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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 104 96
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 22 19 38
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.92% 0.94% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.35% 4.45% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile £379 £400 £453
25th Percentile £413 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +6.48% -16.92%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £650
90th Percentile £799 £714 £687
London median daily rate £600 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

All Database & BI 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 411 427 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.26% 21.23% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 272 363
10th Percentile £343 £404 £401
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £690
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.50 £47.28
% change year-on-year +19.14% -14.34% +8.36%

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 April 2026.

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 April 2026. 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 -5 21 £595 -0.92% 16
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 (27.27%) Apache
2 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark
3 4 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (45.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (40.91%) AWS
5 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
5 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
6 5 (22.73%) Serverless
7 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (13.64%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (13.64%) dbt
9 2 (9.09%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (9.09%) GCP
10 1 (4.55%) Dagster
10 1 (4.55%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (27.27%) Power BI
3 5 (22.73%) Metadata
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
4 4 (18.18%) Delta Lake
5 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (13.64%) Data Mining
5 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (9.09%) Big Data
6 2 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
6 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
6 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (4.55%) CockroachDB
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Platform Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Migration Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) boto
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) NumPy
2 1 (4.55%) Pandas
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) FMCG
4 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Analytics
2 14 (63.64%) ETL
3 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 10 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (40.91%) Data Engineering
5 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (31.82%) AI
6 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
7 6 (27.27%) Data Transformation
7 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
7 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
8 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
8 5 (22.73%) Data Management
8 5 (22.73%) DevOps
8 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (22.73%) Validation
9 4 (18.18%) Data Architecture
9 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
9 4 (18.18%) Migration
9 4 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Bicep
3 3 (13.64%) Scala
4 2 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Databricks
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) Informatica
4 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud