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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 136 246
Rank change year-on-year -125 +110 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 133 362 360
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 2.58% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.33% 9.46% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 110 330 290
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,168 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,697 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £91,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £152,500 £110,000
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 2,101 3,825 7,083
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.69% 27.22% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,517 2,471 6,068
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £44,201
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +15.22% -8.49%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 9 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 18 (13.53%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (12.78%) Apache
3 13 (9.77%) Apache Spark
4 7 (5.26%) SAS
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 91 (68.42%) Azure
2 50 (37.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (30.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 37 (27.82%) AWS
5 28 (21.05%) Power Platform
6 24 (18.05%) Snowflake
7 22 (16.54%) GitHub
7 22 (16.54%) SaaS
8 19 (14.29%) GCP
9 18 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (7.52%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (7.52%) dbt
10 10 (7.52%) Serverless
11 9 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (6.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (3.01%) Alation
14 4 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.01%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Modbus
1 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (55.64%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (21.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 28 (21.05%) Power BI
4 20 (15.04%) Metadata
5 16 (12.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 15 (11.28%) Delta Lake
7 13 (9.77%) BigQuery
7 13 (9.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (9.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (8.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (8.27%) Data Mining
9 10 (7.52%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
11 6 (4.51%) Apache Arrow
11 6 (4.51%) Apache Ignite
11 6 (4.51%) Data Vault
11 6 (4.51%) Dremio
11 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.76%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (3.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) ER Studio
2 4 (3.01%) ERwin
2 4 (3.01%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.75%) git-flow
4 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 59 (44.36%) Finance
2 26 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.03%) Retail
5 15 (11.28%) Banking
6 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.26%) Front Office
8 6 (4.51%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.51%) Law
8 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.01%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.26%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.26%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 61 (45.86%) Data Engineer
2 40 (30.08%) Senior
3 24 (18.05%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (16.54%) Architect
5 15 (11.28%) Data Manager
6 14 (10.53%) Data Architect
7 11 (8.27%) Senior Architect
8 9 (6.77%) Azure Architect
8 9 (6.77%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
10 7 (5.26%) Lead
10 7 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.51%) AWS Software Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Principal Data Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Data Architect
11 6 (4.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) PySpark
2 8 (6.02%) gRPC
3 7 (5.26%) NumPy
3 7 (5.26%) Pandas
4 6 (4.51%) Kafka
4 6 (4.51%) Protocol Buffers
4 6 (4.51%) SciPy
5 5 (3.76%) EDI
6 3 (2.26%) .NET
6 3 (2.26%) REST
7 2 (1.50%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.75%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.75%) Middleware
8 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.26%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.51%) Derivative
4 6 (4.51%) Equities
4 6 (4.51%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.51%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.01%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.26%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.26%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (54.14%) ETL
2 71 (53.38%) Data Modelling
3 68 (51.13%) Analytics
4 61 (45.86%) Data Engineering
5 57 (42.86%) Agile
6 54 (40.60%) Data Pipeline
7 41 (30.83%) DevOps
8 40 (30.08%) CI/CD
8 40 (30.08%) Data Governance
9 39 (29.32%) Data Science
10 37 (27.82%) Data Integration
11 36 (27.07%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (22.56%) Data Architecture
13 27 (20.30%) Mentoring
14 25 (18.80%) AI
14 25 (18.80%) Coaching
15 24 (18.05%) Data Strategy
15 24 (18.05%) Decision-Making
16 21 (15.79%) Data Management
16 21 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 93 (69.92%) SQL
2 53 (39.85%) Python
3 13 (9.77%) Scala
3 13 (9.77%) T-SQL
4 7 (5.26%) Java
5 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.26%) Bicep
6 3 (2.26%) C#
6 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (6.77%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Azure Certification
2 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.51%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.76%) CITP
4 4 (3.01%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.50%) GDPR
2 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (16.54%) Terraform
2 4 (3.01%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 72 (54.14%) Databricks
2 27 (20.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.77%) Google
4 6 (4.51%) Informatica
4 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.76%) Planon
6 4 (3.01%) IBM
7 3 (2.26%) Oracle
8 1 (0.75%) SAP