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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 228 74
Rank change year-on-year -90 -154 +112
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 148 203 774
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.59% 1.24% 3.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.63% 7.83% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 93 174 737
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £110,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -2.22% +60.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £148,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -19.05% +40.00%

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 3,197 2,592 4,698
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.70% 15.78% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,419 1,779 2,897
10th Percentile £37,700 £35,833 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +14.75%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 16 October 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 15 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 13 (8.78%) SharePoint
3 11 (7.43%) Apache
3 11 (7.43%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (3.38%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.38%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (2.03%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.68%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.68%) HFM
5 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (60.81%) Azure
2 52 (35.14%) Power Platform
3 35 (23.65%) AWS
4 29 (19.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (15.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (13.51%) GCP
7 19 (12.84%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (10.81%) PowerApps
10 15 (10.14%) Amazon S3
10 15 (10.14%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (8.78%) GitHub
11 13 (8.78%) Serverless
12 12 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (8.11%) Entra ID
13 11 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (6.08%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (6.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (6.08%) Collibra
14 9 (6.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.73%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) 4G
2 1 (0.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (47.30%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (35.14%) Power BI
3 21 (14.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (13.51%) SQL Server
5 15 (10.14%) Metadata
6 13 (8.78%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (8.78%) Big Data
7 12 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (8.11%) Tableau
8 7 (4.73%) Delta Lake
8 7 (4.73%) Parquet
9 6 (4.05%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (4.05%) SAP BW
10 5 (3.38%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.38%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (21.62%) Git
2 5 (3.38%) GitLab
3 2 (1.35%) JIRA
3 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.68%) MLflow
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (33.11%) Finance
2 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 13 (8.78%) Banking
7 9 (6.08%) Retail
8 8 (5.41%) Marketing
9 6 (4.05%) Investment Banking
10 5 (3.38%) Legal
11 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.35%) Billing
13 2 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.35%) Local Government
13 2 (1.35%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.68%) Front Office
14 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (37.16%) Data Engineer
2 27 (18.24%) Lead
3 25 (16.89%) Architect
4 23 (15.54%) Senior
5 20 (13.51%) Developer
6 19 (12.84%) Data Architect
7 14 (9.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 13 (8.78%) Azure Data Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Data Manager
10 6 (4.05%) Analyst
10 6 (4.05%) Big Data Manager
10 6 (4.05%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Manager
10 6 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.38%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (3.38%) Service Owner
12 4 (2.70%) Consultant
12 4 (2.70%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.24%) PySpark
2 18 (12.16%) Terraform
3 11 (7.43%) JSON
4 8 (5.41%) Middleware
5 6 (4.05%) Apache Avro
5 6 (4.05%) FastAPI
5 6 (4.05%) Flask
5 6 (4.05%) Kafka
5 6 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (3.38%) XML
7 4 (2.70%) .NET
7 4 (2.70%) Django
7 4 (2.70%) Node.js
7 4 (2.70%) React
8 3 (2.03%) ADO
9 2 (1.35%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.35%) Pandas
9 2 (1.35%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.35%) RESTful
9 2 (1.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.05%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (4.05%) Social Media
5 5 (3.38%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.70%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.35%) Blog
8 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.35%) NHS
8 2 (1.35%) PMI
8 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (54.05%) Analytics
2 65 (43.92%) Data Pipeline
3 64 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
4 62 (41.89%) Data Engineering
5 58 (39.19%) ETL
6 55 (37.16%) Data Modelling
7 48 (32.43%) Agile
8 45 (30.41%) AI
8 45 (30.41%) CI/CD
9 43 (29.05%) Data Architecture
10 39 (26.35%) DevOps
11 35 (23.65%) Decision-Making
12 34 (22.97%) Data Governance
13 31 (20.95%) Data Science
14 29 (19.59%) ERP
14 29 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (18.92%) Data Integration
15 28 (18.92%) Mentoring
16 26 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (16.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 85 (57.43%) SQL
2 71 (47.97%) Python
3 16 (10.81%) C#
4 10 (6.76%) Java
5 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.03%) Bash
9 2 (1.35%) R
9 2 (1.35%) VBA
10 1 (0.68%) Bicep
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) SC Cleared
1 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.11%) Degree
3 9 (6.08%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.35%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) MCT
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
7 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (36.49%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.08%) GDPR
3 8 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.38%) QA
5 4 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.68%) IASME
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (8.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (4.05%) Grafana
2 2 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Control-M
Vendors
1 65 (43.92%) Microsoft
2 55 (37.16%) Databricks
3 16 (10.81%) Oracle
4 11 (7.43%) HP
4 11 (7.43%) SAP
5 9 (6.08%) Informatica
6 8 (5.41%) Google
7 4 (2.70%) Epicor
7 4 (2.70%) IFS
7 4 (2.70%) Infor
8 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.68%) IBM
9 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.68%) Sparx
9 1 (0.68%) YouTube