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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 97 100
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 30 31 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.51% 1.28% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.67% 6.37% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 31
10th Percentile £396 £419 £425
25th Percentile £563 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £682
90th Percentile £790 £841 £715
London median daily rate £625 £720 £555
% change year-on-year -13.22% +29.77% -7.50%

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 391 487 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.71% 20.15% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 334 377
10th Percentile £357 £413 £375
25th Percentile £424 £476 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £762 £825 £805
London median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £22.70 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.00 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -32.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -18.18%

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 November 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 27 November 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 29 £625 +4.17% 21
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 7 (23.33%) Apache
2 5 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 10 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) dbt
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.33%) Collibra
6 1 (3.33%) Dagster
6 1 (3.33%) Datadog
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) Power BI
2 10 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (10.00%) Metadata
3 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Spark SQL
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Architect
2 10 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
4 5 (16.67%) Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Applications Architect
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Applications Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) PySpark
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.33%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) BYOD
4 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) FMCG
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Analytics
2 16 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 12 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (26.67%) Data Transformation
5 8 (26.67%) ETL
6 7 (23.33%) Agile
6 7 (23.33%) Data Management
7 6 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (20.00%) Migration
8 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
9 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 4 (13.33%) DevOps
9 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
10 3 (10.00%) Data Design
10 3 (10.00%) Data Lineage
10 3 (10.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 13 (43.33%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (36.67%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (6.67%) Dataiku
4 2 (6.67%) Foundry
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Palantir
5 1 (3.33%) Guidewire
5 1 (3.33%) Informatica
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Sparx