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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 96 104
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 37 39 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.84% 1.65% 1.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.37% 7.28% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 54
10th Percentile £475 - £491
25th Percentile £486 £475 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £575 £655
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% -12.21% +0.77%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £730
90th Percentile £793 £835 £771
London median daily rate £650 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -18.75% +33.33% -

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 442 536 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.98% 22.62% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 376 476
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £689 £708 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £24.04 - £42.50
25th Percentile £30.54 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £78.25 - -
London median hourly rate £42.00 £47.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -11.58% -24.60% +14.55%

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
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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +8 37 £609 +5.91% 64
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 7 (18.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (13.51%) Apache
3 4 (10.81%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
1 2 (5.41%) Trello
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) Power Platform
3 8 (21.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (18.92%) AWS
5 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (13.51%) Collibra
6 5 (13.51%) GCP
7 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.41%) Boomi
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (5.41%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (5.41%) Serverless
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.70%) Datadog
9 1 (2.70%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (29.73%) Power BI
2 7 (18.92%) Metadata
3 6 (16.22%) Delta Lake
4 5 (13.51%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.81%) Big Data
6 3 (8.11%) Apache Hive
6 3 (8.11%) BigQuery
6 3 (8.11%) Hadoop
6 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.41%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.70%) MySQL
8 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Git
General
1 7 (18.92%) Banking
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Law
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Data Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Azure Data Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Data Manager
5 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) PySpark
2 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) CSS
2 2 (5.41%) HTML
2 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.70%) BYOD
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) PMI
3 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Data Modelling
2 16 (43.24%) Analytics
3 14 (37.84%) Agile
4 13 (35.14%) Data Engineering
4 13 (35.14%) Data Governance
5 12 (32.43%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (29.73%) ETL
7 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
7 9 (24.32%) Data Transformation
8 8 (21.62%) Data Architecture
8 8 (21.62%) Data Ingestion
9 7 (18.92%) Data Integration
9 7 (18.92%) Data Management
9 7 (18.92%) DevOps
10 5 (13.51%) Data Analysis
10 5 (13.51%) Data Analytics
10 5 (13.51%) Data Science
10 5 (13.51%) Data Security
11 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 18 (48.65%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) Scala
4 3 (8.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) PMI Certification
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) PMP
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Databricks
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Informatica
4 4 (10.81%) Google
5 3 (8.11%) Dataiku
6 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.41%) Foundry
6 2 (5.41%) Palantir
7 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.70%) IBM
7 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.70%) Progress
7 1 (2.70%) SAP
7 1 (2.70%) Sparx