Data Lake Contracts in the City of London

Data Lakes
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 93 100
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 21 32 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.20% 1.47% 2.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.40% 6.64% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 51
10th Percentile £405 £474 £481
25th Percentile £447 £478 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £701 £676 £730
90th Percentile £725 £689 £755
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 389 482 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.15% 22.09% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 323 481
10th Percentile £405 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £730
90th Percentile £763 £798 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the City of London

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (23.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (19.05%) Apache
2 4 (19.05%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Trello
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (9.52%) Collibra
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) Serverless
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.76%) Boomi
6 1 (4.76%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 3 (14.29%) Big Data
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Metadata
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Parquet
4 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Law
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Data Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.76%) BYOD
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) PMI
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ETL
2 8 (38.10%) Analytics
2 8 (38.10%) Data Governance
3 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 7 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (19.05%) Data Security
6 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 3 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 3 (14.29%) Data Management
6 3 (14.29%) Data Science
6 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Scala
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (9.52%) PMP
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Databricks
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.52%) Informatica
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Progress