 4 (2.78%) IBM
7 3 (2.08%) Oracle
8 2 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud