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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 171 195
Rank change year-on-year -10 +24 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 360 503 658
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 1.38% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.97% 8.07% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 385 517
10th Percentile £413 £413 £450
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £803 £850 £688
90th Percentile £938 £888 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.71% -
UK median hourly rate - £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +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 4,519 6,235 8,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 17.16% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,149 4,511 6,136
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 134 158
10th Percentile £19.89 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -19.88% -31.09% +28.99%
75th Percentile £65.62 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £74.25 £83.60
UK median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.23% -31.73% +30.20%

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 23 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 23 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 0 263 £725 +3.57% 325
South East +46 28 £468 -6.40% 311
North of England -24 25 £475 -5.00% 219
North West -24 18 £475 - 103
Midlands +6 13 £444 -0.28% 159
East of England +38 10 £580 +38.92% 117
West Midlands +11 9 £444 +10.94% 89
South West +24 4 £563 +10.29% 108
Yorkshire +5 4 £438 -12.50% 87
North East +2 3 - - 29
East Midlands 0 3 £400 -12.81% 60
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UK

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 53 (14.72%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (13.33%) Apache
3 31 (8.61%) Apache Spark
4 16 (4.44%) Confluence
5 6 (1.67%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.56%) Trello
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Actimize
4 1 (0.28%) Endur
4 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 157 (43.61%) Azure
2 124 (34.44%) AWS
3 63 (17.50%) Snowflake
4 61 (16.94%) Power Platform
5 60 (16.67%) GCP
6 45 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (12.50%) dbt
7 36 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 24 (6.67%) Serverless
9 23 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (6.11%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.44%) SaaS
12 15 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
12 15 (4.17%) Dagster
12 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.50%) Firewall
1 9 (2.50%) VPN
2 3 (0.83%) Network Security
2 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.56%) SMS
3 2 (0.56%) WAN
3 2 (0.56%) Wireless
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (29.44%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (16.11%) Power BI
3 46 (12.78%) Big Data
4 44 (12.22%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (10.56%) Apache Iceberg
6 35 (9.72%) Dremio
7 28 (7.78%) NoSQL
8 27 (7.50%) Apache Arrow
8 27 (7.50%) Apache Ignite
8 27 (7.50%) Metadata
9 21 (5.83%) Relational Database
10 20 (5.56%) Hadoop
11 17 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (3.89%) BigQuery
12 14 (3.89%) Delta Lake
13 13 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (3.33%) SQL Server
15 11 (3.06%) RDBMS
16 10 (2.78%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 18 (5.00%) ERwin
2 16 (4.44%) JIRA
3 10 (2.78%) Git
4 7 (1.94%) GitLab
5 3 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.56%) MLflow
7 1 (0.28%) Hudson
7 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 154 (42.78%) Finance
2 111 (30.83%) Front Office
3 52 (14.44%) Banking
4 45 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 35 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (7.50%) Investment Banking
7 13 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.50%) Retail
9 7 (1.94%) Marketing
9 7 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.39%) Legal
12 4 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.83%) Billing
13 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Law
14 2 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (20.28%) Data Engineer
2 56 (15.56%) Architect
3 52 (14.44%) Lead
4 46 (12.78%) Senior
5 40 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (10.28%) Head of Finance
7 36 (10.00%) Data Architect
8 28 (7.78%) Software Engineer
9 27 (7.50%) AWS Software Engineer
10 26 (7.22%) Python Engineer
11 25 (6.94%) Java Engineer
11 25 (6.94%) Java Software Engineer
12 23 (6.39%) Analyst
12 23 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (6.11%) Senior Java Engineer
13 22 (6.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 20 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
15 19 (5.28%) Azure Data Engineer
16 18 (5.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.50%) PySpark
2 33 (9.17%) NumPy
2 33 (9.17%) Pandas
2 33 (9.17%) SciPy
3 27 (7.50%) gRPC
3 27 (7.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 23 (6.39%) Kafka
5 10 (2.78%) JSON
5 10 (2.78%) Plotly
5 10 (2.78%) React
6 9 (2.50%) REST
7 6 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.39%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.39%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.11%) .NET
9 4 (1.11%) Middleware
10 3 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.83%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.83%) pytest
10 3 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 107 (29.72%) Derivative
2 103 (28.61%) Equities
2 103 (28.61%) Fixed Income
2 103 (28.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 103 (28.61%) Hedge funds
3 27 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.00%) Pricing Data
5 11 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.67%) CSOC
7 6 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.67%) Life Science
8 5 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.39%) Data Fabric
8 5 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.22%) Linux
2 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.11%) Unix
4 2 (0.56%) Windows
4 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (45.28%) Agile
2 153 (42.50%) Data Governance
3 126 (35.00%) Migration
4 112 (31.11%) Data Modelling
5 104 (28.89%) Analytics
6 102 (28.33%) Investment Management
7 99 (27.50%) ETL
8 90 (25.00%) Data Management
9 84 (23.33%) Regulatory Compliance
10 82 (22.78%) Data Pipeline
10 82 (22.78%) Roadmaps
11 72 (20.00%) Data Engineering
12 64 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (15.83%) CI/CD
13 57 (15.83%) Data Integration
14 56 (15.56%) Data Architecture
15 54 (15.00%) DevOps
16 46 (12.78%) Software Engineering
17 43 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (11.39%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (36.94%) Python
2 132 (36.67%) SQL
3 44 (12.22%) Java
4 41 (11.39%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.28%) Scala
7 12 (3.33%) R
8 9 (2.50%) Bicep
9 4 (1.11%) Bash
9 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.83%) C#
10 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (0.56%) Magik
12 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.39%) Degree
4 15 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.67%) GIAC
7 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.11%) PMP
9 3 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (21.94%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.67%) MiFID
3 16 (4.44%) GDPR
4 10 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.67%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.11%) PMO
7 2 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 20 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (10.83%) Terraform
2 29 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.67%) Ansible
4 5 (1.39%) Argo
4 5 (1.39%) Grafana
5 4 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 87 (24.17%) Databricks
2 43 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.56%) Google
4 16 (4.44%) Informatica
5 14 (3.89%) Oracle
6 12 (3.33%) SAP
7 5 (1.39%) Ariba
8 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.11%) Sparx
9 3 (0.83%) Anaplan
9 3 (0.83%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.83%) Hyperion
9 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco
10 2 (0.56%) Civica
10 2 (0.56%) ESRI
10 2 (0.56%) IBM
10 2 (0.56%) Northgate