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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	178	137	155
Rank change year-on-year	-41	+18	-25
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake	18	21	16
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire	0.24%	0.63%	0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	3.81%	7.95%	3.82%
Number of salaries quoted	11	18	5
10^th Percentile	-	£53,750	£61,750
25^th Percentile	£57,500	£57,500	£62,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	-7.69%	-7.14%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£65,000	£71,250
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£80,000	-
England median annual salary	£77,500	£85,000	£105,000
% change year-on-year	-8.82%	-19.05%	+40.00%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	472	264	419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire	6.25%	7.88%	9.58%
Number of salaries quoted	357	208	235
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£27,650	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£40,000	£41,744
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£57,500	£49,493
Median % change year-on-year	-4.35%	+16.18%	-4.82%
75^th Percentile	£74,987	£70,000	£63,750
90^th Percentile	£86,750	£80,000	£77,000
England median annual salary	£60,000	£60,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	-	-7.69%	+4.00%

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 Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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 17 October 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 17 October 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	-39	13	£70,000	+16.67%	13
East Yorkshire	-7	1	£60,000	-
South Yorkshire	-42	1	-	-	4
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Data Lake Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing Data Lake also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region with a requirement for Data Lake.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Analytics	88.9%	16
2	Azure	72.2%	13
3	Data Pipeline	66.7%	12
4	CI/CD	61.1%	11
4	Databricks	61.1%	11
6	Azure Data Factory	55.6%	10
6	Data Quality	55.6%	10
8	Data Governance	50.0%	9
9	Business Intelligence	44.4%	8
10	Agile	38.9%	7
10	AI	38.9%	7
10	AWS	38.9%	7
10	Data Modelling	38.9%	7
10	Data Warehouse	38.9%	7
10	DevOps	38.9%	7
10	ETL	38.9%	7
10	Microsoft	38.9%	7
10	Python	38.9%	7
10	SQL	38.9%	7
20	Azure Synapse Analytics	33.3%	6
20	Lakehouse	33.3%	6
20	Problem-Solving	33.3%	6
23	Continuous Improvement	27.8%	5
23	Data Strategy	27.8%	5
23	Deployment Automation	27.8%	5
23	GitLab	27.8%	5
23	Infrastructure as Code	27.8%	5
23	Observability	27.8%	5
23	Power BI	27.8%	5
23	Power Platform	27.8%	5

Data Lake Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Warehouse	38.9%	7
2	Power BI	27.8%	5
3	Delta Lake	22.2%	4
3	Star Schema	22.2%	4
5	Azure SQL Data Warehouse	11.1%	2
5	Azure SQL Database	11.1%	2
5	Hadoop	11.1%	2
5	Metadata	11.1%	2
5	Semantic Layer	11.1%	2
5	Spark SQL	11.1%	2
11	Amazon QuickSight	5.6%	1
11	Amazon Redshift	5.6%	1
11	BigQuery	5.6%	1
11	Tableau	5.6%	1