Data Lake Contracts in the City of London

Data Lakes
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 99 149
Rank change year-on-year +6 +50 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 29 72 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.35% 2.09% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.00% 9.76% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 50 18
10th Percentile £475 £487 £401
25th Percentile £484 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £644
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +0.97% +7.29%
75th Percentile £641 £730 £705
90th Percentile £673 £756 £775
Central London median daily rate £563 £650 £606
% change year-on-year -13.46% +7.22% +1.04%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 483 738 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.40% 21.37% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 463 651
10th Percentile £400 £415 £425
25th Percentile £475 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £713 £731 £712
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £42.50 £39.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +52.89% +587.50%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.32% +52.89% +223.53%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (6.90%) Primavera
3 1 (3.45%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 24 (82.76%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) Power Platform
3 11 (37.93%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (34.48%) Power Automate
4 10 (34.48%) PowerApps
5 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) AWS
6 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (10.34%) WhatsApp
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (6.90%) GCP
8 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon Macie
9 1 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (3.45%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Power BI
2 5 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Parquet
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 14 (48.28%) Finance
3 9 (31.03%) Public Sector
4 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (27.59%) General Ledger
4 8 (27.59%) Retail
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Consultant
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Consultant
2 5 (17.24%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Data Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) JSON
1 2 (6.90%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Avro
2 1 (3.45%) JSON Schema
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) pytest
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) Accounts Payable
3 8 (27.59%) Accounts Receivable
3 8 (27.59%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (27.59%) Requirements Workshops
4 7 (24.14%) Analytics
4 7 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (20.69%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Data Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Migration
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.79%) Data Transformation
7 4 (13.79%) ETL
8 3 (10.34%) Budget Management
8 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.34%) Data Governance
8 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) R
3 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) CIMA
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce