Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in England

Data Lakehouse
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 438 483
Rank change year-on-year +171 +45 +83
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 423 70 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.28% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 47 32
10th Percentile £399 £397 £321
25th Percentile £450 £504 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%
75th Percentile £639 £700 £678
90th Percentile £700 £824 £800
UK median daily rate £532 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.33% +4.35% -5.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,013 25,190 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.87% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,073 16,045 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,593 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in England

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in England over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in England

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the England region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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 +78 221 £568 -9.10%
Midlands +27 79 £565 +37.80%
West Midlands - 69 £565 -
South East -25 41 £475 +1.33%
North of England -42 38 £493 -14.35%
South West -21 23 £525 +23.53%
Yorkshire -32 21 £460 -14.42%
North West -45 12 £563 -2.17%
East Midlands -7 7 £625 +52.44%
North East - 5 £520 -
East of England -26 2 - -
Lakehouse
UK

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 55 (13.00%) Apache Spark
2 44 (10.40%) Apache
2 44 (10.40%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (7.57%) SAS
4 8 (1.89%) Confluence
5 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 245 (57.92%) Azure
2 135 (31.91%) Power Platform
3 130 (30.73%) AWS
4 88 (20.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 61 (14.42%) GCP
6 59 (13.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (9.46%) dbt
8 39 (9.22%) Snowflake
9 38 (8.98%) Azure Databricks
10 35 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (7.80%) Amazon S3
12 31 (7.33%) Serverless
13 24 (5.67%) Microsoft Purview
14 22 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (4.02%) GitHub
16 14 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.60%) Azure Functions
17 11 (2.60%) Azure Storage
18 9 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
18 9 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) PuTTY
1 5 (1.18%) WinSCP
2 3 (0.71%) Network Security
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
3 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (33.81%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (30.97%) Power BI
3 100 (23.64%) Data Lake
4 88 (20.80%) Metadata
5 82 (19.39%) Delta Lake
6 30 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (6.86%) BigQuery
8 26 (6.15%) Spark SQL
9 24 (5.67%) Data Vault
9 24 (5.67%) Star Schema
10 23 (5.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 21 (4.96%) NoSQL
12 20 (4.73%) SQL Server
13 18 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
13 18 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (3.78%) Apache Iceberg
14 16 (3.78%) Tableau
15 15 (3.55%) Base SAS
16 13 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (9.69%) Git
2 13 (3.07%) GitLab
3 11 (2.60%) JIRA
4 10 (2.36%) ERwin
4 10 (2.36%) MLflow
5 8 (1.89%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.18%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.95%) Selenium
8 2 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.24%) Deequ
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.24%) TestRail
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 102 (24.11%) Finance
3 62 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.73%) Banking
7 15 (3.55%) Retail
8 14 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.89%) Marketing
10 7 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.71%) Law
11 3 (0.71%) Local Government
12 2 (0.47%) Billing
12 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.24%) Legal
13 1 (0.24%) Police
Job Titles
1 162 (38.30%) Data Engineer
2 123 (29.08%) Architect
3 95 (22.46%) Data Architect
4 74 (17.49%) Senior
5 60 (14.18%) Senior Data Engineer
6 56 (13.24%) Lead
7 25 (5.91%) Databricks Engineer
7 25 (5.91%) Developer
8 22 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (5.20%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 19 (4.49%) Azure Data Engineer
9 19 (4.49%) Microsoft Engineer
10 18 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
11 17 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.78%) Databricks Architect
13 13 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (3.07%) Consultant
13 13 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.84%) Data Modeller
14 12 (2.84%) SAS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (24.82%) PySpark
2 48 (11.35%) Terraform
3 41 (9.69%) Kafka
4 10 (2.36%) Great Expectations
5 7 (1.65%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (1.42%) pytest
6 6 (1.42%) YAML
7 4 (0.95%) Apache Avro
7 4 (0.95%) Apache Beam
7 4 (0.95%) JSON
7 4 (0.95%) Playwright
7 4 (0.95%) React
8 3 (0.71%) .NET
8 3 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.71%) Spring
8 3 (0.71%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.47%) ADO
9 2 (0.47%) Jinja
9 2 (0.47%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (0.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.53%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.02%) Reference Data
5 14 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.89%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.65%) Autonomous Agent
9 6 (1.42%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.42%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.18%) Pricing Data
11 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.65%) Linux
2 6 (1.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (54.37%) Data Modelling
2 223 (52.72%) Analytics
3 199 (47.04%) Data Pipeline
4 186 (43.97%) ETL
5 177 (41.84%) Data Engineering
6 154 (36.41%) Business Intelligence
6 154 (36.41%) CI/CD
7 138 (32.62%) Data Governance
8 128 (30.26%) Migration
9 127 (30.02%) Data Architecture
10 119 (28.13%) AI
11 91 (21.51%) Data Transformation
12 89 (21.04%) DevOps
13 86 (20.33%) Agile
14 78 (18.44%) Decision-Making
15 76 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 72 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
17 66 (15.60%) Machine Learning
18 62 (14.66%) Validation
19 61 (14.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 233 (55.08%) SQL
2 143 (33.81%) Python
3 36 (8.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (5.91%) T-SQL
5 22 (5.20%) Java
6 15 (3.55%) Scala
7 11 (2.60%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.42%) Bicep
8 6 (1.42%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.95%) Bash
9 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.71%) Go
10 3 (0.71%) Groovy
10 3 (0.71%) R
11 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) Ada
12 1 (0.24%) C#
12 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.84%) Azure Certification
3 12 (2.84%) DV Cleared
4 11 (2.60%) Degree
5 10 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.65%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (36.64%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.44%) QA
3 22 (5.20%) GDPR
4 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.18%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.71%) IFRS
7 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (5.44%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.42%) Grafana
3 4 (0.95%) Ansible
4 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 206 (48.70%) Databricks
2 141 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.44%) Oracle
4 21 (4.96%) Informatica
5 13 (3.07%) Google
6 11 (2.60%) Denodo
7 9 (2.13%) SAP
8 8 (1.89%) Talend
9 6 (1.42%) Teradata
10 4 (0.95%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.47%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.47%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.47%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.47%) IBM
11 2 (0.47%) Remedy
11 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.47%) Sparx