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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 76 184
Rank change year-on-year -151 +108 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 196 724 403
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.21% 3.62% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.71% 15.69% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 168 685 266
10th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £46,278
25th Percentile £70,938 £81,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £110,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +60.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £117,813 £142,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £135,000 £148,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £100,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +37.93% -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 2,542 4,614 5,647
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.70% 23.10% 25.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,769 2,799 4,533
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £94,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -0.83%

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 28 October 2025.

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 82 (41.84%) Apache
2 73 (37.24%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (6.63%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.55%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 118 (60.20%) AWS
2 93 (47.45%) Azure
3 79 (40.31%) Snowflake
4 73 (37.24%) dbt
5 57 (29.08%) Power Platform
6 39 (19.90%) SaaS
7 25 (12.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (9.18%) Amazon S3
10 18 (9.18%) IaaS
11 17 (8.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 17 (8.67%) GCP
12 16 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (8.16%) PaaS
12 16 (8.16%) Power Automate
12 16 (8.16%) Serverless
13 15 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (7.65%) Azure AI
13 15 (7.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.69%) VPN
2 18 (9.18%) Firewall
3 15 (7.65%) DNS
3 15 (7.65%) SD-WAN
3 15 (7.65%) WAN
4 2 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (39.29%) Amazon Athena
2 69 (35.20%) Apache Arrow
2 69 (35.20%) Apache Iceberg
2 69 (35.20%) Apache Ignite
2 69 (35.20%) Dremio
3 63 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (27.04%) Power BI
5 24 (12.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (9.18%) Metadata
7 15 (7.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (7.65%) MySQL
8 14 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 14 (7.14%) Data Vault
9 11 (5.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (4.08%) Data Mining
11 8 (4.08%) Tableau
12 7 (3.57%) Delta Lake
13 5 (2.55%) SAS EBI
14 4 (2.04%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 20 (10.20%) Git
2 5 (2.55%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.04%) ERwin
3 4 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.02%) GitLab
4 2 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 111 (56.63%) Finance
2 74 (37.76%) Banking
3 69 (35.20%) Front Office
3 69 (35.20%) Investment Banking
4 29 (14.80%) Social Skills
5 17 (8.67%) Retail
6 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.06%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.55%) Legal
10 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.04%) Marketing
10 4 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.04%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.53%) Law
12 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.51%) Advertising
13 1 (0.51%) Billing
13 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 110 (56.12%) Senior
2 71 (36.22%) AWS Engineer
3 69 (35.20%) AWS Software Engineer
3 69 (35.20%) Java Engineer
3 69 (35.20%) Java Software Engineer
3 69 (35.20%) Python Engineer
3 69 (35.20%) Python Software Engineer
3 69 (35.20%) Software Engineer
4 67 (34.18%) Senior Java Engineer
4 67 (34.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 67 (34.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 50 (25.51%) Data Engineer
6 42 (21.43%) Architect
7 25 (12.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 24 (12.24%) Data Architect
9 16 (8.16%) Azure Architect
10 15 (7.65%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
12 11 (5.61%) Data Manager
13 9 (4.59%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (35.71%) NumPy
1 70 (35.71%) Pandas
2 69 (35.20%) gRPC
2 69 (35.20%) Protocol Buffers
2 69 (35.20%) SciPy
3 8 (4.08%) PySpark
4 4 (2.04%) Kafka
5 3 (1.53%) XML
6 2 (1.02%) Middleware
7 1 (0.51%) .NET
7 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.51%) JSON
7 1 (0.51%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 69 (35.20%) Derivative
1 69 (35.20%) Equities
1 69 (35.20%) Fixed Income
1 69 (35.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 69 (35.20%) Hedge funds
1 69 (35.20%) Pricing Data
2 17 (8.67%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.65%) NHS
4 13 (6.63%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.59%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.55%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.51%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (59.18%) Agile
2 72 (36.73%) Asset Management
3 69 (35.20%) Investment Management
3 69 (35.20%) Software Engineering
4 66 (33.67%) Analytics
5 63 (32.14%) Data Modelling
6 50 (25.51%) ETL
7 44 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (21.94%) Data Engineering
9 42 (21.43%) CI/CD
10 40 (20.41%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (19.39%) Mentoring
12 37 (18.88%) AI
12 37 (18.88%) Data Integration
13 36 (18.37%) Migration
14 34 (17.35%) DevOps
14 34 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (16.84%) Data Science
16 28 (14.29%) Roadmaps
17 24 (12.24%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 109 (55.61%) Python
2 93 (47.45%) SQL
3 77 (39.29%) Java
4 69 (35.20%) JavaScript
4 69 (35.20%) TypeScript
5 19 (9.69%) Bicep
6 15 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.12%) Scala
8 7 (3.57%) R
9 6 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.02%) Julia
10 2 (1.02%) VBA
11 1 (0.51%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (12.24%) Azure Certification
2 21 (10.71%) DBS Check
3 8 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.08%) Degree
4 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.02%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.02%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.02%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
8 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.55%) GDPR
3 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (7.65%) Single Sign-On
1 15 (7.65%) Terraform
2 3 (1.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 76 (38.78%) Databricks
2 23 (11.73%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.65%) Meraki
4 9 (4.59%) Google
5 5 (2.55%) Informatica
6 4 (2.04%) IBM
7 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.53%) SAP
8 2 (1.02%) Oracle
8 2 (1.02%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Dell
9 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) VMware