Data Lake Contracts in Central London

Data Lakes
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 99 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 22 36 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.10% 1.47% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.16% 6.73% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 53
10th Percentile £405 £475 £476
25th Percentile £447 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £701 £685 £730
90th Percentile £725 £699 £755
London median daily rate £675 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 426 535 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.32% 21.92% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 364 517
10th Percentile £404 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £754 £788 £788
London median daily rate £557 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 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
City of London -4 21 £550 -4.35% 16
West End of London -3 1 - - 3
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark
2 4 (18.18%) Apache
2 4 (18.18%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Trello
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
3 5 (22.73%) AWS
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (9.09%) Collibra
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.55%) Boomi
7 1 (4.55%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Power BI
2 6 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) Big Data
3 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (9.09%) Delta Lake
4 2 (9.09%) Metadata
4 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (9.09%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) MySQL
5 1 (4.55%) Parquet
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Law
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Data Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Integration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (9.09%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.55%) BYOD
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) PMI
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) ETL
2 8 (36.36%) Analytics
2 8 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (31.82%) Data Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) Data Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (18.18%) Data Security
6 3 (13.64%) Data Architecture
6 3 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Management
6 3 (13.64%) Data Science
6 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
6 3 (13.64%) ERP
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Scala
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
2 2 (9.09%) PMP
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Databricks
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.09%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) BMC
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Progress
4 1 (4.55%) Remedy
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow