Data Lake Contracts in the Midlands

Data Lakes
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 123 159
Rank change year-on-year +9 +36 -29
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 22 41 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.80% 1.19% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.23% 6.91% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 41
10th Percentile £263 £411 £406
25th Percentile £357 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £622 £619 £638
90th Percentile £706 £654 £750
England median daily rate £575 £575 £588
% change year-on-year - -2.17% +11.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £29.03 - -
25th Percentile £30.94 - -
Median hourly rate £35.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.78 - -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 421 593 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.23% 17.25% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 413 713
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £540
90th Percentile £700 £685 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 16
10th Percentile - £21.04 £17.63
25th Percentile - £24.00 £22.31
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -27.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £27.49 £26.48 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £31.64 £45.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -27.27% +28.15% +72.91%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the Midlands

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +20 12 £400 -33.33% 8
East Midlands +5 10 £513 +13.89% 6
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) AWS
6 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
7 2 (9.09%) Azure App Service
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
7 2 (9.09%) Serverless
8 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.55%) dbt
8 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (4.55%) GCP
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub
8 1 (4.55%) IaaS
8 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (31.82%) Power BI
3 5 (22.73%) Big Data
4 4 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
5 3 (13.64%) Pentaho
5 3 (13.64%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
6 2 (9.09%) Delta Lake
6 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
7 1 (4.55%) MySQL
7 1 (4.55%) OLAP
7 1 (4.55%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.55%) Redis
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Ant
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Gradle
2 1 (4.55%) Hudson
2 1 (4.55%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Project Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Beam
2 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
2 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) Swagger
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) FMCG
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (40.91%) Data Modelling
3 8 (36.36%) ETL
4 7 (31.82%) Data Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) Analytics
6 5 (22.73%) Data Architecture
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Data Strategy
7 4 (18.18%) DevOps
7 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
8 3 (13.64%) Agile
8 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
8 3 (13.64%) Data Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
8 3 (13.64%) Kimball Methodology
9 2 (9.09%) Data Management
9 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 2 (9.09%) TDD
9 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) Scala
5 2 (9.09%) C
5 2 (9.09%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Databricks
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Informatica
2 3 (13.64%) Talend
3 1 (4.55%) JDA
3 1 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (4.55%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.55%) SAP