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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 131 239
Rank change year-on-year -132 +108 -19
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 126 340 381
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 2.65% 1.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.73% 9.77% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 105 315 314
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,168 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,496 £70,097 £46,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +44.83% -9.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £81,500 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +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 2,199 3,479 7,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.07% 27.12% 23.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 2,419 6,134
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,700 £36,825
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,012 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% -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 27 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 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.73%) Apache
3 9 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.97%) SAS
5 3 (2.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 86 (68.25%) Azure
2 50 (39.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (31.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (26.19%) AWS
5 26 (20.63%) Power Platform
6 22 (17.46%) GitHub
7 21 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 20 (15.87%) GCP
9 19 (15.08%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (15.08%) SaaS
10 9 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (7.14%) dbt
11 8 (6.35%) Serverless
12 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (4.76%) Amazon S3
13 6 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.97%) Cloud Composer
14 5 (3.97%) OCI
15 4 (3.17%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Modbus
1 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (53.17%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (20.63%) Power BI
3 25 (19.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (16.67%) Metadata
5 15 (11.90%) BigQuery
6 14 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 14 (11.11%) Delta Lake
7 10 (7.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (7.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (7.14%) Data Mining
9 8 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
11 5 (3.97%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (3.97%) Tableau
12 4 (3.17%) Apache Arrow
12 4 (3.17%) Apache Ignite
12 4 (3.17%) Data Vault
12 4 (3.17%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) Git
2 4 (3.17%) ER Studio
2 4 (3.17%) ERwin
2 4 (3.17%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.79%) git-flow
3 1 (0.79%) GitLab
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 55 (43.65%) Finance
2 25 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (11.11%) Banking
4 14 (11.11%) Retail
5 9 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.76%) Law
6 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.97%) Front Office
7 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.17%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.38%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.59%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (43.65%) Data Engineer
2 34 (26.98%) Senior
3 22 (17.46%) Architect
4 21 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (10.32%) Data Architect
6 11 (8.73%) Data Manager
7 9 (7.14%) Lead
7 9 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Senior Architect
8 8 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Azure Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Architect
12 4 (3.17%) Data Integration Manager
12 4 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.17%) GCP Architect
12 4 (3.17%) GCP Data Architect
12 4 (3.17%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.49%) PySpark
2 7 (5.56%) gRPC
3 5 (3.97%) EDI
3 5 (3.97%) Kafka
3 5 (3.97%) NumPy
3 5 (3.97%) Pandas
4 4 (3.17%) .NET
4 4 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (3.17%) REST
4 4 (3.17%) SciPy
5 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.79%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.97%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.97%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.97%) Reinsurance
5 4 (3.17%) Derivative
5 4 (3.17%) Equities
5 4 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.17%) Pricing Data
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.38%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (57.14%) ETL
2 69 (54.76%) Data Modelling
3 64 (50.79%) Analytics
4 58 (46.03%) Data Engineering
5 53 (42.06%) Data Pipeline
6 51 (40.48%) Agile
7 40 (31.75%) DevOps
8 38 (30.16%) CI/CD
8 38 (30.16%) Data Governance
9 37 (29.37%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (28.57%) Data Integration
11 35 (27.78%) Data Science
12 28 (22.22%) AI
12 28 (22.22%) Data Architecture
13 26 (20.63%) Mentoring
14 25 (19.84%) Coaching
15 23 (18.25%) Decision-Making
16 21 (16.67%) Data Strategy
16 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (16.67%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (69.05%) SQL
2 51 (40.48%) Python
3 12 (9.52%) Scala
3 12 (9.52%) T-SQL
4 5 (3.97%) Java
5 4 (3.17%) C#
5 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.38%) Bicep
7 2 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
2 6 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.97%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.97%) CITP
4 4 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (34.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.79%) GDPR
2 1 (0.79%) QA
2 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (17.46%) Terraform
2 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (54.76%) Databricks
2 27 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.73%) Google
4 6 (4.76%) Informatica
4 6 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.97%) Oracle
5 5 (3.97%) Planon
6 4 (3.17%) IBM
7 1 (0.79%) SAP