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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 197 165
Rank change year-on-year -105 -32 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 118 273 619
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 1.87% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.66% 8.43% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 82 232 569
10th Percentile £53,875 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,750 £70,097 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% - +37.00%
75th Percentile £95,938 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £155,665
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -8.05% -0.57% +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 2,533 3,237 7,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.22% 22.20% 22.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 2,141 6,237
10th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £100,000
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 28 May 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 (13.56%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.63%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.08%) Apache
4 3 (2.54%) SAS
5 2 (1.69%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.08%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.24%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.85%) HFM
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 72 (61.02%) Azure
2 40 (33.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 35 (29.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 31 (26.27%) Power Platform
5 26 (22.03%) AWS
6 24 (20.34%) GCP
7 16 (13.56%) GitHub
8 15 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.63%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (7.63%) Snowflake
10 7 (5.93%) OCI
10 7 (5.93%) Serverless
11 6 (5.08%) dbt
12 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (4.24%) SaaS
13 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.39%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
14 3 (2.54%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.02%) Broadband
2 3 (2.54%) Modbus
2 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) 4G
3 1 (0.85%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (38.14%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (24.58%) Power BI
3 16 (13.56%) Metadata
4 15 (12.71%) Delta Lake
5 14 (11.86%) BigQuery
5 14 (11.86%) Tableau
6 13 (11.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (10.17%) SAP BW
8 10 (8.47%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (5.08%) Big Data
9 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (4.24%) Data Mining
10 5 (4.24%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
11 4 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.54%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Git
2 2 (1.69%) MLflow
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (44.07%) Finance
2 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.93%) Banking
7 5 (4.24%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Law
9 2 (1.69%) Retail
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (44.92%) Data Engineer
2 18 (15.25%) Senior
3 16 (13.56%) Architect
4 15 (12.71%) Lead
5 13 (11.02%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (9.32%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Analyst
7 8 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Principal Data Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.08%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (5.08%) Service Owner
9 5 (4.24%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Consultant
10 4 (3.39%) Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Report Analyst
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.95%) PySpark
2 12 (10.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (6.78%) Kafka
4 7 (5.93%) EDI
5 6 (5.08%) .NET
6 4 (3.39%) REST
7 3 (2.54%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.54%) gRPC
8 2 (1.69%) ADO
8 2 (1.69%) Pandas
8 2 (1.69%) XML
9 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.85%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.86%) Data Structures
3 12 (10.17%) Social Media
4 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.93%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.08%) Reference Data
7 5 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.69%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.85%) FMCG
11 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.85%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (55.08%) Data Modelling
1 65 (55.08%) ETL
2 54 (45.76%) Analytics
3 51 (43.22%) Data Pipeline
4 48 (40.68%) Data Engineering
5 40 (33.90%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (31.36%) Data Governance
7 35 (29.66%) CI/CD
8 32 (27.12%) Agile
9 30 (25.42%) DevOps
10 28 (23.73%) Data Architecture
11 27 (22.88%) Data Integration
12 26 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (20.34%) AI
13 24 (20.34%) Data Science
14 20 (16.95%) ERP
14 20 (16.95%) Mentoring
15 19 (16.10%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (15.25%) Decision-Making
16 18 (15.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 73 (61.86%) SQL
2 58 (49.15%) Python
3 13 (11.02%) Scala
4 7 (5.93%) C#
4 7 (5.93%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.39%) Bicep
7 3 (2.54%) Java
8 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) R
9 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (7.63%) Degree
2 7 (5.93%) CITP
3 4 (3.39%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.39%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) MCT
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.85%) PhD
6 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (33.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.54%) GDPR
2 3 (2.54%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.69%) IFRS
3 2 (1.69%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (6.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (16.95%) Terraform
2 4 (3.39%) Grafana
3 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (36.44%) Databricks
2 26 (22.03%) Microsoft
3 19 (16.10%) Oracle
4 13 (11.02%) SAP
5 12 (10.17%) Google
6 8 (6.78%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.93%) Planon
8 4 (3.39%) Informatica
9 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.85%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.85%) IBM