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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 243 86
Rank change year-on-year -93 -157 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 131 206 808
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 1.25% 3.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.19% 6.54% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 98 175 770
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,000 £66,500
25th Percentile £64,439 £67,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -8.70% +43.75%
75th Percentile £91,250 £117,500 £143,750
90th Percentile £113,425 £135,000 £165,000
UK median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -28.57% +35.48%

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 3,124 3,151 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 19.12% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 2,111 4,018
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £37,940
25th Percentile £45,309 £46,250 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £91,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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

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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 6 August 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 12 (9.16%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.40%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.87%) Apache
4 4 (3.05%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.29%) SAS
6 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (9.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (4.58%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.82%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (2.29%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.76%) HFM
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 76 (58.02%) Azure
2 46 (35.11%) Power Platform
3 26 (19.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (19.85%) GCP
4 25 (19.08%) AWS
5 19 (14.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (9.16%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (7.63%) GitHub
8 9 (6.87%) dbt
9 7 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.34%) OCI
10 6 (4.58%) Collibra
10 6 (4.58%) Serverless
11 5 (3.82%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.82%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.05%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.05%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) Broadband
2 3 (2.29%) Modbus
2 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) 4G
3 1 (0.76%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (45.04%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (33.59%) Power BI
3 18 (13.74%) Metadata
3 18 (13.74%) SQL Server
4 17 (12.98%) Tableau
5 16 (12.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (9.16%) SAP BW
7 11 (8.40%) BigQuery
8 9 (6.87%) Big Data
8 9 (6.87%) Delta Lake
9 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
10 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (4.58%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.05%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Git
2 2 (1.53%) GitLab
2 2 (1.53%) MLflow
2 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 43 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 40 (30.53%) Finance
3 19 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.87%) Banking
5 9 (6.87%) Retail
6 7 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.82%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.82%) Marketing
8 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.29%) Legal
9 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.53%) Billing
10 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (36.64%) Data Engineer
2 27 (20.61%) Architect
3 21 (16.03%) Lead
4 20 (15.27%) Senior
5 15 (11.45%) Data Architect
6 13 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Analyst
9 9 (6.87%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.11%) Developer
10 8 (6.11%) Financial Analyst
11 6 (4.58%) Service Owner
12 5 (3.82%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.82%) Lead Data Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Consultant
13 4 (3.05%) Data Manager
13 4 (3.05%) Data Scientist
13 4 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.21%) PySpark
2 12 (9.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (5.34%) Kafka
4 6 (4.58%) .NET
5 5 (3.82%) XML
6 4 (3.05%) Django
6 4 (3.05%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.05%) Flask
6 4 (3.05%) JSON
6 4 (3.05%) Middleware
6 4 (3.05%) Node.js
6 4 (3.05%) React
6 4 (3.05%) REST
7 3 (2.29%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.29%) ADO
7 3 (2.29%) gRPC
8 2 (1.53%) EDI
8 2 (1.53%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.45%) Data Structures
2 15 (11.45%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.16%) Social Media
4 6 (4.58%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.58%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.82%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.82%) Reinsurance
6 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) PMI
8 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.44%) Analytics
2 60 (45.80%) Data Modelling
3 57 (43.51%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (43.51%) Data Pipeline
4 53 (40.46%) ETL
5 51 (38.93%) Data Engineering
6 42 (32.06%) Data Architecture
7 41 (31.30%) AI
8 34 (25.95%) CI/CD
9 33 (25.19%) Agile
9 33 (25.19%) Data Governance
9 33 (25.19%) Decision-Making
10 29 (22.14%) Data Science
11 26 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (19.08%) ERP
13 22 (16.79%) Translating Business Requirements
14 21 (16.03%) Data Integration
15 20 (15.27%) Actionable Insight
15 20 (15.27%) Data Strategy
15 20 (15.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 75 (57.25%) SQL
2 62 (47.33%) Python
3 7 (5.34%) C#
3 7 (5.34%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.29%) Bicep
6 3 (2.29%) Java
6 3 (2.29%) R
7 2 (1.53%) Bash
7 2 (1.53%) Scala
7 2 (1.53%) VBA
8 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.40%) Degree
2 10 (7.63%) Azure Certification
2 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.53%) CITP
6 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) MCT
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
7 1 (0.76%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (37.40%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.87%) GDPR
3 5 (3.82%) QA
4 4 (3.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.29%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.53%) IFRS
6 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.45%) Terraform
2 8 (6.11%) Grafana
3 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (38.17%) Databricks
2 49 (37.40%) Microsoft
3 23 (17.56%) Oracle
4 18 (13.74%) SAP
5 11 (8.40%) Google
6 7 (5.34%) Informatica
7 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.05%) Epicor
8 4 (3.05%) IFS
8 4 (3.05%) Infor
9 2 (1.53%) Planon
10 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.76%) Foundry
10 1 (0.76%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.76%) IBM
10 1 (0.76%) OpenAI