Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Data Lakes
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.77% 0.62% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.82% 7.69% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £406 £479 -
25th Percentile £414 £484 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £513 £238
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +115.79% -60.42%
75th Percentile £489 £534 £256
90th Percentile £507 £536 -
East of England median daily rate £580 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +16.00% +5.26% -25.49%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 34 26 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.74% 8.05% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 18
10th Percentile £390 £431 £450
25th Percentile £453 £448 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £549 £669
90th Percentile £728 £585 £706
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £32.38 - £15.51
25th Percentile £34.06 - £22.77
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.06% -67.27% +86.09%
75th Percentile £47.53 - £77.50
90th Percentile £52.52 - -
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £58.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year -43.97% +130.34% -38.18%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Cambridge -8 3 £444 -13.41%
Data Lake
East of England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IFS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) IFRS
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) IFS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase
1 1 (33.33%) Vertica