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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 139 160
Rank change year-on-year -52 +21 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 14 20 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.18% 0.60% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.67% 7.07% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 2
10th Percentile - £53,750 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £74,125 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £77,750 -
England median annual salary £78,500 £85,000 £110,000
% change year-on-year -7.65% -22.73% +46.67%

All Database & 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 525 283 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.84% 8.54% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 357 231 315
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,250 £31,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +21.77% -6.14%
75th Percentile £74,987 £68,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Data Lake job vacancy trend 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 2026.

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 2026. 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 -41 8 £65,000 +8.33% 13
East Yorkshire -14 2 £60,000 +4.35%
South Yorkshire -43 1 - - 2
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (21.43%) Apache
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (50.00%) AWS
4 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
5 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) GCP
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Databricks
6 2 (14.29%) dbt
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (14.29%) Slack
6 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (7.14%) n8n
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (35.71%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata
3 2 (14.29%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (28.57%) Legal
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Advertising
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Local Government
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) CrewAI
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) LangGraph
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Blog
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (57.14%) Data Governance
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (42.86%) ETL
6 5 (35.71%) Agile
6 5 (35.71%) Data Strategy
7 4 (28.57%) AI
7 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
7 4 (28.57%) Data Science
7 4 (28.57%) Line Management
7 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (21.43%) Business Analytics
8 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (21.43%) DevOps
8 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
8 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Databricks
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Google