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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 181 174
Rank change year-on-year -106 -7 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 113 306 593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 2.04% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.65% 9.02% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 79 264 543
10th Percentile £53,500 £58,000 £42,300
25th Percentile £61,750 £70,097 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +10.00% +24.54%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%

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 2,432 3,394 7,339
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.95% 22.64% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 2,278 6,228
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,425 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,151 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,208
90th Percentile £96,250 £122,500 £97,500
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 21 May 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 15 (13.27%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.42%) Apache
4 3 (2.65%) SAS
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (4.42%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (3.54%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.77%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.88%) HFM
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 69 (61.06%) Azure
2 37 (32.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (29.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 30 (26.55%) Power Platform
5 25 (22.12%) AWS
6 23 (20.35%) GCP
7 16 (14.16%) GitHub
8 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.96%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (7.96%) Snowflake
10 7 (6.19%) Serverless
11 6 (5.31%) dbt
11 6 (5.31%) OCI
11 6 (5.31%) SaaS
12 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.54%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (3.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.65%) Collibra
13 3 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.62%) Broadband
2 3 (2.65%) Modbus
2 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) 4G
3 1 (0.88%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (39.82%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (24.78%) Power BI
3 16 (14.16%) Metadata
4 15 (13.27%) Delta Lake
5 14 (12.39%) BigQuery
6 13 (11.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (11.50%) Tableau
7 12 (10.62%) SAP BW
8 10 (8.85%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (4.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (4.42%) Big Data
10 5 (4.42%) Data Mining
10 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.54%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Git
2 2 (1.77%) MLflow
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (44.25%) Finance
2 31 (27.43%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.31%) Banking
7 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.65%) Retail
9 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Billing
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (44.25%) Data Engineer
2 19 (16.81%) Senior
3 15 (13.27%) Architect
4 14 (12.39%) Lead
5 13 (11.50%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (9.73%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Analyst
7 8 (7.08%) Principal Data Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.31%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Service Owner
9 5 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.54%) Consultant
10 4 (3.54%) Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.81%) PySpark
2 12 (10.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (7.08%) Kafka
4 7 (6.19%) EDI
5 6 (5.31%) .NET
6 4 (3.54%) REST
7 3 (2.65%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.65%) gRPC
8 2 (1.77%) ADO
8 2 (1.77%) Pandas
8 2 (1.77%) XML
9 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.88%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.39%) Data Structures
3 12 (10.62%) Social Media
4 10 (8.85%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.19%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.42%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (4.42%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.65%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.77%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.88%) Replication
10 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (55.75%) ETL
2 61 (53.98%) Data Modelling
3 51 (45.13%) Analytics
4 49 (43.36%) Data Pipeline
5 45 (39.82%) Data Engineering
6 38 (33.63%) Business Intelligence
7 35 (30.97%) Data Governance
8 34 (30.09%) CI/CD
9 32 (28.32%) Agile
10 29 (25.66%) DevOps
11 27 (23.89%) Data Integration
12 25 (22.12%) Data Architecture
13 24 (21.24%) Data Science
13 24 (21.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (19.47%) AI
15 19 (16.81%) ERP
15 19 (16.81%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (15.93%) Translating Business Requirements
17 17 (15.04%) Mentoring
18 16 (14.16%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 69 (61.06%) SQL
2 54 (47.79%) Python
3 13 (11.50%) Scala
4 7 (6.19%) C#
4 7 (6.19%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.54%) Bicep
7 2 (1.77%) Java
7 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) R
8 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (7.96%) Degree
2 7 (6.19%) CITP
3 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PhD
5 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (34.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.65%) GDPR
2 3 (2.65%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.77%) IFRS
3 2 (1.77%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.77%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (6.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (16.81%) Terraform
2 4 (3.54%) Grafana
3 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (38.05%) Databricks
2 22 (19.47%) Microsoft
3 18 (15.93%) Oracle
4 13 (11.50%) SAP
5 12 (10.62%) Google
6 8 (7.08%) Salesforce
7 7 (6.19%) Planon
8 4 (3.54%) Informatica
9 1 (0.88%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.88%) IBM