Data Lake Contracts in Central London

Data Lakes
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 92 143
Rank change year-on-year -7 +51 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 36 80 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.47% 2.07% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.77% 9.90% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 54 30
10th Percentile £475 £475 £458
25th Percentile £481 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +6.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £667 £730 £700
90th Percentile £688 £755 £775
London median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 532 808 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.72% 20.93% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 519 759
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +7.98%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £800
London median daily rate £563 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +255.88%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
London median hourly rate £49.25 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -6.19% - +44.07%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +10 33 £575 -11.54% 9
West End of London +3 2 - -
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (5.56%) Primavera
3 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.78%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Power Platform
3 10 (27.78%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (27.78%) Power Automate
3 10 (27.78%) PowerApps
4 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (13.89%) AWS
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (8.33%) GCP
9 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.56%) WhatsApp
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) Power BI
2 8 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (19.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (11.11%) Parquet
5 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.56%) Big Data
6 2 (5.56%) Metadata
6 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.78%) DB2
7 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.78%) Power Query
7 1 (2.78%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Deequ
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (41.67%) Finance
3 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (22.22%) General Ledger
5 8 (22.22%) Retail
6 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Marketing
8 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Consultant
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Consultant
3 7 (19.44%) Data Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Business Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Data Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Applications Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) JSON
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Avro
2 3 (8.33%) JSON Schema
2 3 (8.33%) PySpark
3 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.56%) Great Expectations
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (2.78%) REST
4 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (30.56%) Analytics
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Agile
4 9 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (22.22%) Accounts Payable
5 8 (22.22%) Accounts Receivable
5 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 8 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
5 8 (22.22%) Requirements Workshops
6 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 6 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) ETL
7 6 (16.67%) Migration
7 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) SDLC
8 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
9 4 (11.11%) Data Migration
9 4 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 5 (13.89%) T-SQL
4 4 (11.11%) Scala
5 3 (8.33%) R
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.78%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Java
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) CIMA
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) PMO
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Sybase