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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 219 135
Rank change year-on-year -113 -84 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 102 247 770
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 1.58% 2.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 7.54% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 74 208 726
10th Percentile £59,308 £52,500 £53,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -2.22% +40.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% -8.33% +13.92%

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 2,796 3,277 7,467
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.72% 20.96% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,193 2,199 6,231
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 25 June 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 14 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.78%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.86%) Apache
4 4 (3.92%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.94%) SAS
6 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (11.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (4.90%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.94%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.98%) HFM
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.86%) Azure
2 32 (31.37%) Power Platform
3 28 (27.45%) AWS
4 24 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (23.53%) GCP
5 20 (19.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (6.86%) GitHub
8 7 (6.86%) OCI
8 7 (6.86%) Serverless
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.90%) SaaS
10 4 (3.92%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.92%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (3.92%) dbt
10 4 (3.92%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.92%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.94%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.75%) Broadband
2 3 (2.94%) Modbus
2 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.98%) 4G
3 1 (0.98%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (36.27%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (29.41%) Power BI
3 15 (14.71%) Tableau
4 14 (13.73%) Metadata
5 12 (11.76%) SAP BW
6 11 (10.78%) BigQuery
6 11 (10.78%) Delta Lake
7 8 (7.84%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (6.86%) Big Data
8 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.92%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.94%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Git
2 2 (1.96%) GitLab
2 2 (1.96%) MLflow
2 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 40 (39.22%) Finance
2 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (8.82%) Banking
7 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.90%) Retail
8 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Billing
10 1 (0.98%) Law
10 1 (0.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (36.27%) Data Engineer
2 21 (20.59%) Architect
3 18 (17.65%) Lead
4 16 (15.69%) Senior
5 10 (9.80%) Data Architect
5 10 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.86%) Analyst
9 6 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Service Owner
10 5 (4.90%) Data Manager
10 5 (4.90%) Lead Data Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Consultant
11 4 (3.92%) Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Report Analyst
11 4 (3.92%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) PySpark
2 12 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (6.86%) Kafka
4 6 (5.88%) .NET
4 6 (5.88%) EDI
5 4 (3.92%) REST
6 3 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.94%) ADO
6 3 (2.94%) gRPC
6 3 (2.94%) Middleware
6 3 (2.94%) XML
7 1 (0.98%) JSON
7 1 (0.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.73%) Product Ownership
3 13 (12.75%) Data Structures
4 12 (11.76%) Social Media
5 7 (6.86%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.88%) Reference Data
7 5 (4.90%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.96%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.98%) FMCG
10 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.98%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (51.96%) Data Modelling
2 52 (50.98%) ETL
3 41 (40.20%) Data Engineering
3 41 (40.20%) Data Pipeline
4 40 (39.22%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (38.24%) Analytics
6 30 (29.41%) Data Governance
7 29 (28.43%) Agile
8 27 (26.47%) Data Architecture
9 25 (24.51%) AI
9 25 (24.51%) CI/CD
10 23 (22.55%) Data Integration
10 23 (22.55%) ERP
11 22 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (20.59%) DevOps
13 20 (19.61%) Data Science
13 20 (19.61%) Mentoring
14 19 (18.63%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
16 17 (16.67%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 52 (50.98%) SQL
2 46 (45.10%) Python
3 7 (6.86%) C#
4 6 (5.88%) Scala
5 5 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.94%) Bicep
6 3 (2.94%) Java
6 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.96%) Bash
7 2 (1.96%) VBA
8 1 (0.98%) R
8 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.82%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.84%) Degree
3 7 (6.86%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.88%) CITP
4 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.98%) MCT
8 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.98%) PhD
8 1 (0.98%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (30.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.88%) GDPR
3 5 (4.90%) QA
4 3 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.94%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.96%) IFRS
5 2 (1.96%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Terraform
2 4 (3.92%) Grafana
3 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (30.39%) Databricks
2 26 (25.49%) Microsoft
3 22 (21.57%) Oracle
4 16 (15.69%) SAP
5 10 (9.80%) Google
6 9 (8.82%) Salesforce
7 6 (5.88%) Planon
8 4 (3.92%) Informatica
9 3 (2.94%) Epicor
9 3 (2.94%) IFS
9 3 (2.94%) Infor
10 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.98%) Foundry
10 1 (0.98%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.98%) IBM
10 1 (0.98%) OpenAI