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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 78 94
Rank change year-on-year -29 +16 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 10 16 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.45% 1.24% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.62% 10.06% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 3
10th Percentile £348 £461 £243
25th Percentile £350 £539 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £325
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +78.46% -27.78%
75th Percentile £588 - £431
90th Percentile £603 £598 £488
England median daily rate £575 £593 £750
% change year-on-year -3.04% -20.93% +30.43%

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 178 159 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.04% 12.35% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 94 63
10th Percentile £350 £376 £213
25th Percentile £410 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £501 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +25.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £500
90th Percentile £625 £648 £641
England median daily rate £501 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 8
10th Percentile £20.40 £19.57 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.69 £20.98 £14.11
Median hourly rate £54.25 £31.64 £15.49
Median % change year-on-year +71.46% +104.26% -75.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £18.50
90th Percentile - £41.32 £22.63
England median hourly rate £38.50 £38.23 £33.22
% change year-on-year +0.71% +15.10% -39.61%

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 29 August 2026.

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 29 August 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 +7 3 £485 +9.30% 1
Norfolk -12 2 £575 -4.17%
Suffolk - 2 £588 -
Bedfordshire -5 1 £350 -39.66%
Hertfordshire -18 1 £575 -25.81% 4
Essex - 1 £350 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) Tableau
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) gRPC
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) LIMS
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Istio
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Braze
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) mParticle
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Talend
3 1 (10.00%) Tealium