Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Derby

Data Lakes
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.85% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 7.41% 9.52% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £300 - £310
25th Percentile £373 £405 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £436 £349
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% +25.18% -18.38%
75th Percentile £494 £469 £441
90th Percentile £497 - £458
Derbyshire median daily rate £454 £436 £349
% change year-on-year +4.01% +25.18% -18.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £55.00 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year +139.13% - -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Derby

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

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

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (33.33%) VMS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft