Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Lakes
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 110 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 20 20 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.92% 0.96% 1.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.19% 4.87% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 14
10th Percentile £338 £396 £454
25th Percentile £403 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £679
90th Percentile £717 £728 £686
London median daily rate £600 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%

All Database & BI Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 385 411 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.76% 19.74% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 268 369
10th Percentile £340 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £751 £838
London median daily rate £525 £565 £558
% change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £30.61 -
25th Percentile £55.81 £32.91 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £41.00 £50.25
90th Percentile - £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £52.00 £41.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +25.30% -5.14% +4.01%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Central London over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
City of London -10 19 £575 -5.35% 5
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.00%) Serverless
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.00%) dbt
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.00%) Collibra
8 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub
8 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (15.00%) Metadata
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (5.00%) Big Data
6 1 (5.00%) CockroachDB
6 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.00%) MySQL
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Junior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) boto
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) ETL
2 12 (60.00%) Analytics
3 11 (55.00%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (45.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (30.00%) Data Transformation
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 4 (20.00%) Workflow
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) AI
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
8 3 (15.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Scala
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Databricks
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce