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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 109 100
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 23 23 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.14% 1.00% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.13% 5.05% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 25
10th Percentile £332 £413 £425
25th Percentile £407 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £666 £738 £675
90th Percentile £698 £816 £695
London median daily rate £603 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -10.74% +22.73% -8.33%

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 375 455 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.55% 19.83% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 300 374
10th Percentile £332 £412 £383
25th Percentile £413 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £672 £688 £703
90th Percentile £749 £789 £821
London median daily rate £525 £565 £570
% change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £35.38 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £39.69 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -49.42%
75th Percentile £56.69 £41.38 -
90th Percentile £60.93 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £50.25 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +17.54% -5.00% -16.28%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 +3 22 £588 -4.08% 43
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 (30.43%) Apache
2 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.35%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Power Platform
3 9 (39.13%) AWS
4 6 (26.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) dbt
7 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (4.35%) Collibra
8 1 (4.35%) Dagster
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.35%) Prefect
8 1 (4.35%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Power BI
2 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (17.39%) Delta Lake
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (8.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (8.70%) Metadata
5 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (4.35%) CockroachDB
6 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.35%) MySQL
6 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Power Query
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Front Office
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Data Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Applications Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Applications Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) boto
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) NumPy
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Analytics
2 11 (47.83%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (47.83%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (47.83%) ETL
3 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
4 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
4 6 (26.09%) Data Transformation
5 5 (21.74%) Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
6 4 (17.39%) Validation
7 3 (13.04%) AI
7 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.04%) Data Management
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
7 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Databricks
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.35%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce