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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 237 80
Rank change year-on-year -84 -157 +102
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 135 202 829
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 1.22% 3.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.28% 6.64% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 99 170 786
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,250 £68,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.35% +48.39%
75th Percentile £91,250 £117,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £113,200 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year - -27.91% +38.71%

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 3,157 3,041 5,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.84% 18.35% 20.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,528 2,065 3,903
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,489 £46,250 £47,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,091 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -2.94% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,789
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 15 August 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 14 (10.37%) Apache Spark
2 12 (8.89%) Apache
2 12 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.70%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (4.44%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (2.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.74%) HFM
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 79 (58.52%) Azure
2 47 (34.81%) Power Platform
3 27 (20.00%) AWS
3 27 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (17.04%) GCP
5 17 (12.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (8.15%) GitHub
8 9 (6.67%) dbt
9 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.19%) OCI
11 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.44%) Collibra
11 6 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (4.44%) Serverless
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.96%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.63%) Broadband
2 3 (2.22%) Modbus
2 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) 4G
3 1 (0.74%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (45.19%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (33.33%) Power BI
3 21 (15.56%) SQL Server
4 19 (14.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (12.59%) Tableau
6 15 (11.11%) Metadata
7 12 (8.89%) SAP BW
8 11 (8.15%) Big Data
9 10 (7.41%) Delta Lake
10 7 (5.19%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.70%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.96%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.63%) Git
2 3 (2.22%) GitLab
3 2 (1.48%) MLflow
3 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 45 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 42 (31.11%) Finance
3 20 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.67%) Banking
5 9 (6.67%) Retail
6 8 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.44%) Marketing
8 5 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.96%) Legal
10 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.48%) Billing
11 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.48%) Local Government
12 1 (0.74%) Law
12 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (38.52%) Data Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) Architect
3 23 (17.04%) Lead
4 18 (13.33%) Senior
5 16 (11.85%) Data Architect
6 15 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Analyst
9 9 (6.67%) Developer
9 9 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.93%) Financial Analyst
11 6 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Service Owner
12 5 (3.70%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.70%) Data Manager
13 4 (2.96%) Consultant
13 4 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.33%) PySpark
2 12 (8.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.19%) Kafka
4 6 (4.44%) .NET
5 5 (3.70%) JSON
5 5 (3.70%) XML
6 4 (2.96%) Django
6 4 (2.96%) FastAPI
6 4 (2.96%) Flask
6 4 (2.96%) Middleware
6 4 (2.96%) Node.js
6 4 (2.96%) React
6 4 (2.96%) REST
7 3 (2.22%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.22%) ADO
7 3 (2.22%) gRPC
8 2 (1.48%) EDI
8 2 (1.48%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.89%) Social Media
4 6 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.44%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.70%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.48%) Blog
8 2 (1.48%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (52.59%) Analytics
2 62 (45.93%) Data Pipeline
3 58 (42.96%) Data Modelling
4 55 (40.74%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (39.26%) Data Engineering
5 53 (39.26%) ETL
6 43 (31.85%) Data Architecture
7 41 (30.37%) AI
8 37 (27.41%) CI/CD
9 36 (26.67%) Agile
10 34 (25.19%) Decision-Making
11 33 (24.44%) Data Governance
12 30 (22.22%) Data Science
13 28 (20.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (19.26%) ERP
15 22 (16.30%) Data Integration
15 22 (16.30%) DevOps
16 21 (15.56%) Data Strategy
17 20 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
17 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 79 (58.52%) SQL
2 63 (46.67%) Python
3 8 (5.93%) C#
4 7 (5.19%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.96%) Java
6 4 (2.96%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.22%) Bash
7 3 (2.22%) Bicep
7 3 (2.22%) R
8 2 (1.48%) Scala
8 2 (1.48%) VBA
9 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.15%) Degree
2 11 (8.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.48%) CITP
6 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) MCT
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.74%) PhD
7 1 (0.74%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.67%) GDPR
3 6 (4.44%) QA
4 4 (2.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.22%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.48%) IFRS
6 2 (1.48%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (12.59%) Terraform
2 8 (5.93%) Grafana
3 2 (1.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (40.74%) Databricks
2 53 (39.26%) Microsoft
3 23 (17.04%) Oracle
4 18 (13.33%) SAP
5 10 (7.41%) Google
6 7 (5.19%) Informatica
7 6 (4.44%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.96%) Epicor
8 4 (2.96%) IFS
8 4 (2.96%) Infor
9 2 (1.48%) Planon
10 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.74%) Foundry
10 1 (0.74%) HP
10 1 (0.74%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.74%) IBM
10 1 (0.74%) OpenAI