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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 209 167
Rank change year-on-year -96 -42 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 116 261 655
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 1.76% 1.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.60% 7.98% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 81 220 604
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,750 £70,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +37.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £155,665
UK median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% -5.71% +9.38%

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 2,521 3,270 7,401
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.10% 22.03% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,923 2,181 6,233
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 £79,614 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £101,250
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 4 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 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (9.48%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.03%) Apache
4 4 (3.45%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.17%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.31%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.59%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.86%) HFM
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 70 (60.34%) Azure
2 37 (31.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (27.59%) Power Platform
4 31 (26.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (22.41%) AWS
6 24 (20.69%) GCP
7 13 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.21%) GitHub
8 8 (6.90%) Snowflake
9 7 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (6.03%) OCI
9 7 (6.03%) Serverless
10 6 (5.17%) dbt
11 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (4.31%) SaaS
12 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.45%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.21%) Broadband
2 3 (2.59%) Modbus
2 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) 4G
3 1 (0.86%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (37.93%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (25.86%) Power BI
3 15 (12.93%) Metadata
4 14 (12.07%) BigQuery
4 14 (12.07%) Tableau
5 13 (11.21%) Delta Lake
6 12 (10.34%) SAP BW
7 11 (9.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (8.62%) Semantic Layer
9 8 (6.90%) Big Data
10 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
11 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
12 4 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.45%) Data Mining
12 4 (3.45%) DynamoDB
13 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Git
2 2 (1.72%) GitLab
2 2 (1.72%) MLflow
2 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 47 (40.52%) Finance
2 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.17%) Banking
6 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Law
8 2 (1.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.86%) Billing
9 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Front Office
9 1 (0.86%) Marketing
9 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (42.24%) Data Engineer
2 18 (15.52%) Senior
3 16 (13.79%) Architect
3 16 (13.79%) Lead
4 12 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (9.48%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.90%) Principal Data Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Financial Analyst
7 6 (5.17%) Service Owner
8 5 (4.31%) Data Manager
8 5 (4.31%) Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Lead Data Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Consultant
9 4 (3.45%) Report Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Senior Architect
9 4 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.59%) CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.24%) PySpark
2 12 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (6.90%) Kafka
4 7 (6.03%) .NET
4 7 (6.03%) EDI
5 4 (3.45%) REST
6 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.59%) ADO
6 3 (2.59%) gRPC
6 3 (2.59%) XML
7 2 (1.72%) Pandas
8 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.86%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.07%) Data Structures
3 12 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 12 (10.34%) Social Media
4 7 (6.03%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.17%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (5.17%) Reference Data
6 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.72%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.86%) FMCG
9 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.86%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (53.45%) Data Modelling
2 61 (52.59%) ETL
3 50 (43.10%) Analytics
4 48 (41.38%) Data Pipeline
5 47 (40.52%) Data Engineering
6 41 (35.34%) Business Intelligence
7 34 (29.31%) Agile
7 34 (29.31%) Data Governance
8 32 (27.59%) CI/CD
9 28 (24.14%) DevOps
10 27 (23.28%) Data Architecture
11 26 (22.41%) Data Integration
12 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (20.69%) AI
14 23 (19.83%) Data Science
15 21 (18.10%) Mentoring
16 20 (17.24%) ERP
17 19 (16.38%) Decision-Making
18 18 (15.52%) Translating Business Requirements
19 17 (14.66%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (61.21%) SQL
2 57 (49.14%) Python
3 11 (9.48%) Scala
4 8 (6.90%) C#
5 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.45%) Bicep
7 4 (3.45%) Java
8 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.72%) Bash
9 2 (1.72%) VBA
10 1 (0.86%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (7.76%) Degree
2 7 (6.03%) CITP
3 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) MCT
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.86%) PhD
6 1 (0.86%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 3 (2.59%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.72%) IFRS
4 2 (1.72%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (16.38%) Terraform
2 4 (3.45%) Grafana
3 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (36.21%) Databricks
2 26 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 19 (16.38%) Oracle
4 13 (11.21%) SAP
5 12 (10.34%) Google
6 8 (6.90%) Salesforce
7 7 (6.03%) Planon
8 4 (3.45%) Informatica
9 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.86%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.86%) IBM