Data Lake Contracts

Data Lakes
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 211 215
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 484 765 1,230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.28% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.68% 7.10% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 574 788
10th Percentile £406 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -1.70% +12.20%
75th Percentile £763 £675 £675
90th Percentile £888 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 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% - -21.35%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £56.88
90th Percentile £57.30 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +10 439 £568 -0.87% 183
London +15 299 £650 +8.33% 100
Work from Home +43 216 £650 +18.18% 95
UK excluding London -8 128 £495 -5.71% 85
North of England +3 47 £480 -16.52% 23
North West 0 39 £480 -22.42% 17
South East +12 30 £575 +9.52% 24
Midlands +3 21 £513 +2.50% 10
South West +19 16 £450 -14.29% 7
West Midlands +22 12 £400 -33.33% 6
Scotland +28 11 £488 -9.30% 10
East Midlands +5 9 £513 +13.89% 4
Yorkshire +11 7 £450 -32.58% 6
East of England +3 3 £418 -24.09% 9
North East +12 1 £850 +61.90%

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 87 (17.98%) Apache Airflow
2 75 (15.50%) Apache
3 44 (9.09%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.48%) SAS
5 4 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (5.99%) Dynamics AX
2 14 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.62%) Primavera
5 2 (0.41%) Magento
5 2 (0.41%) Maximo
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft CRM
6 1 (0.21%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 270 (55.79%) Azure
2 164 (33.88%) AWS
3 143 (29.55%) Power Platform
4 114 (23.55%) Snowflake
5 101 (20.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 87 (17.98%) GCP
7 76 (15.70%) dbt
8 68 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (13.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 59 (12.19%) Power Automate
11 52 (10.74%) Dynamics 365
12 45 (9.30%) PowerApps
12 45 (9.30%) Serverless
13 22 (4.55%) Amazon S3
13 22 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (4.13%) Azure Functions
14 20 (4.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (3.93%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.83%) Firewall
2 3 (0.62%) VPN
3 2 (0.41%) FTP
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) Network Security
4 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (32.64%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (27.07%) Power BI
3 87 (17.98%) Big Data
4 82 (16.94%) Amazon Athena
5 68 (14.05%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (14.05%) Dremio
6 58 (11.98%) Apache Ignite
7 48 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (9.30%) SQL Server
9 30 (6.20%) NoSQL
10 26 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (4.55%) Relational Database
12 18 (3.72%) Tableau
13 16 (3.31%) BigQuery
13 16 (3.31%) Delta Lake
13 16 (3.31%) DynamoDB
13 16 (3.31%) Metadata
13 16 (3.31%) Spark SQL
14 15 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (2.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (5.79%) Git
2 9 (1.86%) JIRA
3 6 (1.24%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.24%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.83%) Maven
5 3 (0.62%) Deequ
5 3 (0.62%) kappa
6 2 (0.41%) Ant
6 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.41%) ERwin
6 2 (0.41%) GitLab
6 2 (0.41%) Gradle
6 2 (0.41%) JUnit
6 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.41%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.21%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 182 (37.60%) Finance
2 123 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 79 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (15.70%) Banking
5 60 (12.40%) Investment Banking
6 58 (11.98%) Front Office
7 47 (9.71%) Public Sector
8 40 (8.26%) Retail
9 29 (5.99%) General Ledger
10 16 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.89%) Marketing
12 10 (2.07%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.24%) Electronics
14 6 (1.24%) Legal
15 4 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (28.31%) Data Engineer
2 107 (22.11%) Architect
3 62 (12.81%) Azure Engineer
4 55 (11.36%) Azure Data Engineer
4 55 (11.36%) Lead
5 52 (10.74%) Data Architect
5 52 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
6 49 (10.12%) Consultant
7 48 (9.92%) Developer
8 47 (9.71%) AWS Engineer
9 43 (8.88%) Senior
10 37 (7.64%) Analyst
11 33 (6.82%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.37%) Data Analyst
13 24 (4.96%) Azure Architect
13 24 (4.96%) Python Engineer
14 23 (4.75%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 19 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
15 19 (3.93%) Microsoft Consultant
15 19 (3.93%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (14.05%) gRPC
1 68 (14.05%) Protocol Buffers
2 60 (12.40%) PySpark
3 59 (12.19%) NumPy
3 59 (12.19%) Pandas
4 58 (11.98%) SciPy
5 19 (3.93%) JSON
6 17 (3.51%) Kafka
7 16 (3.31%) .NET
8 13 (2.69%) XML
9 12 (2.48%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (1.45%) REST
11 7 (1.45%) Web Services
12 6 (1.24%) Apache Avro
12 6 (1.24%) YAML
13 5 (1.03%) Middleware
14 4 (0.83%) .NET Framework
14 4 (0.83%) ADO
14 4 (0.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 71 (14.67%) Hedge funds
2 59 (12.19%) Derivative
3 58 (11.98%) Equities
3 58 (11.98%) Fixed Income
3 58 (11.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (7.64%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.07%) Clustering
7 7 (1.45%) Data Fabric
7 7 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.03%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.03%) CMDB
9 5 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.83%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.83%) Pricing Data
10 4 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.93%) Linux
2 4 (0.83%) Windows
3 3 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) VMS
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (32.85%) Agile
2 152 (31.40%) Business Intelligence
3 127 (26.24%) DevOps
4 126 (26.03%) Data Modelling
5 117 (24.17%) Analytics
5 117 (24.17%) ETL
6 88 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
7 83 (17.15%) Data Engineering
8 74 (15.29%) Software Engineering
9 72 (14.88%) Asset Management
10 70 (14.46%) Investment Management
11 64 (13.22%) CI/CD
12 62 (12.81%) Data Governance
13 50 (10.33%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (10.12%) Migration
15 47 (9.71%) Data Architecture
16 45 (9.30%) Visualisation
17 44 (9.09%) Data Integration
17 44 (9.09%) Scrum
18 42 (8.68%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 203 (41.94%) Python
2 188 (38.84%) SQL
3 92 (19.01%) Java
4 68 (14.05%) JavaScript
5 58 (11.98%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.58%) PowerShell
6 27 (5.58%) T-SQL
7 25 (5.17%) Scala
8 17 (3.51%) C#
8 17 (3.51%) Go
9 13 (2.69%) R
10 12 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.45%) Bash
11 7 (1.45%) Bicep
12 5 (1.03%) X++
13 3 (0.62%) C
13 3 (0.62%) C++
13 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.41%) U-SQL
15 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 50 (10.33%) Degree
2 42 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.13%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.10%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.62%) CIMA
8 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
9 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (12.60%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.51%) QA
3 6 (1.24%) GDPR
4 5 (1.03%) PMO
5 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.62%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.41%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) CDISC
8 1 (0.21%) COBIT
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (4.13%) Docker
2 8 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.62%) HDFS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 54 (11.16%) Terraform
2 34 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.13%) Ansible
4 12 (2.48%) Puppet
5 10 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.24%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.41%) Ambari
7 2 (0.41%) Oozie
8 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.21%) Kibana
8 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (28.51%) Databricks
2 123 (25.41%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.61%) SAP
4 21 (4.34%) Oracle
5 15 (3.10%) Google
6 13 (2.69%) Informatica
7 11 (2.27%) Talend
8 8 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.45%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.24%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.24%) Splunk
10 6 (1.24%) Trillium
11 3 (0.62%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.62%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.62%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.62%) Teradata
12 2 (0.41%) Marketo
12 2 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.41%) Sybase