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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 128 180
Rank change year-on-year -74 +52 +97
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 178 434 384
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.18% 2.60% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.42% 10.44% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 156 395 256
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £100,000 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +48.70% -10.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.22% +24.14% -5.07%

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 2,113 4,156 5,173
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.06% 24.92% 24.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,578 2,497 4,184
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,202 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,250 £92,850
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 4 January 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 46 (25.84%) Apache
2 42 (23.60%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (7.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.81%) SAS
5 3 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 103 (57.87%) Azure
2 71 (39.89%) AWS
3 52 (29.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 49 (27.53%) Snowflake
5 43 (24.16%) Power Platform
6 42 (23.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (21.91%) dbt
8 31 (17.42%) SaaS
9 21 (11.80%) GitHub
10 19 (10.67%) GCP
11 17 (9.55%) Amazon S3
12 15 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (7.87%) Serverless
14 11 (6.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (3.93%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
18 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Purview
19 4 (2.25%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (47.19%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (23.03%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (23.03%) Power BI
3 34 (19.10%) Apache Iceberg
4 33 (18.54%) Apache Arrow
4 33 (18.54%) Apache Ignite
4 33 (18.54%) Dremio
5 32 (17.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (11.80%) Metadata
7 19 (10.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 14 (7.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (7.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (7.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (7.30%) Data Mining
9 13 (7.30%) Data Vault
10 12 (6.74%) Delta Lake
11 8 (4.49%) BigQuery
12 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
12 6 (3.37%) Tableau
13 5 (2.81%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 11 (6.18%) Git
2 4 (2.25%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.25%) ERwin
2 4 (2.25%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) git-flow
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 95 (53.37%) Finance
2 41 (23.03%) Banking
3 34 (19.10%) Front Office
3 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
4 33 (18.54%) Investment Banking
5 19 (10.67%) Retail
6 17 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.93%) Law
9 5 (2.81%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.25%) Legal
10 4 (2.25%) Marketing
10 4 (2.25%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.25%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.25%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.69%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 78 (43.82%) Senior
2 67 (37.64%) Data Engineer
3 35 (19.66%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (19.66%) Python Engineer
4 33 (18.54%) AWS Software Engineer
4 33 (18.54%) Java Engineer
4 33 (18.54%) Java Software Engineer
4 33 (18.54%) Python Software Engineer
4 33 (18.54%) Software Engineer
5 31 (17.42%) Senior Java Engineer
5 31 (17.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 31 (17.42%) Senior Software Engineer
6 29 (16.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 23 (12.92%) Architect
8 19 (10.67%) Data Architect
9 16 (8.99%) Azure Architect
10 15 (8.43%) Data Manager
11 12 (6.74%) Azure Data Architect
12 11 (6.18%) Lead
13 10 (5.62%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.66%) NumPy
1 35 (19.66%) Pandas
2 33 (18.54%) gRPC
2 33 (18.54%) Protocol Buffers
2 33 (18.54%) SciPy
3 15 (8.43%) PySpark
4 6 (3.37%) Kafka
5 3 (1.69%) EDI
6 2 (1.12%) Middleware
6 2 (1.12%) XML
7 1 (0.56%) .NET
7 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.56%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.10%) Hedge funds
2 33 (18.54%) Derivative
2 33 (18.54%) Equities
2 33 (18.54%) Fixed Income
2 33 (18.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (18.54%) Pricing Data
3 19 (10.67%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.25%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.69%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.12%) Agile
2 82 (46.07%) Data Modelling
3 77 (43.26%) ETL
4 74 (41.57%) Analytics
5 69 (38.76%) Data Engineering
6 60 (33.71%) Data Pipeline
7 45 (25.28%) Business Intelligence
7 45 (25.28%) Data Science
8 43 (24.16%) Asset Management
9 40 (22.47%) Data Integration
10 39 (21.91%) CI/CD
11 38 (21.35%) Data Governance
11 38 (21.35%) DevOps
12 37 (20.79%) Mentoring
13 33 (18.54%) Investment Management
13 33 (18.54%) Software Engineering
14 29 (16.29%) AI
15 28 (15.73%) Coaching
16 27 (15.17%) Data Strategy
17 26 (14.61%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 107 (60.11%) SQL
2 86 (48.31%) Python
3 41 (23.03%) Java
4 33 (18.54%) JavaScript
4 33 (18.54%) TypeScript
5 17 (9.55%) Scala
6 13 (7.30%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.25%) Bicep
9 1 (0.56%) C#
9 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
2 7 (3.93%) Degree
3 6 (3.37%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.37%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.69%) CITP
7 2 (1.12%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (27.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (4.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (12.92%) Terraform
2 5 (2.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 86 (48.31%) Databricks
2 31 (17.42%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.62%) Google
4 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.25%) IBM
5 4 (2.25%) Informatica
6 3 (1.69%) Oracle
6 3 (1.69%) Planon
7 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud