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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 258 299
Rank change year-on-year -36 +41 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 964 1,449 2,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.40% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.31% 6.54% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 745 1,046 1,138
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +1.82%
75th Percentile £118,750 £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 18,159 22,148 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 21.34% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,577 13,812 21,421
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 £78,750
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% +7.78%

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 3 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 3 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 -22 836 £82,500 +3.13% 181
Work from Home +9 531 £90,000 +12.09% 103
London +10 467 £110,000 +22.22% 102
UK excluding London -47 441 £60,000 - 84
North of England +10 120 £55,000 -8.33% 18
South East -25 99 £67,000 -4.29% 23
Scotland -31 80 £74,500 +10.82% 9
Midlands -11 67 £47,500 -13.64% 12
North West -8 65 £45,000 -25.00% 11
South West -61 51 £72,500 +7.41% 11
West Midlands -3 45 £57,500 +4.55% 8
Yorkshire +47 37 £70,000 +7.69% 7
East Midlands -11 22 £47,500 -13.64% 4
North East -2 18 £72,500 +31.82%
East of England -4 15 £57,500 - 9
Wales +1 5 £46,131 -20.46% 4
Northern Ireland +25 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
1 216 (22.41%) Apache Airflow
2 196 (20.33%) Apache
3 116 (12.03%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.56%) Confluence
5 9 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.31%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.10%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.62%) Primavera
4 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.21%) Magento
6 1 (0.10%) HFM
6 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 617 (64.00%) Azure
2 445 (46.16%) AWS
3 282 (29.25%) Snowflake
4 279 (28.94%) Power Platform
5 258 (26.76%) GCP
6 207 (21.47%) dbt
7 189 (19.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 148 (15.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (5.91%) Matillion
10 56 (5.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 51 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (5.08%) Serverless
13 46 (4.77%) PowerApps
14 42 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (3.63%) SaaS
16 30 (3.11%) PaaS
17 29 (3.01%) IaaS
18 27 (2.80%) GitHub
19 26 (2.70%) Power Automate
20 22 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.07%) Wireless
2 18 (1.87%) DSL
3 9 (0.93%) Network Security
4 6 (0.62%) DNS
5 4 (0.41%) Firewall
6 3 (0.31%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.10%) HTTP
7 1 (0.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (40.25%) Data Warehouse
2 270 (28.01%) Power BI
3 198 (20.54%) Dremio
4 195 (20.23%) Amazon Athena
5 194 (20.12%) Apache Arrow
6 175 (18.15%) Apache Ignite
6 175 (18.15%) Big Data
6 175 (18.15%) SQL Server
7 82 (8.51%) NoSQL
8 77 (7.99%) Tableau
9 75 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 61 (6.33%) Metadata
11 60 (6.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 51 (5.29%) Star Schema
13 48 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
14 47 (4.88%) Hadoop
15 46 (4.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 46 (4.77%) Qlik Sense
15 46 (4.77%) Relational Database
16 38 (3.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 39 (4.05%) GitLab
2 25 (2.59%) JIRA
3 23 (2.39%) Git
4 21 (2.18%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.66%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.04%) Selenium
7 9 (0.93%) JUnit
7 9 (0.93%) MLflow
7 9 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.62%) ERwin
9 6 (0.62%) RStudio
10 4 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.10%) Gradle
13 1 (0.10%) Postman
General
1 461 (47.82%) Finance
2 244 (25.31%) Banking
3 178 (18.46%) Investment Banking
4 177 (18.36%) Social Skills
5 158 (16.39%) Front Office
6 149 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
7 98 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 90 (9.34%) Law
9 66 (6.85%) Legal
10 55 (5.71%) Marketing
11 42 (4.36%) Retail
12 34 (3.53%) Financial Institution
13 30 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (2.18%) Retail Banking
15 19 (1.97%) Public Sector
16 17 (1.76%) Billing
17 14 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.35%) Telecoms
19 12 (1.24%) Back Office
19 12 (1.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 347 (36.00%) Data Engineer
2 213 (22.10%) Senior
3 203 (21.06%) Architect
4 154 (15.98%) Lead
5 137 (14.21%) Software Engineer
6 110 (11.41%) Data Architect
7 109 (11.31%) Developer
8 95 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
9 86 (8.92%) Senior Data Engineer
10 72 (7.47%) Python Engineer
11 71 (7.37%) Solutions Architect
12 70 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
13 64 (6.64%) Azure Data Engineer
14 54 (5.60%) Python Software Engineer
15 53 (5.50%) Java Engineer
15 53 (5.50%) Java Software Engineer
16 52 (5.39%) AWS Software Engineer
17 50 (5.19%) Consultant
17 50 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
18 41 (4.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (20.12%) gRPC
1 194 (20.12%) Protocol Buffers
2 173 (17.95%) Pandas
3 158 (16.39%) NumPy
3 158 (16.39%) SciPy
4 107 (11.10%) PySpark
5 61 (6.33%) Kafka
6 19 (1.97%) Apache Beam
6 19 (1.97%) OpenID
7 17 (1.76%) JSON
8 14 (1.45%) RESTful
8 14 (1.45%) XML
9 13 (1.35%) .NET
10 9 (0.93%) MDX
11 8 (0.83%) Apache Avro
11 8 (0.83%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (0.62%) REST
12 6 (0.62%) Web Services
13 4 (0.41%) SOAP
13 4 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 194 (20.12%) Hedge funds
2 158 (16.39%) Derivative
2 158 (16.39%) Equities
2 158 (16.39%) Fixed Income
2 158 (16.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 77 (7.99%) Algorithms
4 64 (6.64%) Data Structures
5 43 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 42 (4.36%) Onboarding
7 41 (4.25%) Product Ownership
8 37 (3.84%) Clustering
9 36 (3.73%) Cloud Native
10 35 (3.63%) Management Information System
11 28 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
12 24 (2.49%) Public Cloud
13 20 (2.07%) Blockchain
13 20 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.97%) Mainframe
15 18 (1.87%) Pricing Data
16 14 (1.45%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.80%) Unix
2 11 (1.14%) Linux
3 6 (0.62%) Windows
4 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.10%) AIX
5 1 (0.10%) Solaris
5 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (45.75%) Agile
2 316 (32.78%) Business Intelligence
3 309 (32.05%) Analytics
4 272 (28.22%) ETL
5 256 (26.56%) Data Modelling
6 253 (26.24%) Data Pipeline
7 251 (26.04%) Software Engineering
8 240 (24.90%) Data Engineering
9 237 (24.59%) Machine Learning
10 236 (24.48%) Asset Management
11 210 (21.78%) Artificial Intelligence
12 182 (18.88%) CI/CD
13 181 (18.78%) Investment Management
14 165 (17.12%) Visualisation
15 154 (15.98%) DevOps
16 144 (14.94%) Data Strategy
17 141 (14.63%) Data Science
18 133 (13.80%) Roadmaps
19 123 (12.76%) Data Architecture
20 115 (11.93%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 515 (53.42%) Python
2 485 (50.31%) SQL
3 308 (31.95%) Java
4 198 (20.54%) JavaScript
5 160 (16.60%) TypeScript
6 97 (10.06%) T-SQL
7 56 (5.81%) Scala
8 46 (4.77%) Go
9 45 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 29 (3.01%) C#
11 25 (2.59%) R
12 21 (2.18%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 10 (1.04%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.93%) U-SQL
15 4 (0.41%) C
16 3 (0.31%) Bash
17 2 (0.21%) C++
18 1 (0.10%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (9.02%) Degree
2 60 (6.22%) Azure Certification
3 42 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 40 (4.15%) AWS Certification
5 18 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.35%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.35%) Security Cleared
7 11 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 11 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.62%) CIMA
10 3 (0.31%) MCP
10 3 (0.31%) MCSE
11 2 (0.21%) MCSA
11 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.10%) HND
12 1 (0.10%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.10%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (20.44%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.39%) GDPR
3 20 (2.07%) SLA
4 13 (1.35%) QA
5 8 (0.83%) PSD2
6 6 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.31%) PMO
8 1 (0.10%) GMP
8 1 (0.10%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (2.80%) Docker
2 8 (0.83%) HDFS
3 7 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.10%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 67 (6.95%) Terraform
3 36 (3.73%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.31%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.21%) Argo
5 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.10%) Ansible
Vendors
1 285 (29.56%) Databricks
2 272 (28.22%) Microsoft
3 71 (7.37%) Alteryx
4 64 (6.64%) Google
5 44 (4.56%) Oracle
6 22 (2.28%) Cognos
7 18 (1.87%) Sybase
8 16 (1.66%) SAP
9 13 (1.35%) Teradata
10 11 (1.14%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.83%) Duck Creek
11 8 (0.83%) Talend
12 7 (0.73%) Adobe
12 7 (0.73%) Informatica
13 6 (0.62%) Apple
13 6 (0.62%) IBM
14 4 (0.41%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.41%) SnapLogic
15 3 (0.31%) CheckPoint
15 3 (0.31%) Veracode