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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 122 190
Rank change year-on-year -82 +68 +99
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 171 442 394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 2.69% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.09% 10.59% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 148 402 284
10th Percentile £51,000 £61,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £76,563 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £103,750 £66,175
Median % change year-on-year -21.45% +56.78% -13.50%
75th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £128,000 £152,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £90,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -7.22% +27.52% -8.93%

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 2,114 4,173 5,644
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.81% 25.39% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 2,483 4,651
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 18 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 37 (21.64%) Apache
2 35 (20.47%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (8.77%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.92%) SAS
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 101 (59.06%) Azure
2 66 (38.60%) AWS
3 53 (30.99%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (23.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 39 (22.81%) Snowflake
6 37 (21.64%) Power Platform
7 33 (19.30%) SaaS
8 30 (17.54%) dbt
9 21 (12.28%) GitHub
10 20 (11.70%) GCP
11 17 (9.94%) Amazon S3
11 17 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (8.77%) Serverless
13 10 (5.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
16 4 (2.34%) Alation
16 4 (2.34%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (51.46%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (20.47%) Power BI
3 32 (18.71%) Amazon Athena
4 31 (18.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (14.62%) Apache Iceberg
6 24 (14.04%) Apache Arrow
6 24 (14.04%) Apache Ignite
6 24 (14.04%) Dremio
7 21 (12.28%) Metadata
8 19 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 14 (8.19%) Delta Lake
9 14 (8.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (8.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (7.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (7.60%) Data Mining
11 12 (7.02%) Data Vault
12 9 (5.26%) BigQuery
13 7 (4.09%) Tableau
14 6 (3.51%) SQL Server
15 5 (2.92%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Git
2 4 (2.34%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.34%) ERwin
2 4 (2.34%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.17%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) git-flow
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 86 (50.29%) Finance
2 34 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 33 (19.30%) Banking
4 25 (14.62%) Front Office
5 24 (14.04%) Investment Banking
6 19 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (10.53%) Retail
8 17 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (4.09%) Law
10 6 (3.51%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.34%) Legal
11 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.34%) Retail Banking
11 4 (2.34%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.75%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.17%) Marketing
14 1 (0.58%) Advertising
14 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 71 (41.52%) Data Engineer
1 71 (41.52%) Senior
2 31 (18.13%) Senior Data Engineer
3 27 (15.79%) Python Engineer
4 26 (15.20%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (14.04%) AWS Software Engineer
5 24 (14.04%) Java Engineer
5 24 (14.04%) Java Software Engineer
5 24 (14.04%) Python Software Engineer
5 24 (14.04%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.87%) Architect
6 22 (12.87%) Senior Java Engineer
6 22 (12.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 22 (12.87%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (10.53%) Data Architect
7 18 (10.53%) Data Manager
8 14 (8.19%) Azure Architect
9 10 (5.85%) Azure Data Architect
9 10 (5.85%) Lead
9 10 (5.85%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.20%) NumPy
1 26 (15.20%) Pandas
2 24 (14.04%) gRPC
2 24 (14.04%) Protocol Buffers
2 24 (14.04%) SciPy
3 16 (9.36%) PySpark
4 7 (4.09%) Kafka
5 5 (2.92%) EDI
6 2 (1.17%) XML
7 1 (0.58%) .NET
7 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.58%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.58%) Middleware
7 1 (0.58%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.62%) Hedge funds
2 24 (14.04%) Derivative
2 24 (14.04%) Equities
2 24 (14.04%) Fixed Income
2 24 (14.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (14.04%) Pricing Data
3 19 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.85%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.68%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.34%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.75%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.75%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.17%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (49.71%) ETL
2 84 (49.12%) Agile
2 84 (49.12%) Data Modelling
3 73 (42.69%) Data Engineering
4 71 (41.52%) Analytics
5 62 (36.26%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (28.07%) Data Science
7 44 (25.73%) Data Integration
8 42 (24.56%) Data Governance
9 40 (23.39%) CI/CD
10 39 (22.81%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (22.81%) DevOps
10 39 (22.81%) Mentoring
11 34 (19.88%) Asset Management
12 31 (18.13%) Data Strategy
13 30 (17.54%) Coaching
14 29 (16.96%) Data Architecture
15 27 (15.79%) AI
16 25 (14.62%) Decision-Making
17 24 (14.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (63.16%) SQL
2 77 (45.03%) Python
3 31 (18.13%) Java
4 24 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 24 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 18 (10.53%) Scala
6 13 (7.60%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.34%) Bicep
8 3 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.58%) C#
9 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (4.68%) AWS Certification
1 8 (4.68%) Degree
2 6 (3.51%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.51%) DBS Check
3 5 (2.92%) CITP
3 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.34%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.17%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (29.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.34%) GDPR
3 2 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (14.62%) Terraform
2 5 (2.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (49.71%) Databricks
2 28 (16.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.85%) Google
4 7 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.92%) Informatica
5 5 (2.92%) Planon
6 4 (2.34%) IBM
7 3 (1.75%) Oracle
8 2 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud