Data Lake Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Lakes
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 171 134
Rank change year-on-year +34 -37 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 20 13 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.60% 0.26% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.02% 2.59% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 50
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -0.59%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £77,750 - -
England median annual salary £83,750 £110,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.86% +46.67% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 285 501 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.59% 10.14% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 230 317 658
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,274 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.77% -6.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £64,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% +0.78% +7.50%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Yorkshire

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Lake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in Yorkshire

Data Lake
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire - 13 £60,000 - 4
South Yorkshire +16 4 £57,500 -8.00% 2
East Yorkshire - 3 £57,500 -
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 9 (45.00%) Apache
1 9 (45.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (40.00%) Serverless
4 6 (30.00%) SaaS
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.00%) Azure
5 3 (15.00%) Datadog
5 3 (15.00%) dbt
5 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (10.00%) Azure AI
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (45.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (10.00%) Data Vault
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Tech for Good
3 3 (15.00%) Law
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 15 (75.00%) Senior
3 13 (65.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) ETL
2 14 (70.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (60.00%) Data Modelling
4 11 (55.00%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (50.00%) Migration
5 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (45.00%) Agile
6 9 (45.00%) Data Engineering
7 8 (40.00%) Data Migration
7 8 (40.00%) Data Security
8 7 (35.00%) Data Integration
9 6 (30.00%) Data Science
10 5 (25.00%) Data Strategy
10 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
11 4 (20.00%) Coaching
11 4 (20.00%) DevOps
11 4 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
11 4 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Meraki
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Google