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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 96 107
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 40 33 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.07% 1.44% 1.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.57% 6.82% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 50
10th Percentile £440 £475 £463
25th Percentile £486 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £623
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -5.62% -0.40%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £700
90th Percentile £775 £841 £764
London median daily rate £650 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -18.75% +33.33% +4.35%

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 418 484 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.66% 21.07% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 349 464
10th Percentile £381 £413 £391
25th Percentile £425 £488 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £706
90th Percentile £800 £817 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
London median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% -14.78% +4.55%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +24 40 £600 - 22
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 4 (10.00%) Apache
1 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 24 (60.00%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 11 (27.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (22.50%) AWS
5 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (12.50%) Collibra
8 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) GCP
9 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (5.00%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
11 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) Power BI
2 10 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (17.50%) Metadata
4 6 (15.00%) Delta Lake
5 5 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.50%) Apache Hive
8 2 (5.00%) Big Data
8 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
8 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
8 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 2 (5.00%) Spark SQL
8 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (2.50%) Parquet
9 1 (2.50%) Power Query
9 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Architect
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (15.00%) Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Applications Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Applications Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) PySpark
2 2 (5.00%) CSS
2 2 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.50%) BYOD
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) PMI
3 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Analytics
2 18 (45.00%) Data Modelling
3 15 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 12 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 12 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (27.50%) Agile
6 10 (25.00%) ETL
7 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 8 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
7 8 (20.00%) Data Management
7 8 (20.00%) Data Transformation
8 7 (17.50%) DevOps
9 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
9 6 (15.00%) Data Integration
10 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
10 5 (12.50%) Data Science
11 4 (10.00%) Data Lineage
11 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
11 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) SQL
2 19 (47.50%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) Scala
4 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) PMP
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Databricks
2 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) Informatica
4 4 (10.00%) Google
5 3 (7.50%) Dataiku
6 2 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (5.00%) Foundry
6 2 (5.00%) Palantir
7 1 (2.50%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.50%) IBM
7 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.50%) Progress
7 1 (2.50%) SAP
7 1 (2.50%) Sparx