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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 90 106
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 35 32 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.02% 1.49% 2.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.77% 6.54% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 50
10th Percentile £469 - £487
25th Percentile £480 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £703 £644 £730
90th Percentile £801 £725 £755
Central London median daily rate £622 £538 £650
% change year-on-year +15.63% -17.31% -

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 399 489 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.04% 22.80% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 345 426
10th Percentile £404 £403 £416
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £690 £711 £730
90th Percentile £775 £795 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £21.94 - £42.50
25th Percentile £30.09 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £48.58 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £72.81 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £89.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%

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 24 June 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 7 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (14.29%) Apache
3 4 (11.43%) Confluence
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
1 2 (5.71%) Trello
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) Power Platform
3 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (14.29%) Collibra
5 5 (14.29%) GCP
6 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.71%) Boomi
8 2 (5.71%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (5.71%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (5.71%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (5.71%) Serverless
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.86%) Datadog
9 1 (2.86%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (31.43%) Power BI
2 7 (20.00%) Metadata
3 6 (17.14%) Delta Lake
4 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 4 (11.43%) Big Data
6 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
6 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
6 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
6 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.86%) MySQL
8 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Git
General
1 7 (20.00%) Banking
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Law
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Project Manager
6 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) CSS
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.71%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) BYOD
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Data Modelling
2 16 (45.71%) Analytics
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 13 (37.14%) Data Engineering
4 13 (37.14%) Data Governance
5 12 (34.29%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (31.43%) ETL
7 10 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
9 8 (22.86%) Data Architecture
9 8 (22.86%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (22.86%) Data Transformation
10 7 (20.00%) Data Integration
10 7 (20.00%) Data Management
10 7 (20.00%) DevOps
11 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
11 5 (14.29%) Data Analytics
11 5 (14.29%) Data Science
11 5 (14.29%) Data Security
12 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) SQL
2 18 (51.43%) Python
3 6 (17.14%) Scala
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) PMI Certification
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) PMP
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Databricks
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.29%) Informatica
4 4 (11.43%) Google
5 3 (8.57%) Dataiku
6 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.71%) Foundry
6 2 (5.71%) Palantir
7 1 (2.86%) IBM
7 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.86%) Progress
7 1 (2.86%) SAP
7 1 (2.86%) Sparx