Hybrid/Remote Lakehouse Job Trends

Data Lakehouse
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 393 469
Rank change year-on-year +44 +76 +33
Permanent jobs citing Lakehouse 108 28 39
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 94 25 27
10th Percentile £61,450 £66,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,731 £87,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +45.83% -25.00%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £115,000 - £96,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,177 15,355 21,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.02% 93.03% 87.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,861 8,958 14,299
10th Percentile £34,674 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Lakehouse and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Lakehouse
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lakehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lakehouse over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Lakehouse salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Lakehouse
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 9 (8.33%) Apache
2 8 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (77.78%) Azure
2 42 (38.89%) Power Platform
3 40 (37.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (26.85%) Azure Databricks
5 26 (24.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 24 (22.22%) Snowflake
7 22 (20.37%) AWS
7 22 (20.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (12.04%) GCP
9 12 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (11.11%) GitHub
10 8 (7.41%) SaaS
11 7 (6.48%) dbt
11 7 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.63%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.70%) PaaS
13 4 (3.70%) Serverless
14 3 (2.78%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (34.26%) Power BI
2 35 (32.41%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (29.63%) Delta Lake
4 28 (25.93%) Metadata
5 23 (21.30%) Data Lake
6 20 (18.52%) Data Vault
7 9 (8.33%) Star Schema
8 8 (7.41%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (7.41%) Tableau
9 7 (6.48%) Spark SQL
10 4 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (3.70%) SAP HANA
10 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (2.78%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.85%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Git
2 2 (1.85%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.85%) GitLab
2 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.85%) JUnit
2 2 (1.85%) NUnit
2 2 (1.85%) Poetry
2 2 (1.85%) Postman
2 2 (1.85%) Selenium
2 2 (1.85%) Snyk
2 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.93%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.93%) ERwin
3 1 (0.93%) MLflow
General
1 16 (14.81%) Finance
1 16 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.63%) Law
4 4 (3.70%) Retail
5 3 (2.78%) Military
5 3 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.85%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.93%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Front Office
7 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (34.26%) Architect
1 37 (34.26%) Data Engineer
2 34 (31.48%) Data Architect
3 22 (20.37%) Senior
4 18 (16.67%) Lead
5 16 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (11.11%) Databricks Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Developer
8 7 (6.48%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Technology Director
10 5 (4.63%) Databricks Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Analytics Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Business Consultant
11 4 (3.70%) Cloud Consultant
11 4 (3.70%) Consultant
11 4 (3.70%) SAP Business Consultant
11 4 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.67%) PySpark
2 26 (24.07%) Terraform
3 6 (5.56%) Node.js
3 6 (5.56%) React
4 5 (4.63%) Kafka
5 4 (3.70%) Django
5 4 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.70%) Flask
5 4 (3.70%) Pandas
6 3 (2.78%) .NET
6 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.78%) REST
6 3 (2.78%) RESTful
7 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.85%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.85%) pytest
8 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.41%) Data Fabric
3 6 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.63%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.85%) Clustering
6 2 (1.85%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (73.15%) Analytics
2 71 (65.74%) AI
3 65 (60.19%) Data Modelling
4 59 (54.63%) Business Intelligence
5 55 (50.93%) Data Engineering
6 54 (50.00%) CI/CD
7 45 (41.67%) Machine Learning
8 44 (40.74%) Data Architecture
9 40 (37.04%) Data Strategy
10 35 (32.41%) Technical Leadership
11 33 (30.56%) ETL
12 31 (28.70%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (27.78%) DevOps
14 29 (26.85%) Data Governance
15 28 (25.93%) Data Science
16 27 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (24.07%) Decision-Making
18 25 (23.15%) Roadmaps
19 22 (20.37%) Kimball Methodology
20 20 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 72 (66.67%) SQL
2 66 (61.11%) Python
3 21 (19.44%) Scala
4 18 (16.67%) Bicep
5 9 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.70%) Java
7 4 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.85%) Go
9 1 (0.93%) C#
9 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (23.15%) Azure Certification
2 18 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (14.81%) SnowPro
4 15 (13.89%) Security Cleared
5 12 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 9 (8.33%) Degree
7 3 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.78%) OCP
7 3 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.93%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (38.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.85%) GDPR
2 2 (1.85%) NIST
2 2 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (4.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.85%) Grafana
2 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (63.89%) Databricks
2 55 (50.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.70%) Google
3 4 (3.70%) SAP
4 3 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.93%) Braze
6 1 (0.93%) Foundry
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Sparx