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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 84 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.60% 1.44% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £423 £479 £277
25th Percentile £456 £484 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +7.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile - £534 £538
90th Percentile - £536 -
England median daily rate £580 £619 £550
% change year-on-year -6.22% +12.45% -4.35%

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 174 139 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.89% 12.29% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 66 108
10th Percentile £171 £213 £250
25th Percentile £383 £311 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £550
90th Percentile £650 £593 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 10
10th Percentile £22.35 £18.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.45 £25.11 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.75 £63.00 £30.09
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +109.37% -26.12%
75th Percentile £47.53 £66.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £64.30 - -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -16.04%

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 22 December 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 22 December 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
Cambridgeshire -7 3 £444 -13.41% 2
Bedfordshire - 3 £580 - 3
Norfolk - 1 - - 5
Suffolk - 1 - - 3
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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (25.00%) SAP CO
2 2 (25.00%) SAP FI
2 2 (25.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (62.50%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Tableau
4 1 (12.50%) Big Data
4 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
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%) Pentaho
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) SAP CO Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) SAP FI Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IFS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Financial Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Life Science
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) SystemC
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) DAMA
4 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ACCA
1 2 (25.00%) CIMA
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) IFRS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Anaplan
2 1 (12.50%) Ariba
2 1 (12.50%) Cerner
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Hyperion
2 1 (12.50%) IFS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase
2 1 (12.50%) Vertica