Data Lake Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 213 289
Rank change year-on-year +5 +76 +36
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 509 694 850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 1.60% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.58% 6.51% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 432 530 535
10th Percentile £36,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,294 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% +14.71% +9.80%
75th Percentile £129,375 £105,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +3.70%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,730 10,654 19,613
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.84% 24.53% 29.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,219 7,309 11,076
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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
1 172 (33.79%) Apache Airflow
2 157 (30.84%) Apache
3 61 (11.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.39%) Confluence
5 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Primavera
2 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 282 (55.40%) Azure
2 234 (45.97%) AWS
3 233 (45.78%) Snowflake
4 167 (32.81%) dbt
5 122 (23.97%) Power Platform
6 115 (22.59%) GCP
7 84 (16.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 80 (15.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 52 (10.22%) Matillion
10 40 (7.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 35 (6.88%) Serverless
12 24 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (4.13%) GitHub
14 16 (3.14%) PowerApps
15 13 (2.55%) Power Automate
16 12 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.36%) Vertex AI
17 10 (1.96%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
18 9 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
18 9 (1.77%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.32%) Wireless
2 9 (1.77%) Network Security
3 3 (0.59%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (41.26%) Data Warehouse
2 166 (32.61%) Dremio
3 163 (32.02%) Amazon Athena
4 162 (31.83%) Apache Arrow
5 132 (25.93%) Apache Ignite
6 120 (23.58%) Power BI
7 116 (22.79%) Big Data
8 95 (18.66%) SQL Server
9 39 (7.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (6.88%) NoSQL
11 33 (6.48%) Star Schema
12 31 (6.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 31 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
12 31 (6.09%) Tableau
13 30 (5.89%) BigQuery
13 30 (5.89%) Relational Database
14 29 (5.70%) Metadata
15 22 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (3.73%) Delta Lake
17 17 (3.34%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (6.09%) GitLab
2 13 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.57%) MLflow
4 7 (1.38%) Git
4 7 (1.38%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.79%) ERwin
7 3 (0.59%) JIRA
7 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 266 (52.26%) Finance
2 156 (30.65%) Banking
3 132 (25.93%) Front Office
3 132 (25.93%) Investment Banking
4 72 (14.15%) Social Skills
5 59 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (6.48%) Retail
7 27 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (3.73%) Public Sector
9 14 (2.75%) Billing
9 14 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.36%) Marketing
10 12 (2.36%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.77%) Back Office
12 8 (1.57%) Legal
13 5 (0.98%) Games
13 5 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.79%) Wearables
15 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 154 (30.26%) Data Engineer
2 109 (21.41%) Senior
3 107 (21.02%) Lead
4 99 (19.45%) Architect
5 75 (14.73%) AWS Engineer
6 73 (14.34%) Software Engineer
7 59 (11.59%) Data Architect
8 57 (11.20%) Python Engineer
9 55 (10.81%) Developer
10 48 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
11 43 (8.45%) Senior Data Engineer
12 42 (8.25%) Java Engineer
12 42 (8.25%) Java Software Engineer
12 42 (8.25%) Python Software Engineer
13 40 (7.86%) AWS Software Engineer
13 40 (7.86%) Consultant
14 36 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
15 35 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (6.88%) Technical Leader
16 34 (6.68%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (31.83%) gRPC
1 162 (31.83%) Protocol Buffers
2 140 (27.50%) Pandas
3 132 (25.93%) NumPy
3 132 (25.93%) SciPy
4 35 (6.88%) PySpark
5 21 (4.13%) Kafka
6 9 (1.77%) Apache Beam
7 7 (1.38%) JSON
8 6 (1.18%) XML
9 5 (0.98%) Web Services
10 4 (0.79%) MDX
10 4 (0.79%) YAML
11 3 (0.59%) .NET
11 3 (0.59%) RESTful
12 2 (0.39%) FastAPI
12 2 (0.39%) Flask
13 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.20%) Node.js
13 1 (0.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 162 (31.83%) Hedge funds
2 132 (25.93%) Derivative
2 132 (25.93%) Equities
2 132 (25.93%) Fixed Income
2 132 (25.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 50 (9.82%) Data Structures
4 31 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (5.89%) Clustering
6 18 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.95%) Cloud Native
8 14 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.36%) Pricing Data
10 11 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.77%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.57%) IoT
13 7 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
16 4 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
17 3 (0.59%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.59%) Linux
2 2 (0.39%) Unix
2 2 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) AIX
3 1 (0.20%) Solaris
3 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (42.63%) Agile
2 166 (32.61%) Analytics
3 162 (31.83%) Asset Management
4 156 (30.65%) Data Pipeline
5 155 (30.45%) Investment Management
6 145 (28.49%) ETL
7 143 (28.09%) Software Engineering
8 134 (26.33%) Business Intelligence
8 134 (26.33%) Data Engineering
9 125 (24.56%) Data Modelling
10 117 (22.99%) Artificial Intelligence
11 116 (22.79%) Data Science
12 115 (22.59%) Machine Learning
13 87 (17.09%) DevOps
14 83 (16.31%) CI/CD
15 72 (14.15%) Data Integration
16 70 (13.75%) Data Analytics
16 70 (13.75%) Data Architecture
17 67 (13.16%) Line Management
18 65 (12.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 309 (60.71%) Python
2 222 (43.61%) SQL
3 190 (37.33%) Java
4 162 (31.83%) JavaScript
5 132 (25.93%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.84%) T-SQL
7 38 (7.47%) Go
8 22 (4.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 19 (3.73%) C#
10 13 (2.55%) R
11 12 (2.36%) Scala
12 9 (1.77%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.77%) U-SQL
13 3 (0.59%) C
14 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.20%) Bash
15 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (6.48%) Azure Certification
2 30 (5.89%) Degree
3 25 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (4.52%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.77%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.77%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.18%) CIMA
9 3 (0.59%) MCP
10 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.20%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.20%) LPIC
10 1 (0.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (22.99%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.29%) GDPR
3 6 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.20%) GMP
6 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.20%) QA
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (3.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 55 (10.81%) Terraform
3 30 (5.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.39%) Argo
4 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 130 (25.54%) Databricks
2 89 (17.49%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.50%) Google
4 16 (3.14%) SAP
5 13 (2.55%) Oracle
6 8 (1.57%) Teradata
7 7 (1.38%) Talend
8 6 (1.18%) Adobe
8 6 (1.18%) Apple
9 3 (0.59%) IBM
9 3 (0.59%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.20%) Ariba
11 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.20%) Reuters
11 1 (0.20%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.20%) Sparx
11 1 (0.20%) UiPath
11 1 (0.20%) VMware
11 1 (0.20%) Workday