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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 103 105
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 35 32 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.86% 1.37% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.07% 6.56% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 37
10th Percentile £384 £475 £463
25th Percentile £475 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -5.74% +1.67%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £785 £840 £755
London median daily rate £638 £800 £580
% change year-on-year -20.31% +37.93% -3.33%

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 386 488 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.50% 20.82% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 351 401
10th Percentile £375 £413 £388
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £710
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £22.70 £37.20 £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £37.88 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 £48.88
90th Percentile - £41.60 £51.05
London median hourly rate £52.50 £43.75 £50.25
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.94% -11.06%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +9 35 £600 +4.35% 27
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 5 (14.29%) Apache
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Power Platform
3 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 9 (25.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (11.43%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) Collibra
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.71%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) Datadog
8 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) Power BI
2 11 (31.43%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (14.29%) Metadata
4 4 (11.43%) Delta Lake
4 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
5 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.71%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (5.71%) Big Data
6 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.86%) Power Query
7 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Banking
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Applications Architect
7 2 (5.71%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) PySpark
2 2 (5.71%) CSS
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) BYOD
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Analytics
2 16 (45.71%) Data Modelling
3 13 (37.14%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (31.43%) Data Engineering
4 11 (31.43%) Data Governance
5 9 (25.71%) Agile
6 8 (22.86%) Data Management
6 8 (22.86%) Data Transformation
7 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (20.00%) ETL
8 6 (17.14%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (17.14%) Data Integration
9 5 (14.29%) Data Architecture
10 4 (11.43%) Data Analysis
10 4 (11.43%) Data Analytics
10 4 (11.43%) Data Lineage
10 4 (11.43%) Data Science
10 4 (11.43%) DevOps
10 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (8.57%) Scala
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.71%) PMP
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Databricks
2 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.43%) Google
4 3 (8.57%) Dataiku
4 3 (8.57%) Informatica
5 2 (5.71%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (5.71%) Foundry
5 2 (5.71%) Palantir
6 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.86%) IBM
6 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Sparx