Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Data Lakes
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 49 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.13% 1.09% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.25% 7.55% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £409 £541 -
25th Percentile £413 £541 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.66% +8.50% -
75th Percentile £438 £544 £544
90th Percentile £441 £545 £578
South East median daily rate £425 £543 £575
% change year-on-year -21.66% -5.65% +0.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 69 53 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.65% 14.40% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 36 59
10th Percentile £307 £189 £276
25th Percentile £343 £309 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £525
90th Percentile £583 £581 £600
South East median daily rate £456 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.85% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +242.47%
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £63.15 £55.91
% change year-on-year -36.66% +12.95% +137.56%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 26 December 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +5 5 £425 -21.66% 3
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) ERP
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft