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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 254 283
Rank change year-on-year +14 +29 -44
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 150 201 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.88% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.87% 5.86% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 165 182
10th Percentile £371 £413 £407
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £688
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £585 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +1.74% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
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% - -21.79%

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 2,556 3,429 5,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.49% 14.98% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,813 2,448 3,817
10th Percentile £313 £338 £329
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £588
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 103 106 128
10th Percentile £13.54 £21.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £38.50 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.40% +62.71% +44.03%
75th Percentile £59.50 £70.00 £60.54
90th Percentile £74.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +66.91%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +30 65 £500 -16.67% 31
North West +22 50 £475 -24.00% 25
South East -4 34 £500 -4.76% 56
Midlands +20 25 £445 -11.00% 11
South West +11 17 £510 -2.86% 16
Yorkshire +15 14 £500 -27.01% 5
East Midlands +7 14 £459 +1.94% 3
West Midlands +5 11 £400 -31.91% 7
Scotland +26 9 £450 -12.20% 4
East of England -1 2 £418 -24.09% 5
North East +5 1 £850 +41.67% 1
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 17 (11.33%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.67%) Apache
3 6 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.00%) SAS
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.33%) Maximo
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 74 (49.33%) Azure
2 56 (37.33%) Power Platform
3 33 (22.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (21.33%) AWS
5 24 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (15.33%) Snowflake
7 20 (13.33%) GCP
8 14 (9.33%) Amazon S3
8 14 (9.33%) Serverless
9 13 (8.67%) Power Automate
10 12 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (5.33%) PowerApps
13 7 (4.67%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (4.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (41.33%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (34.00%) Power BI
3 26 (17.33%) Big Data
4 18 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 16 (10.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (9.33%) BigQuery
6 14 (9.33%) NoSQL
7 13 (8.67%) Hadoop
8 11 (7.33%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (6.67%) Data Mining
10 9 (6.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (5.33%) Relational Database
12 7 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (4.00%) DynamoDB
13 6 (4.00%) Metadata
13 6 (4.00%) Qlik Sense
13 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Git
2 16 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.67%) JIRA
4 6 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.33%) kappa
6 1 (0.67%) Ant
6 1 (0.67%) Gradle
6 1 (0.67%) Hudson
6 1 (0.67%) JUnit
6 1 (0.67%) Maven
6 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.67%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.67%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.67%) Finance
4 15 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 13 (8.67%) Public Sector
6 12 (8.00%) Banking
7 7 (4.67%) Retail
8 6 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.67%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (25.33%) Data Engineer
2 34 (22.67%) Architect
3 21 (14.00%) Analyst
4 20 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 14 (9.33%) Developer
7 13 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Data Architect
8 12 (8.00%) Senior
9 10 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Data Modeller
11 8 (5.33%) Data Manager
11 8 (5.33%) Data Quality Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) QA Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Quality Analyst
12 7 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (4.67%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (4.67%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
12 7 (4.67%) Senior QA Analyst
12 7 (4.67%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.67%) Kafka
2 9 (6.00%) PySpark
3 7 (4.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (3.33%) JSON
4 5 (3.33%) XML
5 4 (2.67%) ADO
5 4 (2.67%) OpenID
6 3 (2.00%) Snowpark
6 3 (2.00%) SOAP
7 2 (1.33%) .NET
7 2 (1.33%) REST
8 1 (0.67%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.67%) Middleware
8 1 (0.67%) NumPy
8 1 (0.67%) Pandas
8 1 (0.67%) pytest
8 1 (0.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.67%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.00%) Credit Risk
3 5 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.33%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.67%) Blockchain
4 4 (2.67%) CMDB
4 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.33%) NHS
5 2 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.67%) FMCG
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Life Science
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.67%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Linux
1 1 (0.67%) Windows
1 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.67%) Data Modelling
2 55 (36.67%) Business Intelligence
3 48 (32.00%) ETL
4 42 (28.00%) Analytics
5 41 (27.33%) DevOps
6 33 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (19.33%) Data Engineering
8 26 (17.33%) Data Governance
9 24 (16.00%) Data Integration
9 24 (16.00%) Visualisation
10 23 (15.33%) Data Architecture
11 21 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (12.67%) Data Science
13 17 (11.33%) Data Analysis
13 17 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (10.67%) Agile
14 16 (10.67%) CI/CD
14 16 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 14 (9.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (54.67%) SQL
2 52 (34.67%) Python
3 13 (8.67%) Java
4 6 (4.00%) Bash
4 6 (4.00%) Go
5 5 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.67%) C#
6 4 (2.67%) Scala
6 4 (2.67%) X++
7 3 (2.00%) C++
8 2 (1.33%) C
8 2 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.33%) R
9 1 (0.67%) Bicep
9 1 (0.67%) PHP
9 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) Degree
2 7 (4.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.00%) QA
3 3 (2.00%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (7.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) HDFS
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (13.33%) Terraform
2 11 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.00%) Progress Chef
4 6 (4.00%) Ansible
4 6 (4.00%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (22.00%) Databricks
3 12 (8.00%) SAP
4 8 (5.33%) Google
4 8 (5.33%) Oracle
5 6 (4.00%) Alteryx
5 6 (4.00%) Dataiku
5 6 (4.00%) Informatica
5 6 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.00%) Splunk
5 6 (4.00%) Trillium
6 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe
7 1 (0.67%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.67%) Cognos
7 1 (0.67%) Facebook
7 1 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.67%) Twitter