Data Lake Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Data Lakes
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties citing Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 12.50% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £431 £525
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -8.70%

All Database & BI Skills
Home Counties

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in the Home Counties.

6 months to
4 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 25.00% 28.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 -
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -6.54%

Data Lake Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Data Lake Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Data Lake

Data Lake Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Geospatial Data100.0%1
1GIS100.0%1
1Metadata100.0%1
1QGIS100.0%1
1Spatial Data100.0%1