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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 77 187
Rank change year-on-year -147 +110 +72
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 214 846 455
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 3.61% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.79% 17.34% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 179 805 330
10th Percentile £53,750 £70,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £115,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +53.33% -
75th Percentile £135,000 £143,750 £100,000
90th Percentile - £165,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £110,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.67% -

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 2,748 4,878 6,119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.86% 20.81% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 3,294 5,119
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,751 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £114,250 £140,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% +4.17%

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

Data Lake
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Lake

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 18 September 2025.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
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
1 102 (47.66%) Apache
2 91 (42.52%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (7.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 145 (67.76%) AWS
2 99 (46.26%) Snowflake
3 93 (43.46%) Azure
4 91 (42.52%) dbt
5 55 (25.70%) Power Platform
6 30 (14.02%) SaaS
7 22 (10.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (9.81%) GCP
9 18 (8.41%) Amazon S3
9 18 (8.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 18 (8.41%) IaaS
10 17 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (7.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (7.94%) Power Automate
11 16 (7.48%) Azure AI
11 16 (7.48%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (7.48%) Entra ID
11 16 (7.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.35%) VPN
2 19 (8.88%) Firewall
3 16 (7.48%) DNS
3 16 (7.48%) SD-WAN
3 16 (7.48%) WAN
4 2 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (45.79%) Amazon Athena
2 89 (41.59%) Apache Arrow
2 89 (41.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 89 (41.59%) Apache Ignite
2 89 (41.59%) Dremio
3 53 (24.77%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (23.83%) Power BI
5 22 (10.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.48%) MySQL
8 15 (7.01%) Metadata
9 14 (6.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 12 (5.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (5.14%) SQL Server
11 11 (5.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (4.67%) Tableau
13 8 (3.74%) Data Vault
13 8 (3.74%) Hadoop
14 6 (2.80%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.87%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 24 (11.21%) Git
2 4 (1.87%) JIRA
2 4 (1.87%) Subversion
3 1 (0.47%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 128 (59.81%) Finance
2 90 (42.06%) Banking
3 89 (41.59%) Front Office
3 89 (41.59%) Investment Banking
4 32 (14.95%) Social Skills
5 22 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.61%) Law
7 7 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.27%) Retail
8 5 (2.34%) Marketing
8 5 (2.34%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.87%) Legal
9 4 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.93%) Advertising
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.47%) Billing
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (58.41%) Senior
2 92 (42.99%) AWS Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) AWS Software Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Java Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Java Software Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Python Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Python Software Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Senior Java Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Senior Software Engineer
3 89 (41.59%) Software Engineer
4 48 (22.43%) Data Engineer
5 35 (16.36%) Architect
6 22 (10.28%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (9.35%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (7.48%) Data Architect
9 13 (6.07%) Data Manager
10 10 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.21%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.21%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (42.06%) NumPy
1 90 (42.06%) Pandas
2 89 (41.59%) gRPC
2 89 (41.59%) Protocol Buffers
2 89 (41.59%) SciPy
3 9 (4.21%) PySpark
4 3 (1.40%) Kafka
4 3 (1.40%) XML
5 2 (0.93%) JSON
6 1 (0.47%) .NET
6 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.47%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.47%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.47%) Middleware
6 1 (0.47%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 89 (41.59%) Derivative
1 89 (41.59%) Equities
1 89 (41.59%) Fixed Income
1 89 (41.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 89 (41.59%) Hedge funds
1 89 (41.59%) Pricing Data
2 18 (8.41%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.48%) NHS
4 15 (7.01%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.47%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.47%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.47%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (58.88%) Agile
2 90 (42.06%) Software Engineering
3 89 (41.59%) Asset Management
3 89 (41.59%) Investment Management
4 68 (31.78%) Analytics
5 53 (24.77%) Data Modelling
6 51 (23.83%) ETL
7 41 (19.16%) CI/CD
7 41 (19.16%) Data Engineering
8 40 (18.69%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (18.22%) Migration
10 38 (17.76%) Mentoring
11 37 (17.29%) Data Integration
12 35 (16.36%) Data Science
12 35 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (15.89%) DevOps
14 33 (15.42%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
16 24 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (10.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 133 (62.15%) Python
2 97 (45.33%) Java
3 91 (42.52%) SQL
4 89 (41.59%) JavaScript
4 89 (41.59%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.35%) Bicep
6 16 (7.48%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.61%) R
7 12 (5.61%) Scala
8 10 (4.67%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.87%) Julia
10 4 (1.87%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.87%) VBA
11 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (10.28%) Azure Certification
2 18 (8.41%) DBS Check
3 11 (5.14%) Degree
4 10 (4.67%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.27%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.87%) PMP
8 4 (1.87%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.93%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) PhD
10 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (7.94%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.34%) Docker
3 4 (1.87%) HDFS
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (7.48%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (4.67%) Terraform
3 3 (1.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (31.78%) Databricks
2 35 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.48%) Meraki
4 13 (6.07%) Google
5 11 (5.14%) SAP
6 8 (3.74%) Teradata
7 6 (2.80%) Oracle
8 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.93%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.47%) Dell
10 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.47%) Informatica
10 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.47%) VMware