Data Lake Contracts in London

Data Lakes
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 119 138 153
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 305 314 471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.43% 1.76% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.89% 8.17% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 233 357
10th Percentile £408 £463 £475
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £875 £850 £700
90th Percentile £938 £888 £775
England median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in London

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 1 May 2025. 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
Central London -9 23 £575 -4.17% 19
West London +13 2 £788 - 4
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 49 (16.07%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (14.75%) Apache
3 22 (7.21%) Apache Spark
4 16 (5.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.66%) Trello
2 1 (0.33%) Acrobat
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Aladdin
1 3 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Actimize
3 1 (0.33%) Endur
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 123 (40.33%) Azure
2 118 (38.69%) AWS
3 55 (18.03%) GCP
4 51 (16.72%) Power Platform
4 51 (16.72%) Snowflake
5 49 (16.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (15.41%) dbt
7 27 (8.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (8.52%) Dagster
9 24 (7.87%) Azure Machine Learning
10 20 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (6.23%) Serverless
12 18 (5.90%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (5.57%) Amazon S3
13 17 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (3.61%) SaaS
15 10 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.62%) Firewall
1 8 (2.62%) VPN
2 2 (0.66%) Network Security
2 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.33%) WAN
3 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (21.97%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (16.39%) Power BI
3 47 (15.41%) Amazon Athena
4 41 (13.44%) Apache Iceberg
5 40 (13.11%) Dremio
6 29 (9.51%) Apache Arrow
6 29 (9.51%) Apache Ignite
7 21 (6.89%) Big Data
8 20 (6.56%) Neo4j
9 15 (4.92%) Metadata
9 15 (4.92%) NoSQL
10 14 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (3.61%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.28%) BigQuery
12 10 (3.28%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.30%) Flink
13 7 (2.30%) Tableau
14 6 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.92%) JIRA
2 9 (2.95%) Git
3 8 (2.62%) ERwin
4 3 (0.98%) JMeter
5 2 (0.66%) MLflow
6 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 154 (50.49%) Finance
2 131 (42.95%) Front Office
3 46 (15.08%) Banking
4 29 (9.51%) Investment Banking
5 27 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.87%) Social Skills
7 20 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.95%) Marketing
9 7 (2.30%) Retail
10 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Legal
12 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.66%) Law
14 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.33%) Electronics
15 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (20.98%) Data Engineer
2 47 (15.41%) Lead
3 40 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (13.11%) Senior
4 39 (12.79%) Architect
5 37 (12.13%) Head of Finance
6 30 (9.84%) Software Engineer
7 29 (9.51%) AWS Software Engineer
7 29 (9.51%) Data Architect
8 27 (8.85%) Analyst
8 27 (8.85%) Python Engineer
9 23 (7.54%) Data Governance Analyst
9 23 (7.54%) Data Governance Manager
9 23 (7.54%) Governance Manager
9 23 (7.54%) Java Engineer
9 23 (7.54%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (6.89%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.90%) Python Software Engineer
11 18 (5.90%) Senior Java Engineer
11 18 (5.90%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (18.69%) PySpark
2 38 (12.46%) NumPy
2 38 (12.46%) Pandas
2 38 (12.46%) SciPy
3 29 (9.51%) gRPC
3 29 (9.51%) Protocol Buffers
4 21 (6.89%) Kafka
5 20 (6.56%) React
6 19 (6.23%) Plotly
7 4 (1.31%) .NET
8 3 (0.98%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.98%) pytest
9 2 (0.66%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.66%) REST
9 2 (0.66%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.66%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.33%) JSON
10 1 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 124 (40.66%) Derivative
2 120 (39.34%) Equities
2 120 (39.34%) Fixed Income
2 120 (39.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 120 (39.34%) Hedge funds
3 37 (12.13%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.93%) Pricing Data
5 6 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.31%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.98%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.98%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.66%) FMCG
9 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.33%) Windows
1 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (54.10%) Agile
2 140 (45.90%) Data Governance
3 127 (41.64%) Migration
4 114 (37.38%) Investment Management
5 96 (31.48%) Regulatory Compliance
5 96 (31.48%) Roadmaps
6 79 (25.90%) Data Management
7 73 (23.93%) Analytics
8 72 (23.61%) Data Modelling
9 68 (22.30%) ETL
10 60 (19.67%) Data Engineering
11 57 (18.69%) Data Pipeline
12 49 (16.07%) Data Integration
12 49 (16.07%) Software Engineering
13 46 (15.08%) Asset Management
14 44 (14.43%) Machine Learning
15 43 (14.10%) Business Intelligence
16 34 (11.15%) Data Architecture
16 34 (11.15%) DevOps
17 32 (10.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 102 (33.44%) Python
2 75 (24.59%) SQL
3 52 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 43 (14.10%) Java
5 30 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.61%) Scala
7 9 (2.95%) Bicep
8 4 (1.31%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.98%) C#
9 3 (0.98%) R
10 2 (0.66%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (0.66%) Groovy
10 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 45 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.28%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.62%) Degree
5 5 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.31%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.98%) PMP
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.74%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.87%) MiFID
3 8 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.97%) GDPR
5 4 (1.31%) QA
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (6.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) HDFS
2 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (6.89%) Kubernetes
1 21 (6.89%) Terraform
2 4 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.98%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.33%) Ansible
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 73 (23.93%) Databricks
2 36 (11.80%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.28%) Google
4 8 (2.62%) Informatica
5 7 (2.30%) Oracle
6 6 (1.97%) SAP
7 4 (1.31%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.98%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.98%) Sparx
8 3 (0.98%) StreamSets
9 2 (0.66%) Aareon
9 2 (0.66%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.66%) BMC
9 2 (0.66%) Civica
9 2 (0.66%) Cribl.io
9 2 (0.66%) Northgate
10 1 (0.33%) Ariba
10 1 (0.33%) Pega
10 1 (0.33%) Remedy
10 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds