Parquet Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Parquet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Parquet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 480 509
Rank change year-on-year -45 +29 +190
Contract jobs citing Parquet 17 21 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.054% 0.075% 0.085%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.31% 0.41% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 23
10th Percentile £380 £366 £413
25th Percentile £451 £380 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £621 £538 £636
90th Percentile £688 - £666
UK median daily rate £530 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +3.62% -2.57% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 £91.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £92.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +19.35% -
75th Percentile £110.00 £93.75 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £92.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +13.51% +19.35% -

All Database & BI Skills
England

Parquet 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 5,431 5,136 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.13% 18.27% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 3,411 4,307
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £660
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 131
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.25 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.80 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%

Parquet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Parquet job vacancy trend in England

Parquet
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Parquet

Parquet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parquet in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Parquet in England

Parquet
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Parquet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Parquet

Parquet
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 Parquet within the England region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 -25 9 £550 +22.22% 9
West Midlands -29 2 £387 +3.18% 1
Midlands -35 2 £387 +3.18% 1
South East - 2 £442 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £675 -
North of England - 1 - -
Parquet
UK

Parquet
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 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
1 8 (47.06%) GitHub
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
3 5 (29.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) SSH
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Delta Lake
2 5 (29.41%) Data Lake
2 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
3 4 (23.53%) Big Data
3 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
3 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
6 1 (5.88%) PowerCenter
6 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) MLflow
2 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Poetry
3 2 (11.76%) PyCharm
3 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Billing
2 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Agriculture
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Database Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Database Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Perl Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) PySpark
2 6 (35.29%) JSON
2 6 (35.29%) Pandas
3 5 (29.41%) Apache Avro
3 5 (29.41%) REST
4 4 (23.53%) Flask
4 4 (23.53%) NumPy
5 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
6 2 (11.76%) YAML
7 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
7 1 (5.88%) Kafka
7 1 (5.88%) Node.js
7 1 (5.88%) OAuth
7 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
7 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) ETL
3 7 (41.18%) Analytics
3 7 (41.18%) Data Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Validation
6 3 (17.65%) AI
6 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) DataOps
6 3 (17.65%) Observability
6 3 (17.65%) Secrets Management
7 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (11.76%) Data Development
7 2 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (11.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 12 (70.59%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) Groovy
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Scala
4 2 (11.76%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) R
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Argo
2 3 (17.65%) Istio
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Tealium
4 1 (5.88%) Bloomberg
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Refinitiv