Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Data Lakes
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.02% - 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.00% - 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £466 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £425
75th Percentile £516 - £438
90th Percentile £521 - -
North West median daily rate £401 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -10.89% -21.74% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 25 15 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 12.76% 7.69% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 21
10th Percentile £384 £403 -
25th Percentile £425 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £442 £620
Median % change year-on-year +15.95% -28.71% +12.73%
75th Percentile £569 £489 £645
90th Percentile £649 £491 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £61.20 - £31.29
25th Percentile £63.38 - -
Median hourly rate £69.38 - £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.17%
75th Percentile £73.01 - -
90th Percentile £73.76 - -
North West median hourly rate £64.50 £56.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.67% +21.81% -33.30%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Blackburn - 2 £488 -
Data Lake
North West

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft