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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 87 190
Rank change year-on-year -110 +103 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 181 651 382
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.19% 3.27% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.86% 14.18% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 168 617 241
10th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £107,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +52.32% -5.90%
75th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £84,250 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.32% +26.67% -

All Database and 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 2,302 4,590 5,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.15% 23.08% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,766 2,821 4,194
10th Percentile £35,625 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -0.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 25 November 2025.

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 71 (39.23%) Apache
2 61 (33.70%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (7.73%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.76%) SAS
5 3 (1.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 92 (50.83%) AWS
2 87 (48.07%) Azure
3 69 (38.12%) Snowflake
4 61 (33.70%) dbt
5 46 (25.41%) Power Platform
6 35 (19.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (16.57%) SaaS
8 27 (14.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (9.39%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.39%) GCP
10 15 (8.29%) Serverless
11 14 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (6.63%) GitHub
13 11 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
16 4 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.66%) VPN
2 2 (1.10%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (39.23%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (35.91%) Amazon Athena
3 57 (31.49%) Apache Arrow
3 57 (31.49%) Apache Iceberg
3 57 (31.49%) Apache Ignite
3 57 (31.49%) Dremio
4 42 (23.20%) Power BI
5 28 (15.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (10.50%) Metadata
7 16 (8.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 14 (7.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (7.73%) Data Vault
8 14 (7.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (7.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.42%) Data Mining
11 6 (3.31%) Delta Lake
11 6 (3.31%) Tableau
12 5 (2.76%) SAS EBI
12 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.21%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Git
2 4 (2.21%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.21%) ERwin
2 4 (2.21%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.10%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) git-flow
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 103 (56.91%) Finance
2 64 (35.36%) Banking
3 57 (31.49%) Front Office
3 57 (31.49%) Investment Banking
4 36 (19.89%) Social Skills
5 21 (11.60%) Retail
6 12 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.31%) Law
9 5 (2.76%) Legal
9 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.76%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.21%) Marketing
10 4 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.21%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.66%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.66%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.55%) Billing
12 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 103 (56.91%) Senior
2 59 (32.60%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (31.49%) AWS Software Engineer
3 57 (31.49%) Java Engineer
3 57 (31.49%) Java Software Engineer
3 57 (31.49%) Python Engineer
3 57 (31.49%) Python Software Engineer
3 57 (31.49%) Software Engineer
4 55 (30.39%) Senior Java Engineer
4 55 (30.39%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 55 (30.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 51 (28.18%) Data Engineer
6 29 (16.02%) Senior Data Engineer
7 27 (14.92%) Architect
8 22 (12.15%) Data Architect
9 18 (9.94%) Azure Architect
10 14 (7.73%) Azure Data Architect
11 12 (6.63%) Data Manager
12 10 (5.52%) Senior Architect
13 9 (4.97%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (32.04%) NumPy
1 58 (32.04%) Pandas
2 57 (31.49%) gRPC
2 57 (31.49%) Protocol Buffers
2 57 (31.49%) SciPy
3 7 (3.87%) PySpark
4 4 (2.21%) Kafka
5 3 (1.66%) XML
6 2 (1.10%) Middleware
7 1 (0.55%) .NET
7 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.55%) JSON
7 1 (0.55%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 57 (31.49%) Derivative
1 57 (31.49%) Equities
1 57 (31.49%) Fixed Income
1 57 (31.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 57 (31.49%) Hedge funds
1 57 (31.49%) Pricing Data
2 15 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.97%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.76%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.66%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.66%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (58.01%) Agile
2 69 (38.12%) Data Modelling
3 63 (34.81%) Asset Management
4 62 (34.25%) ETL
5 59 (32.60%) Analytics
6 58 (32.04%) Data Engineering
7 57 (31.49%) Investment Management
7 57 (31.49%) Software Engineering
8 48 (26.52%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (26.52%) Data Pipeline
9 39 (21.55%) Mentoring
10 38 (20.99%) Data Science
11 32 (17.68%) Data Integration
12 30 (16.57%) CI/CD
13 28 (15.47%) DevOps
14 26 (14.36%) AI
14 26 (14.36%) Data Governance
15 25 (13.81%) Data Strategy
16 23 (12.71%) Coaching
16 23 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 94 (51.93%) Python
2 89 (49.17%) SQL
3 65 (35.91%) Java
4 57 (31.49%) JavaScript
4 57 (31.49%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.08%) Scala
6 10 (5.52%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.76%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) C#
9 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (4.42%) AWS Certification
2 8 (4.42%) Azure Certification
2 8 (4.42%) DBS Check
3 7 (3.87%) Degree
4 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.10%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.55%) PhD
7 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.89%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.76%) GDPR
3 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (3.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (9.39%) Terraform
2 4 (2.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 71 (39.23%) Databricks
2 33 (18.23%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.97%) Google
4 5 (2.76%) Oracle
5 4 (2.21%) IBM
5 4 (2.21%) Informatica
6 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) SAP
8 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) VMware