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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 101 97
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 20 22 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.95% 1.06% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.24% 5.35% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 21
10th Percentile £338 £400 £450
25th Percentile £403 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £638
90th Percentile £748 £726 £684
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 382 411 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.18% 19.81% 21.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 267 383
10th Percentile £336 £406 £413
25th Percentile £413 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £685 £713
90th Percentile £738 £750 £830
London median daily rate £525 £558 £560
% change year-on-year -5.83% -0.45% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.83 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £38.33 £37.88 £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.88 £40.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -17.53% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.67 £41.38 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.30 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £42.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +28.57% -4.00% -2.78%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -7 19 £625 +2.88% 9
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 (30.00%) Apache
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.00%) Serverless
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.00%) dbt
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.00%) Collibra
8 1 (5.00%) Dagster
8 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.00%) Prefect
8 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (5.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (15.00%) Metadata
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Big Data
5 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Migration Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) boto
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) NumPy
2 1 (5.00%) Pandas
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Analytics
1 12 (60.00%) ETL
2 11 (55.00%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (30.00%) Data Transformation
6 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 4 (20.00%) Workflow
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) AI
8 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.00%) Migration
9 2 (10.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Scala
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Databricks
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce