Data Lake Contract Job Trends in London

Data Lakes
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 113 132
Rank change year-on-year -41 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 299 310 328
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 2.48% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.21% 11.14% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 253 250
10th Percentile £413 £408 £463
25th Percentile £481 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £673
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +0.37% +12.08%
75th Percentile £700 £875 £850
90th Percentile £750 £938 £888
England median daily rate £550 £650 £585
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.11% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.49% +15.71%

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,248 2,782 3,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.29% 22.29% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,209 1,964 2,837
10th Percentile £363 £380 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -1.16% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.76% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 36
10th Percentile £18.44 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.89 £25.93
Median hourly rate £45.50 £36.56 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.47% -26.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.56 £57.50 £55.94
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £46.65 £32.05 £40.25
% change year-on-year +45.55% -20.37% -31.30%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Lake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
West London -3 25 £603 -23.49% 1
Central London -18 18 £585 +6.32% 19
East London - 3 £450 -
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 62 (20.74%) Apache Spark
2 35 (11.71%) Apache
3 26 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
4 2 (0.67%) Confluence
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.67%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 226 (75.59%) Azure
2 122 (40.80%) AWS
3 117 (39.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 114 (38.13%) Power Platform
5 101 (33.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (22.41%) GitHub
7 61 (20.40%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (17.73%) GCP
9 35 (11.71%) Amazon S3
10 29 (9.70%) Serverless
11 28 (9.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (9.36%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (8.36%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (6.69%) Collibra
14 19 (6.35%) Snowflake
15 17 (5.69%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (5.35%) Azure Key Vault
17 15 (5.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 15 (5.02%) Azure Functions
18 13 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) Firewall
1 2 (0.67%) HTTP
1 2 (0.67%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) 4G
2 1 (0.33%) 5G
2 1 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (32.11%) Power BI
2 89 (29.77%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (17.06%) Delta Lake
4 46 (15.38%) Metadata
5 44 (14.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (14.38%) SQL Server
7 29 (9.70%) Amazon Athena
8 25 (8.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (7.02%) BigQuery
11 20 (6.69%) Mixpanel
11 20 (6.69%) Spark SQL
12 18 (6.02%) OLAP
13 17 (5.69%) Big Data
14 15 (5.02%) OLTP
14 15 (5.02%) Relational Database
15 13 (4.35%) Hadoop
15 13 (4.35%) NoSQL
15 13 (4.35%) Star Schema
16 12 (4.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (14.05%) Git
2 12 (4.01%) GitLab
3 7 (2.34%) JIRA
3 7 (2.34%) MLflow
4 5 (1.67%) ER Studio
4 5 (1.67%) ERwin
4 5 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.34%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.00%) JMeter
General
1 89 (29.77%) Finance
2 61 (20.40%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.01%) Banking
6 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.67%) Marketing
6 5 (1.67%) Military
7 4 (1.34%) Retail
8 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.67%) Back Office
9 2 (0.67%) Front Office
9 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Billing
10 1 (0.33%) Legal
10 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 122 (40.80%) Data Engineer
2 68 (22.74%) Architect
3 45 (15.05%) Senior
4 33 (11.04%) Data Architect
4 33 (11.04%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (8.36%) Lead
7 22 (7.36%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (7.36%) Principal Engineer
8 21 (7.02%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 20 (6.69%) Developer
10 19 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.69%) Principal Data Engineer
12 14 (4.68%) Azure Data Engineer
13 12 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (4.01%) Azure Architect
13 12 (4.01%) Principal Software Engineer
13 12 (4.01%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.40%) PySpark
2 39 (13.04%) Kafka
3 18 (6.02%) Great Expectations
4 12 (4.01%) LangChain
4 12 (4.01%) LangGraph
4 12 (4.01%) Model Context Protocol
5 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Graph
5 11 (3.68%) REST
6 9 (3.01%) A2A Protocol
7 8 (2.68%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (2.34%) Pandas
8 7 (2.34%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.01%) scikit-learn
9 6 (2.01%) YAML
10 5 (1.67%) XML
11 4 (1.34%) JSON
11 4 (1.34%) TensorFlow
12 3 (1.00%) HTML
12 3 (1.00%) Middleware
12 3 (1.00%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.01%) Distributed Computing
2 12 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.67%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.34%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.34%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.34%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.34%) IoT
8 3 (1.00%) Derivative
8 3 (1.00%) Equities
9 2 (0.67%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.67%) EPoS
9 2 (0.67%) FMCG
9 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.67%) Linux
1 5 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (58.86%) Analytics
2 155 (51.84%) ETL
3 153 (51.17%) Data Engineering
4 145 (48.49%) CI/CD
5 130 (43.48%) Data Modelling
6 121 (40.47%) Data Pipeline
7 117 (39.13%) DevOps
8 107 (35.79%) Business Intelligence
9 97 (32.44%) Data Governance
10 92 (30.77%) AI
11 78 (26.09%) Data Architecture
12 66 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 66 (22.07%) Machine Learning
13 62 (20.74%) Migration
14 50 (16.72%) Agile
15 42 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (13.38%) Data Transformation
16 40 (13.38%) Validation
17 38 (12.71%) LLM
17 38 (12.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 190 (63.55%) SQL
2 142 (47.49%) Python
3 22 (7.36%) C#
3 22 (7.36%) Java
4 18 (6.02%) Scala
5 15 (5.02%) T-SQL
6 13 (4.35%) Bicep
6 13 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.34%) Bash
10 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.00%) R
11 2 (0.67%) Ada
11 2 (0.67%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.35%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 5 (1.67%) Degree
7 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.00%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.67%) PMP
8 2 (0.67%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CGEIT
9 1 (0.33%) CISM
9 1 (0.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.33%) CRISC
9 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (33.11%) Data Quality
2 41 (13.71%) GDPR
3 24 (8.03%) QA
4 7 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.34%) NIST
7 3 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.00%) MiFID
8 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.67%) IFRS
8 2 (0.67%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.67%) PMO
9 1 (0.33%) Basel II
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (8.03%) Docker
2 4 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (22.41%) Terraform
2 26 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.00%) Grafana
4 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.33%) Oozie
5 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 119 (39.80%) Databricks
2 102 (34.11%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.35%) Google
3 19 (6.35%) Informatica
4 16 (5.35%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.01%) Oracle
5 9 (3.01%) SAP
6 6 (2.01%) Cloudera
6 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.34%) Hortonworks
7 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.67%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.67%) Splunk
9 1 (0.33%) Ariba
9 1 (0.33%) Concur
9 1 (0.33%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.33%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.33%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.33%) Qualys
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud