Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Lakehouse
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 123 128
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 22 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.87% 0.45% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.48% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 1
10th Percentile £420 £491 -
25th Percentile £425 £578 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £451
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +35.81% -24.83%
75th Percentile £625 £666 -
90th Percentile £653 £741 -
London median daily rate £568 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -9.10% +8.70% -6.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 1,881 2,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.58% 93.91% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,254 1,408
10th Percentile £368 £317 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 21
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Central London

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in Central London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in Central London

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 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 -6 21 £550 -10.20% 7
Lakehouse
London

Lakehouse
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 7 (31.82%) Apache Spark
2 6 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (13.64%) Apache
4 2 (9.09%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (27.27%) AWS
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Databricks
5 5 (22.73%) dbt
6 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 3 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (9.09%) Serverless
8 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.55%) GitHub
9 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Power BI
2 8 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (36.36%) Delta Lake
3 7 (31.82%) Metadata
4 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 3 (13.64%) Spark SQL
5 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
6 2 (9.09%) Big Data
6 2 (9.09%) Data Vault
6 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
6 2 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
7 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Retail
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Data Architect
3 7 (31.82%) Data Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Databricks Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) PySpark
2 5 (22.73%) Kafka
3 4 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Analytics
2 16 (72.73%) Data Modelling
3 15 (68.18%) Data Governance
4 14 (63.64%) Data Engineering
5 12 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (54.55%) Data Architecture
6 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (40.91%) Migration
7 8 (36.36%) AI
7 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
8 7 (31.82%) DevOps
8 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (31.82%) Use Case
9 6 (27.27%) ETL
9 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (22.73%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
11 4 (18.18%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) DBS Check
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Databricks
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Teradata