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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 250 83
Rank change year-on-year -74 -167 +90
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 138 205 835
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.60% 1.24% 3.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.40% 6.82% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 100 173 792
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £68,875
25th Percentile £65,625 £70,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.35% +44.41%
75th Percentile £91,250 £117,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £112,975 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year - -27.91% +38.71%

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 3,136 3,005 5,061
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.68% 18.15% 20.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,518 2,063 3,863
10th Percentile £36,425 £35,750 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £93,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £124,572
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 20 August 2026.

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 14 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 12 (8.70%) Apache
2 12 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.62%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.62%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.72%) HFM
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 80 (57.97%) Azure
2 49 (35.51%) Power Platform
3 30 (21.74%) AWS
4 27 (19.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (16.67%) GCP
6 17 (12.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (7.97%) GitHub
9 9 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.52%) dbt
10 8 (5.80%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.80%) Collibra
10 8 (5.80%) Serverless
11 7 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (5.07%) OCI
12 6 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (3.62%) PowerApps
14 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.90%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.42%) Broadband
2 3 (2.17%) Modbus
2 3 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.72%) 4G
3 1 (0.72%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (45.65%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (34.06%) Power BI
3 21 (15.22%) SQL Server
4 19 (13.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (13.04%) Tableau
6 17 (12.32%) Metadata
7 12 (8.70%) SAP BW
8 11 (7.97%) Big Data
9 10 (7.25%) Delta Lake
10 7 (5.07%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
11 6 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.62%) DynamoDB
12 5 (3.62%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.90%) Geospatial Data
14 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
14 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (10.14%) Git
2 3 (2.17%) GitLab
3 2 (1.45%) MLflow
3 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 45 (32.61%) Finance
1 45 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.97%) Banking
5 9 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.52%) Retail
6 6 (4.35%) Marketing
7 5 (3.62%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Legal
9 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.45%) Billing
10 2 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Local Government
10 2 (1.45%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (37.68%) Data Engineer
2 27 (19.57%) Architect
3 24 (17.39%) Lead
4 18 (13.04%) Data Architect
5 17 (12.32%) Senior
6 15 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Analyst
9 9 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.80%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (5.07%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Service Owner
13 5 (3.62%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.62%) Data Manager
13 5 (3.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 4 (2.90%) Consultant
14 4 (2.90%) Data Scientist
14 4 (2.90%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.77%) Terraform
2 18 (13.04%) PySpark
3 12 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (5.07%) Kafka
5 6 (4.35%) .NET
6 5 (3.62%) JSON
6 5 (3.62%) XML
7 4 (2.90%) Django
7 4 (2.90%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.90%) Flask
7 4 (2.90%) Middleware
7 4 (2.90%) Node.js
7 4 (2.90%) React
7 4 (2.90%) REST
8 3 (2.17%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.17%) ADO
8 3 (2.17%) gRPC
9 2 (1.45%) EDI
9 2 (1.45%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.72%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.87%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.70%) Social Media
4 6 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.35%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.62%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.62%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.45%) Blog
8 2 (1.45%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.45%) NHS
8 2 (1.45%) PMI
8 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (53.62%) Analytics
2 63 (45.65%) Data Pipeline
3 60 (43.48%) Data Modelling
4 57 (41.30%) Business Intelligence
5 55 (39.86%) Data Engineering
5 55 (39.86%) ETL
6 46 (33.33%) Data Architecture
7 42 (30.43%) AI
8 39 (28.26%) CI/CD
9 38 (27.54%) Agile
10 36 (26.09%) Data Governance
11 34 (24.64%) Decision-Making
12 31 (22.46%) Data Science
13 30 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (19.57%) ERP
15 25 (18.12%) DevOps
16 24 (17.39%) Data Integration
17 21 (15.22%) Data Strategy
18 20 (14.49%) Actionable Insight
18 20 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 81 (58.70%) SQL
2 63 (45.65%) Python
3 9 (6.52%) C#
4 7 (5.07%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (2.90%) Java
6 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.17%) Bash
7 3 (2.17%) Bicep
8 2 (1.45%) R
8 2 (1.45%) Scala
8 2 (1.45%) VBA
9 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.97%) Degree
2 11 (7.97%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.25%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.07%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.45%) CITP
7 2 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) MCT
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.72%) PhD
8 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.06%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.52%) GDPR
3 6 (4.35%) QA
4 4 (2.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.17%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.45%) IFRS
6 2 (1.45%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.72%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (7.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.80%) Grafana
2 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (41.30%) Databricks
2 55 (39.86%) Microsoft
3 23 (16.67%) Oracle
4 18 (13.04%) SAP
5 10 (7.25%) Google
6 9 (6.52%) Informatica
7 6 (4.35%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.90%) Epicor
8 4 (2.90%) IFS
8 4 (2.90%) Infor
9 2 (1.45%) HP
9 2 (1.45%) Planon
10 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.72%) Foundry
10 1 (0.72%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.72%) IBM
10 1 (0.72%) OpenAI