Data Lake Contracts in England

Data Lakes
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 190 232
Rank change year-on-year +20 +42 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 503 661 887
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.38% 1.38% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.09% 7.74% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 521 589
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £688 £688
90th Percentile £888 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -36.94%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £56.88
90th Percentile £57.30 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -22.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,221 8,539 14,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.11% 17.79% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,497 6,150 10,181
10th Percentile £350 £375 £364
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £658
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £546 £549
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.55% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 156 168
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.82 £30.54 £22.22
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +83.67%
75th Percentile £58.44 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +68.35%

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 21 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Lake in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 May 2024. 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 +26 344 £688 +14.58% 140
North of England +23 65 £495 -17.50% 28
North West +23 49 £475 -24.00% 20
South East -2 31 £575 +4.55% 41
Midlands +8 26 £445 -11.00% 14
South West +9 18 £510 -2.86% 15
Yorkshire +24 15 £500 -27.01% 7
East Midlands +8 14 £459 +1.94% 5
West Midlands +9 12 £400 -36.00% 9
East of England +3 2 £418 -24.09% 6
North East +2 1 £850 +41.67% 1
Data Lake
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
1 127 (25.25%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (22.27%) Apache
3 52 (10.34%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.99%) SAS
5 3 (0.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (5.37%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.60%) Primavera
3 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 267 (53.08%) Azure
2 198 (39.36%) AWS
3 147 (29.22%) Snowflake
4 128 (25.45%) Power Platform
5 121 (24.06%) dbt
6 100 (19.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 99 (19.68%) GCP
8 59 (11.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 57 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (11.33%) Power Automate
10 48 (9.54%) Dynamics 365
11 45 (8.95%) Serverless
12 44 (8.75%) PowerApps
13 25 (4.97%) Amazon S3
13 25 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.58%) Azure Functions
15 17 (3.38%) Azure Key Vault
16 16 (3.18%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (2.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 2 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (27.44%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (26.04%) Amazon Athena
3 116 (23.06%) Power BI
4 113 (22.47%) Dremio
5 112 (22.27%) Apache Arrow
6 106 (21.07%) Big Data
7 92 (18.29%) Apache Ignite
8 41 (8.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 37 (7.36%) SQL Server
10 32 (6.36%) NoSQL
11 25 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (4.37%) BigQuery
12 22 (4.37%) Relational Database
13 19 (3.78%) Delta Lake
14 17 (3.38%) Hadoop
15 16 (3.18%) OLTP
16 15 (2.98%) DynamoDB
17 14 (2.78%) Metadata
18 13 (2.58%) Spark SQL
19 12 (2.39%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 39 (7.75%) Git
2 19 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.98%) JIRA
4 6 (1.19%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (1.19%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (0.80%) Deequ
6 3 (0.60%) ERwin
6 3 (0.60%) kappa
6 3 (0.60%) Maven
7 2 (0.40%) Ant
7 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.40%) Gradle
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.20%) GitLab
8 1 (0.20%) Hudson
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 213 (42.35%) Finance
2 121 (24.06%) Banking
3 114 (22.66%) Social Skills
4 95 (18.89%) Front Office
4 95 (18.89%) Investment Banking
5 70 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (8.35%) Public Sector
7 39 (7.75%) Retail
8 27 (5.37%) General Ledger
9 17 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.39%) Marketing
11 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.19%) Legal
13 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.40%) Czech Language
15 2 (0.40%) Law
15 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (24.85%) Data Engineer
2 123 (24.45%) Architect
3 69 (13.72%) Solutions Architect
4 65 (12.92%) Lead
5 62 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
6 59 (11.73%) Senior
7 58 (11.53%) Azure Engineer
8 55 (10.93%) Software Engineer
9 54 (10.74%) Data Architect
10 52 (10.34%) Azure Data Engineer
11 50 (9.94%) Developer
12 42 (8.35%) Consultant
13 37 (7.36%) Python Engineer
14 33 (6.56%) Java Engineer
15 32 (6.36%) Analyst
15 32 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
15 32 (6.36%) Python Software Engineer
16 31 (6.16%) Senior Software Engineer
17 30 (5.96%) AWS Software Engineer
18 27 (5.37%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (21.87%) gRPC
1 110 (21.87%) Protocol Buffers
2 94 (18.69%) NumPy
2 94 (18.69%) Pandas
3 93 (18.49%) SciPy
4 63 (12.52%) PySpark
5 21 (4.17%) Kafka
6 20 (3.98%) JSON
7 13 (2.58%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.58%) XML
8 11 (2.19%) .NET
9 9 (1.79%) Apache Avro
10 7 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.39%) Web Services
11 6 (1.19%) Middleware
12 5 (0.99%) JSON Schema
12 5 (0.99%) REST
13 4 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (0.80%) Great Expectations
13 4 (0.80%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 113 (22.47%) Hedge funds
2 94 (18.69%) Derivative
2 94 (18.69%) Equities
2 94 (18.69%) Fixed Income
2 94 (18.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (7.16%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.58%) Clustering
5 16 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.99%) Pricing Data
7 7 (1.39%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.19%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.19%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.80%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.80%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.18%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Windows
3 2 (0.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (36.18%) Agile
2 144 (28.63%) DevOps
3 125 (24.85%) Data Modelling
4 123 (24.45%) Business Intelligence
5 115 (22.86%) Asset Management
6 114 (22.66%) Analytics
7 108 (21.47%) ETL
8 106 (21.07%) Software Engineering
9 95 (18.89%) Investment Management
10 86 (17.10%) Data Pipeline
11 83 (16.50%) Data Engineering
12 62 (12.33%) Data Governance
13 60 (11.93%) CI/CD
14 51 (10.14%) Data Architecture
15 48 (9.54%) Line Management
16 45 (8.95%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (8.75%) Migration
18 43 (8.55%) Data Integration
19 39 (7.75%) Data Transformation
19 39 (7.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 248 (49.30%) Python
2 178 (35.39%) SQL
3 135 (26.84%) Java
4 110 (21.87%) JavaScript
5 92 (18.29%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.17%) T-SQL
7 25 (4.97%) Go
8 24 (4.77%) PowerShell
9 20 (3.98%) Scala
10 13 (2.58%) C#
11 7 (1.39%) Bash
11 7 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.39%) R
12 4 (0.80%) Bicep
12 4 (0.80%) X++
13 3 (0.60%) C
13 3 (0.60%) C++
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.40%) U-SQL
15 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (9.74%) Degree
2 37 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.98%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.60%) CIMA
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.20%) PhD
9 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (15.90%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.38%) QA
3 6 (1.19%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.60%) PMO
6 2 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (3.38%) Docker
2 7 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.40%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (13.12%) Terraform
2 37 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.58%) Ansible
3 18 (3.58%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.99%) Puppet
5 9 (1.79%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.19%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.40%) Ambari
7 2 (0.40%) Oozie
8 1 (0.20%) Kibana
8 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 134 (26.64%) Databricks
2 116 (23.06%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.17%) SAP
4 16 (3.18%) Google
4 16 (3.18%) Oracle
5 7 (1.39%) Dataiku
5 7 (1.39%) Informatica
5 7 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.19%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.19%) Splunk
6 6 (1.19%) Trillium
7 4 (0.80%) Talend
8 3 (0.60%) Ab Initio
8 3 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.60%) Teradata
9 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.20%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.20%) Marketo
10 1 (0.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud