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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 131 218
Rank change year-on-year -141 +87 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 128 340 455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 2.55% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 10.16% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 95 311 397
10th Percentile £46,750 £56,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,097 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +26.47% +5.86%
75th Percentile £92,500 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £152,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -6.25%

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 2,337 3,348 7,194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.08% 25.09% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 2,436 6,205
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,625 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 21 April 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 13 (10.16%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.69%) Apache
4 4 (3.13%) SAS
5 3 (2.34%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 85 (66.41%) Azure
2 49 (38.28%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (32.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 37 (28.91%) Power Platform
5 27 (21.09%) AWS
6 19 (14.84%) GitHub
7 18 (14.06%) GCP
8 16 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (10.16%) Snowflake
10 11 (8.59%) SaaS
11 9 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (7.03%) Serverless
12 7 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.91%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.91%) dbt
14 5 (3.91%) OCI
15 3 (2.34%) Azure Functions
15 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
16 2 (1.56%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.38%) Broadband
2 3 (2.34%) Modbus
2 3 (2.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (44.53%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (27.34%) Power BI
3 21 (16.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (13.28%) Metadata
5 15 (11.72%) Delta Lake
6 13 (10.16%) Tableau
7 12 (9.38%) SAP BW
8 11 (8.59%) BigQuery
9 10 (7.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (5.47%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.91%) Data Mining
12 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.91%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.34%) Big Data
13 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) git-flow
2 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.78%) JIRA
2 1 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 59 (46.09%) Finance
2 38 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.69%) Banking
5 6 (4.69%) Law
5 6 (4.69%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.69%) Retail
6 3 (2.34%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Front Office
7 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (42.97%) Data Engineer
2 26 (20.31%) Senior
3 19 (14.84%) Senior Data Engineer
4 14 (10.94%) Architect
4 14 (10.94%) Lead
5 11 (8.59%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.81%) Data Manager
7 8 (6.25%) Analyst
8 6 (4.69%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (3.91%) Consultant
9 5 (3.91%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Principal Data Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.13%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.13%) DBA
10 4 (3.13%) Integration Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Report Analyst
10 4 (3.13%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.06%) PySpark
2 12 (9.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.47%) EDI
4 6 (4.69%) Kafka
5 4 (3.13%) .NET
5 4 (3.13%) REST
6 3 (2.34%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.34%) gRPC
7 2 (1.56%) Pandas
8 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.78%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.28%) Data Structures
3 12 (9.38%) Social Media
4 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.91%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.34%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.78%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (57.81%) Data Modelling
2 71 (55.47%) ETL
3 62 (48.44%) Analytics
4 58 (45.31%) Data Pipeline
5 56 (43.75%) Data Engineering
6 46 (35.94%) Agile
6 46 (35.94%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (29.69%) Data Governance
7 38 (29.69%) DevOps
8 35 (27.34%) CI/CD
8 35 (27.34%) Data Integration
9 29 (22.66%) Data Science
10 28 (21.88%) Data Architecture
11 26 (20.31%) AI
12 22 (17.19%) Mentoring
13 21 (16.41%) Coaching
13 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (14.84%) Decision-Making
14 19 (14.84%) Translating Business Requirements
15 17 (13.28%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 82 (64.06%) SQL
2 50 (39.06%) Python
3 12 (9.38%) Scala
3 12 (9.38%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.13%) Bicep
4 4 (3.13%) C#
4 4 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.78%) Java
5 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (5.47%) CITP
2 5 (3.91%) Degree
3 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.56%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.56%) SnowPro
4 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (32.81%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.56%) GDPR
2 2 (1.56%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) IFRS
3 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (14.84%) Terraform
2 2 (1.56%) Grafana
2 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (45.31%) Databricks
2 31 (24.22%) Microsoft
3 17 (13.28%) Oracle
4 13 (10.16%) SAP
5 8 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.47%) Google
6 7 (5.47%) Planon
7 2 (1.56%) Informatica