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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 123 150
Rank change year-on-year -30 +27 +94
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 15 25 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.40% 0.91% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.50% 6.51% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 42
10th Percentile £53,750 £59,168 £43,875
25th Percentile £54,688 £61,250 £48,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -18.37% +4.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £100,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £76,331 £100,064
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +28.57% -12.50%

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 428 384 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.33% 14.02% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 249 228 733
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,625 £31,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -29 12 £65,000 -5.10% 4
South Yorkshire -9 3 £57,500 -8.41% 1
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 9 (60.00%) Apache
1 9 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (40.00%) Serverless
3 5 (33.33%) dbt
3 5 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (13.33%) Data Vault
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Senior
2 12 (80.00%) Data Engineer
3 11 (73.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Pandas
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) ETL
2 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Data Modelling
3 10 (66.67%) Data Engineering
3 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
6 7 (46.67%) Data Integration
6 7 (46.67%) Data Science
7 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 5 (33.33%) Clean Code
8 5 (33.33%) Coaching
8 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
8 5 (33.33%) Data Security
8 5 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (33.33%) Migration
8 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
8 5 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Google