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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 101 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 17 25 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.69% 1.28% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.10% 5.87% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 10
10th Percentile £350 £425 £474
25th Percentile £394 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -6.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £670 £690 £625
90th Percentile £772 £723 £655
London median daily rate £600 £675 £675
% 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 415 426 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.75% 21.88% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 276 367
10th Percentile £348 £404 £409
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £700
90th Percentile £746 £763 £793
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -4.76%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -18 16 £575 +15.00% 6
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 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (41.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
5 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
5 4 (23.53%) Serverless
6 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (17.65%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (17.65%) GCP
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.88%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (29.41%) Metadata
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (17.65%) Data Mining
4 3 (17.65%) Power BI
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.76%) Big Data
5 2 (11.76%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.88%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Data Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Platform Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) boto
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) NumPy
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Analytics
2 9 (52.94%) ETL
3 8 (47.06%) AI
4 7 (41.18%) Data Engineering
4 7 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
6 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
6 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven
7 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) Data Management
7 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
8 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (17.65%) Validation
8 3 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Bicep
4 2 (11.76%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Scala
5 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) SAP