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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 134 246
Rank change year-on-year -135 +112 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 124 344 366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 2.64% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.70% 9.74% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 103 317 300
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,168 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,097 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +48.78% -12.10%
75th Percentile £98,750 £122,500 £108,125
90th Percentile £119,750 £152,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -12.50%

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 2,176 3,531 7,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.81% 27.06% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 2,426 6,122
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,140 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £66,009 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +14.80% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

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 24 March 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 16 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.87%) Apache
3 9 (7.26%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.03%) SAS
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (69.35%) Azure
2 50 (40.32%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (32.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (25.81%) AWS
5 27 (21.77%) Power Platform
6 22 (17.74%) GitHub
6 22 (17.74%) Snowflake
7 20 (16.13%) GCP
8 19 (15.32%) SaaS
9 18 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.26%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (7.26%) dbt
11 7 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.65%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (5.65%) Serverless
12 6 (4.84%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (4.03%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (3.23%) Alation
14 4 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) Modbus
1 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (54.84%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (21.77%) Power BI
3 25 (20.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (16.94%) Metadata
5 15 (12.10%) BigQuery
6 14 (11.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 13 (10.48%) Delta Lake
8 10 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (8.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (7.26%) Data Mining
10 8 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (4.84%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (4.84%) SQL Server
12 5 (4.03%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (4.03%) Tableau
13 4 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
13 4 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
13 4 (3.23%) DataStage
13 4 (3.23%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Git
2 4 (3.23%) ER Studio
2 4 (3.23%) ERwin
2 4 (3.23%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.81%) git-flow
3 1 (0.81%) GitLab
3 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 53 (42.74%) Finance
2 24 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (11.29%) Retail
5 13 (10.48%) Banking
6 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.65%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.84%) Law
9 5 (4.03%) Front Office
10 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.23%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.42%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.61%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (44.35%) Data Engineer
2 34 (27.42%) Senior
3 22 (17.74%) Architect
4 21 (16.94%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (10.48%) Data Architect
6 11 (8.87%) Data Manager
7 9 (7.26%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Senior Architect
8 8 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Architect
9 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Azure Data Architect
12 4 (3.23%) Data Integration Manager
12 4 (3.23%) GCP Architect
12 4 (3.23%) GCP Data Architect
12 4 (3.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) PySpark
2 7 (5.65%) gRPC
3 5 (4.03%) EDI
3 5 (4.03%) Kafka
3 5 (4.03%) NumPy
3 5 (4.03%) Pandas
4 4 (3.23%) .NET
4 4 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (3.23%) REST
4 4 (3.23%) SciPy
5 3 (2.42%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.52%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.06%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.03%) Hedge funds
5 4 (3.23%) Derivative
5 4 (3.23%) Equities
5 4 (3.23%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.23%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.23%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.42%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (56.45%) ETL
2 69 (55.65%) Data Modelling
3 64 (51.61%) Analytics
4 56 (45.16%) Data Engineering
5 52 (41.94%) Agile
6 51 (41.13%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (31.45%) DevOps
8 37 (29.84%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (29.84%) CI/CD
8 37 (29.84%) Data Governance
9 36 (29.03%) Data Integration
10 35 (28.23%) Data Science
11 28 (22.58%) Data Architecture
12 27 (21.77%) AI
13 25 (20.16%) Coaching
13 25 (20.16%) Mentoring
14 23 (18.55%) Decision-Making
15 21 (16.94%) Data Strategy
15 21 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (16.94%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (69.35%) SQL
2 49 (39.52%) Python
3 12 (9.68%) Scala
3 12 (9.68%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.03%) Java
5 4 (3.23%) C#
5 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.42%) Bicep
7 2 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (7.26%) Degree
2 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.84%) DBS Check
3 5 (4.03%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.03%) CITP
4 4 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.42%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.61%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (17.74%) Terraform
2 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (55.65%) Databricks
2 27 (21.77%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.87%) Google
4 6 (4.84%) Informatica
4 6 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.03%) Planon
6 4 (3.23%) IBM
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (0.81%) SAP