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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 155 201
Rank change year-on-year -117 +46 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 121 316 527
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 2.22% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.15% 9.15% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 89 290 482
10th Percentile £46,750 £57,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,750 £70,097 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +22.22% +12.09%
75th Percentile £93,750 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £83,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.43% +3.75%

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 2,351 3,452 7,233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.88% 24.27% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 2,379 6,213
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,008
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,875 £122,500 £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

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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 8 May 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 13 (10.74%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.61%) Apache
4 3 (2.48%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (9.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (3.31%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (2.48%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 78 (64.46%) Azure
2 43 (35.54%) Azure Data Factory
3 35 (28.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (28.10%) Power Platform
5 26 (21.49%) AWS
6 20 (16.53%) GCP
7 17 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (14.05%) GitHub
8 9 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (6.61%) SaaS
9 8 (6.61%) Serverless
9 8 (6.61%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.13%) OCI
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.31%) dbt
11 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.92%) Broadband
2 3 (2.48%) Modbus
2 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) 4G
3 1 (0.83%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (44.63%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (26.45%) Power BI
3 16 (13.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (12.40%) Delta Lake
4 15 (12.40%) Metadata
5 13 (10.74%) Tableau
6 12 (9.92%) BigQuery
6 12 (9.92%) SAP BW
7 9 (7.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 8 (6.61%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (4.13%) Big Data
10 5 (4.13%) Data Mining
10 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.13%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (11.57%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) MLflow
3 1 (0.83%) git-flow
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (42.15%) Finance
2 37 (30.58%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.96%) Banking
7 5 (4.13%) Retail
8 4 (3.31%) Law
9 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Billing
11 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (42.98%) Data Engineer
2 21 (17.36%) Senior
3 15 (12.40%) Senior Data Engineer
4 14 (11.57%) Architect
4 14 (11.57%) Lead
5 13 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Analyst
6 8 (6.61%) Data Manager
7 6 (4.96%) Financial Analyst
7 6 (4.96%) Principal Data Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Consultant
8 5 (4.13%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Report Analyst
9 4 (3.31%) Senior Architect
9 4 (3.31%) Service Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.88%) PySpark
2 12 (9.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.79%) EDI
3 7 (5.79%) Kafka
4 5 (4.13%) .NET
5 4 (3.31%) REST
6 3 (2.48%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.48%) gRPC
7 2 (1.65%) Pandas
8 1 (0.83%) ADO
8 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.83%) NumPy
8 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.40%) Data Structures
3 12 (9.92%) Social Media
4 8 (6.61%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.79%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.13%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (4.13%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.83%) Replication
10 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.85%) ETL
2 66 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 55 (45.45%) Analytics
4 54 (44.63%) Data Pipeline
5 51 (42.15%) Data Engineering
6 41 (33.88%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (31.40%) Agile
8 35 (28.93%) CI/CD
8 35 (28.93%) Data Governance
8 35 (28.93%) DevOps
9 30 (24.79%) Data Integration
10 27 (22.31%) Data Science
11 25 (20.66%) Data Architecture
12 24 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (19.01%) AI
14 20 (16.53%) Decision-Making
15 19 (15.70%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (14.88%) Mentoring
17 17 (14.05%) Data Strategy
17 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 76 (62.81%) SQL
2 55 (45.45%) Python
3 13 (10.74%) Scala
4 8 (6.61%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.96%) C#
6 5 (4.13%) Bicep
6 5 (4.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.65%) Java
8 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.83%) R
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (5.79%) CITP
1 7 (5.79%) Degree
2 3 (2.48%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (33.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.48%) GDPR
2 3 (2.48%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.65%) IFRS
3 2 (1.65%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (15.70%) Terraform
2 4 (3.31%) Grafana
3 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (41.32%) Databricks
2 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
3 17 (14.05%) Oracle
4 13 (10.74%) SAP
5 9 (7.44%) Google
6 8 (6.61%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.79%) Planon
8 4 (3.31%) Informatica