Data Lake Contracts in the South East

Data Lakes
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 166 183
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 29 45 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.79% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.81% 5.24% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 38 58
10th Percentile £290 £468 £497
25th Percentile £458 £503 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +23.71%
75th Percentile £653 £613 £706
90th Percentile £744 £755 £763
England median daily rate £585 £575 £590
% change year-on-year +1.74% -2.54% +13.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 603 858 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.94% 15.08% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 598 950
10th Percentile £315 £313 £342
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £605
90th Percentile £688 £675 £683
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 43 29
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £21.55 £29.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +144.44% -44.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £74.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.60 £62.15
England median hourly rate £40.25 £57.50 £42.92
% change year-on-year -30.00% +33.98% +71.67%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Thames Valley -3 11 £575 +4.55% 8
Hampshire +3 8 £519 +4.80% 2
Surrey +16 6 £481 -8.33% 7
Berkshire -16 6 £675 +28.57% 6
Buckinghamshire +22 5 £450 -18.18% 1
West Sussex +1 2 £675 -7.22% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Power Platform
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (24.14%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Power Automate
4 6 (20.69%) PowerApps
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (13.79%) GitHub
5 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.79%) Snowflake
6 3 (10.34%) AWS
6 3 (10.34%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (41.38%) Power BI
3 5 (17.24%) Big Data
4 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
5 3 (10.34%) Metadata
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.90%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
6 2 (6.90%) Tableau
7 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.45%) Impala
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (3.45%) OLTP
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) kappa
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Architect
1 6 (20.69%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Integration Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) XML
2 4 (13.79%) ADO
2 4 (13.79%) JSON
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.45%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) NumPy
4 1 (3.45%) Pandas
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Life Science
2 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (31.03%) Analytics
2 9 (31.03%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
3 7 (24.14%) Data Science
4 6 (20.69%) Data Analysis
4 6 (20.69%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.24%) Data Governance
5 5 (17.24%) Data Mapping
5 5 (17.24%) Data Munging
5 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
5 5 (17.24%) ETL
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Data Strategy
6 4 (13.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
6 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Python
3 5 (17.24%) T-SQL
4 4 (13.79%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) X++
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Informatica
3 4 (13.79%) Databricks
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce