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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 90 98
Rank change year-on-year -33 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 27 39 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.07% 1.96% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.19% 8.99% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 18
10th Percentile £449 £426 £475
25th Percentile £523 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% -5.62%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £734
90th Percentile £775 £785 £841
London median daily rate £595 £650 £800
% change year-on-year -8.54% -18.75% +33.33%

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 436 434 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.21% 21.77% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 289 365
10th Percentile £375 £381 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £710
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -16.67%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -34 23 £625 +4.17% 21
Southwark - 2 £525 -
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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP MDG
1 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) Azure
2 13 (48.15%) Azure Data Factory
2 13 (48.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 12 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) AWS
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Stack
6 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 3 (11.11%) SaaS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (7.41%) iPaaS
7 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) Metadata
2 12 (44.44%) Power BI
3 9 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (18.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (18.52%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (11.11%) Data Hub
6 3 (11.11%) Data Mining
6 3 (11.11%) Star Schema
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
7 2 (7.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (7.41%) SAP BW
8 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.70%) Big Data
8 1 (3.70%) GIS
8 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Military
4 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Architect
2 9 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Platform Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) SAP Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) SAP MDM Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) PySpark
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) FMCG
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Analytics
2 16 (59.26%) Data Modelling
3 15 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (55.56%) Data Governance
4 13 (48.15%) AI
5 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
5 11 (40.74%) Data Engineering
5 11 (40.74%) DevOps
6 9 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (29.63%) Data Architecture
7 8 (29.63%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (29.63%) Metadata Management
8 6 (22.22%) Data Management
8 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
8 6 (22.22%) Generative AI
8 6 (22.22%) Use Case
9 5 (18.52%) Data Integration
9 5 (18.52%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (14.81%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) SnowPro
4 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Databricks
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Informatica
3 2 (7.41%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Adobe
4 1 (3.70%) Foundry
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Palantir
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud