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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 146 201
Rank change year-on-year -132 +55 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 122 325 510
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.39% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.27% 9.70% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 90 298 462
10th Percentile £51,925 £56,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,750 £70,097 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +22.22% +12.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 2,315 3,352 7,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.72% 24.64% 22.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,735 2,412 6,210
10th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £37,038
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
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 3 May 2026.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 13 (10.66%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (9.02%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.56%) Apache
4 3 (2.46%) SAS
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (10.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.46%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 80 (65.57%) Azure
2 45 (36.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 37 (30.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (27.87%) Power Platform
5 26 (21.31%) AWS
6 20 (16.39%) GCP
7 18 (14.75%) GitHub
8 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (7.38%) SaaS
9 9 (7.38%) Snowflake
10 8 (6.56%) Serverless
11 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.10%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (4.10%) OCI
12 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.28%) dbt
12 4 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.46%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) Broadband
2 3 (2.46%) Modbus
2 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.82%) 4G
3 1 (0.82%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (45.08%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (26.23%) Power BI
3 17 (13.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (13.11%) Metadata
5 15 (12.30%) Delta Lake
6 13 (10.66%) Tableau
7 12 (9.84%) BigQuery
7 12 (9.84%) SAP BW
8 10 (8.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 8 (6.56%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (4.10%) Big Data
11 5 (4.10%) Data Mining
11 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
11 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
12 3 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (11.48%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) MLflow
3 1 (0.82%) git-flow
3 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (43.44%) Finance
2 37 (30.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.92%) Banking
7 5 (4.10%) Retail
8 4 (3.28%) Law
8 4 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.64%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.82%) Billing
10 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Front Office
10 1 (0.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.82%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (44.26%) Data Engineer
2 24 (19.67%) Senior
3 17 (13.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 15 (12.30%) Architect
5 14 (11.48%) Lead
6 13 (10.66%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) Data Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Principal Data Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Consultant
9 5 (4.10%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Report Analyst
11 3 (2.46%) Data Analyst
11 3 (2.46%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.75%) PySpark
2 12 (9.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.74%) EDI
3 7 (5.74%) Kafka
4 4 (3.28%) .NET
4 4 (3.28%) REST
5 3 (2.46%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.46%) gRPC
6 2 (1.64%) Pandas
7 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.82%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.82%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.30%) Data Structures
3 12 (9.84%) Social Media
4 7 (5.74%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.10%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (4.10%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.64%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.82%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (56.56%) Data Modelling
1 69 (56.56%) ETL
2 56 (45.90%) Analytics
2 56 (45.90%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (43.44%) Data Engineering
4 41 (33.61%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (32.79%) Agile
6 36 (29.51%) CI/CD
6 36 (29.51%) Data Governance
7 35 (28.69%) DevOps
8 31 (25.41%) Data Integration
9 28 (22.95%) Data Science
10 26 (21.31%) Data Architecture
11 24 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (18.85%) AI
13 20 (16.39%) Decision-Making
14 19 (15.57%) Mentoring
14 19 (15.57%) Translating Business Requirements
15 17 (13.93%) Coaching
15 17 (13.93%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 78 (63.93%) SQL
2 53 (43.44%) Python
3 13 (10.66%) Scala
4 8 (6.56%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.10%) Bicep
6 4 (3.28%) C#
6 4 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.64%) Java
8 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.82%) R
8 1 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (5.74%) CITP
2 5 (4.10%) Degree
3 3 (2.46%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (33.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.46%) GDPR
2 3 (2.46%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.64%) IFRS
3 2 (1.64%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (15.57%) Terraform
2 4 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (43.44%) Databricks
2 30 (24.59%) Microsoft
3 17 (13.93%) Oracle
4 13 (10.66%) SAP
5 9 (7.38%) Google
6 8 (6.56%) Salesforce
7 7 (5.74%) Planon
8 4 (3.28%) Informatica