Data Lake Contracts in Cheshire

Data Lakes
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 46 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 8 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.78% 2.38% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.67% 13.19% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 4
10th Percentile £370 - £437
25th Percentile £461 £463 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +11.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile - £538 £509
90th Percentile - £585 £616
North West median daily rate £497 £480 £619
% change year-on-year +3.62% -22.42% +8.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 91 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.70% 18.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 63
10th Percentile £334 £363 £330
25th Percentile £365 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +8.67% +8.56%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £586
90th Percentile £643 £610 £679
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.63 -
25th Percentile £39.85 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £49.90 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% +6.25% +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.95 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £65.98 - -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Cheshire

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Macclesfield +8 4 £580 +16.00% 1
Knutsford - 3 £402 - 1
Data Lake
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SAP Financial Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 4 (50.00%) Logistics
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 4 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 4 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
2 2 (25.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
2 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (25.00%) Record to Report
2 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Ariba
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Anaplan
2 2 (25.00%) Hyperion