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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 75 110
Rank change year-on-year -29 +35 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 9 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.40% 1.11% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.45% 8.57% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £435 £495 £243
25th Percentile £563 £550 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £325
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +78.46% -39.53%
75th Percentile £589 - £376
90th Percentile £611 £643 £400
England median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +13.04%

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 165 140 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.36% 12.93% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 90 74
10th Percentile £331 £371 £300
25th Percentile £400 £428 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +21.95% -18.00%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £550
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 8
10th Percentile £20.35 £18.96 £13.11
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.20 £14.11
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.64 £15.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.66% +104.26% -75.41%
75th Percentile £35.91 £35.00 £26.88
90th Percentile £55.10 £64.80 £30.18
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -29.76%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +8 2 £625 +28.21%
Norfolk -20 2 £575 -4.17%
Suffolk - 2 £588 -
Bedfordshire -11 1 - - 2
Hertfordshire -27 1 £575 -25.81% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Collibra
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Modbus
1 1 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Redis
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) ETL Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) LIMS
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Metadata Management
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) Talend
3 1 (11.11%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Kepware
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Rockwell
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Siemens