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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 102 103
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 38 32 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.96% 1.36% 1.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.43% 6.48% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 46
10th Percentile £433 £475 £463
25th Percentile £481 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year - -2.83% -1.20%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £688
90th Percentile £780 £840 £756
London median daily rate £650 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -18.75% +33.33% +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 403 494 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.82% 21.02% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 353 427
10th Percentile £384 £413 £377
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £37.20 £38.95
25th Percentile £32.13 £37.88 £40.38
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% -9.09% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 £48.88
90th Percentile £81.88 £41.60 £51.05
London median hourly rate £53.75 £45.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.44% -14.29% -4.55%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +12 38 £600 -4.00% 54
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) Apache
1 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) Power Platform
3 10 (26.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (21.05%) AWS
5 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (13.16%) Collibra
7 4 (10.53%) GCP
8 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (5.26%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.63%) Datadog
10 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.63%) Miro
10 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) Power BI
2 10 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (18.42%) Metadata
4 6 (15.79%) Delta Lake
5 4 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.89%) Apache Hive
7 2 (5.26%) Big Data
7 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
7 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.26%) Spark SQL
7 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.63%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.63%) Parquet
8 1 (2.63%) Power Query
8 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Data Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Azure Data Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Applications Architect
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) PySpark
2 2 (5.26%) CSS
2 2 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.26%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.63%) BYOD
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Analytics
2 18 (47.37%) Data Modelling
3 14 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (36.84%) Data Governance
4 11 (28.95%) Data Engineering
4 11 (28.95%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (26.32%) Agile
6 9 (23.68%) ETL
7 8 (21.05%) Data Ingestion
7 8 (21.05%) Data Management
7 8 (21.05%) Data Transformation
8 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
9 6 (15.79%) Data Architecture
9 6 (15.79%) Data Integration
10 5 (13.16%) DevOps
11 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
11 4 (10.53%) Data Analytics
11 4 (10.53%) Data Lineage
11 4 (10.53%) Data Science
11 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) SQL
2 19 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) Scala
4 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Databricks
2 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) Informatica
4 4 (10.53%) Google
5 3 (7.89%) Dataiku
6 2 (5.26%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (5.26%) Foundry
6 2 (5.26%) Palantir
7 1 (2.63%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.63%) IBM
7 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.63%) SAP
7 1 (2.63%) Sparx