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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 131 242
Rank change year-on-year -124 +111 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 137 373 354
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 2.57% 1.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.38% 9.60% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 113 335 290
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,501 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,097 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £100,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +50.94% -17.19%
75th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £88,438
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £81,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +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 2,147 3,885 6,840
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.82% 26.75% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,386 5,865
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,052 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
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 6 March 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 18 (13.14%) Apache
1 18 (13.14%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.22%) Apache Spark
3 8 (5.84%) SAS
4 3 (2.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 94 (68.61%) Azure
2 52 (37.96%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (29.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 38 (27.74%) AWS
5 30 (21.90%) Power Platform
6 24 (17.52%) Snowflake
7 23 (16.79%) SaaS
8 22 (16.06%) GitHub
9 20 (14.60%) GCP
10 18 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (8.03%) dbt
12 10 (7.30%) Amazon S3
12 10 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (7.30%) Serverless
13 9 (6.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (5.11%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.92%) Alation
15 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (2.92%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) Modbus
1 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (55.47%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (21.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 30 (21.90%) Power BI
3 20 (14.60%) Metadata
4 17 (12.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 15 (10.95%) Delta Lake
6 14 (10.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (10.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (9.49%) BigQuery
8 12 (8.76%) Data Mining
9 11 (8.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (7.30%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (5.11%) Apache Iceberg
11 7 (5.11%) Data Vault
12 6 (4.38%) Apache Arrow
12 6 (4.38%) Apache Ignite
12 6 (4.38%) Dremio
12 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
12 6 (4.38%) Tableau
13 5 (3.65%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.92%) ERwin
2 4 (2.92%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.73%) git-flow
4 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.73%) JIRA
General
1 60 (43.80%) Finance
2 27 (19.71%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.41%) Retail
5 15 (10.95%) Banking
6 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.11%) Front Office
8 6 (4.38%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.38%) Law
8 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.92%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.19%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.19%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.46%) Legal
12 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (44.53%) Data Engineer
2 41 (29.93%) Senior
3 24 (17.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (16.79%) Architect
5 17 (12.41%) Data Manager
6 15 (10.95%) Data Architect
7 12 (8.76%) Senior Architect
8 10 (7.30%) Azure Architect
9 9 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Azure Data Architect
11 7 (5.11%) Lead
11 7 (5.11%) Senior Data Architect
11 7 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.38%) Java Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Python Software Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.41%) PySpark
2 8 (5.84%) gRPC
3 7 (5.11%) Kafka
3 7 (5.11%) NumPy
3 7 (5.11%) Pandas
4 6 (4.38%) Protocol Buffers
4 6 (4.38%) SciPy
5 5 (3.65%) EDI
6 3 (2.19%) .NET
6 3 (2.19%) REST
7 2 (1.46%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.73%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.73%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.73%) Middleware
8 1 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.30%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.11%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.11%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.38%) Derivative
4 6 (4.38%) Equities
4 6 (4.38%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.38%) Pricing Data
5 4 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.92%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.19%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.19%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (54.01%) Data Modelling
2 73 (53.28%) ETL
3 69 (50.36%) Analytics
4 63 (45.99%) Data Engineering
5 58 (42.34%) Agile
6 55 (40.15%) Data Pipeline
7 41 (29.93%) Data Governance
7 41 (29.93%) DevOps
8 40 (29.20%) CI/CD
8 40 (29.20%) Data Science
9 38 (27.74%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (27.01%) Data Integration
11 30 (21.90%) Data Architecture
12 29 (21.17%) Mentoring
13 26 (18.98%) Coaching
13 26 (18.98%) Data Strategy
14 25 (18.25%) AI
15 24 (17.52%) Decision-Making
16 22 (16.06%) Data Management
17 21 (15.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 96 (70.07%) SQL
2 54 (39.42%) Python
3 14 (10.22%) Scala
4 13 (9.49%) T-SQL
5 8 (5.84%) Java
6 6 (4.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.38%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.19%) Bicep
7 3 (2.19%) C#
7 3 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.73%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (6.57%) Degree
2 6 (4.38%) Azure Certification
2 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.38%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.65%) CITP
4 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.46%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (37.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.46%) GDPR
2 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (16.06%) Terraform
2 4 (2.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (54.74%) Databricks
2 27 (19.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.57%) Google
4 7 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.38%) Informatica
6 5 (3.65%) Planon
7 4 (2.92%) IBM
8 3 (2.19%) Oracle
9 1 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) SAP