Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Data Lakes
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire 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 23 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.61% 0.78% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.67% 6.25% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £615 - -
25th Percentile £638 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% +6.67% -11.24%
75th Percentile £700 £425 £388
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £549 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +33.90% -8.89% -7.69%

All Database & BI Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15 16 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 9.80% 12.40% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 13
10th Percentile £351 £372 £278
25th Percentile £359 £378 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £613 £475 £400
90th Percentile £695 £480 £474
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £423 £400
% change year-on-year +9.47% +5.63% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £27.00 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +28.57% +50.00% -40.17%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
Leicester - 4 £675 - 3
Data Lake
East Midlands

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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