Data Lake Contracts in Leeds

Data Lakes
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 57 84
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.65% 0.75% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.97% 4.65% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £413 £513
25th Percentile £425 £431 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -27.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £475 £536 £700
90th Percentile - £550 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £470 £650
% change year-on-year -6.91% -27.69% +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 101 129 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.72% 16.15% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 - -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Leeds

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Leeds

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google