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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 100 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +44 -30
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 30 73 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.38% 2.06% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.25% 9.67% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 51 25
10th Percentile £473 £481 £433
25th Percentile £475 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £730 £700
90th Percentile £690 £755 £767
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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 480 755 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.02% 21.29% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 475 683
10th Percentile £406 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +3.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £710 £730 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
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% +656.25%
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% +255.88%

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 11 May 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 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (6.67%) Primavera
3 1 (3.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 23 (76.67%) Azure
2 16 (53.33%) Power Platform
3 10 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 10 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) AWS
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (6.67%) GCP
7 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Power BI
2 6 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) Parquet
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (46.67%) Finance
3 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (26.67%) General Ledger
4 8 (26.67%) Retail
5 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Marketing
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
1 8 (26.67%) Consultant
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Consultant
2 7 (23.33%) Data Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Data Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Avro
2 1 (3.33%) JSON Schema
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Accounts Payable
3 8 (26.67%) Accounts Receivable
3 8 (26.67%) Agile
3 8 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (26.67%) Requirements Workshops
4 7 (23.33%) Analytics
5 6 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
7 4 (13.33%) Data Integration
7 4 (13.33%) ETL
7 4 (13.33%) Migration
8 3 (10.00%) Data Transformation
8 3 (10.00%) Release Management
8 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (6.67%) R
3 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) CIMA
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) PMO
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) SAP