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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 208 156
Rank change year-on-year -105 -52 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 111 258 703
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 1.71% 2.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.26% 7.86% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 78 216 656
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,938 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% - +37.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £155,665
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% -8.33% +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 2,604 3,283 7,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.26% 21.72% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,000 2,199 6,274
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,760 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 11 June 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 16 (14.41%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (9.91%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.31%) Apache
4 4 (3.60%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.41%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.50%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.90%) HFM
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 65 (58.56%) Azure
2 33 (29.73%) Azure Data Factory
2 33 (29.73%) Power Platform
3 27 (24.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 26 (23.42%) AWS
5 24 (21.62%) GCP
6 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.91%) GitHub
8 7 (6.31%) OCI
8 7 (6.31%) Serverless
8 7 (6.31%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (5.41%) dbt
10 5 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (4.50%) SaaS
11 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.60%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.71%) Broadband
2 3 (2.70%) Modbus
2 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) 4G
3 1 (0.90%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (37.84%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (27.93%) Power BI
3 14 (12.61%) BigQuery
3 14 (12.61%) Metadata
3 14 (12.61%) Tableau
4 12 (10.81%) Delta Lake
4 12 (10.81%) SAP BW
5 10 (9.01%) Semantic Layer
6 9 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (7.21%) Big Data
8 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.80%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (1.80%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.80%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Git
2 2 (1.80%) GitLab
2 2 (1.80%) MLflow
2 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 44 (39.64%) Finance
2 35 (31.53%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.31%) Banking
7 5 (4.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.90%) Front Office
10 1 (0.90%) Law
10 1 (0.90%) Marketing
10 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (41.44%) Data Engineer
2 17 (15.32%) Lead
2 17 (15.32%) Senior
3 16 (14.41%) Architect
4 12 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Data Architect
6 8 (7.21%) Principal Data Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Service Owner
9 5 (4.50%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.50%) Developer
9 5 (4.50%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Consultant
10 4 (3.60%) Report Analyst
10 4 (3.60%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.70%) CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.12%) PySpark
2 12 (10.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (7.21%) Kafka
4 7 (6.31%) .NET
4 7 (6.31%) EDI
5 4 (3.60%) REST
6 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.70%) ADO
6 3 (2.70%) gRPC
6 3 (2.70%) XML
7 2 (1.80%) Pandas
8 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.90%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.71%) Data Structures
2 13 (11.71%) Product Ownership
3 12 (10.81%) Social Media
4 7 (6.31%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (5.41%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.80%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.90%) FMCG
9 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.90%) Replication
9 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (52.25%) Data Modelling
2 57 (51.35%) ETL
3 47 (42.34%) Data Pipeline
4 46 (41.44%) Data Engineering
5 45 (40.54%) Analytics
6 42 (37.84%) Business Intelligence
7 33 (29.73%) Agile
8 31 (27.93%) Data Governance
9 30 (27.03%) CI/CD
10 26 (23.42%) Data Architecture
10 26 (23.42%) DevOps
11 25 (22.52%) Data Integration
12 24 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (20.72%) AI
14 22 (19.82%) Data Science
15 21 (18.92%) Mentoring
16 20 (18.02%) ERP
17 18 (16.22%) Translating Business Requirements
18 17 (15.32%) Decision-Making
19 16 (14.41%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 66 (59.46%) SQL
2 55 (49.55%) Python
3 10 (9.01%) Scala
4 8 (7.21%) C#
5 5 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.60%) Bicep
6 4 (3.60%) Java
6 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.80%) Bash
8 2 (1.80%) VBA
9 1 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (8.11%) Degree
2 7 (6.31%) CITP
3 5 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.90%) MCT
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.90%) PhD
6 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.80%) IFRS
4 2 (1.80%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 8 (7.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.22%) Terraform
2 4 (3.60%) Grafana
3 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (36.04%) Databricks
2 24 (21.62%) Microsoft
3 19 (17.12%) Oracle
4 13 (11.71%) SAP
5 12 (10.81%) Google
6 8 (7.21%) Salesforce
7 7 (6.31%) Planon
8 4 (3.60%) Informatica
9 1 (0.90%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.90%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.90%) IBM