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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 133 242
Rank change year-on-year -140 +109 -24
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 124 339 410
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.72% 2.62% 1.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.36% 10.02% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 103 310 347
10th Percentile £46,750 £58,876 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,373 £70,097 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +34.38% -0.37%
75th Percentile £95,625 £135,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +23.29% -8.75%

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 2,314 3,383 7,262
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.43% 26.17% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,719 2,434 6,206
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,825 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,813 £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 £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 9 April 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 17 (13.71%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.87%) Apache
3 9 (7.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.03%) SAS
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 86 (69.35%) Azure
2 51 (41.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (33.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (26.61%) AWS
5 26 (20.97%) Power Platform
6 19 (15.32%) GitHub
7 18 (14.52%) GCP
7 18 (14.52%) Snowflake
8 16 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (12.10%) SaaS
10 9 (7.26%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (7.26%) dbt
10 9 (7.26%) Serverless
11 7 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.65%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (4.84%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.03%) OCI
14 4 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (1.61%) Fivetran
15 2 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) Modbus
1 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (19.35%) Power BI
3 23 (18.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (14.52%) Metadata
5 15 (12.10%) Delta Lake
6 12 (9.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 12 (9.68%) BigQuery
7 10 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (8.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (5.65%) Data Mining
9 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
10 6 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (4.84%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (4.03%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
12 4 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (3.23%) Dremio
12 4 (3.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Git
2 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.81%) ERwin
2 1 (0.81%) git-flow
2 1 (0.81%) GitLab
2 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.81%) JIRA
2 1 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
General
1 53 (42.74%) Finance
2 26 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.87%) Banking
6 9 (7.26%) Retail
7 6 (4.84%) Law
7 6 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.03%) Front Office
8 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.42%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.61%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (46.77%) Data Engineer
2 31 (25.00%) Senior
3 20 (16.13%) Senior Data Engineer
4 16 (12.90%) Architect
5 12 (9.68%) Lead
6 11 (8.87%) Data Manager
6 11 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Senior Architect
8 6 (4.84%) Principal Data Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) AWS Software Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.23%) Data Integration Manager
10 4 (3.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.52%) PySpark
2 7 (5.65%) EDI
2 7 (5.65%) gRPC
3 6 (4.84%) Kafka
4 5 (4.03%) NumPy
4 5 (4.03%) Pandas
5 4 (3.23%) .NET
5 4 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (3.23%) REST
5 4 (3.23%) SciPy
6 3 (2.42%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.03%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.03%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.23%) Derivative
5 4 (3.23%) Equities
5 4 (3.23%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.23%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.42%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.61%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (58.06%) ETL
2 65 (52.42%) Data Modelling
3 63 (50.81%) Analytics
4 58 (46.77%) Data Engineering
5 56 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
6 52 (41.94%) Agile
7 39 (31.45%) Data Governance
8 37 (29.84%) DevOps
9 36 (29.03%) CI/CD
9 36 (29.03%) Data Integration
10 35 (28.23%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (24.19%) Data Science
12 28 (22.58%) Data Architecture
13 27 (21.77%) AI
14 24 (19.35%) Mentoring
15 23 (18.55%) Coaching
16 21 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 20 (16.13%) Decision-Making
18 19 (15.32%) Data Strategy
19 18 (14.52%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (69.35%) SQL
2 54 (43.55%) Python
3 12 (9.68%) Scala
3 12 (9.68%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.03%) Java
5 4 (3.23%) C#
5 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.42%) Bicep
6 3 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (5.65%) CITP
2 6 (4.84%) Degree
3 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.42%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.61%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.81%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (15.32%) Terraform
2 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (50.81%) Databricks
2 28 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.45%) Google
3 8 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.65%) Planon
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle
6 3 (2.42%) Informatica
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) SAP