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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 135 242
Rank change year-on-year -123 +107 -19
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 131 355 360
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 2.61% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.05% 9.59% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 110 325 293
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,168 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,097 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £97,290
90th Percentile £118,875 £152,500 £112,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 2,164 3,700 7,073
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.81% 27.25% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 2,447 6,053
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -9.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 17 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 17 (12.98%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (9.92%) Apache
3 11 (8.40%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.58%) SAS
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 91 (69.47%) Azure
2 50 (38.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (31.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (25.95%) AWS
5 27 (20.61%) Power Platform
6 22 (16.79%) GitHub
6 22 (16.79%) SaaS
6 22 (16.79%) Snowflake
7 21 (16.03%) GCP
8 18 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (6.87%) dbt
10 8 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (6.11%) Serverless
11 7 (5.34%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.34%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (3.82%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (3.05%) Alation
14 3 (2.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Modbus
1 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (54.96%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (21.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (20.61%) Power BI
4 21 (16.03%) Metadata
5 16 (12.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 15 (11.45%) BigQuery
7 14 (10.69%) Delta Lake
8 12 (9.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (9.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (8.40%) Data Mining
10 9 (6.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
12 6 (4.58%) Data Vault
12 6 (4.58%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
13 5 (3.82%) Tableau
14 4 (3.05%) Apache Arrow
14 4 (3.05%) Apache Ignite
14 4 (3.05%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) Git
2 4 (3.05%) ER Studio
2 4 (3.05%) ERwin
2 4 (3.05%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.53%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) git-flow
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 56 (42.75%) Finance
2 24 (18.32%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (12.21%) Retail
5 13 (9.92%) Banking
6 9 (6.87%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.34%) Law
7 7 (5.34%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.82%) Front Office
9 4 (3.05%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.05%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.29%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.53%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (45.04%) Data Engineer
2 37 (28.24%) Senior
3 24 (18.32%) Architect
4 22 (16.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (11.45%) Data Architect
6 13 (9.92%) Data Manager
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Architect
8 10 (7.63%) Lead
9 9 (6.87%) Azure Architect
9 9 (6.87%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.34%) Azure Data Architect
11 7 (5.34%) Principal Data Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Senior Data Architect
13 5 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) DBA
13 5 (3.82%) SQL DBA
14 4 (3.05%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.21%) PySpark
2 7 (5.34%) gRPC
3 6 (4.58%) Kafka
4 5 (3.82%) EDI
4 5 (3.82%) NumPy
4 5 (3.82%) Pandas
5 4 (3.05%) .NET
5 4 (3.05%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (3.05%) REST
5 4 (3.05%) SciPy
6 3 (2.29%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.76%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.34%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.82%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.05%) Derivative
5 4 (3.05%) Equities
5 4 (3.05%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.05%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.05%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.29%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.29%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.96%) ETL
2 71 (54.20%) Data Modelling
3 68 (51.91%) Analytics
4 60 (45.80%) Data Engineering
5 53 (40.46%) Agile
6 51 (38.93%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (30.53%) DevOps
8 39 (29.77%) CI/CD
9 38 (29.01%) Data Governance
9 38 (29.01%) Data Science
10 37 (28.24%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (28.24%) Data Integration
11 29 (22.14%) Data Architecture
12 27 (20.61%) AI
12 27 (20.61%) Mentoring
13 25 (19.08%) Coaching
13 25 (19.08%) Decision-Making
14 23 (17.56%) Data Strategy
14 23 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (16.03%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (70.99%) SQL
2 52 (39.69%) Python
3 13 (9.92%) T-SQL
4 12 (9.16%) Scala
5 5 (3.82%) Java
6 4 (3.05%) C#
6 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.29%) Bicep
8 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.58%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.82%) CITP
4 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.29%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (36.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (17.56%) Terraform
2 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 73 (55.73%) Databricks
2 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.40%) Google
4 6 (4.58%) Informatica
4 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.82%) Planon
6 4 (3.05%) IBM
7 3 (2.29%) Oracle
8 1 (0.76%) SAP