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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 227 116
Rank change year-on-year -107 -111 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 112 237 823
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 1.44% 2.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.73% 7.19% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 83 201 778
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -8.70% +43.75%
75th Percentile £93,125 £122,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £118,500 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £94,637
% change year-on-year +3.23% -18.11% +22.11%

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 3,006 3,298 6,920
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.18% 20.10% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,392 2,210 5,719
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £116,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 July 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 13 (11.61%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (9.82%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.25%) Apache
4 4 (3.57%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.68%) SAS
6 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.68%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.89%) HFM
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 63 (56.25%) Azure
2 37 (33.04%) Power Platform
3 26 (23.21%) AWS
4 25 (22.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (21.43%) GCP
6 20 (17.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.25%) GitHub
9 7 (6.25%) OCI
9 7 (6.25%) Serverless
10 6 (5.36%) Collibra
11 5 (4.46%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.46%) dbt
12 4 (3.57%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.57%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.57%) SaaS
12 4 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) Broadband
2 3 (2.68%) Modbus
2 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) 4G
3 1 (0.89%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (38.39%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (31.25%) Power BI
3 15 (13.39%) Metadata
3 15 (13.39%) Tableau
4 12 (10.71%) SAP BW
5 10 (8.93%) BigQuery
5 10 (8.93%) Delta Lake
6 9 (8.04%) Big Data
7 8 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (6.25%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.57%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.68%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Git
2 2 (1.79%) GitLab
2 2 (1.79%) MLflow
2 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 38 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.04%) Finance
3 14 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.93%) Banking
5 8 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.25%) Retail
7 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.68%) Marketing
9 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Billing
10 1 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 23 (20.54%) Architect
3 18 (16.07%) Senior
4 17 (15.18%) Lead
5 11 (9.82%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.93%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.04%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.14%) Analyst
9 7 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Data Manager
10 6 (5.36%) Developer
10 6 (5.36%) Service Owner
11 5 (4.46%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (4.46%) Principal Data Engineer
11 5 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (3.57%) Consultant
12 4 (3.57%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.18%) PySpark
2 12 (10.71%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (6.25%) Kafka
4 6 (5.36%) .NET
5 4 (3.57%) Middleware
5 4 (3.57%) REST
6 3 (2.68%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.68%) ADO
6 3 (2.68%) EDI
6 3 (2.68%) gRPC
6 3 (2.68%) XML
7 2 (1.79%) Django
7 2 (1.79%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.79%) Flask
7 2 (1.79%) Node.js
7 2 (1.79%) React
8 1 (0.89%) JSON
8 1 (0.89%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.39%) Product Ownership
3 14 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 12 (10.71%) Social Media
5 6 (5.36%) Reference Data
6 5 (4.46%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (4.46%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.68%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.79%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.89%) FMCG
10 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.21%) Data Modelling
2 53 (47.32%) ETL
3 46 (41.07%) Analytics
4 45 (40.18%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (40.18%) Data Engineering
4 45 (40.18%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (28.57%) AI
6 30 (26.79%) Agile
6 30 (26.79%) Data Architecture
6 30 (26.79%) Data Governance
7 29 (25.89%) CI/CD
8 24 (21.43%) ERP
9 23 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (19.64%) Data Integration
11 21 (18.75%) Decision-Making
12 20 (17.86%) Data Science
12 20 (17.86%) Mentoring
12 20 (17.86%) Translating Business Requirements
13 19 (16.96%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (16.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (51.79%) SQL
2 52 (46.43%) Python
3 7 (6.25%) C#
4 5 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.57%) Scala
6 3 (2.68%) Bicep
6 3 (2.68%) Java
7 2 (1.79%) Bash
7 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.79%) VBA
8 1 (0.89%) R
8 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.93%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.14%) Degree
3 7 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.68%) CITP
8 2 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.89%) MCT
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.89%) PhD
9 1 (0.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.14%) GDPR
3 5 (4.46%) QA
4 4 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.68%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.79%) IFRS
6 2 (1.79%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.50%) Terraform
2 7 (6.25%) Grafana
3 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (30.36%) Databricks
1 34 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.54%) Oracle
3 17 (15.18%) SAP
4 9 (8.04%) Google
5 7 (6.25%) Informatica
6 6 (5.36%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.57%) Epicor
7 4 (3.57%) IFS
7 4 (3.57%) Infor
8 3 (2.68%) Planon
9 1 (0.89%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.89%) Foundry
9 1 (0.89%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.89%) IBM
9 1 (0.89%) OpenAI