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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 111 178
Rank change year-on-year -75 +67 +64
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 15 24 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.26% 1.04% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.42% 6.59% 3.92%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 36
10th Percentile £43,500 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,168 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £71,991 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +4.71% -0.11%
75th Percentile £78,068 £76,943 £100,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £100,064
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -6.25%

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 620 364 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.82% 15.78% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 311 309 756
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,050 £32,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,424 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -11.54%

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 April 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 April 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 -53 12 £66,250 -7.97% 5
East Yorkshire -24 1 £60,000 +4.35% 2
South Yorkshire -34 1 £45,000 -17.64%
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 7 (46.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (40.00%) Apache
3 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (6.67%) SAS
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 8 (53.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (46.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (33.33%) dbt
5 4 (26.67%) GCP
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
8 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (46.67%) Power BI
3 4 (26.67%) BigQuery
4 3 (20.00%) Tableau
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (13.33%) Star Schema
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
6 1 (6.67%) DataStage
6 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.67%) Looker
6 1 (6.67%) Metadata
6 1 (6.67%) PowerCenter
6 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Senior
3 7 (46.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) LangChain
2 1 (6.67%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (6.67%) Pandas
2 1 (6.67%) pgvector
2 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) ETL
2 12 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (73.33%) Analytics
3 11 (73.33%) Data Modelling
4 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
6 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (46.67%) Agile
7 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
8 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (33.33%) Data Science
9 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
10 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
10 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
11 3 (20.00%) AI
11 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
11 3 (20.00%) Data Management
11 3 (20.00%) Data Security
11 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
11 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 10 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Databricks
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Informatica
4 1 (6.67%) Nintex
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) SAP