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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 82 113
Rank change year-on-year -10 +31 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 9 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.60% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.97% 3.03% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £434 £251 £278
25th Percentile £481 £291 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £580 £528 £538
90th Percentile - £534 -
England median daily rate £600 £650 £560
% change year-on-year -7.69% +16.07% -2.61%

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 181 132 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.07% 10.27% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 64 134
10th Percentile £171 £213 £281
25th Percentile £425 £300 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £506 £575
90th Percentile £650 £582 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 11
10th Percentile £22.95 £13.74 £15.52
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.55 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.75 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -5.68% -38.18%
75th Percentile £44.75 £56.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.41 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.22 £47.50
% change year-on-year +35.48% -30.07% +4.40%

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
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 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the East of England

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 16 November 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 £580 - 2
Cambridgeshire -5 3 £444 -13.41% 2
Suffolk - 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (22.22%) SAP CO
2 2 (22.22%) SAP FI
2 2 (22.22%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (11.11%) Pentaho
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Hudson
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) SAP CO Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) SAP FI Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 1 (11.11%) IFS Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Financial Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Life Science
1 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) Data Collection
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
5 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (11.11%) Profit Centre Accounting
5 1 (11.11%) Record to Report
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ACCA
1 2 (22.22%) CIMA
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) IFRS
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kibana
1 1 (11.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Anaplan
2 1 (11.11%) Ariba
2 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
2 1 (11.11%) Hyperion
2 1 (11.11%) IFS
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase
2 1 (11.11%) Vertica