Data Lake Contracts in the City of London

Data Lakes
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 100 141
Rank change year-on-year +8 +41 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 33 74 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.50% 2.03% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.82% 9.55% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 49 29
10th Percentile £474 £475 £453
25th Percentile £478 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £676 £730 £700
90th Percentile £689 £764 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £613
% change year-on-year -11.54% +6.12% +2.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 484 775 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.98% 21.31% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 488 708
10th Percentile £405 £414 £425
25th Percentile £475 £507 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £725 £700
90th Percentile £796 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +284.74%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +202.50%

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 27 April 2024.

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 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (6.06%) Primavera
3 1 (3.03%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 24 (72.73%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) Power Platform
3 10 (30.30%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (30.30%) Power Automate
3 10 (30.30%) PowerApps
4 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) AWS
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.06%) WhatsApp
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) Power BI
2 6 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (15.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.06%) Big Data
4 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 2 (6.06%) Parquet
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.03%) DB2
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Sybase IQ
General
1 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (45.45%) Finance
3 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
4 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (24.24%) General Ledger
5 8 (24.24%) Retail
6 3 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Marketing
8 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Analyst
1 8 (24.24%) Consultant
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Consultant
2 7 (21.21%) Data Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Business Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Data Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Data Manager
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Applications Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Avro
2 1 (3.03%) JSON Schema
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
2 1 (3.03%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.09%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (30.30%) DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Accounts Payable
4 8 (24.24%) Accounts Receivable
4 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (24.24%) Requirements Workshops
5 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (15.15%) Data Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) Data Integration
7 4 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (12.12%) ETL
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Visualisation
8 3 (9.09%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) R
3 3 (9.09%) Scala
3 3 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.03%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) CIMA
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 3 (9.09%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Sybase