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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 79 106
Rank change year-on-year -28 +27 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 4 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.22% 0.58% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.47% 4.03% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £546 £293
25th Percentile - - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £580 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +36.47% -29.17%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - £696 -
England median daily rate £557 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -7.13% +14.29% -8.70%

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 162 149 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.71% 14.31% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 89 103
10th Percentile £215 £315 £262
25th Percentile £363 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% +0.89% -13.88%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £648
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 12
10th Percentile £22.15 £23.63 £16.02
25th Percentile £26.31 £44.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.75 £63.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +153.62% -60.57%
75th Percentile £54.69 £66.00 £45.63
90th Percentile £82.78 £78.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £41.35
% change year-on-year +42.86% -15.35% -31.09%

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 8 March 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
Cambridgeshire -1 1 - -
Bedfordshire -10 1 - -
Norfolk - 1 - -
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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DSL
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ETL Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (25.00%) Cerner
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Kepware
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (25.00%) Siemens
1 1 (25.00%) Talend