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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 127 145
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 260 357 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.15% 2.04% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.76% 9.18% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 279 339
10th Percentile £454 £475 £475
25th Percentile £525 £525 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £825 £850 £688
90th Percentile £938 £888 £775
England median daily rate £625 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - £50.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +45.00% -

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 2,664 3,891 5,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.98% 22.27% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,863 2,899 3,820
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -0.86%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 34 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.34 £25.31 £22.90
Median hourly rate £34.83 £49.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.78 £82.50
90th Percentile £68.50 £70.85 £90.00
England median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -20.39% -31.73% +33.31%

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 29 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 29 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 +2 27 £550 -2.22% 13
West London +13 2 £788 - 28
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 44 (16.92%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (16.15%) Apache
3 21 (8.08%) Apache Spark
4 19 (7.31%) Confluence
5 4 (1.54%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.77%) Trello
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Actimize
3 1 (0.38%) Endur
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (38.46%) Azure
2 92 (35.38%) AWS
3 46 (17.69%) Snowflake
4 45 (17.31%) dbt
5 44 (16.92%) GCP
6 39 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 31 (11.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.92%) Serverless
10 15 (5.77%) Amazon S3
11 14 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (4.62%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (4.23%) SaaS
14 10 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.85%) Dagster
15 8 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.08%) Collibra
16 7 (2.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.69%) Firewall
1 7 (2.69%) VPN
2 2 (0.77%) Network Security
3 1 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
3 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (23.85%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (14.62%) Amazon Athena
2 38 (14.62%) Power BI
3 33 (12.69%) Apache Iceberg
4 32 (12.31%) Dremio
5 25 (9.62%) Apache Arrow
5 25 (9.62%) Apache Ignite
6 24 (9.23%) Big Data
7 20 (7.69%) Metadata
8 13 (5.00%) Delta Lake
8 13 (5.00%) NoSQL
9 12 (4.62%) BigQuery
10 11 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (3.85%) Neo4j
11 10 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.08%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.69%) Tableau
14 6 (2.31%) DynamoDB
15 5 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.31%) JIRA
2 12 (4.62%) ERwin
3 8 (3.08%) Git
4 3 (1.15%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.77%) MLflow
General
1 134 (51.54%) Finance
2 105 (40.38%) Front Office
3 43 (16.54%) Banking
4 26 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 25 (9.62%) Social Skills
6 15 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.31%) Marketing
7 6 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Legal
8 5 (1.92%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.77%) Law
10 2 (0.77%) Publishing
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (20.38%) Data Engineer
2 42 (16.15%) Senior
3 39 (15.00%) Lead
4 38 (14.62%) Architect
5 37 (14.23%) Head of Finance
6 33 (12.69%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (10.77%) Data Architect
8 26 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 25 (9.62%) AWS Software Engineer
9 25 (9.62%) Java Engineer
9 25 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 25 (9.62%) Python Engineer
10 23 (8.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 23 (8.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 23 (8.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
12 17 (6.54%) Project Manager
13 16 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (6.15%) Head of Data Management
14 15 (5.77%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.31%) PySpark
2 30 (11.54%) NumPy
2 30 (11.54%) Pandas
2 30 (11.54%) SciPy
3 25 (9.62%) gRPC
3 25 (9.62%) Protocol Buffers
4 14 (5.38%) Kafka
5 10 (3.85%) Plotly
5 10 (3.85%) React
6 4 (1.54%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.54%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.15%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.15%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.77%) .NET
8 2 (0.77%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.77%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.77%) Keras
8 2 (0.77%) pytest
9 1 (0.38%) JSON
9 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (39.23%) Derivative
2 98 (37.69%) Equities
2 98 (37.69%) Fixed Income
2 98 (37.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 98 (37.69%) Hedge funds
3 21 (8.08%) Product Ownership
4 20 (7.69%) Pricing Data
5 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.15%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.15%) FMCG
8 3 (1.15%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.77%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.38%) Windows
1 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (55.38%) Agile
2 129 (49.62%) Data Governance
3 101 (38.85%) Investment Management
4 96 (36.92%) Migration
5 80 (30.77%) Data Management
5 80 (30.77%) Regulatory Compliance
6 78 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 74 (28.46%) Data Modelling
8 72 (27.69%) Analytics
9 66 (25.38%) ETL
10 54 (20.77%) Data Engineering
11 51 (19.62%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (16.54%) Data Architecture
13 42 (16.15%) Data Integration
14 39 (15.00%) Asset Management
15 38 (14.62%) Software Engineering
16 37 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
17 34 (13.08%) DevOps
18 28 (10.77%) Data Ingestion
19 27 (10.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 98 (37.69%) Python
2 73 (28.08%) SQL
3 38 (14.62%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.46%) Java
5 26 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.38%) Scala
7 9 (3.46%) Bicep
8 5 (1.92%) R
8 5 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.15%) C#
10 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.08%) Degree
5 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.54%) PMP
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.31%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.46%) MiFID
3 9 (3.46%) GDPR
4 6 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.15%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.77%) QA
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (6.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) HDFS
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (9.23%) Terraform
2 20 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.15%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 60 (23.08%) Databricks
2 28 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.15%) Google
4 11 (4.23%) Informatica
5 6 (2.31%) Oracle
6 3 (1.15%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.15%) Duck Creek
6 3 (1.15%) Guidewire
6 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.15%) SAP
6 3 (1.15%) Sparx
7 2 (0.77%) Aareon
7 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.77%) Civica
7 2 (0.77%) Cribl.io
7 2 (0.77%) Dataiku
7 2 (0.77%) Northgate
7 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) Pega
8 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds