Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Data Lakes
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.94% 0.84% 1.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 3.70% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £440 - £615
25th Percentile £464 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% -33.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £541 - £713
90th Percentile £564 - £735
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +41.18% -29.17% -4.00%

All Database & BI Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 51 27 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 15.99% 22.69% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 11
10th Percentile £284 £220 £275
25th Percentile £306 £278 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -26.25% +12.04%
75th Percentile £522 £486 £613
90th Percentile £616 £601 £626
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.26% +5.56% -12.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.22
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.19% +47.39%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Coventry

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Data Lake

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Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Coventry over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Coventry

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Sharing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Presales
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP