Data Lake Contracts in the South West

Data Lakes
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 151 166
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -54
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 16 19 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.50% 0.53% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.28% 4.03% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 7
10th Percentile - £376 £480
25th Percentile £425 £438 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -5.41%
75th Percentile £562 £675 £572
90th Percentile £630 £700 £623
England median daily rate £575 £575 £590
% change year-on-year - -2.54% +12.92%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 303 471 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.50% 13.05% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 343 437
10th Percentile £325 £363 £343
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £600
90th Percentile £725 £738 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 20
10th Percentile £26.50 £18.63 £49.22
25th Percentile - £34.35 £58.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -5.87% +62.47%
75th Percentile £71.50 £76.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £43.38
% change year-on-year -30.22% +32.56% +74.76%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the South West

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol +15 10 £450 -5.26% 6
Wiltshire +9 2 £616 +17.38%
Gloucestershire +5 2 £469 +44.23% 2
Somerset +3 1 £575 +47.44% 2
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) OCI
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Power BI
2 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) Parquet
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) General Ledger
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) QA Tester
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (25.00%) OpenID
3 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 4 (25.00%) ETL
3 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 2 (12.50%) Defect Management
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Databricks
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.25%) SAP