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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 226 76
Rank change year-on-year -73 -150 +104
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 153 214 854
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 1.31% 3.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.79% 7.79% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 99 179 813
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £70,000
25th Percentile £68,125 £70,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.35% +53.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £135,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £115,000 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £76,250 £83,750 £110,000
% change year-on-year -8.96% -23.86% +46.67%

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 3,193 2,746 4,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.12% 16.83% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,497 1,915 3,284
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,500 £38,825
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -5.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £79,100 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% +1.60%

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 18 September 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 (9.15%) Apache Spark
2 13 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 11 (7.19%) Apache
3 11 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (3.92%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.27%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.65%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.65%) HFM
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 92 (60.13%) Azure
2 58 (37.91%) Power Platform
3 34 (22.22%) AWS
4 30 (19.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (15.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (11.76%) GCP
8 17 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 15 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (9.80%) PowerApps
9 15 (9.80%) Serverless
10 13 (8.50%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (7.84%) Entra ID
11 12 (7.84%) GitHub
12 11 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (6.54%) Azure Functions
14 9 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (5.88%) Collibra
15 8 (5.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) 4G
2 1 (0.65%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (43.14%) Data Warehouse
2 56 (36.60%) Power BI
3 21 (13.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 21 (13.73%) SQL Server
4 18 (11.76%) Tableau
5 16 (10.46%) Metadata
6 14 (9.15%) Big Data
7 12 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (7.84%) SAP BW
8 11 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (6.54%) Delta Lake
10 7 (4.58%) Parquet
11 5 (3.27%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.27%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.27%) NoSQL
11 5 (3.27%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (2.61%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (18.30%) Git
2 3 (1.96%) GitLab
3 2 (1.31%) JIRA
3 2 (1.31%) MLflow
3 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (36.60%) Finance
2 47 (30.72%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.19%) Banking
7 9 (5.88%) Marketing
7 9 (5.88%) Retail
8 5 (3.27%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.27%) Legal
9 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.31%) Billing
11 2 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.31%) Local Government
11 2 (1.31%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Front Office
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (37.25%) Data Engineer
2 25 (16.34%) Lead
3 24 (15.69%) Senior
4 23 (15.03%) Architect
5 19 (12.42%) Developer
6 18 (11.76%) Data Architect
7 15 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (9.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 14 (9.15%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (8.50%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Analyst
10 9 (5.88%) Data Manager
11 8 (5.23%) Financial Analyst
12 7 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (3.92%) Big Data Manager
13 6 (3.92%) Databricks Engineer
13 6 (3.92%) Senior Manager
13 6 (3.92%) Service Owner
13 6 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (3.27%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.34%) PySpark
2 17 (11.11%) Terraform
3 12 (7.84%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (7.19%) JSON
5 7 (4.58%) Kafka
6 6 (3.92%) Apache Avro
7 5 (3.27%) XML
8 4 (2.61%) .NET
8 4 (2.61%) Django
8 4 (2.61%) FastAPI
8 4 (2.61%) Flask
8 4 (2.61%) Middleware
8 4 (2.61%) Node.js
8 4 (2.61%) React
9 3 (1.96%) ADO
10 2 (1.31%) EDI
10 2 (1.31%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.34%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.15%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.84%) Social Media
4 6 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (3.92%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.27%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.31%) Blog
8 2 (1.31%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.31%) NHS
8 2 (1.31%) PMI
8 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (51.63%) Analytics
2 71 (46.41%) Data Pipeline
3 65 (42.48%) Business Intelligence
4 62 (40.52%) Data Engineering
4 62 (40.52%) ETL
5 59 (38.56%) Data Modelling
6 48 (31.37%) Agile
7 46 (30.07%) Data Architecture
8 42 (27.45%) CI/CD
9 41 (26.80%) AI
10 39 (25.49%) DevOps
11 37 (24.18%) Data Governance
12 35 (22.88%) ERP
13 33 (21.57%) Decision-Making
14 31 (20.26%) Data Science
15 30 (19.61%) Data Integration
16 27 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (16.34%) Validation
18 24 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 24 (15.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 84 (54.90%) SQL
2 68 (44.44%) Python
3 16 (10.46%) C#
4 10 (6.54%) Java
5 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.96%) Bash
9 2 (1.31%) Bicep
9 2 (1.31%) R
9 2 (1.31%) VBA
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 17 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.54%) Degree
3 9 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.31%) CITP
7 2 (1.31%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) MCT
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.88%) GDPR
3 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.27%) QA
5 4 (2.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.96%) Solvency II
7 2 (1.31%) IFRS
7 2 (1.31%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (5.23%) Grafana
2 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.65%) Control-M
Vendors
1 63 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 56 (36.60%) Databricks
3 23 (15.03%) Oracle
4 17 (11.11%) SAP
5 11 (7.19%) HP
6 9 (5.88%) Informatica
7 8 (5.23%) Google
8 5 (3.27%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.61%) Epicor
9 4 (2.61%) IFS
9 4 (2.61%) Infor
10 2 (1.31%) Planon
11 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.65%) Foundry
11 1 (0.65%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.65%) IBM
11 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.65%) YouTube