Data Lakes
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 260 300
Rank change year-on-year -24 +40 +55
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 1,022 1,415 2,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.40% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.62% 6.55% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 779 1,021 1,111
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £58,750 £53,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £122,500 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £148,750 £130,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £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 £76,250 £83,750 £79,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Lake.

Salary trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
England -8 882 £85,000 +6.25% 189
Work from Home +14 577 £90,000 +12.09% 102
London +13 499 £110,000 +22.22% 113
UK excluding London -41 465 £60,000 - 80
North of England +29 128 £55,000 -4.35% 19
South East -35 99 £63,500 -9.29% 20
Scotland -27 84 £74,500 +14.62% 8
Midlands -20 73 £56,250 +2.27% 11
North West +8 70 £45,000 -21.20% 12
South West -60 52 £72,500 +7.41% 13
West Midlands +3 48 £57,500 +6.24% 7
Yorkshire +66 40 £70,000 +21.74% 7
East Midlands -17 25 £47,500 -13.64% 4
North East -2 18 £72,500 +31.82%
East of England +1 15 £57,500 - 8
Wales 0 7 £46,131 -20.46% 1
Northern Ireland +26 5 - - 2
Isle of Man - 2 £82,500 -

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 248 (24.27%) Apache Airflow
2 218 (21.33%) Apache
3 110 (10.76%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.47%) Confluence
5 8 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.20%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.098%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.098%) IIS
8 1 (0.098%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.59%) Primavera
4 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.098%) HFM
6 1 (0.098%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 629 (61.55%) Azure
2 485 (47.46%) AWS
3 312 (30.53%) Snowflake
4 278 (27.20%) Power Platform
5 258 (25.24%) GCP
6 238 (23.29%) dbt
7 194 (18.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 152 (14.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (5.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 56 (5.48%) Matillion
11 53 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
12 48 (4.70%) Serverless
13 46 (4.50%) PowerApps
14 42 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (3.42%) SaaS
16 30 (2.94%) PaaS
17 29 (2.84%) IaaS
18 27 (2.64%) Power Automate
19 23 (2.25%) GitHub
20 22 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.96%) Wireless
2 18 (1.76%) DSL
3 10 (0.98%) Network Security
4 6 (0.59%) DNS
5 4 (0.39%) Firewall
6 3 (0.29%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.098%) HTTP
7 1 (0.098%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (39.04%) Data Warehouse
2 269 (26.32%) Power BI
3 230 (22.50%) Dremio
4 227 (22.21%) Amazon Athena
5 226 (22.11%) Apache Arrow
6 199 (19.47%) Apache Ignite
7 178 (17.42%) Big Data
8 177 (17.32%) SQL Server
9 78 (7.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 76 (7.44%) NoSQL
11 71 (6.95%) Tableau
12 65 (6.36%) Metadata
13 62 (6.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 57 (5.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 51 (4.99%) Star Schema
16 46 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
16 46 (4.50%) Qlik Sense
17 44 (4.31%) Hadoop
17 44 (4.31%) Relational Database
18 38 (3.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (3.82%) GitLab
2 25 (2.45%) JIRA
3 23 (2.25%) Git
4 17 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.57%) CircleCI
6 10 (0.98%) MLflow
6 10 (0.98%) Selenium
7 9 (0.88%) JUnit
7 9 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.59%) RStudio
10 4 (0.39%) ERwin
10 4 (0.39%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.098%) Gradle
13 1 (0.098%) SoapUI
General
1 502 (49.12%) Finance
2 269 (26.32%) Banking
3 205 (20.06%) Investment Banking
4 184 (18.00%) Front Office
5 179 (17.51%) Social Skills
6 148 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
7 99 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 88 (8.61%) Law
9 66 (6.46%) Legal
10 57 (5.58%) Marketing
11 41 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (3.72%) Retail
13 33 (3.23%) Financial Institution
14 22 (2.15%) Retail Banking
15 19 (1.86%) Public Sector
16 17 (1.66%) Billing
17 15 (1.47%) Aerospace
18 13 (1.27%) Back Office
18 13 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 349 (34.15%) Data Engineer
2 234 (22.90%) Senior
3 219 (21.43%) Architect
4 162 (15.85%) Lead
5 153 (14.97%) Software Engineer
6 113 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
6 113 (11.06%) Developer
7 109 (10.67%) Data Architect
8 84 (8.22%) Python Engineer
8 84 (8.22%) Senior Data Engineer
9 76 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
10 75 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
11 70 (6.85%) Azure Data Engineer
12 65 (6.36%) Python Software Engineer
13 64 (6.26%) AWS Software Engineer
13 64 (6.26%) Java Engineer
13 64 (6.26%) Java Software Engineer
14 61 (5.97%) Consultant
14 61 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 52 (5.09%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (22.11%) gRPC
1 226 (22.11%) Protocol Buffers
2 199 (19.47%) Pandas
3 184 (18.00%) NumPy
3 184 (18.00%) SciPy
4 109 (10.67%) PySpark
5 55 (5.38%) Kafka
6 19 (1.86%) Apache Beam
6 19 (1.86%) OpenID
7 17 (1.66%) JSON
8 14 (1.37%) .NET
8 14 (1.37%) RESTful
8 14 (1.37%) XML
9 9 (0.88%) MDX
10 8 (0.78%) Apache Avro
10 8 (0.78%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.59%) REST
11 6 (0.59%) Web Services
12 4 (0.39%) SOAP
12 4 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 226 (22.11%) Hedge funds
2 184 (18.00%) Derivative
2 184 (18.00%) Equities
2 184 (18.00%) Fixed Income
2 184 (18.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 78 (7.63%) Algorithms
4 64 (6.26%) Data Structures
5 51 (4.99%) Cloud Native
6 43 (4.21%) Clustering
6 43 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 42 (4.11%) Product Ownership
8 35 (3.42%) Management Information System
9 28 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (2.35%) Pricing Data
10 24 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.96%) Blockchain
13 19 (1.86%) Mainframe
14 17 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.64%) Unix
2 26 (2.54%) Linux
3 6 (0.59%) Windows
4 3 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.098%) AIX
5 1 (0.098%) Solaris
5 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (46.58%) Agile
2 313 (30.63%) Business Intelligence
3 307 (30.04%) Analytics
4 278 (27.20%) Software Engineering
5 269 (26.32%) Asset Management
6 267 (26.13%) ETL
7 254 (24.85%) Data Modelling
8 246 (24.07%) Data Pipeline
9 235 (22.99%) Data Engineering
10 234 (22.90%) Machine Learning
11 221 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence
12 207 (20.25%) Investment Management
13 182 (17.81%) CI/CD
14 163 (15.95%) DevOps
14 163 (15.95%) Visualisation
15 161 (15.75%) Roadmaps
16 143 (13.99%) Data Strategy
17 136 (13.31%) Data Architecture
18 135 (13.21%) Data Science
19 115 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 546 (53.42%) Python
2 491 (48.04%) SQL
3 340 (33.27%) Java
4 232 (22.70%) JavaScript
5 186 (18.20%) TypeScript
6 98 (9.59%) T-SQL
7 56 (5.48%) Scala
8 52 (5.09%) Go
9 47 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 30 (2.94%) C#
11 26 (2.54%) R
12 21 (2.05%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.98%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.98%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.98%) U-SQL
14 4 (0.39%) C
15 3 (0.29%) Bash
16 2 (0.20%) C++
16 2 (0.20%) VBA
17 1 (0.098%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (8.71%) Degree
2 75 (7.34%) Azure Certification
3 53 (5.19%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.27%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.27%) Security Cleared
7 11 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.59%) CIMA
10 3 (0.29%) MCP
10 3 (0.29%) MCSE
11 2 (0.20%) MCSA
11 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.098%) HND
12 1 (0.098%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.098%) LPIC
12 1 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (20.94%) Data Quality
2 55 (5.38%) GDPR
3 20 (1.96%) SLA
4 13 (1.27%) QA
5 8 (0.78%) PSD2
6 6 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.098%) GMP
8 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (2.64%) Docker
2 8 (0.78%) HDFS
3 7 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.098%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 105 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 70 (6.85%) Terraform
3 42 (4.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.20%) Argo
5 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.098%) Ansible
Vendors
1 291 (28.47%) Databricks
2 274 (26.81%) Microsoft
3 71 (6.95%) Alteryx
4 58 (5.68%) Google
5 44 (4.31%) Oracle
6 22 (2.15%) Cognos
7 18 (1.76%) Sybase
8 15 (1.47%) SAP
9 13 (1.27%) Teradata
10 11 (1.08%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.78%) Duck Creek
12 7 (0.68%) Adobe
12 7 (0.68%) Informatica
12 7 (0.68%) Talend
13 6 (0.59%) Apple
14 4 (0.39%) IBM
14 4 (0.39%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.39%) SnapLogic
15 3 (0.29%) Citrix
15 3 (0.29%) Veracode