Data Lake Contracts in England

Data Lakes
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 200 220
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 454 676 930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.23% 1.35% 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.31% 7.58% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 523 603
10th Percentile £413 £450 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -2.54% +12.38%
75th Percentile £850 £688 £675
90th Percentile £888 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £560 £566 £575
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.65% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £56.88
90th Percentile £57.30 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,208 8,913 14,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.84% 17.84% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,468 6,398 10,319
10th Percentile £350 £371 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 167 168
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £21.44
Median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -30.22% +32.56% +74.76%
75th Percentile £58.68 £73.11 £62.24
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
% change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +62.27%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Lake in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +13 315 £658 +9.58% 138
North of England +7 48 £478 -13.18% 25
North West +14 40 £478 -25.83% 17
South East +5 29 £575 +4.55% 28
Midlands +10 22 £488 -2.50% 13
South West +20 16 £469 -10.71% 12
West Midlands +16 12 £400 -31.91% 8
East Midlands +6 10 £513 +13.89% 5
Yorkshire +11 7 £450 -32.58% 8
East of England +6 3 £418 -24.09% 10
North East +10 1 £850 +51.11%
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 96 (21.15%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (18.94%) Apache
3 44 (9.69%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.20%) SAS
5 2 (0.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (6.17%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.66%) Primavera
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 256 (56.39%) Azure
2 159 (35.02%) AWS
3 125 (27.53%) Power Platform
4 122 (26.87%) Snowflake
5 98 (21.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 85 (18.72%) dbt
7 82 (18.06%) GCP
8 59 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (13.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (12.56%) Power Automate
10 49 (10.79%) Dynamics 365
11 44 (9.69%) PowerApps
12 43 (9.47%) Serverless
13 21 (4.63%) Azure Functions
14 20 (4.41%) Amazon S3
14 20 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 17 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (3.30%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) Firewall
2 2 (0.44%) FTP
2 2 (0.44%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) DNS
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (30.40%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (24.89%) Power BI
3 92 (20.26%) Amazon Athena
4 90 (19.82%) Big Data
5 79 (17.40%) Apache Arrow
5 79 (17.40%) Dremio
6 67 (14.76%) Apache Ignite
7 41 (9.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 39 (8.59%) SQL Server
9 33 (7.27%) NoSQL
10 24 (5.29%) Relational Database
11 22 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (3.52%) DynamoDB
13 15 (3.30%) BigQuery
13 15 (3.30%) Delta Lake
13 15 (3.30%) Metadata
14 14 (3.08%) OLTP
14 14 (3.08%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.86%) Spark SQL
16 12 (2.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 26 (5.73%) Git
2 6 (1.32%) JIRA
2 6 (1.32%) SonarQube
2 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (1.32%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (0.88%) Deequ
3 4 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.88%) Maven
4 3 (0.66%) kappa
5 2 (0.44%) Ant
5 2 (0.44%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.44%) ERwin
5 2 (0.44%) Gradle
5 2 (0.44%) JUnit
5 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) Hudson
6 1 (0.22%) NUnit
6 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 183 (40.31%) Finance
2 115 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 84 (18.50%) Banking
4 70 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (15.20%) Investment Banking
6 67 (14.76%) Front Office
7 42 (9.25%) Public Sector
8 39 (8.59%) Retail
9 27 (5.95%) General Ledger
10 15 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.42%) Marketing
12 7 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.32%) Legal
13 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.88%) Electronics
16 3 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 128 (28.19%) Data Engineer
2 102 (22.47%) Architect
3 58 (12.78%) Azure Engineer
4 57 (12.56%) Lead
5 53 (11.67%) Data Architect
6 52 (11.45%) Azure Data Engineer
7 49 (10.79%) Solutions Architect
8 48 (10.57%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (10.35%) Senior
10 44 (9.69%) Developer
11 42 (9.25%) Consultant
12 39 (8.59%) Software Engineer
13 33 (7.27%) Analyst
14 26 (5.73%) Python Engineer
15 24 (5.29%) Data Analyst
16 23 (5.07%) Azure Architect
16 23 (5.07%) Java Engineer
17 22 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
17 22 (4.85%) Python Software Engineer
18 21 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.40%) gRPC
1 79 (17.40%) Protocol Buffers
2 68 (14.98%) NumPy
2 68 (14.98%) Pandas
3 67 (14.76%) SciPy
4 59 (13.00%) PySpark
5 20 (4.41%) JSON
6 14 (3.08%) .NET
6 14 (3.08%) Kafka
7 13 (2.86%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.86%) XML
8 9 (1.98%) Apache Avro
9 7 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.54%) Web Services
10 6 (1.32%) Middleware
10 6 (1.32%) YAML
11 5 (1.10%) JSON Schema
11 5 (1.10%) REST
12 4 (0.88%) OpenID
12 4 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.28%) Hedge funds
2 68 (14.98%) Derivative
3 67 (14.76%) Equities
3 67 (14.76%) Fixed Income
3 67 (14.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (7.93%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.64%) Clustering
7 7 (1.54%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.32%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.88%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.88%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.19%) Linux
2 4 (0.88%) Windows
3 3 (0.66%) Unix
4 1 (0.22%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) VMS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (34.58%) Agile
2 128 (28.19%) Business Intelligence
3 121 (26.65%) DevOps
4 113 (24.89%) Data Modelling
5 102 (22.47%) Analytics
6 100 (22.03%) ETL
7 88 (19.38%) Data Pipeline
8 81 (17.84%) Software Engineering
9 80 (17.62%) Asset Management
10 79 (17.40%) Data Engineering
11 75 (16.52%) Investment Management
12 63 (13.88%) CI/CD
13 56 (12.33%) Data Governance
14 46 (10.13%) Data Architecture
15 44 (9.69%) Migration
16 42 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (9.25%) Scrum
17 39 (8.59%) Data Analysis
18 38 (8.37%) Data Integration
19 36 (7.93%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 208 (45.81%) Python
2 171 (37.67%) SQL
3 102 (22.47%) Java
4 79 (17.40%) JavaScript
5 67 (14.76%) TypeScript
6 28 (6.17%) T-SQL
7 26 (5.73%) PowerShell
8 25 (5.51%) Scala
9 19 (4.19%) Go
10 16 (3.52%) C#
11 8 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.76%) R
12 7 (1.54%) Bash
13 5 (1.10%) X++
14 4 (0.88%) Bicep
15 3 (0.66%) C
15 3 (0.66%) C++
15 3 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.44%) U-SQL
17 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (9.91%) Degree
2 39 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 35 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.66%) CIMA
8 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
9 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.42%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.74%) QA
3 6 (1.32%) GDPR
4 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.66%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.66%) PMO
6 2 (0.44%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) SLA
7 1 (0.22%) COBIT
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (3.74%) Docker
2 7 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.66%) HDFS
5 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 56 (12.33%) Terraform
2 32 (7.05%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.41%) Ansible
4 12 (2.64%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.64%) Puppet
5 6 (1.32%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.44%) Ambari
6 2 (0.44%) Oozie
7 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.22%) Kibana
7 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 129 (28.41%) Databricks
2 110 (24.23%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.17%) SAP
4 19 (4.19%) Oracle
5 13 (2.86%) Informatica
6 11 (2.42%) Talend
7 10 (2.20%) Google
8 7 (1.54%) Dataiku
9 6 (1.32%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.32%) Splunk
9 6 (1.32%) Trillium
10 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.66%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.66%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.66%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.66%) Teradata
12 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.44%) Sybase
13 1 (0.22%) JDA
13 1 (0.22%) Sage