Delta Lake Contract Job Trends in Central London

Delta Lake
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 128 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +59
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 7 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.087% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.85% 0.44% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £399 £524 £618
25th Percentile £406 £543 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £581 £725
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% -19.83% +11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £788
90th Percentile £660 £629 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £738
% change year-on-year -4.35% -22.03% +6.50%

All Database & BI Skills
Central London

Delta 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 379 456 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.73% 19.80% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 300 373
10th Percentile £336 £412 £380
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 £704
90th Percentile £749 £789 £823
London median daily rate £525 £568 £568
% change year-on-year -7.49% - -5.42%
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%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Delta Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in Central London

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Delta Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Delta Lake

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in Central London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in Central London

Delta 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 Delta Lake within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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 -2 7 £425 -26.88% 4
Delta Lake
London

Delta 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 4 (57.14%) Apache
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (14.29%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
2 6 (85.71%) ETL
3 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
3 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 3 (42.86%) Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
7 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (14.29%) SDLC
7 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft