Data Lake Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Lakes
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 175 205
Rank change year-on-year -27 +30 +76
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 315 625 673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.66% 1.85% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.50% 7.97% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 273 532 509
10th Percentile £57,834 £42,250 £50,984
25th Percentile £70,097 £62,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £92,500 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +15.20% +14.71%
75th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £152,500 £148,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

All Database and 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 3,707 7,844 10,069
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.50% 23.18% 24.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,303 6,224 6,918
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Data Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Lake.

Data Lake salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (23.17%) Apache
2 70 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 129 (40.95%) AWS
2 89 (28.25%) Azure
3 80 (25.40%) Snowflake
4 72 (22.86%) dbt
5 54 (17.14%) Power Platform
6 44 (13.97%) GCP
7 30 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (8.89%) Dagster
9 27 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (8.25%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (7.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (5.71%) Azure AI
14 17 (5.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 17 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (5.40%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (5.40%) Entra ID
14 17 (5.40%) SaaS
15 16 (5.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.40%) Firewall
1 17 (5.40%) VPN
2 16 (5.08%) DNS
2 16 (5.08%) SD-WAN
2 16 (5.08%) WAN
3 2 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (23.17%) Amazon Athena
2 68 (21.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 68 (21.59%) Dremio
3 64 (20.32%) Apache Arrow
3 64 (20.32%) Apache Ignite
4 60 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
5 54 (17.14%) Power BI
6 24 (7.62%) SQL Server
7 17 (5.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (5.08%) Big Data
8 16 (5.08%) MySQL
9 13 (4.13%) Hadoop
10 12 (3.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (3.17%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.54%) Metadata
13 8 (2.54%) Tableau
14 7 (2.22%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 24 (7.62%) Git
2 5 (1.59%) JIRA
3 4 (1.27%) Subversion
4 2 (0.63%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.32%) ESLint
5 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.32%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 219 (69.52%) Finance
2 174 (55.24%) Front Office
3 78 (24.76%) Banking
4 64 (20.32%) Investment Banking
5 41 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (12.70%) Social Skills
7 16 (5.08%) Law
8 7 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.59%) Advertising
10 5 (1.59%) Retail
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.32%) Billing
13 1 (0.32%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (26.67%) Senior
2 71 (22.54%) AWS Engineer
3 66 (20.95%) Software Engineer
4 65 (20.63%) AWS Software Engineer
5 57 (18.10%) Java Engineer
5 57 (18.10%) Java Software Engineer
6 53 (16.83%) Data Engineer
6 53 (16.83%) Senior Software Engineer
7 48 (15.24%) Senior Java Engineer
7 48 (15.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 47 (14.92%) Architect
8 47 (14.92%) Python Engineer
9 45 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
10 44 (13.97%) Lead
11 32 (10.16%) Data Governance Analyst
11 32 (10.16%) Data Governance Manager
11 32 (10.16%) Governance Manager
12 30 (9.52%) Head of Finance
13 24 (7.62%) Finance Manager
13 24 (7.62%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (20.95%) NumPy
1 66 (20.95%) Pandas
1 66 (20.95%) SciPy
2 64 (20.32%) gRPC
2 64 (20.32%) Protocol Buffers
3 45 (14.29%) PySpark
4 9 (2.86%) Kafka
5 5 (1.59%) .NET
5 5 (1.59%) EDI
6 4 (1.27%) JSON
7 3 (0.95%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.95%) RESTful
8 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.32%) D3.js
8 1 (0.32%) Highcharts JS
8 1 (0.32%) Jest
8 1 (0.32%) React
8 1 (0.32%) REST
8 1 (0.32%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 170 (53.97%) Derivative
1 170 (53.97%) Equities
1 170 (53.97%) Fixed Income
1 170 (53.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 170 (53.97%) Hedge funds
2 38 (12.06%) Pricing Data
3 37 (11.75%) Product Ownership
4 16 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.08%) NHS
5 14 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.81%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.95%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.32%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (66.03%) Agile
2 171 (54.29%) Migration
3 146 (46.35%) Investment Management
4 137 (43.49%) Roadmaps
5 124 (39.37%) Data Governance
6 109 (34.60%) Data Management
7 106 (33.65%) Regulatory Compliance
8 84 (26.67%) Analytics
9 72 (22.86%) Software Engineering
10 68 (21.59%) Asset Management
11 65 (20.63%) ETL
12 57 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (12.70%) DevOps
14 39 (12.38%) Data Modelling
14 39 (12.38%) Mentoring
15 38 (12.06%) Data Engineering
16 37 (11.75%) CI/CD
17 36 (11.43%) Data Integration
18 33 (10.48%) Data Architecture
19 29 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 110 (34.92%) Python
2 83 (26.35%) SQL
3 81 (25.71%) Java
4 67 (21.27%) JavaScript
5 64 (20.32%) TypeScript
6 18 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.71%) R
7 16 (5.08%) Bicep
8 10 (3.17%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.22%) Scala
10 4 (1.27%) Julia
10 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.27%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.27%) VBA
11 2 (0.63%) C#
12 1 (0.32%) Erlang
12 1 (0.32%) F#
12 1 (0.32%) Haskell
12 1 (0.32%) JCL
12 1 (0.32%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 28 (8.89%) Azure Certification
2 24 (7.62%) Degree
3 17 (5.40%) DBS Check
4 11 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.59%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.59%) PMP
7 4 (1.27%) SAP Certification
8 3 (0.95%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.63%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (16.51%) MiFID
2 28 (8.89%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.90%) GxP
4 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 16 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.27%) HDFS
3 3 (0.95%) Docker
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.27%) Terraform
3 2 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (20.63%) Databricks
2 45 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.71%) SAP
4 16 (5.08%) Meraki
5 13 (4.13%) Google
6 10 (3.17%) Teradata
7 6 (1.90%) Infor
8 4 (1.27%) Oracle
9 3 (0.95%) Informatica
10 2 (0.63%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.63%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.63%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.63%) IBM
11 1 (0.32%) Dell
11 1 (0.32%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.32%) Palo Alto