Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Lakehouse
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.77% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £354 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 - -
75th Percentile £399 - -
90th Percentile £415 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £565 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 759 519 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.13% 88.12% 81.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 341 389
10th Percentile £313 £185 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £638
90th Percentile £688 £639 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £477 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -4.60% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 51 15
10th Percentile £13.45 - £14.60
25th Percentile £19.34 £12.62 £20.88
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -56.12% +56.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £56.85
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £21.59
% change year-on-year +24.36% +12.74% -21.49%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Data Vault
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) SAP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) DataOps
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) SAP
3 2 (28.57%) Databricks
3 2 (28.57%) Informatica