Data Lake Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Lakes
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 134 186 169
Rank change year-on-year +52 -17 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 236 326 718
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.57% 1.30% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.17% 6.82% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 253 488
10th Percentile £413 £413 £406
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -2.22% +10.57%
75th Percentile £850 £663 £650
90th Percentile £888 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £573 £575
% change year-on-year +0.44% -0.43% +12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,887 4,781 9,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.06% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,489 6,911
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

Data Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Lake daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 88 (37.29%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (28.39%) Apache
3 13 (5.51%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.69%) SAS
5 1 (0.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (9.32%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Magento
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.85%) PeopleSoft CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (44.49%) Azure
2 96 (40.68%) AWS
3 88 (37.29%) Snowflake
4 84 (35.59%) dbt
5 62 (26.27%) Power Platform
6 44 (18.64%) GCP
7 41 (17.37%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (14.83%) Dynamics 365
8 35 (14.83%) Power Automate
9 30 (12.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (12.29%) PowerApps
11 24 (10.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (7.63%) Serverless
13 13 (5.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (4.24%) Azure Functions
15 8 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (2.97%) GitHub
17 6 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
18 5 (2.12%) Azure Storage
18 5 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) FTP
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (35.17%) Amazon Athena
2 80 (33.90%) Apache Arrow
2 80 (33.90%) Dremio
3 66 (27.97%) Apache Ignite
4 61 (25.85%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (23.31%) Power BI
6 33 (13.98%) Big Data
7 14 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (5.93%) SQL Server
8 10 (4.24%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.81%) Delta Lake
10 8 (3.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.97%) Metadata
11 7 (2.97%) Power Query
12 6 (2.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (2.12%) Data Vault
13 5 (2.12%) OLTP
13 5 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (3.81%) Git
2 5 (2.12%) JIRA
3 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (0.42%) Deequ
4 1 (0.42%) ERwin
4 1 (0.42%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) MLflow
General
1 135 (57.20%) Finance
2 71 (30.08%) Banking
3 66 (27.97%) Front Office
3 66 (27.97%) Investment Banking
4 54 (22.88%) Social Skills
5 35 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (13.98%) Public Sector
7 25 (10.59%) General Ledger
8 24 (10.17%) Retail
9 7 (2.97%) Marketing
10 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Billing
11 3 (1.27%) Electronics
11 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.85%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.85%) Legal
12 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 44 (18.64%) Software Engineer
3 43 (18.22%) Lead
4 42 (17.80%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (15.68%) Architect
6 32 (13.56%) Developer
6 32 (13.56%) Senior
7 31 (13.14%) Consultant
8 30 (12.71%) Python Engineer
9 28 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (11.44%) Azure Data Engineer
11 26 (11.02%) Java Engineer
11 26 (11.02%) Java Software Engineer
11 26 (11.02%) Python Software Engineer
12 24 (10.17%) AWS Software Engineer
12 24 (10.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (8.90%) Lead Developer
13 21 (8.90%) Software Developer
14 20 (8.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (8.47%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (33.90%) gRPC
1 80 (33.90%) Protocol Buffers
2 66 (27.97%) NumPy
2 66 (27.97%) Pandas
2 66 (27.97%) SciPy
3 29 (12.29%) PySpark
4 10 (4.24%) JSON
5 8 (3.39%) .NET
6 7 (2.97%) XML
7 4 (1.69%) ADO
7 4 (1.69%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.69%) Kafka
8 3 (1.27%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.27%) Web Services
9 2 (0.85%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.85%) Apache Avro
9 2 (0.85%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.85%) Middleware
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (33.90%) Hedge funds
2 66 (27.97%) Derivative
2 66 (27.97%) Equities
2 66 (27.97%) Fixed Income
2 66 (27.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (9.32%) Data Structures
4 14 (5.93%) Clustering
5 8 (3.39%) Pricing Data
5 8 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.27%) NHS
6 3 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.85%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.42%) BYOD
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (44.49%) Agile
2 82 (34.75%) Asset Management
3 75 (31.78%) DevOps
3 75 (31.78%) Software Engineering
4 73 (30.93%) Investment Management
5 63 (26.69%) Business Intelligence
6 42 (17.80%) ETL
7 39 (16.53%) Data Engineering
7 39 (16.53%) Data Modelling
8 38 (16.10%) Data Pipeline
9 36 (15.25%) Analytics
10 30 (12.71%) Line Management
11 28 (11.86%) Greeks
12 26 (11.02%) CI/CD
13 24 (10.17%) Requirements Gathering
14 22 (9.32%) Accounts Payable
14 22 (9.32%) Accounts Receivable
14 22 (9.32%) Data Transformation
14 22 (9.32%) Requirements Workshops
15 19 (8.05%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 131 (55.51%) Python
2 87 (36.86%) Java
3 80 (33.90%) JavaScript
4 66 (27.97%) TypeScript
5 60 (25.42%) SQL
6 14 (5.93%) Go
7 10 (4.24%) C#
8 8 (3.39%) Scala
8 8 (3.39%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.12%) R
11 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.69%) X++
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
12 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (9.32%) Degree
2 11 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.85%) NIST
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) CDISC
3 1 (0.42%) COBIT
3 1 (0.42%) GDPR
3 1 (0.42%) GxP
3 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 8 (3.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (13.14%) Terraform
2 23 (9.75%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (23.31%) Databricks
2 52 (22.03%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.12%) Informatica
3 5 (2.12%) Oracle
4 4 (1.69%) SAP
5 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.85%) Google
5 2 (0.85%) Marketo
5 2 (0.85%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.42%) Facebook
6 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.42%) Talend
6 1 (0.42%) Twitter
6 1 (0.42%) Workday
6 1 (0.42%) Wrike