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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 93 111
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 12 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.87% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.98% 2.44% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £445 £243 £463
25th Percentile £456 £269 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £525
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -38.10% -25.80%
75th Percentile £580 £431 £538
90th Percentile £584 £488 -
England median daily rate £600 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.43% -

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 172 123 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.52% 8.51% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 62 141
10th Percentile £310 £213 £305
25th Percentile £447 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £575
90th Percentile £650 £584 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile £22.95 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.99 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.29% -74.83% +65.73%
75th Percentile £44.75 £26.56 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.41 £34.56 -
England median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 - 1
Cambridgeshire 0 4 £488 -2.50% 3
Norfolk - 3 £600 -
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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (16.67%) SAP CO
2 2 (16.67%) SAP FI
2 2 (16.67%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (41.67%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) IaaS
4 3 (25.00%) PaaS
4 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (50.00%) Power BI
3 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (16.67%) PowerCenter
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (8.33%) Pentaho
5 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) SAP CO Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) SAP FI Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IFS Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Life Science
1 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Repair
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) ACCA
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CIMA
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) IFRS
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
1 3 (25.00%) Informatica
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) IFS
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Sybase
3 1 (8.33%) Anaplan
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (8.33%) Hyperion
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Vertica