Delta Lake Contract Job Trends in London

Delta Lake
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 303 361
Rank change year-on-year -27 +58 +53
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 128 62 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.46% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 2.18% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 38 17
10th Percentile £411 £411 £468
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £574 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +4.32% -24.14%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £671 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -17.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate - £105.00 -

All Database & BI Skills
London

Delta 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 3,566 2,848 3,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.65% 21.20% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 1,968 2,602
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £707
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 38 22
10th Percentile £18.74 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -12.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.00 £87.50 £78.38
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in London

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in London

Delta 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 Delta Lake within the London region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Central London -15 12 £550 +10.00% 5
West London - 10 £520 -
Delta Lake
England

Delta 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 38 (29.69%) Apache Spark
2 29 (22.66%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (20.31%) Apache
4 3 (2.34%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.56%) SAS
5 2 (1.56%) SugarCRM
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 84 (65.63%) Azure
2 71 (55.47%) AWS
3 25 (19.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (19.53%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (17.19%) Azure Databricks
4 22 (17.19%) GCP
5 21 (16.41%) GitHub
6 19 (14.84%) dbt
7 18 (14.06%) Snowflake
8 17 (13.28%) Serverless
9 16 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (11.72%) Amazon S3
10 15 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (11.72%) Power Platform
11 9 (7.03%) Entra ID
12 8 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (5.47%) Collibra
13 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (4.69%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Network Security
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.66%) Metadata
2 26 (20.31%) Data Lake
3 22 (17.19%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (11.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (11.72%) Power BI
5 10 (7.81%) BigQuery
5 10 (7.81%) Parquet
6 7 (5.47%) Data Vault
6 7 (5.47%) Spark SQL
7 6 (4.69%) Redis
7 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.13%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.34%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.34%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.34%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.34%) Power Query
9 3 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (19.53%) Git
2 13 (10.16%) MLflow
3 5 (3.91%) ER Studio
3 5 (3.91%) ERwin
4 4 (3.13%) GitLab
4 4 (3.13%) RStudio
5 3 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.34%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.56%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (31.25%) Finance
2 35 (27.34%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.16%) Banking
5 11 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.91%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.13%) Billing
7 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.34%) Legal
8 3 (2.34%) Retail
9 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Marketing
9 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Back Office
10 1 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 57 (44.53%) Data Engineer
2 31 (24.22%) Senior
3 30 (23.44%) Databricks Engineer
4 26 (20.31%) Architect
4 26 (20.31%) Lead
5 22 (17.19%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 22 (17.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) Databricks Architect
7 11 (8.59%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Technical Leader
8 8 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Platform Architect
9 7 (5.47%) Principal Data Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Product Owner
9 7 (5.47%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (53.13%) PySpark
2 39 (30.47%) Terraform
3 22 (17.19%) Kafka
4 10 (7.81%) REST
5 5 (3.91%) LangChain
5 5 (3.91%) LangGraph
6 3 (2.34%) Spring
6 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.56%) pydantic
7 2 (1.56%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.56%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.78%) .NET
8 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.78%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.78%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.78%) JSON
8 1 (0.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.41%) Product Ownership
2 17 (13.28%) Onboarding
3 14 (10.94%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.81%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (5.47%) AI Agents
5 7 (5.47%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.47%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.91%) Pricing Data
7 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.13%) Replication
8 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.34%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.56%) Clustering
9 2 (1.56%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.56%) NHS
9 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
1 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 78 (60.94%) Data Pipeline
3 77 (60.16%) Data Engineering
4 71 (55.47%) Lakehouse
5 63 (49.22%) Analytics
5 63 (49.22%) DevOps
5 63 (49.22%) ETL
6 58 (45.31%) Data Modelling
7 49 (38.28%) AI
8 48 (37.50%) Agile
9 46 (35.94%) Data Governance
10 45 (35.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (32.81%) Machine Learning
12 41 (32.03%) Data Architecture
13 39 (30.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (25.00%) Migration
15 30 (23.44%) Observability
15 30 (23.44%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (22.66%) Validation
17 26 (20.31%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (78.13%) SQL
2 84 (65.63%) Python
3 7 (5.47%) Bash
3 7 (5.47%) Bicep
3 7 (5.47%) Scala
4 4 (3.13%) Java
4 4 (3.13%) R
5 3 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (0.78%) Korn
7 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.03%) Azure Certification
3 9 (7.03%) Degree
4 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (56.25%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.59%) GDPR
3 4 (3.13%) SLA
4 3 (2.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (2.34%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.78%) COPPA
5 1 (0.78%) GRC
5 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (13.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 109 (85.16%) Databricks
2 22 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.03%) Foundry
3 9 (7.03%) Oracle
4 6 (4.69%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.91%) Mistral
6 3 (2.34%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (2.34%) Palantir
6 3 (2.34%) SAP
7 2 (1.56%) Google
7 2 (1.56%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.56%) Sage
7 2 (1.56%) Teradata
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.78%) Hortonworks
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) Reuters
8 1 (0.78%) Trayport