Data Lake Jobs with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 205 261
Rank change year-on-year +42 +56 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 675 677 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.96% 1.70% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.57% 6.85% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 581 508 561
10th Percentile £43,470 £50,984 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,180 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,294 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.00% +10.75% +16.00%
75th Percentile £142,500 £106,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% +14.29% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,878 9,890 21,965
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.93% 24.87% 29.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6,252 6,755 11,124
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,170 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Data Lake salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 320 (47.41%) Apache Airflow
2 270 (40.00%) Apache
3 43 (6.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.30%) Confluence
4 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) SAS
5 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Primavera
2 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 408 (60.44%) AWS
2 372 (55.11%) Snowflake
3 323 (47.85%) dbt
4 307 (45.48%) Azure
5 144 (21.33%) GCP
6 119 (17.63%) Power Platform
7 89 (13.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 84 (12.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 48 (7.11%) Matillion
10 43 (6.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 28 (4.15%) Serverless
12 23 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.07%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.93%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.78%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 12 (1.78%) Azure Machine Learning
16 9 (1.33%) GitHub
17 7 (1.04%) Azure AKS
17 7 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
18 6 (0.89%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.37%) Wireless
2 11 (1.63%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
3 1 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (47.70%) Dremio
2 314 (46.52%) Apache Arrow
3 313 (46.37%) Amazon Athena
4 252 (37.33%) Apache Ignite
5 228 (33.78%) Data Warehouse
6 130 (19.26%) Big Data
7 117 (17.33%) Power BI
8 96 (14.22%) SQL Server
9 55 (8.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 42 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (4.89%) Star Schema
12 31 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (3.85%) Tableau
14 25 (3.70%) Metadata
15 21 (3.11%) NoSQL
16 19 (2.81%) Delta Lake
16 19 (2.81%) Relational Database
17 18 (2.67%) BigQuery
18 13 (1.93%) Data Mining
19 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (4.59%) GitLab
2 11 (1.63%) MLflow
3 6 (0.89%) Git
3 6 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.44%) JIRA
5 3 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 436 (64.59%) Finance
2 279 (41.33%) Banking
3 266 (39.41%) Front Office
4 260 (38.52%) Investment Banking
5 77 (11.41%) Social Skills
6 50 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 49 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.96%) Retail
9 15 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.07%) Billing
11 13 (1.93%) Marketing
11 13 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.78%) Legal
13 10 (1.48%) Back Office
14 9 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.74%) Games
15 5 (0.74%) Publishing
16 4 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.59%) Wearables
17 3 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (27.85%) Senior
2 161 (23.85%) Data Engineer
3 149 (22.07%) Lead
4 148 (21.93%) AWS Engineer
5 145 (21.48%) Software Engineer
6 112 (16.59%) Architect
6 112 (16.59%) Python Engineer
7 92 (13.63%) AWS Software Engineer
8 90 (13.33%) Java Engineer
8 90 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
8 90 (13.33%) Python Software Engineer
9 82 (12.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 76 (11.26%) Developer
11 66 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (9.33%) Technical Leader
13 62 (9.19%) Consultant
14 57 (8.44%) Data Consultant
15 56 (8.30%) Big Data Engineer
16 54 (8.00%) Site Engineer
16 54 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (45.33%) gRPC
1 306 (45.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 266 (39.41%) Pandas
3 258 (38.22%) NumPy
3 258 (38.22%) SciPy
4 52 (7.70%) PySpark
5 9 (1.33%) JSON
5 9 (1.33%) Kafka
6 8 (1.19%) Apache Beam
7 6 (0.89%) XML
8 5 (0.74%) Web Services
9 4 (0.59%) MDX
9 4 (0.59%) YAML
10 3 (0.44%) RESTful
11 2 (0.30%) .NET
11 2 (0.30%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.30%) Flask
12 1 (0.15%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.15%) Node.js
12 1 (0.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 314 (46.52%) Hedge funds
2 260 (38.52%) Derivative
2 260 (38.52%) Equities
2 260 (38.52%) Fixed Income
2 260 (38.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (8.00%) Clustering
4 50 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 36 (5.33%) Pricing Data
6 31 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.52%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.07%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.04%) IoT
11 7 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.30%) Linux
1 2 (0.30%) Unix
1 2 (0.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) AIX
2 1 (0.15%) Solaris
2 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (49.04%) Agile
2 320 (47.41%) Asset Management
3 278 (41.19%) Investment Management
4 272 (40.30%) Software Engineering
5 172 (25.48%) Analytics
6 137 (20.30%) Data Pipeline
7 135 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 130 (19.26%) Artificial Intelligence
9 126 (18.67%) ETL
10 120 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
11 119 (17.63%) Data Modelling
12 112 (16.59%) Greeks
13 108 (16.00%) DevOps
14 107 (15.85%) Data Science
14 107 (15.85%) Line Management
15 103 (15.26%) Machine Learning
16 95 (14.07%) Data Architecture
17 82 (12.15%) Roadmaps
18 67 (9.93%) CI/CD
19 62 (9.19%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 465 (68.89%) Python
2 340 (50.37%) Java
3 307 (45.48%) JavaScript
4 252 (37.33%) TypeScript
5 233 (34.52%) SQL
6 62 (9.19%) Go
7 47 (6.96%) T-SQL
8 25 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 18 (2.67%) C#
10 12 (1.78%) R
11 11 (1.63%) Scala
11 11 (1.63%) U-SQL
12 10 (1.48%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.44%) C
14 2 (0.30%) VBA
15 1 (0.15%) Bash
15 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 61 (9.04%) Azure Certification
2 47 (6.96%) AWS Certification
3 35 (5.19%) Degree
4 27 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.33%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.33%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.89%) CIMA
9 3 (0.44%) MCP
10 1 (0.15%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.15%) LPIC
10 1 (0.15%) MCSE
10 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (26.81%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.74%) GDPR
3 6 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.30%) PMO
6 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.15%) QA
6 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 68 (10.07%) Terraform
3 54 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.30%) Argo
4 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 128 (18.96%) Databricks
2 88 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.22%) Google
3 15 (2.22%) SAP
4 14 (2.07%) Oracle
5 8 (1.19%) Teradata
6 6 (0.89%) Adobe
6 6 (0.89%) Apple
7 5 (0.74%) Talend
8 3 (0.44%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.15%) Ariba
10 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.15%) IBM
10 1 (0.15%) Reuters
10 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.15%) Sparx
10 1 (0.15%) UiPath
10 1 (0.15%) VMware
10 1 (0.15%) Workday