Data Lake Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 182 256
Rank change year-on-year +89 +74 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 843 623 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.02% 1.90% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.34% 7.99% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 759 455 551
10th Percentile £66,250 £47,200 £48,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £56,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £143,750 £105,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £165,000 £142,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £76,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +38.16% +1.33% +7.14%

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 5,877 7,799 23,130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.04% 23.76% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,479 6,085 11,274
10th Percentile £38,084 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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
1 557 (66.07%) Apache Airflow
2 504 (59.79%) Apache
3 23 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.07%) Confluence
5 4 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.12%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.47%) Eagle PACE
1 4 (0.47%) Markit EDM
1 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.24%) Primavera
2 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 658 (78.05%) AWS
2 582 (69.04%) dbt
3 542 (64.29%) Snowflake
4 271 (32.15%) GCP
5 257 (30.49%) Azure
6 123 (14.59%) Power Platform
7 85 (10.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 74 (8.78%) Amazon EC2
8 74 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
9 72 (8.54%) Amazon ECS
10 69 (8.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (3.56%) Dagster
12 24 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (1.78%) Serverless
14 14 (1.66%) GitHub
15 12 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
16 11 (1.30%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 10 (1.19%) PowerApps
18 9 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.30%) Network Security
2 6 (0.71%) Modbus
2 6 (0.71%) MQTT
3 3 (0.36%) Wireless
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (68.68%) Dremio
2 549 (65.12%) Apache Arrow
3 548 (65.01%) Amazon Athena
4 463 (54.92%) Apache Ignite
5 157 (18.62%) Data Warehouse
6 120 (14.23%) Power BI
7 109 (12.93%) Big Data
8 55 (6.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 52 (6.17%) Tableau
10 46 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 36 (4.27%) SQL Server
12 24 (2.85%) NoSQL
13 17 (2.02%) Metadata
14 15 (1.78%) Data Mining
15 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 10 (1.19%) Delta Lake
16 10 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (1.07%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.83%) HDInsight
18 7 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (1.42%) MLflow
2 9 (1.07%) JIRA
3 6 (0.71%) MSI
4 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.47%) Git
6 3 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.24%) ERwin
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 669 (79.36%) Finance
2 530 (62.87%) Banking
3 525 (62.28%) Front Office
4 495 (58.72%) Investment Banking
5 66 (7.83%) Social Skills
6 49 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (3.32%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (2.02%) Legal
9 11 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.19%) Marketing
11 9 (1.07%) Billing
11 9 (1.07%) Publishing
12 8 (0.95%) Back Office
12 8 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.59%) Games
13 5 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.59%) Retail
14 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 274 (32.50%) Software Engineer
2 253 (30.01%) Senior
3 244 (28.94%) AWS Engineer
4 222 (26.33%) Lead
5 220 (26.10%) Python Engineer
6 189 (22.42%) AWS Software Engineer
7 173 (20.52%) Java Engineer
7 173 (20.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 172 (20.40%) Python Software Engineer
9 144 (17.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 136 (16.13%) Architect
11 134 (15.90%) Data Engineer
12 125 (14.83%) Developer
13 108 (12.81%) Solutions Architect
14 103 (12.22%) Software Developer
15 102 (12.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 102 (12.10%) Lead Developer
15 102 (12.10%) Lead Software Developer
15 102 (12.10%) Software Team Leader
15 102 (12.10%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (61.33%) gRPC
1 517 (61.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 498 (59.07%) Pandas
3 493 (58.48%) NumPy
3 493 (58.48%) SciPy
4 162 (19.22%) PySpark
5 16 (1.90%) JSON
6 7 (0.83%) XML
7 6 (0.71%) Middleware
8 5 (0.59%) CSS
8 5 (0.59%) HTML
8 5 (0.59%) Web Services
9 4 (0.47%) YAML
10 3 (0.36%) XBRL
11 2 (0.24%) .NET
11 2 (0.24%) Kafka
11 2 (0.24%) MDX
11 2 (0.24%) Node.js
12 1 (0.12%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.12%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 549 (65.12%) Hedge funds
2 495 (58.72%) Derivative
2 495 (58.72%) Equities
2 495 (58.72%) Fixed Income
2 495 (58.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 72 (8.54%) Pricing Data
4 54 (6.41%) Clustering
5 38 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 8 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.83%) Cloud Native
9 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.59%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.59%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.47%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.24%) Linux
1 2 (0.24%) Unix
1 2 (0.24%) Windows
2 1 (0.12%) AIX
2 1 (0.12%) Solaris
2 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (68.68%) Asset Management
2 569 (67.50%) Agile
3 500 (59.31%) Software Engineering
4 430 (51.01%) Investment Management
5 204 (24.20%) Line Management
6 175 (20.76%) Greeks
7 166 (19.69%) Analytics
8 116 (13.76%) Data Engineering
9 102 (12.10%) DevOps
10 99 (11.74%) Migration
11 90 (10.68%) Data Architecture
12 82 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
13 76 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence
13 76 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
14 74 (8.78%) Data Modelling
15 72 (8.54%) Roadmaps
16 66 (7.83%) ETL
17 57 (6.76%) Strategic Roadmap
18 56 (6.64%) Data Governance
18 56 (6.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 660 (78.29%) Python
2 563 (66.79%) Java
3 523 (62.04%) JavaScript
4 463 (54.92%) TypeScript
5 256 (30.37%) SQL
6 56 (6.64%) Go
7 33 (3.91%) T-SQL
8 16 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.30%) U-SQL
10 8 (0.95%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.71%) Scala
12 5 (0.59%) C#
12 5 (0.59%) R
13 4 (0.47%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.47%) VBA
14 2 (0.24%) Julia
15 1 (0.12%) Bash
15 1 (0.12%) C
15 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (6.52%) Azure Certification
2 47 (5.58%) AWS Certification
3 20 (2.37%) Degree
4 17 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (1.54%) SC Cleared
5 13 (1.54%) Security Cleared
6 11 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.36%) MCP
10 2 (0.24%) CIMA
11 1 (0.12%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.12%) LPIC
11 1 (0.12%) MCSE
11 1 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (26.22%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.25%) GDPR
3 7 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.12%) QA
5 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 69 (8.19%) Terraform
3 54 (6.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.24%) Argo
4 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 106 (12.57%) Databricks
2 65 (7.71%) Bloomberg
2 65 (7.71%) Reuters
3 60 (7.12%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.14%) Google
5 11 (1.30%) SAP
6 7 (0.83%) Informatica
7 6 (0.71%) Oracle
8 4 (0.47%) Talend
9 3 (0.36%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.24%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.24%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.12%) Ariba
11 1 (0.12%) IBM
11 1 (0.12%) Sparx
11 1 (0.12%) UiPath
11 1 (0.12%) VMware
11 1 (0.12%) Workday