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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 197 217
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 440 689 932
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.18% 1.36% 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.09% 7.53% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 525 608
10th Percentile £410 £450 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -0.43% +10.00%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £675
90th Percentile £888 £750 £751
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 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% - -21.35%
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% - -21.35%

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 6,204 9,150 14,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.66% 18.04% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,452 6,561 10,390
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
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 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 167 172
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £15.12
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.91
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +18 300 £650 +8.33% 105
North of England +1 46 £485 -19.17% 23
North West -2 38 £490 -23.14% 17
South East -6 30 £555 +3.26% 22
Midlands +7 22 £513 +2.50% 11
South West +18 16 £450 -18.18% 7
West Midlands +20 12 £400 -36.00% 7
East Midlands +6 10 £513 +13.89% 4
Yorkshire +18 7 £450 -32.58% 6
East of England -2 3 £418 -27.39% 9
North East +11 1 £850 +61.90%
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 85 (19.32%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (16.82%) Apache
3 39 (8.86%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.27%) SAS
5 2 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (6.36%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.68%) Primavera
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.23%) Magento
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 248 (56.36%) Azure
2 150 (34.09%) AWS
3 122 (27.73%) Power Platform
4 111 (25.23%) Snowflake
5 87 (19.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 77 (17.50%) GCP
7 73 (16.59%) dbt
8 59 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (12.95%) Power Automate
10 55 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 50 (11.36%) Dynamics 365
12 44 (10.00%) PowerApps
13 41 (9.32%) Serverless
14 20 (4.55%) Amazon S3
14 20 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (4.32%) Azure Functions
16 17 (3.86%) Azure Key Vault
17 15 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
18 14 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.68%) Firewall
2 2 (0.45%) FTP
2 2 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (30.23%) Data Warehouse
2 110 (25.00%) Power BI
3 84 (19.09%) Big Data
4 82 (18.64%) Amazon Athena
5 68 (15.45%) Apache Arrow
5 68 (15.45%) Dremio
6 58 (13.18%) Apache Ignite
7 43 (9.77%) SQL Server
8 39 (8.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 30 (6.82%) NoSQL
10 23 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (5.00%) Relational Database
12 16 (3.64%) DynamoDB
13 15 (3.41%) Metadata
14 14 (3.18%) BigQuery
14 14 (3.18%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.95%) Delta Lake
15 13 (2.95%) OLTP
15 13 (2.95%) Spark SQL
15 13 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.45%) Git
2 7 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.36%) JIRA
3 6 (1.36%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.36%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.91%) Maven
5 3 (0.68%) Deequ
5 3 (0.68%) kappa
6 2 (0.45%) Ant
6 2 (0.45%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.45%) ERwin
6 2 (0.45%) Gradle
6 2 (0.45%) JUnit
6 2 (0.45%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.23%) Hudson
7 1 (0.23%) NUnit
7 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 174 (39.55%) Finance
2 110 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.05%) Banking
4 68 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 58 (13.18%) Front Office
7 44 (10.00%) Public Sector
8 39 (8.86%) Retail
9 27 (6.14%) General Ledger
10 15 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (2.95%) Marketing
12 9 (2.05%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.36%) Electronics
14 6 (1.36%) Legal
15 3 (0.68%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 120 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 97 (22.05%) Architect
3 55 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 55 (12.50%) Lead
4 50 (11.36%) Data Architect
5 49 (11.14%) Azure Data Engineer
6 46 (10.45%) Solutions Architect
7 43 (9.77%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (9.77%) Consultant
8 42 (9.55%) Developer
9 40 (9.09%) Senior
10 36 (8.18%) Analyst
11 33 (7.50%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.91%) Data Analyst
13 23 (5.23%) Azure Architect
14 22 (5.00%) Python Engineer
15 21 (4.77%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 19 (4.32%) Java Engineer
16 19 (4.32%) Microsoft Consultant
16 19 (4.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (15.45%) gRPC
1 68 (15.45%) Protocol Buffers
2 58 (13.18%) NumPy
2 58 (13.18%) Pandas
2 58 (13.18%) SciPy
3 52 (11.82%) PySpark
4 19 (4.32%) JSON
5 14 (3.18%) .NET
5 14 (3.18%) Kafka
6 12 (2.73%) ARM Templates
6 12 (2.73%) XML
7 7 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.59%) Web Services
8 6 (1.36%) Apache Avro
8 6 (1.36%) YAML
9 5 (1.14%) Middleware
9 5 (1.14%) REST
10 4 (0.91%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (0.91%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 71 (16.14%) Hedge funds
2 59 (13.41%) Derivative
3 58 (13.18%) Equities
3 58 (13.18%) Fixed Income
3 58 (13.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (8.41%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.27%) Clustering
7 7 (1.59%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.14%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.14%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.91%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.91%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.91%) Pricing Data
10 4 (0.91%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.91%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.09%) Linux
2 4 (0.91%) Windows
3 3 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (32.27%) Agile
2 127 (28.86%) Business Intelligence
3 116 (26.36%) DevOps
4 106 (24.09%) Data Modelling
5 98 (22.27%) ETL
6 97 (22.05%) Analytics
7 79 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
8 74 (16.82%) Data Engineering
9 71 (16.14%) Software Engineering
10 70 (15.91%) Asset Management
11 67 (15.23%) Investment Management
12 57 (12.95%) CI/CD
13 52 (11.82%) Data Governance
14 45 (10.23%) Data Architecture
15 42 (9.55%) Migration
15 42 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (8.86%) Data Analysis
16 39 (8.86%) Scrum
17 38 (8.64%) Data Integration
18 35 (7.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 188 (42.73%) Python
2 164 (37.27%) SQL
3 91 (20.68%) Java
4 68 (15.45%) JavaScript
5 58 (13.18%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.68%) T-SQL
7 24 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.00%) Scala
9 17 (3.86%) Go
10 16 (3.64%) C#
11 10 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (2.05%) R
13 7 (1.59%) Bash
14 5 (1.14%) X++
15 4 (0.91%) Bicep
16 3 (0.68%) C
16 3 (0.68%) C++
16 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.45%) U-SQL
18 1 (0.23%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (10.23%) Degree
2 36 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.68%) CIMA
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.86%) QA
3 6 (1.36%) GDPR
4 5 (1.14%) PMO
5 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.68%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.45%) NIST
7 2 (0.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) COBIT
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (3.86%) Docker
2 7 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.68%) HDFS
5 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 52 (11.82%) Terraform
2 31 (7.05%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.32%) Ansible
4 11 (2.50%) Puppet
5 10 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.36%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.45%) Ambari
7 2 (0.45%) Oozie
8 1 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.23%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 123 (27.95%) Databricks
2 112 (25.45%) Microsoft
3 31 (7.05%) SAP
4 19 (4.32%) Oracle
5 13 (2.95%) Informatica
6 11 (2.50%) Talend
7 10 (2.27%) Google
8 7 (1.59%) Dataiku
9 6 (1.36%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.36%) Splunk
9 6 (1.36%) Trillium
10 5 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.68%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.68%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.68%) Teradata
12 2 (0.45%) Sybase
13 1 (0.23%) Ariba
13 1 (0.23%) TIBCO