Data Lake Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Lakes
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 82 107
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.11% 1.27% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £469 £479 £277
25th Percentile £487 £484 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +7.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £565 £534 £538
90th Percentile £574 £536 -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £545
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.68% -5.22%

All Database & BI 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 161 157 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.28% 14.56% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 82 96
10th Percentile £220 £280 £251
25th Percentile £406 £332 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -9.55% -0.50%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £556
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 12
10th Percentile £22.86 £38.60 £16.02
25th Percentile £26.38 £61.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £66.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +165.70% -60.26%
75th Percentile £69.05 - £77.50
90th Percentile £83.30 £80.55 -
England median hourly rate £45.75 £39.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +17.31% -7.90% -25.53%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Lake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Lake

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 4 February 2026. 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 - 2 £580 - 2
Cambridgeshire -5 1 £488 -4.88% 3
Norfolk - 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 - - 1
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) ETL Architect
2 1 (20.00%) IFS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP CO Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Repair
4 1 (20.00%) Full Text Search
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ACCA
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CIMA
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
1 1 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cerner
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IFS
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) Talend