Data Lake Contracts in the East of England

Data Lakes
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 109 108
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 8 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.85% 0.16% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.11% 2.59% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 12
10th Percentile £490 £406 £326
25th Percentile £546 £407 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £418 £550
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% -24.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £432 £622
90th Percentile £673 £435 £699
England median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 131 116 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.97% 6.08% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 172
10th Percentile £327 £303 £250
25th Percentile £419 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £552 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 18
10th Percentile £19.84 £16.15 £21.38
25th Percentile £31.64 £22.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%
75th Percentile £65.63 £33.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.38 £34.40 £68.33
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire +5 4 £580 +36.47% 17
Hertfordshire +28 2 £775 +89.02% 26
Cambridgeshire - 2 £506 - 21
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
3 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (50.00%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (12.50%) Big Data
4 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ER Studio
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (50.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IFS Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 4 (50.00%) Logistics
3 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Profit Centre Accounting
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (25.00%) Record to Report
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
1 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Ariba
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Anaplan
2 2 (25.00%) Hyperion
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) IFS
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Spotify
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase