Data Lake Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 145 195
Rank change year-on-year -104 +50 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 250 776 671
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.28% 2.18% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.02% 9.75% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 210 689 508
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year - +37.00% +7.06%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £106,563
90th Percentile £152,500 £155,665 £150,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% +6.67%

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 3,561 7,962 9,078
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.27% 22.32% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 6,272 6,529
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,042 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £49,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £101,185
UK median annual salary £60,743 £57,500 £64,015
% change year-on-year +5.64% -10.18% +6.69%

Data Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

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 66 (26.40%) Apache
2 61 (24.40%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.80%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 117 (46.80%) AWS
2 83 (33.20%) Azure
3 72 (28.80%) Snowflake
4 61 (24.40%) dbt
5 52 (20.80%) Power Platform
6 29 (11.60%) GCP
7 23 (9.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 22 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (8.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (7.20%) Azure AI
10 18 (7.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 17 (6.80%) Entra ID
11 17 (6.80%) Power Automate
11 17 (6.80%) SaaS
12 16 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (6.40%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (6.40%) IaaS
12 16 (6.40%) PaaS
13 15 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.20%) Firewall
1 18 (7.20%) VPN
2 16 (6.40%) DNS
2 16 (6.40%) SD-WAN
2 16 (6.40%) WAN
3 2 (0.80%) Internet
3 2 (0.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (25.60%) Amazon Athena
2 59 (23.60%) Apache Arrow
2 59 (23.60%) Apache Iceberg
2 59 (23.60%) Apache Ignite
2 59 (23.60%) Dremio
3 57 (22.80%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (20.80%) Power BI
5 23 (9.20%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (6.40%) MySQL
8 15 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (5.60%) Big Data
10 12 (4.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 11 (4.40%) Hadoop
12 10 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (3.60%) Metadata
13 9 (3.60%) NoSQL
14 8 (3.20%) Tableau
15 7 (2.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 22 (8.80%) Git
2 4 (1.60%) JIRA
2 4 (1.60%) Subversion
3 2 (0.80%) ER Studio
General
1 169 (67.60%) Finance
2 122 (48.80%) Front Office
3 69 (27.60%) Banking
4 59 (23.60%) Investment Banking
5 37 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (14.40%) Social Skills
7 16 (6.40%) Law
8 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.00%) Advertising
9 5 (2.00%) Retail
10 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 79 (31.60%) Senior
2 63 (25.20%) AWS Engineer
3 61 (24.40%) Software Engineer
4 60 (24.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 59 (23.60%) Java Engineer
5 59 (23.60%) Java Software Engineer
6 55 (22.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 54 (21.60%) Senior Java Engineer
7 54 (21.60%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 48 (19.20%) Python Engineer
8 48 (19.20%) Python Software Engineer
9 47 (18.80%) Data Engineer
10 39 (15.60%) Architect
11 34 (13.60%) Lead
12 24 (9.60%) Head of Finance
13 22 (8.80%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (7.20%) Senior Data Engineer
15 12 (4.80%) Data Governance Analyst
15 12 (4.80%) Finance Manager
15 12 (4.80%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.60%) gRPC
1 59 (23.60%) NumPy
1 59 (23.60%) Pandas
1 59 (23.60%) Protocol Buffers
1 59 (23.60%) SciPy
2 24 (9.60%) PySpark
3 6 (2.40%) Kafka
4 5 (2.00%) EDI
4 5 (2.00%) JSON
5 4 (1.60%) .NET
6 3 (1.20%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.20%) RESTful
7 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.40%) CSS
7 1 (0.40%) D3.js
7 1 (0.40%) Highcharts JS
7 1 (0.40%) Middleware
7 1 (0.40%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (48.80%) Derivative
1 122 (48.80%) Equities
1 122 (48.80%) Fixed Income
1 122 (48.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 122 (48.80%) Hedge funds
2 48 (19.20%) Pricing Data
3 16 (6.40%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.40%) Management Information System
3 16 (6.40%) NHS
4 13 (5.20%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.80%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.40%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (61.20%) Agile
2 111 (44.40%) Investment Management
2 111 (44.40%) Migration
3 89 (35.60%) Data Management
4 87 (34.80%) Roadmaps
5 78 (31.20%) Data Governance
6 68 (27.20%) Analytics
7 64 (25.60%) ETL
8 63 (25.20%) Regulatory Compliance
8 63 (25.20%) Software Engineering
9 59 (23.60%) Asset Management
10 48 (19.20%) Business Intelligence
11 42 (16.80%) Data Modelling
12 35 (14.00%) CI/CD
12 35 (14.00%) DevOps
13 33 (13.20%) Data Integration
14 32 (12.80%) Data Engineering
14 32 (12.80%) Mentoring
15 28 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
16 27 (10.80%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 100 (40.00%) Python
2 82 (32.80%) SQL
3 74 (29.60%) Java
4 60 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 59 (23.60%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.20%) R
7 17 (6.80%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.40%) Bicep
9 10 (4.00%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.80%) Scala
11 4 (1.60%) Julia
11 4 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.60%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.60%) VBA
12 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.40%) Elixir
13 1 (0.40%) Elm
13 1 (0.40%) F#
13 1 (0.40%) Lisp
13 1 (0.40%) PureScript
Qualifications
1 27 (10.80%) Azure Certification
2 25 (10.00%) Degree
3 18 (7.20%) DBS Check
4 11 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.40%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.60%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.60%) PMP
5 4 (1.60%) SAP Certification
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.20%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.80%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.80%) MiFID
2 26 (10.40%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.40%) GxP
4 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (6.40%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.60%) HDFS
3 3 (1.20%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (6.40%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.60%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (24.00%) Databricks
2 46 (18.40%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.60%) SAP
4 16 (6.40%) Meraki
5 14 (5.60%) Google
6 9 (3.60%) Teradata
7 6 (2.40%) Infor
8 5 (2.00%) Oracle
9 3 (1.20%) Informatica
10 2 (0.80%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.80%) IBM
10 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.40%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.40%) Dell
11 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow