Data Lake Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Lakes
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 115 188
Rank change year-on-year -141 +73 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 240 873 669
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.17% 2.55% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.71% 11.66% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 204 785 505
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +43.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £135,000 £143,750 £106,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £165,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £91,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.09% +17.42% +3.33%

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 3,576 7,484 8,737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.45% 21.88% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,215 5,879 6,487
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £63,150
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.99% +5.25%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,350 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +6.96% -8.73% +5.00%

Data Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Lake.

Data Lake salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (32.08%) Apache
2 73 (30.42%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 122 (50.83%) AWS
2 86 (35.83%) Azure
3 83 (34.58%) Snowflake
4 72 (30.00%) dbt
5 53 (22.08%) Power Platform
6 26 (10.83%) GCP
7 23 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (9.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (7.50%) Azure AI
9 18 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 18 (7.50%) SaaS
10 17 (7.08%) Entra ID
10 17 (7.08%) Power Automate
11 16 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (6.67%) IaaS
11 16 (6.67%) PaaS
12 15 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.50%) Firewall
1 18 (7.50%) VPN
2 16 (6.67%) DNS
2 16 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 16 (6.67%) WAN
3 2 (0.83%) Internet
3 2 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (31.67%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (29.58%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (29.58%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (29.58%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (29.58%) Dremio
3 56 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (21.67%) Power BI
5 21 (8.75%) SQL Server
6 20 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (6.67%) MySQL
8 14 (5.83%) Big Data
9 13 (5.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 11 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (4.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (4.17%) Metadata
11 10 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.75%) Hadoop
12 9 (3.75%) NoSQL
13 8 (3.33%) Tableau
14 5 (2.08%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 21 (8.75%) Git
2 4 (1.67%) JIRA
2 4 (1.67%) Subversion
3 2 (0.83%) ER Studio
General
1 160 (66.67%) Finance
2 113 (47.08%) Front Office
3 80 (33.33%) Banking
4 71 (29.58%) Investment Banking
5 36 (15.00%) Social Skills
6 32 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.67%) Law
8 7 (2.92%) Retail
9 5 (2.08%) Advertising
10 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.25%) Legal
11 3 (1.25%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.42%) Billing
13 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 89 (37.08%) Senior
2 74 (30.83%) AWS Engineer
3 73 (30.42%) Software Engineer
4 72 (30.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 71 (29.58%) Java Engineer
5 71 (29.58%) Java Software Engineer
6 67 (27.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 66 (27.50%) Senior Java Engineer
7 66 (27.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 60 (25.00%) Python Engineer
8 60 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
9 44 (18.33%) Data Engineer
10 43 (17.92%) Architect
11 25 (10.42%) Lead
12 22 (9.17%) Cloud Architect
13 16 (6.67%) Head of Finance
13 16 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
14 14 (5.83%) Data Architect
15 12 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (29.58%) gRPC
1 71 (29.58%) NumPy
1 71 (29.58%) Pandas
1 71 (29.58%) Protocol Buffers
1 71 (29.58%) SciPy
2 22 (9.17%) PySpark
3 5 (2.08%) .NET
3 5 (2.08%) EDI
3 5 (2.08%) JSON
4 3 (1.25%) RESTful
5 2 (0.83%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.42%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.42%) CSS
6 1 (0.42%) D3.js
6 1 (0.42%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (0.42%) Kafka
6 1 (0.42%) Middleware
6 1 (0.42%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 113 (47.08%) Derivative
1 113 (47.08%) Equities
1 113 (47.08%) Fixed Income
1 113 (47.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 113 (47.08%) Hedge funds
2 60 (25.00%) Pricing Data
3 16 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.67%) NHS
4 14 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.42%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.83%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (61.25%) Agile
2 102 (42.50%) Investment Management
3 89 (37.08%) Migration
4 75 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 71 (29.58%) Asset Management
6 67 (27.92%) Analytics
7 66 (27.50%) Roadmaps
8 64 (26.67%) Data Management
9 60 (25.00%) ETL
10 54 (22.50%) Data Governance
11 47 (19.58%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (17.50%) Data Modelling
12 42 (17.50%) Regulatory Compliance
13 36 (15.00%) CI/CD
13 36 (15.00%) DevOps
14 31 (12.92%) Data Integration
15 29 (12.08%) Artificial Intelligence
15 29 (12.08%) Mentoring
16 28 (11.67%) Data Engineering
16 28 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 110 (45.83%) Python
2 82 (34.17%) SQL
3 81 (33.75%) Java
4 72 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 71 (29.58%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.08%) Bicep
6 17 (7.08%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.08%) R
7 12 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.50%) Scala
9 4 (1.67%) Julia
9 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.67%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.67%) VBA
10 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.83%) C#
12 1 (0.42%) Erlang
12 1 (0.42%) F#
12 1 (0.42%) Haskell
12 1 (0.42%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 25 (10.42%) Azure Certification
2 20 (8.33%) Degree
3 18 (7.50%) DBS Check
4 10 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.67%) PMP
6 4 (1.67%) SAP Certification
7 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.25%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.42%) PhD
9 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.58%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.50%) MiFID
3 4 (1.67%) GxP
4 3 (1.25%) GDPR
4 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.25%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.67%) HDFS
3 1 (0.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (24.17%) Databricks
2 50 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.67%) Meraki
4 15 (6.25%) SAP
5 11 (4.58%) Google
6 8 (3.33%) Teradata
7 6 (2.50%) Oracle
8 4 (1.67%) Infor
9 2 (0.83%) Hitachi
9 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.42%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.42%) Dell
10 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.42%) IBM
10 1 (0.42%) Informatica
10 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow