Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Data Lakes
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 5.13% - 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 50.00% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £615 - -
25th Percentile £638 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.71%
75th Percentile £700 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £675 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +68.75% +6.67% -11.24%

All Database & BI Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8 12 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 10.26% 13.19% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 13
10th Percentile £298 £373 £278
25th Percentile £448 £381 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £475 £400
90th Percentile £700 £483 £474
Leicestershire median daily rate £525 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +23.53% +13.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
Leicestershire median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 -
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Leicester

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
1 4 (100.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks