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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 133 234
Rank change year-on-year -136 +101 -13
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 120 336 417
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 2.58% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.19% 10.01% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 99 308 354
10th Percentile £46,750 £58,292 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,373 £70,097 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £106,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +32.81% -0.37%
75th Percentile £92,500 £135,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £119,000 £152,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -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 2,310 3,356 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.33% 25.79% 22.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,718 2,436 6,206
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £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 11 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 14 (11.67%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.83%) Apache
4 4 (3.33%) SAS
5 3 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 87 (72.50%) Azure
2 50 (41.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (34.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 30 (25.00%) AWS
5 26 (21.67%) Power Platform
6 19 (15.83%) GCP
6 19 (15.83%) GitHub
7 16 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (11.67%) SaaS
8 14 (11.67%) Snowflake
9 9 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (7.50%) Serverless
10 7 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.83%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (5.00%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.17%) dbt
12 5 (4.17%) OCI
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (1.67%) Azure Functions
14 2 (1.67%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) Modbus
1 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (50.83%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (20.00%) Power BI
3 23 (19.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (15.00%) Metadata
5 15 (12.50%) Delta Lake
6 12 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 12 (10.00%) BigQuery
7 9 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.83%) Data Mining
10 6 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (4.17%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
12 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (1.67%) Big Data
13 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.83%) ERwin
2 1 (0.83%) git-flow
2 1 (0.83%) GitLab
2 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
General
1 47 (39.17%) Finance
2 27 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.50%) Retail
6 7 (5.83%) Banking
7 6 (5.00%) Law
7 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.50%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.67%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
10 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (48.33%) Data Engineer
2 29 (24.17%) Senior
3 20 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 17 (14.17%) Architect
5 12 (10.00%) Lead
6 11 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Data Manager
8 7 (5.83%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.83%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Principal Data Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Data Integration Manager
11 4 (3.33%) DBA
11 4 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.33%) Integration Manager
11 4 (3.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.00%) PySpark
2 7 (5.83%) EDI
2 7 (5.83%) Kafka
3 4 (3.33%) .NET
3 4 (3.33%) REST
4 3 (2.50%) .NET Core
4 3 (2.50%) gRPC
5 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.83%) NumPy
5 1 (0.83%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.17%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.50%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.67%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (60.00%) ETL
2 64 (53.33%) Data Modelling
3 63 (52.50%) Analytics
4 57 (47.50%) Data Engineering
4 57 (47.50%) Data Pipeline
5 47 (39.17%) Agile
6 38 (31.67%) Data Governance
7 37 (30.83%) DevOps
8 36 (30.00%) CI/CD
9 35 (29.17%) Data Integration
10 34 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (24.17%) Data Architecture
11 29 (24.17%) Data Science
12 27 (22.50%) AI
13 22 (18.33%) Mentoring
14 21 (17.50%) Coaching
14 21 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (16.67%) Decision-Making
16 19 (15.83%) Data Strategy
17 18 (15.00%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (70.83%) SQL
2 51 (42.50%) Python
3 12 (10.00%) Scala
3 12 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.33%) C#
5 3 (2.50%) Bicep
5 3 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.83%) Java
6 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (5.83%) CITP
2 6 (5.00%) Degree
3 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.50%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.83%) GDPR
2 1 (0.83%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (15.83%) Terraform
2 2 (1.67%) Grafana
2 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (50.83%) Databricks
2 30 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.67%) Google
3 8 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.83%) Planon
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle
6 3 (2.50%) Informatica
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) SAP