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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 233 77
Rank change year-on-year -80 -156 +94
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 143 207 860
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 1.27% 3.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.53% 7.24% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 102 175 819
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £70,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.35% +48.39%
75th Percentile £91,250 £135,000 £147,500
90th Percentile £112,475 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% -23.26% +43.33%

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 3,158 2,858 5,003
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.52% 17.49% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,510 2,028 3,621
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,854 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,400
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.43% +4.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £114,125 £127,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

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 3 September 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 13 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 12 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (7.69%) Apache
4 9 (6.29%) SharePoint
5 5 (3.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (8.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (4.20%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.50%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (2.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.70%) HFM
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 82 (57.34%) Azure
2 53 (37.06%) Power Platform
3 28 (19.58%) AWS
4 26 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (14.69%) GCP
6 17 (11.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (10.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (8.39%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (7.69%) GitHub
11 10 (6.99%) PowerApps
12 9 (6.29%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (6.29%) Collibra
12 9 (6.29%) dbt
13 8 (5.59%) Amazon S3
13 8 (5.59%) Azure Databricks
13 8 (5.59%) Entra ID
13 8 (5.59%) Serverless
14 7 (4.90%) OCI
15 6 (4.20%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.09%) Broadband
2 1 (0.70%) 4G
2 1 (0.70%) 5G
2 1 (0.70%) Modbus
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (44.76%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (35.66%) Power BI
3 21 (14.69%) SQL Server
4 19 (13.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (12.59%) Tableau
6 16 (11.19%) Metadata
7 13 (9.09%) Big Data
8 12 (8.39%) SAP BW
9 10 (6.99%) Delta Lake
10 7 (4.90%) BigQuery
11 6 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.50%) DynamoDB
12 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.50%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.80%) Geospatial Data
14 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (2.10%) Spark SQL
15 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Git
2 3 (2.10%) GitLab
3 2 (1.40%) MLflow
3 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.70%) JIRA
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (35.66%) Finance
2 47 (32.87%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.69%) Banking
6 9 (6.29%) Retail
7 8 (5.59%) Marketing
8 5 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.50%) Legal
9 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.40%) Billing
11 2 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.40%) Local Government
11 2 (1.40%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Law
12 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 25 (17.48%) Lead
3 24 (16.78%) Architect
4 20 (13.99%) Senior
5 18 (12.59%) Data Architect
6 15 (10.49%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (10.49%) Developer
7 13 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) Analyst
10 8 (5.59%) Data Manager
10 8 (5.59%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (4.90%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.20%) Databricks Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Service Owner
13 5 (3.50%) Big Data Manager
13 5 (3.50%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.50%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.59%) PySpark
1 18 (12.59%) Terraform
2 12 (8.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (4.20%) Kafka
4 5 (3.50%) JSON
4 5 (3.50%) XML
5 4 (2.80%) .NET
5 4 (2.80%) Django
5 4 (2.80%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.80%) Flask
5 4 (2.80%) Middleware
5 4 (2.80%) Node.js
5 4 (2.80%) React
6 3 (2.10%) ADO
7 2 (1.40%) EDI
7 2 (1.40%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.70%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.70%) gRPC
8 1 (0.70%) Pandas
8 1 (0.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.79%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.39%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.39%) Social Media
4 6 (4.20%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.20%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.50%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.50%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.40%) Blog
8 2 (1.40%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.40%) NHS
8 2 (1.40%) PMI
8 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (51.05%) Analytics
2 64 (44.76%) Data Pipeline
3 61 (42.66%) Business Intelligence
4 59 (41.26%) Data Modelling
5 58 (40.56%) Data Engineering
6 56 (39.16%) ETL
7 46 (32.17%) Data Architecture
8 41 (28.67%) Agile
8 41 (28.67%) AI
9 37 (25.87%) CI/CD
9 37 (25.87%) Data Governance
10 34 (23.78%) Decision-Making
11 31 (21.68%) ERP
12 30 (20.98%) Data Science
13 28 (19.58%) DevOps
14 27 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (16.78%) Data Integration
15 24 (16.78%) Lakehouse
16 22 (15.38%) Data Strategy
17 21 (14.69%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 79 (55.24%) SQL
2 63 (44.06%) Python
3 12 (8.39%) C#
4 7 (4.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.80%) Java
5 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.10%) Bash
7 2 (1.40%) Bicep
7 2 (1.40%) R
7 2 (1.40%) VBA
8 1 (0.70%) Scala
8 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.99%) Degree
2 10 (6.99%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) Azure Certification
4 7 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.40%) CITP
7 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) MCT
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.70%) PhD
8 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (32.87%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.29%) GDPR
3 6 (4.20%) QA
4 4 (2.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.10%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.40%) IFRS
6 2 (1.40%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (6.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.59%) Grafana
2 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (41.96%) Microsoft
2 58 (40.56%) Databricks
3 23 (16.08%) Oracle
4 17 (11.89%) SAP
5 10 (6.99%) Google
6 9 (6.29%) Informatica
7 7 (4.90%) HP
8 5 (3.50%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.80%) Epicor
9 4 (2.80%) IFS
9 4 (2.80%) Infor
10 2 (1.40%) Planon
11 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.70%) Foundry
11 1 (0.70%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.70%) IBM
11 1 (0.70%) OpenAI