Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Data Lakes
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 70 92
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.15% 0.55% 0.077%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.59% 7.46% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £438 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -11.90% -7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £503 £538
90th Percentile £645 £531 -
South East median daily rate £456 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -16.28% -5.22% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 126 67 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 9.58% 7.37% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 49 98
10th Percentile £323 £356 £425
25th Percentile £375 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -18.18% -1.12%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £647
90th Percentile £660 £688 £764
South East median daily rate £462 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile - - £21.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £29.48
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.24%
75th Percentile £46.29 - £54.91
90th Percentile £50.06 - £69.09
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £63.15 £50.53
% change year-on-year -36.66% +24.98% +119.52%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Hampshire

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Basingstoke -6 1 £375 -21.05% 1
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Dagster
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Poetry
1 1 (50.00%) Pylint
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google