Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Data Lakes
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 58 76
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 6 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.97% 1.26% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.96% 7.20% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £451 £420 £430
25th Percentile £453 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £478 £550 £513
90th Percentile £484 - £520
West Yorkshire median daily rate £451 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.90% +5.26% -13.64%

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 121 125 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.61% 17.53% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 82 99
10th Percentile £365 £355 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £573 £646
90th Percentile £698 £645 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -10.84% +35.30%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DataStage
1 3 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) Transpiler
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Scala
3 2 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce