Data Lake Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Lakes
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 195 269
Rank change year-on-year +50 +74 +65
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 772 672 1,100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.17% 1.79% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.69% 7.34% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 682 509 558
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,787 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,180 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,294 £73,346
Median % change year-on-year +37.00% +9.47% +15.51%
75th Percentile £142,500 £106,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £155,665 £150,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% +3.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,965 9,151 22,656
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.41% 24.42% 29.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,286 6,572 11,078
10th Percentile £37,101 £40,000 £37,491
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £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 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Data Lake
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 13 June 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
1 402 (52.07%) Apache Airflow
2 353 (45.73%) Apache
3 42 (5.44%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.78%) Confluence
5 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Primavera
2 3 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 496 (64.25%) AWS
2 451 (58.42%) Snowflake
3 413 (53.50%) dbt
4 319 (41.32%) Azure
5 189 (24.48%) GCP
6 134 (17.36%) Power Platform
7 93 (12.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 85 (11.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 48 (6.22%) Matillion
10 45 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 26 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (3.37%) Serverless
12 25 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (1.81%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
15 13 (1.68%) GitHub
15 13 (1.68%) Power Automate
16 12 (1.55%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.55%) Wireless
2 11 (1.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (53.24%) Dremio
2 398 (51.55%) Apache Arrow
3 395 (51.17%) Amazon Athena
4 328 (42.49%) Apache Ignite
5 230 (29.79%) Data Warehouse
6 132 (17.10%) Big Data
6 132 (17.10%) Power BI
7 98 (12.69%) SQL Server
8 55 (7.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 44 (5.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (4.79%) Tableau
11 33 (4.27%) Star Schema
12 32 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
13 28 (3.63%) Metadata
14 25 (3.24%) NoSQL
15 18 (2.33%) BigQuery
15 18 (2.33%) Delta Lake
15 18 (2.33%) Relational Database
16 17 (2.20%) Data Mining
17 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (4.02%) GitLab
2 12 (1.55%) MLflow
3 7 (0.91%) JIRA
4 6 (0.78%) Git
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.26%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 529 (68.52%) Finance
2 370 (47.93%) Banking
3 356 (46.11%) Front Office
4 344 (44.56%) Investment Banking
5 83 (10.75%) Social Skills
6 50 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
7 49 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (2.59%) Retail
9 15 (1.94%) Public Sector
10 14 (1.81%) Billing
11 13 (1.68%) Legal
11 13 (1.68%) Marketing
11 13 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.30%) Back Office
13 9 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.91%) Publishing
15 5 (0.65%) Games
16 4 (0.52%) Wearables
17 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 216 (27.98%) Senior
2 189 (24.48%) Software Engineer
3 184 (23.83%) AWS Engineer
4 183 (23.70%) Lead
5 177 (22.93%) Data Engineer
6 148 (19.17%) Python Engineer
7 128 (16.58%) Architect
7 128 (16.58%) AWS Software Engineer
8 118 (15.28%) Java Engineer
8 118 (15.28%) Java Software Engineer
8 118 (15.28%) Python Software Engineer
9 104 (13.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 99 (12.82%) Developer
11 83 (10.75%) Solutions Architect
12 75 (9.72%) Technical Leader
13 73 (9.46%) Software Developer
14 72 (9.33%) Lead Developer
14 72 (9.33%) Lead Software Developer
14 72 (9.33%) Lead Software Engineer
14 72 (9.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (49.48%) gRPC
1 382 (49.48%) Protocol Buffers
2 348 (45.08%) Pandas
3 340 (44.04%) NumPy
3 340 (44.04%) SciPy
4 91 (11.79%) PySpark
5 10 (1.30%) JSON
6 8 (1.04%) Kafka
7 7 (0.91%) Apache Beam
8 6 (0.78%) XML
9 5 (0.65%) Web Services
10 4 (0.52%) MDX
10 4 (0.52%) YAML
11 3 (0.39%) .NET
11 3 (0.39%) CSS
11 3 (0.39%) HTML
11 3 (0.39%) RESTful
12 2 (0.26%) FIXML
12 2 (0.26%) Flask
12 2 (0.26%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 398 (51.55%) Hedge funds
2 344 (44.56%) Derivative
2 344 (44.56%) Equities
2 344 (44.56%) Fixed Income
2 344 (44.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 54 (6.99%) Clustering
4 53 (6.87%) Data Structures
5 48 (6.22%) Pricing Data
6 32 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (3.24%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.68%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.78%) IoT
14 5 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.52%) NHS
16 3 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.26%) Linux
1 2 (0.26%) Unix
1 2 (0.26%) Windows
2 1 (0.13%) AIX
2 1 (0.13%) Solaris
2 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (54.92%) Agile
2 410 (53.11%) Asset Management
3 354 (45.85%) Software Engineering
4 330 (42.75%) Investment Management
5 190 (24.61%) Analytics
6 151 (19.56%) Data Engineering
7 147 (19.04%) Line Management
8 141 (18.26%) Data Pipeline
9 136 (17.62%) Greeks
10 135 (17.49%) ETL
11 131 (16.97%) Artificial Intelligence
12 128 (16.58%) Data Modelling
13 119 (15.41%) Business Intelligence
14 110 (14.25%) DevOps
15 108 (13.99%) Data Science
15 108 (13.99%) Machine Learning
16 96 (12.44%) Data Architecture
17 86 (11.14%) Roadmaps
18 70 (9.07%) CI/CD
19 63 (8.16%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 565 (73.19%) Python
2 422 (54.66%) Java
3 386 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 328 (42.49%) TypeScript
5 275 (35.62%) SQL
6 61 (7.90%) Go
7 49 (6.35%) T-SQL
8 26 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 18 (2.33%) C#
10 11 (1.42%) Scala
10 11 (1.42%) U-SQL
11 10 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.17%) R
13 3 (0.39%) C
14 2 (0.26%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.26%) VBA
15 1 (0.13%) Bash
15 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (7.51%) Azure Certification
2 47 (6.09%) AWS Certification
3 36 (4.66%) Degree
4 24 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.55%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.55%) Security Cleared
7 7 (0.91%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.78%) CIMA
9 3 (0.39%) MCP
10 1 (0.13%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.13%) LPIC
10 1 (0.13%) MCSE
10 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (27.20%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.27%) GDPR
3 6 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.26%) PMO
6 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.13%) QA
6 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (1.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 67 (8.68%) Terraform
3 54 (6.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Argo
4 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 133 (17.23%) Databricks
2 86 (11.14%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.37%) Bloomberg
3 26 (3.37%) Reuters
4 16 (2.07%) Google
5 15 (1.94%) SAP
6 14 (1.81%) Oracle
7 7 (0.91%) Teradata
8 5 (0.65%) Talend
9 4 (0.52%) Informatica
10 3 (0.39%) Adobe
10 3 (0.39%) Apple
10 3 (0.39%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.13%) Ariba
12 1 (0.13%) IBM
12 1 (0.13%) Sparx
12 1 (0.13%) UiPath
12 1 (0.13%) VMware
12 1 (0.13%) Workday