Data Lake Contracts in England

Data Lakes
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 191 197
Rank change year-on-year +25 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 403 455 683
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.65% 1.22% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.71% 7.30% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 334 524
10th Percentile £400 £413 £450
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £800 £850 £683
90th Percentile £938 £888 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £553 £573
% change year-on-year +8.50% -3.41% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in England

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +19 305 £675 +3.85% 198
North of England +1 29 £463 -3.65% 57
South East +44 28 £500 -13.04% 94
North West -4 18 £497 +3.62% 36
Midlands +16 16 £438 -10.26% 44
West Midlands +16 14 £438 +9.38% 25
East of England +35 8 £580 +38.92% 21
North East +6 7 £358 -57.88% 4
South West +34 4 £563 +25.00% 28
Yorkshire +5 4 £438 -2.78% 17
East Midlands +2 2 - - 14
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Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (13.65%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (13.15%) Apache
3 34 (8.44%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.97%) Confluence
5 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.50%) Trello
3 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Actimize
4 1 (0.25%) Endur
4 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 189 (46.90%) Azure
2 149 (36.97%) AWS
3 73 (18.11%) Power Platform
4 70 (17.37%) GCP
5 68 (16.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 68 (16.87%) Snowflake
6 47 (11.66%) dbt
7 42 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (6.95%) Azure Machine Learning
9 26 (6.45%) Dagster
10 25 (6.20%) Serverless
11 24 (5.96%) Amazon S3
12 23 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (3.23%) SaaS
17 12 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.48%) Firewall
1 10 (2.48%) VPN
2 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.74%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 2 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.50%) SMS
4 2 (0.50%) WAN
4 2 (0.50%) Wireless
5 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (26.30%) Data Warehouse
2 68 (16.87%) Power BI
3 49 (12.16%) Amazon Athena
4 46 (11.41%) Big Data
5 43 (10.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 40 (9.93%) Dremio
7 29 (7.20%) Apache Arrow
7 29 (7.20%) Apache Ignite
7 29 (7.20%) NoSQL
8 25 (6.20%) Metadata
9 23 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (5.21%) Hadoop
10 21 (5.21%) Relational Database
11 20 (4.96%) Neo4j
11 20 (4.96%) SQL Server
12 14 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (2.73%) BigQuery
15 10 (2.48%) Delta Lake
15 10 (2.48%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (4.71%) ERwin
2 15 (3.72%) JIRA
3 10 (2.48%) Git
4 8 (1.99%) GitLab
5 4 (0.99%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.74%) JMeter
7 2 (0.50%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.25%) Hudson
General
1 169 (41.94%) Finance
2 131 (32.51%) Front Office
3 53 (13.15%) Banking
4 47 (11.66%) Social Skills
5 44 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (8.44%) Public Sector
7 29 (7.20%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.48%) Retail
9 9 (2.23%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.23%) Marketing
10 7 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.24%) Legal
12 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Billing
15 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 87 (21.59%) Data Engineer
2 62 (15.38%) Architect
3 53 (13.15%) Lead
4 47 (11.66%) Senior
5 45 (11.17%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (10.17%) Data Architect
7 37 (9.18%) Head of Finance
8 30 (7.44%) Software Engineer
9 29 (7.20%) Analyst
9 29 (7.20%) AWS Software Engineer
10 27 (6.70%) Python Engineer
11 23 (5.71%) Data Governance Analyst
11 23 (5.71%) Data Governance Manager
11 23 (5.71%) Governance Manager
11 23 (5.71%) Java Engineer
11 23 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
12 21 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.47%) Project Manager
13 18 (4.47%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (4.47%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (18.36%) PySpark
2 39 (9.68%) NumPy
2 39 (9.68%) Pandas
3 38 (9.43%) SciPy
4 29 (7.20%) gRPC
4 29 (7.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 28 (6.95%) Kafka
6 20 (4.96%) React
7 19 (4.71%) Plotly
8 10 (2.48%) JSON
9 8 (1.99%) REST
10 5 (1.24%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.99%) .NET
11 4 (0.99%) Middleware
11 4 (0.99%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.99%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.99%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.74%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.74%) pytest
13 2 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 124 (30.77%) Derivative
2 120 (29.78%) Equities
2 120 (29.78%) Fixed Income
2 120 (29.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 120 (29.78%) Hedge funds
3 44 (10.92%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.98%) Pricing Data
5 10 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.49%) CSOC
6 6 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.49%) Life Science
7 5 (1.24%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.24%) Data Fabric
7 5 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.74%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.74%) Linux
2 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.50%) Windows
3 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (44.91%) Agile
2 164 (40.69%) Data Governance
3 154 (38.21%) Migration
4 114 (28.29%) Investment Management
5 111 (27.54%) Data Modelling
6 108 (26.80%) Analytics
7 99 (24.57%) Roadmaps
8 98 (24.32%) ETL
9 97 (24.07%) Regulatory Compliance
10 91 (22.58%) Data Management
11 89 (22.08%) Data Pipeline
12 77 (19.11%) Data Engineering
13 66 (16.38%) Business Intelligence
14 61 (15.14%) CI/CD
14 61 (15.14%) Data Integration
15 56 (13.90%) DevOps
15 56 (13.90%) Machine Learning
15 56 (13.90%) Software Engineering
16 55 (13.65%) Data Architecture
17 46 (11.41%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (33.00%) SQL
2 131 (32.51%) Python
3 53 (13.15%) JavaScript
4 50 (12.41%) Java
5 30 (7.44%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.22%) Scala
7 9 (2.23%) Bicep
7 9 (2.23%) R
8 5 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.99%) Bash
10 3 (0.74%) ANSI SQL
10 3 (0.74%) C#
10 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.50%) Groovy
12 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 58 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.96%) Degree
4 15 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.23%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.49%) GIAC
7 6 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.24%) PMP
8 5 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (17.87%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.96%) MiFID
3 13 (3.23%) GDPR
4 11 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.49%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.24%) PMO
7 4 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 24 (5.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (8.68%) Terraform
2 30 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.24%) Ansible
4 4 (0.99%) Argo
4 4 (0.99%) Grafana
4 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.74%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 102 (25.31%) Databricks
2 59 (14.64%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.72%) Google
3 15 (3.72%) SAP
4 13 (3.23%) Oracle
5 10 (2.48%) Informatica
6 6 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.24%) Ariba
8 4 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 4 (0.99%) Sparx
9 3 (0.74%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.74%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.74%) Hyperion
9 3 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.74%) StreamSets
10 2 (0.50%) BMC
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco
10 2 (0.50%) Civica
10 2 (0.50%) IBM
10 2 (0.50%) Northgate