Data Lake Contracts in Birmingham

Data Lakes
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 63 63
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 8 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.53% 0.52% 1.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.52% 3.23% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 12
10th Percentile £400 £379 -
25th Percentile £409 £384 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £410 £631
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -35.05% +32.20%
75th Percentile £476 £429 £667
90th Percentile £533 £430 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +9.38% -33.33% +24.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £40.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 84 124 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.09% 16.04% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 97 116
10th Percentile £107 £294 £311
25th Percentile £393 £350 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £609
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.13
25th Percentile - - £24.31
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year - +60.40% -
75th Percentile - - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Birmingham

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Birmingham

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (50.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Junior
2 4 (50.00%) Junior Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) FHIR
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
2 5 (62.50%) Data Integration
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) B2B
3 4 (50.00%) Data Extraction
3 4 (50.00%) ERP
3 4 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) Interface Catalogue
3 4 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Data Science
6 1 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
6 1 (12.50%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) ANSI SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) SAP