Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Data Lakehouse
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff 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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
South Wales median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 170 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 73.37% 89.47% 74.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 131 117
10th Percentile £300 £213 £140
25th Percentile £345 £300 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £551
90th Percentile £773 £650 £638
South Wales median daily rate £500 £393 £412
% change year-on-year +27.39% -4.73% -14.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 10
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £12.86 £15.48
Median hourly rate £21.50 £13.08 £20.08
Median % change year-on-year +64.37% -34.86% -19.68%
75th Percentile £43.96 £14.06 £25.60
90th Percentile - £20.37 £25.79
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £14.81 £25.36
% change year-on-year +43.53% -41.62% +6.04%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in Cardiff over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in Cardiff

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Databricks Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft