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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 133 252
Rank change year-on-year -123 +119 -13
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 130 359 355
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 2.59% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.08% 9.50% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 109 326 287
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,168 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,697 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £81,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +28.57% -12.50%

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 2,139 3,777 7,046
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.77% 27.29% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 2,445 6,041
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -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 13 March 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 18 (13.85%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.77%) Apache
3 11 (8.46%) Apache Spark
4 7 (5.38%) SAS
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 89 (68.46%) Azure
2 49 (37.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (30.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (26.15%) AWS
5 28 (21.54%) Power Platform
6 23 (17.69%) Snowflake
7 22 (16.92%) GitHub
7 22 (16.92%) SaaS
8 20 (15.38%) GCP
9 18 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (7.69%) dbt
11 9 (6.92%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (6.15%) Serverless
13 7 (5.38%) Amazon S3
13 7 (5.38%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.85%) Cloud Composer
15 4 (3.08%) Alation
16 3 (2.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) Modbus
1 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (54.62%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (21.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (21.54%) Power BI
3 20 (15.38%) Metadata
4 16 (12.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 15 (11.54%) BigQuery
6 14 (10.77%) Delta Lake
7 13 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (8.46%) Data Mining
9 9 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (4.62%) Apache Iceberg
11 6 (4.62%) Data Vault
11 6 (4.62%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.85%) Apache Arrow
12 5 (3.85%) Apache Ignite
12 5 (3.85%) Dremio
12 5 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Git
2 4 (3.08%) ER Studio
2 4 (3.08%) ERwin
2 4 (3.08%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.77%) git-flow
4 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 58 (44.62%) Finance
2 24 (18.46%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.31%) Retail
5 14 (10.77%) Banking
6 9 (6.92%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.62%) Front Office
7 6 (4.62%) Law
7 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.08%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.31%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.54%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (45.38%) Data Engineer
2 38 (29.23%) Senior
3 22 (16.92%) Architect
3 22 (16.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 14 (10.77%) Data Architect
4 14 (10.77%) Data Manager
5 11 (8.46%) Senior Architect
6 9 (6.92%) Azure Architect
6 9 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Lead
7 8 (6.15%) Python Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Azure Data Architect
8 7 (5.38%) Principal Data Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Data Architect
10 5 (3.85%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.31%) PySpark
2 7 (5.38%) gRPC
3 6 (4.62%) Kafka
3 6 (4.62%) NumPy
3 6 (4.62%) Pandas
4 5 (3.85%) EDI
4 5 (3.85%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (3.85%) SciPy
5 3 (2.31%) .NET
5 3 (2.31%) REST
6 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.77%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.77%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.38%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.62%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.85%) Derivative
5 5 (3.85%) Equities
5 5 (3.85%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.85%) Pricing Data
6 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.08%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.31%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.31%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (54.62%) ETL
2 70 (53.85%) Data Modelling
3 67 (51.54%) Analytics
4 60 (46.15%) Data Engineering
5 54 (41.54%) Agile
6 51 (39.23%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (30.00%) DevOps
8 38 (29.23%) CI/CD
8 38 (29.23%) Data Governance
8 38 (29.23%) Data Science
9 37 (28.46%) Data Integration
10 36 (27.69%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (22.31%) Data Architecture
12 28 (21.54%) Mentoring
13 26 (20.00%) AI
14 25 (19.23%) Coaching
15 23 (17.69%) Data Strategy
15 23 (17.69%) Decision-Making
16 22 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 20 (15.38%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (70.77%) SQL
2 51 (39.23%) Python
3 13 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 12 (9.23%) Scala
5 6 (4.62%) Java
6 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.31%) Bicep
7 3 (2.31%) C#
8 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (6.92%) Degree
2 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.62%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.85%) CITP
4 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.54%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.54%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (36.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (6.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (17.69%) Terraform
2 3 (2.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 72 (55.38%) Databricks
2 27 (20.77%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.46%) Google
4 6 (4.62%) Informatica
4 6 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.85%) Planon
6 4 (3.08%) IBM
7 3 (2.31%) Oracle
8 1 (0.77%) SAP