Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Lakehouse
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 115 122
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +39
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 21 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.90% 0.50% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.53% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 1
10th Percentile £420 £491 -
25th Percentile £425 £578 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £451
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +35.81% -24.83%
75th Percentile £625 £666 -
90th Percentile £653 £741 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £613 £451
% change year-on-year -10.20% +35.81% -24.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,042 1,709 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.87% 94.26% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,129 1,242
10th Percentile £382 £325 £375
25th Percentile £462 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the City of London

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the City of London

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (14.29%) Apache
4 2 (9.52%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Power Platform
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (28.57%) AWS
4 6 (28.57%) Azure Databricks
5 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) dbt
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.52%) GCP
7 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Power BI
2 8 (38.10%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (38.10%) Delta Lake
3 7 (33.33%) Metadata
4 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (14.29%) Spark SQL
5 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 2 (9.52%) Big Data
6 2 (9.52%) Data Vault
6 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
6 2 (9.52%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
7 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) MLflow
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Data Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Databricks Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Platform Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) PySpark
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Analytics
2 16 (76.19%) Data Modelling
3 15 (71.43%) Data Governance
4 13 (61.90%) Data Engineering
5 12 (57.14%) Data Architecture
6 11 (52.38%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (42.86%) Migration
8 8 (38.10%) AI
8 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
8 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (33.33%) DevOps
9 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (33.33%) Use Case
10 6 (28.57%) ETL
10 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
12 4 (19.05%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) DBS Check
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Databricks
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Teradata