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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 97 101
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 24 38 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.91% 1.85% 1.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 8.41% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 17
10th Percentile £429 £425 -
25th Percentile £538 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -12.21%
75th Percentile £756 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £785 £835
London median daily rate £600 £650 £800
% change year-on-year -7.69% -18.75% +33.33%

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 438 452 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.54% 22.04% 22.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 304 382
10th Percentile £355 £404 £401
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% -1.97% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £710
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.54 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £41.00 £42.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -2.38% -9.19% -27.17%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -26 20 £713 +18.75% 10
Southwark - 2 £525 -
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 3 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 11 (45.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (37.50%) AWS
4 9 (37.50%) Power Platform
5 5 (20.83%) GCP
6 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (8.33%) dbt
7 2 (8.33%) iPaaS
7 2 (8.33%) Serverless
7 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (33.33%) Power BI
3 7 (29.17%) Metadata
4 5 (20.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (12.50%) Big Data
5 3 (12.50%) Data Mining
5 3 (12.50%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
7 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Architect
2 8 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Platform Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) PySpark
2 2 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Analytics
2 12 (50.00%) AI
2 12 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (41.67%) Data Engineering
3 10 (41.67%) Data Modelling
4 9 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 9 (37.50%) Machine Learning
5 8 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (33.33%) ETL
6 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) Data Architecture
7 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
7 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
7 5 (20.83%) Generative AI
7 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (20.83%) Use Case
8 4 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (16.67%) MLOps
8 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (12.50%) Bicep
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Databricks
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Foundry
4 1 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Palantir
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud