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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 92 184
Rank change year-on-year -113 +92 +89
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 179 608 365
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.17% 3.23% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.04% 13.53% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 162 574 231
10th Percentile £53,750 £64,125 £46,306
25th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 £107,500 £71,200
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +50.98% -5.07%
75th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -

All Database and 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 2,226 4,493 5,068
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.55% 23.89% 24.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,676 2,786 4,074
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,563 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -2.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,375 £122,500 £93,525
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -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 8 December 2025.

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 63 (35.20%) Apache
2 54 (30.17%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (7.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.79%) SAS
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 91 (50.84%) Azure
2 85 (47.49%) AWS
3 63 (35.20%) Snowflake
4 53 (29.61%) dbt
5 45 (25.14%) Power Platform
6 39 (21.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (18.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 30 (16.76%) SaaS
9 17 (9.50%) Amazon S3
10 16 (8.94%) GitHub
11 15 (8.38%) GCP
11 15 (8.38%) Serverless
12 14 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
17 4 (2.23%) Alation
17 4 (2.23%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) VPN
2 1 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (41.90%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (31.84%) Amazon Athena
3 49 (27.37%) Apache Arrow
3 49 (27.37%) Apache Iceberg
3 49 (27.37%) Apache Ignite
3 49 (27.37%) Dremio
4 41 (22.91%) Power BI
5 29 (16.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (11.17%) Metadata
7 16 (8.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 14 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (7.82%) Data Vault
8 14 (7.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (7.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (5.59%) Data Mining
11 8 (4.47%) Delta Lake
12 6 (3.35%) Tableau
13 5 (2.79%) SAS EBI
13 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
14 4 (2.23%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Git
2 4 (2.23%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.23%) ERwin
2 4 (2.23%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) git-flow
4 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 102 (56.98%) Finance
2 57 (31.84%) Banking
3 49 (27.37%) Front Office
3 49 (27.37%) Investment Banking
4 36 (20.11%) Social Skills
5 22 (12.29%) Retail
6 14 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.35%) Law
10 5 (2.79%) Legal
10 5 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.79%) Tech for Good
11 4 (2.23%) Marketing
11 4 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.23%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.68%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.56%) Advertising
13 1 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 95 (53.07%) Senior
2 56 (31.28%) Data Engineer
3 51 (28.49%) AWS Engineer
4 50 (27.93%) Python Engineer
5 49 (27.37%) AWS Software Engineer
5 49 (27.37%) Java Engineer
5 49 (27.37%) Java Software Engineer
5 49 (27.37%) Python Software Engineer
5 49 (27.37%) Software Engineer
6 47 (26.26%) Senior Java Engineer
6 47 (26.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 47 (26.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (16.20%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (15.08%) Architect
9 22 (12.29%) Data Architect
10 18 (10.06%) Azure Architect
11 14 (7.82%) Azure Data Architect
11 14 (7.82%) Data Manager
12 10 (5.59%) Senior Architect
13 9 (5.03%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (27.93%) NumPy
1 50 (27.93%) Pandas
2 49 (27.37%) gRPC
2 49 (27.37%) Protocol Buffers
2 49 (27.37%) SciPy
3 9 (5.03%) PySpark
4 4 (2.23%) Kafka
5 3 (1.68%) XML
6 2 (1.12%) Middleware
7 1 (0.56%) .NET
7 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.56%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.56%) JSON
7 1 (0.56%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 49 (27.37%) Derivative
1 49 (27.37%) Equities
1 49 (27.37%) Fixed Income
1 49 (27.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 49 (27.37%) Hedge funds
1 49 (27.37%) Pricing Data
2 17 (9.50%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.03%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.23%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.68%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.68%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (55.87%) Agile
2 74 (41.34%) Data Modelling
3 67 (37.43%) Analytics
4 66 (36.87%) ETL
5 61 (34.08%) Data Engineering
6 57 (31.84%) Asset Management
7 53 (29.61%) Data Pipeline
8 49 (27.37%) Investment Management
8 49 (27.37%) Software Engineering
9 47 (26.26%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (22.35%) Data Science
11 39 (21.79%) Mentoring
12 35 (19.55%) CI/CD
13 34 (18.99%) Data Integration
14 33 (18.44%) DevOps
15 30 (16.76%) Data Governance
16 29 (16.20%) AI
17 26 (14.53%) Data Strategy
18 25 (13.97%) Coaching
19 22 (12.29%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 94 (52.51%) SQL
2 91 (50.84%) Python
3 57 (31.84%) Java
4 49 (27.37%) JavaScript
4 49 (27.37%) TypeScript
5 13 (7.26%) Scala
6 11 (6.15%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.79%) Bicep
7 5 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (4.47%) AWS Certification
1 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (3.91%) DBS Check
2 7 (3.91%) Degree
3 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.12%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.56%) PhD
7 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (21.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.79%) GDPR
3 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (3.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (10.61%) Terraform
2 4 (2.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (41.34%) Databricks
2 32 (17.88%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.47%) Google
4 4 (2.23%) IBM
4 4 (2.23%) Informatica
4 4 (2.23%) Oracle
5 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.56%) VMware