Data Lake Contracts in London

Data Lakes
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 158 184
Rank change year-on-year +15 +26 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 299 464 636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.69% 1.71% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.89% 8.33% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 350 402
10th Percentile £463 £475 £438
25th Percentile £511 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £693 £675
90th Percentile £888 £775 £750
England median daily rate £568 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -0.87% -0.43% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -55.56% +41.89%
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,788 5,567 8,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.39% 20.56% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,060 6,259
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £457 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 54 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.94 £32.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - +44.07%
75th Percentile £54.34 £73.44 £71.88
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.30 £82.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London 0 36 £575 -11.54% 10
West London +17 1 - - 1
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 76 (25.42%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (22.41%) Apache
3 28 (9.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) SAS
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (7.02%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.00%) Primavera
4 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.33%) Magento
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 176 (58.86%) Azure
2 126 (42.14%) AWS
3 85 (28.43%) Snowflake
4 73 (24.41%) Power Platform
5 71 (23.75%) dbt
6 65 (21.74%) GCP
7 59 (19.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 47 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (13.71%) Power Automate
10 35 (11.71%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (11.04%) PowerApps
12 31 (10.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 28 (9.36%) Serverless
14 15 (5.02%) Azure Functions
15 14 (4.68%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (3.68%) Amazon S3
17 11 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) Firewall
1 1 (0.33%) FTP
1 1 (0.33%) Network Security
1 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (25.08%) Amazon Athena
2 70 (23.41%) Data Warehouse
3 68 (22.74%) Apache Arrow
3 68 (22.74%) Dremio
4 66 (22.07%) Power BI
5 65 (21.74%) Big Data
6 58 (19.40%) Apache Ignite
7 29 (9.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (8.70%) SQL Server
9 15 (5.02%) NoSQL
10 14 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (4.68%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.34%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.34%) OLTP
11 10 (3.34%) Spark SQL
12 9 (3.01%) RDBMS
12 9 (3.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 8 (2.68%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.68%) Parquet
13 8 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (4.35%) Git
2 6 (2.01%) Visual Studio Team System
3 3 (1.00%) Deequ
3 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.67%) ERwin
4 2 (0.67%) JIRA
4 2 (0.67%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.67%) Maven
5 1 (0.33%) Ant
5 1 (0.33%) GitLab
5 1 (0.33%) Gradle
5 1 (0.33%) JUnit
5 1 (0.33%) kappa
5 1 (0.33%) MLflow
5 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 146 (48.83%) Finance
2 72 (24.08%) Banking
2 72 (24.08%) Social Skills
3 60 (20.07%) Investment Banking
4 58 (19.40%) Front Office
5 41 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (9.70%) Retail
7 28 (9.36%) Public Sector
8 21 (7.02%) General Ledger
9 9 (3.01%) Marketing
10 6 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.34%) Legal
13 3 (1.00%) Electronics
13 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.67%) Czech Language
14 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (25.75%) Architect
2 71 (23.75%) Data Engineer
3 45 (15.05%) Lead
4 41 (13.71%) Solutions Architect
5 39 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
6 38 (12.71%) Data Architect
7 36 (12.04%) Azure Data Engineer
7 36 (12.04%) Consultant
8 34 (11.37%) AWS Engineer
9 33 (11.04%) Software Engineer
10 32 (10.70%) Developer
11 28 (9.36%) Senior
12 21 (7.02%) Python Engineer
13 19 (6.35%) Java Engineer
13 19 (6.35%) Software Developer
14 18 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (6.02%) Microsoft Consultant
14 18 (6.02%) Python Software Engineer
15 17 (5.69%) Lead Developer
15 17 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (22.74%) gRPC
1 68 (22.74%) Protocol Buffers
2 58 (19.40%) NumPy
2 58 (19.40%) Pandas
2 58 (19.40%) SciPy
3 39 (13.04%) PySpark
4 13 (4.35%) JSON
5 12 (4.01%) ARM Templates
6 10 (3.34%) .NET
7 9 (3.01%) Kafka
8 7 (2.34%) Web Services
8 7 (2.34%) XML
9 6 (2.01%) Apache Avro
10 4 (1.34%) JSON Schema
10 4 (1.34%) Middleware
10 4 (1.34%) REST
11 3 (1.00%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.00%) Great Expectations
11 3 (1.00%) Swagger
11 3 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (23.75%) Hedge funds
2 59 (19.73%) Derivative
3 58 (19.40%) Equities
3 58 (19.40%) Fixed Income
3 58 (19.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (9.03%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.34%) Clustering
6 9 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.34%) Data Fabric
8 6 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.34%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.00%) Grid Computing
10 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) IoT
11 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.00%) Unix
3 2 (0.67%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) VMS
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (42.14%) Agile
2 87 (29.10%) DevOps
3 74 (24.75%) Business Intelligence
4 70 (23.41%) Software Engineering
5 69 (23.08%) Asset Management
6 68 (22.74%) Investment Management
7 61 (20.40%) Analytics
8 59 (19.73%) Data Modelling
9 55 (18.39%) ETL
10 53 (17.73%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (15.38%) Data Engineering
12 34 (11.37%) CI/CD
12 34 (11.37%) Data Governance
13 32 (10.70%) Line Management
13 32 (10.70%) Scrum
14 28 (9.36%) Requirements Gathering
15 27 (9.03%) Migration
15 27 (9.03%) SDLC
16 24 (8.03%) Data Architecture
17 23 (7.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 137 (45.82%) Python
2 86 (28.76%) SQL
3 81 (27.09%) Java
4 68 (22.74%) JavaScript
5 58 (19.40%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.03%) PowerShell
7 19 (6.35%) T-SQL
8 14 (4.68%) Scala
9 11 (3.68%) Go
10 10 (3.34%) C#
11 9 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (2.34%) R
13 2 (0.67%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) C++
14 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (10.70%) Degree
2 26 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 26 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.69%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.00%) CIMA
7 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.01%) GDPR
3 5 (1.67%) PMO
3 5 (1.67%) QA
4 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) NIST
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) COBIT
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.34%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (11.37%) Terraform
2 16 (5.35%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.68%) Ansible
4 12 (4.01%) Puppet
5 10 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.67%) Ambari
6 2 (0.67%) Oozie
7 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 88 (29.43%) Databricks
2 79 (26.42%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.68%) SAP
4 11 (3.68%) Oracle
5 9 (3.01%) Google
6 5 (1.67%) Talend
7 2 (0.67%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (0.67%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.67%) Informatica
7 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.67%) Sybase
7 2 (0.67%) Teradata
8 1 (0.33%) Ariba
8 1 (0.33%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.33%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.33%) Sage
8 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.33%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.33%) Wrike