Data Lake Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Lakes
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 248 285
Rank change year-on-year -15 +37 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 133 208 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.89% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.20% 5.77% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 165 175
10th Percentile £358 £413 £408
25th Percentile £413 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £573 £575
% change year-on-year +0.44% -0.43% +12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile £57.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,560 3,607 5,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.50% 15.38% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 2,589 3,804
10th Percentile £316 £337 £327
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.61%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 114 130
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.27 £55.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.68 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +7 52 £490 -10.91% 17
North West +7 44 £500 -22.33% 10
South East +9 29 £575 +9.52% 21
Midlands +18 23 £488 -2.50% 10
South West +12 16 £469 -10.71% 13
West Midlands +16 13 £400 -31.91% 7
Scotland +35 11 £488 -7.14% 8
East Midlands +12 10 £513 +13.89% 3
Yorkshire +10 7 £450 -32.58% 7
East of England -4 2 £418 -24.09% 8
North East +6 1 £850 +51.11%
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (7.52%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.26%) Apache
3 6 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.50%) Maximo
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 64 (48.12%) Azure
2 54 (40.60%) Power Platform
3 31 (23.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (19.55%) Snowflake
5 24 (18.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 22 (16.54%) AWS
7 13 (9.77%) GCP
7 13 (9.77%) Power Automate
8 12 (9.02%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (6.77%) Serverless
10 8 (6.02%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (6.02%) PowerApps
11 7 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.51%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.51%) Collibra
13 5 (3.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (45.11%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (36.84%) Power BI
3 17 (12.78%) Big Data
4 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
5 14 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 10 (7.52%) Data Mining
7 9 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (6.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (6.02%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.26%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.51%) Ataccama
10 6 (4.51%) DynamoDB
10 6 (4.51%) Metadata
10 6 (4.51%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (3.76%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (3.01%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) SonarQube
2 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (3.01%) JIRA
4 2 (1.50%) kappa
5 1 (0.75%) Ant
5 1 (0.75%) Gradle
5 1 (0.75%) Hudson
5 1 (0.75%) JUnit
5 1 (0.75%) Maven
5 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.75%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Finance
4 15 (11.28%) Pharmaceutical
5 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.26%) Retail
7 6 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.26%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.50%) Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Electronics
10 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.04%) Analyst
3 18 (13.53%) Architect
4 14 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 13 (9.77%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (9.02%) Data Architect
6 12 (9.02%) Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Senior
7 10 (7.52%) Azure Data Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Data Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Data Quality Analyst
8 8 (6.02%) QA Analyst
8 8 (6.02%) Quality Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Data Modeller
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Senior QA Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Quality Analyst
10 6 (4.51%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.77%) PySpark
2 7 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (4.51%) JSON
4 5 (3.76%) XML
5 4 (3.01%) ADO
5 4 (3.01%) OpenID
6 3 (2.26%) .NET
6 3 (2.26%) Kafka
6 3 (2.26%) REST
6 3 (2.26%) SOAP
7 2 (1.50%) YAML
8 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.75%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.75%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.75%) Middleware
8 1 (0.75%) NumPy
8 1 (0.75%) Pandas
8 1 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.51%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.76%) Reference Data
3 4 (3.01%) Blockchain
3 4 (3.01%) CMDB
3 4 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.50%) NHS
5 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.75%) BYOD
6 1 (0.75%) FMCG
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Life Science
6 1 (0.75%) Replication
6 1 (0.75%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
1 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.35%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (35.34%) Data Modelling
3 41 (30.83%) ETL
4 35 (26.32%) Analytics
5 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (22.56%) Data Engineering
7 26 (19.55%) DevOps
8 23 (17.29%) Data Architecture
9 22 (16.54%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (15.79%) Visualisation
11 19 (14.29%) Data Analysis
11 19 (14.29%) Data Governance
11 19 (14.29%) Data Integration
12 18 (13.53%) Agile
13 17 (12.78%) CI/CD
13 17 (12.78%) Data Science
14 15 (11.28%) Data Management
14 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (9.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 12 (9.02%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 73 (54.89%) SQL
2 45 (33.83%) Python
3 8 (6.02%) Java
4 7 (5.26%) Scala
5 6 (4.51%) Bash
5 6 (4.51%) Go
6 5 (3.76%) C#
6 5 (3.76%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.01%) X++
8 2 (1.50%) C
8 2 (1.50%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.75%) R
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Degree
2 7 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.02%) QA
3 3 (2.26%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (8.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) HDFS
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Terraform
2 11 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.51%) Ansible
3 6 (4.51%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (24.06%) Databricks
2 27 (20.30%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.77%) SAP
4 9 (6.77%) Informatica
5 8 (6.02%) Oracle
6 6 (4.51%) Alteryx
6 6 (4.51%) Dataiku
6 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.51%) Splunk
6 6 (4.51%) Trillium
7 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.26%) Talend
9 1 (0.75%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.75%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.75%) Cognos
9 1 (0.75%) Facebook
9 1 (0.75%) Google
9 1 (0.75%) JDA
9 1 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.75%) Twitter