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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 100 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 31 33 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.64% 1.41% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.95% 6.93% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 30
10th Percentile £419 £423 £425
25th Percentile £513 £484 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £590
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.66% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £679
90th Percentile £740 £839 £764
London median daily rate £625 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% -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 390 476 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.57% 20.34% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 336 393
10th Percentile £363 £413 £390
25th Percentile £425 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -0.04% +3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £704
90th Percentile £775 £820 £800
London median daily rate £528 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.13% - -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 £48.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 6 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 6 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 31 £600 - 104
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 6 (19.35%) Apache
2 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) Azure
2 13 (41.94%) Power Platform
3 9 (29.03%) AWS
3 9 (29.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (9.68%) Collibra
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (6.45%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.23%) Boomi
7 1 (3.23%) Datadog
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Power BI
2 10 (32.26%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (16.13%) Delta Lake
3 5 (16.13%) Metadata
4 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.68%) Apache Hive
5 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.45%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (6.45%) Big Data
6 2 (6.45%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.45%) Spark SQL
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (3.23%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.23%) Power Query
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Data Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Architect
2 8 (25.81%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Applications Architect
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Applications Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (6.45%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) PySpark
2 2 (6.45%) CSS
2 2 (6.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.23%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.23%) BYOD
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Data Modelling
2 17 (54.84%) Analytics
3 14 (45.16%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (41.94%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (35.48%) Data Engineering
6 9 (29.03%) Agile
6 9 (29.03%) Data Transformation
7 8 (25.81%) Data Governance
7 8 (25.81%) ETL
8 7 (22.58%) Data Management
9 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
9 6 (19.35%) Data Integration
10 5 (16.13%) Data Architecture
10 5 (16.13%) Data Ingestion
10 5 (16.13%) Visualisation
11 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis
11 4 (12.90%) Data Analytics
11 4 (12.90%) Data Lineage
11 4 (12.90%) DevOps
11 4 (12.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) SQL
2 17 (54.84%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (12.90%) Scala
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Databricks
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) Google
4 3 (9.68%) Dataiku
4 3 (9.68%) Informatica
5 2 (6.45%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (6.45%) Foundry
5 2 (6.45%) Palantir
6 1 (3.23%) Guidewire
6 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.23%) SAP
6 1 (3.23%) Sparx