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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 140 206
Rank change year-on-year -132 +66 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 122 330 492
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.45% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.30% 10.12% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 90 301 444
10th Percentile £47,425 £56,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £61,750 £70,097 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +19.44% +12.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 2,300 3,260 7,226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.70% 24.21% 22.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 2,405 6,222
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,101
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
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 30 April 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 13 (10.66%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.20%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.56%) Apache
4 3 (2.46%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.46%) SAS
5 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.46%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 80 (65.57%) Azure
2 44 (36.07%) Azure Data Factory
3 37 (30.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (27.87%) Power Platform
5 26 (21.31%) AWS
6 20 (16.39%) GCP
7 18 (14.75%) GitHub
8 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (7.38%) SaaS
9 9 (7.38%) Snowflake
10 8 (6.56%) Serverless
11 6 (4.92%) OCI
12 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.10%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.28%) dbt
13 4 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.46%) Azure Functions
14 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) Broadband
2 3 (2.46%) Modbus
2 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.82%) 4G
3 1 (0.82%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (45.08%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (26.23%) Power BI
3 18 (14.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (13.11%) Metadata
5 15 (12.30%) Delta Lake
6 13 (10.66%) Tableau
7 12 (9.84%) BigQuery
7 12 (9.84%) SAP BW
8 10 (8.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 8 (6.56%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
11 5 (4.10%) Data Mining
11 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
12 4 (3.28%) Big Data
12 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (10.66%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) MLflow
3 1 (0.82%) git-flow
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) JIRA
General
1 55 (45.08%) Finance
2 38 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.74%) Banking
7 5 (4.10%) Law
7 5 (4.10%) Retail
8 4 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.46%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.82%) Billing
11 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Front Office
11 1 (0.82%) Marketing
11 1 (0.82%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (43.44%) Data Engineer
2 24 (19.67%) Senior
3 17 (13.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 15 (12.30%) Architect
5 14 (11.48%) Lead
6 12 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) Data Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Principal Data Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Consultant
9 5 (4.10%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Report Analyst
11 3 (2.46%) Service Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.93%) PySpark
2 12 (9.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.74%) EDI
3 7 (5.74%) Kafka
4 4 (3.28%) .NET
4 4 (3.28%) REST
5 3 (2.46%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.46%) gRPC
6 2 (1.64%) Pandas
7 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.82%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.82%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.11%) Data Structures
3 12 (9.84%) Social Media
4 7 (5.74%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.92%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.46%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.82%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (56.56%) Data Modelling
1 69 (56.56%) ETL
2 56 (45.90%) Analytics
3 55 (45.08%) Data Pipeline
4 52 (42.62%) Data Engineering
5 41 (33.61%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (31.97%) Agile
7 35 (28.69%) CI/CD
7 35 (28.69%) Data Governance
7 35 (28.69%) DevOps
8 31 (25.41%) Data Integration
9 27 (22.13%) Data Science
10 26 (21.31%) Data Architecture
11 23 (18.85%) AI
11 23 (18.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (15.57%) Mentoring
12 19 (15.57%) Translating Business Requirements
13 18 (14.75%) Decision-Making
14 17 (13.93%) Coaching
14 17 (13.93%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 77 (63.11%) SQL
2 51 (41.80%) Python
3 13 (10.66%) Scala
4 9 (7.38%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.10%) Bicep
6 4 (3.28%) C#
6 4 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.64%) Java
8 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (5.74%) CITP
2 5 (4.10%) Degree
3 3 (2.46%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (33.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.46%) GDPR
2 3 (2.46%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.64%) IFRS
3 2 (1.64%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (15.57%) Terraform
2 3 (2.46%) Grafana
3 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (43.44%) Databricks
2 30 (24.59%) Microsoft
3 18 (14.75%) Oracle
4 13 (10.66%) SAP
5 9 (7.38%) Google
6 8 (6.56%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.74%) Planon
8 3 (2.46%) Informatica