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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 132 252
Rank change year-on-year -134 +120 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 126 346 359
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 2.59% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.77% 9.55% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 106 316 291
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,168 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,312 £70,097 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £100,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +41.69% -11.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £119,375 £152,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -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 2,182 3,624 7,109
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.80% 27.09% 23.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,589 2,427 6,075
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.49%

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 21 March 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 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.73%) Apache
3 9 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.76%) SAS
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 88 (69.84%) Azure
2 50 (39.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (31.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (25.40%) AWS
5 27 (21.43%) Power Platform
6 22 (17.46%) GitHub
6 22 (17.46%) Snowflake
7 21 (16.67%) SaaS
8 20 (15.87%) GCP
9 18 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (7.14%) dbt
11 8 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (5.56%) Serverless
13 6 (4.76%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.97%) Cloud Composer
15 4 (3.17%) Alation
15 4 (3.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Modbus
1 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (21.43%) Power BI
3 21 (16.67%) Metadata
4 16 (12.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 15 (11.90%) BigQuery
6 13 (10.32%) Delta Lake
7 11 (8.73%) Data Mining
7 11 (8.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (8.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (4.76%) Data Vault
9 6 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.97%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (3.97%) Tableau
11 4 (3.17%) DataStage
11 4 (3.17%) QlikView
11 4 (3.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) Git
2 4 (3.17%) ER Studio
2 4 (3.17%) ERwin
2 4 (3.17%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.79%) git-flow
3 1 (0.79%) GitLab
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 54 (42.86%) Finance
2 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.70%) Retail
5 13 (10.32%) Banking
6 9 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.76%) Law
9 5 (3.97%) Front Office
10 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.17%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.38%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.59%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (43.65%) Data Engineer
2 36 (28.57%) Senior
3 24 (19.05%) Architect
4 21 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (11.90%) Data Architect
6 12 (9.52%) Data Manager
7 11 (8.73%) Senior Architect
8 10 (7.94%) Lead
9 9 (7.14%) Azure Architect
9 9 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
11 7 (5.56%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Principal Data Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Senior Data Architect
13 4 (3.17%) AWS Software Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) Data Integration Manager
13 4 (3.17%) Java Engineer
13 4 (3.17%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.90%) PySpark
2 7 (5.56%) gRPC
3 5 (3.97%) EDI
3 5 (3.97%) Kafka
3 5 (3.97%) NumPy
3 5 (3.97%) Pandas
4 4 (3.17%) .NET
4 4 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (3.17%) REST
4 4 (3.17%) SciPy
5 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.79%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.97%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.17%) Derivative
5 4 (3.17%) Equities
5 4 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.17%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.17%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.17%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.38%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 69 (54.76%) ETL
3 64 (50.79%) Analytics
4 56 (44.44%) Data Engineering
5 52 (41.27%) Agile
6 50 (39.68%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (30.95%) DevOps
8 37 (29.37%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (29.37%) CI/CD
8 37 (29.37%) Data Governance
9 36 (28.57%) Data Integration
10 35 (27.78%) Data Science
11 28 (22.22%) Data Architecture
12 27 (21.43%) AI
13 26 (20.63%) Mentoring
14 24 (19.05%) Coaching
15 23 (18.25%) Data Strategy
15 23 (18.25%) Decision-Making
16 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (16.67%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (69.84%) SQL
2 49 (38.89%) Python
3 12 (9.52%) Scala
3 12 (9.52%) T-SQL
4 5 (3.97%) Java
5 4 (3.17%) C#
5 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
2 6 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.97%) CITP
4 4 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (34.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (17.46%) Terraform
2 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 71 (56.35%) Databricks
2 27 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.73%) Google
4 6 (4.76%) Informatica
4 6 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.97%) Planon
6 4 (3.17%) IBM
6 4 (3.17%) Oracle
7 1 (0.79%) SAP