Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Data Lakes
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 45 48
Rank change year-on-year -30 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 1 14 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.15% 2.60% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.03% 16.09% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £413 -
25th Percentile £329 £426 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £386 £585 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £488 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +4.84% -11.43% -12.50%

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 97 87 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.61% 16.17% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 62 45
10th Percentile £309 £356 £265
25th Percentile £342 £374 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £459 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +11.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £477 £579 £488
90th Percentile £662 £606 £558
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
North West median hourly rate £21.27 £56.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.19% +7.14% -19.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
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 29 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
Knutsford -19 1 £357 -18.40%
Data Lake
North West

Data Lake
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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL