Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in London

Data Lakehouse
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 326 355
Rank change year-on-year +78 +29 +74
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 221 47 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.38% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 35 26
10th Percentile £411 £440 £450
25th Percentile £450 £538 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +8.70% -6.50%
75th Percentile £666 £738 £713
90th Percentile £706 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,024 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in London

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in London

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the London region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 -4 22 £550 -10.20% 9
West London - 6 £713 - 6
South London - 3 £425 - 3
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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 48 (21.72%) Apache Spark
2 38 (17.19%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (16.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 140 (63.35%) Azure
2 90 (40.72%) AWS
3 56 (25.34%) Power Platform
4 52 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 47 (21.27%) GCP
6 37 (16.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 35 (15.84%) Snowflake
8 30 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (13.57%) dbt
9 28 (12.67%) Azure Databricks
10 23 (10.41%) Amazon S3
11 22 (9.95%) Serverless
12 20 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (8.14%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (5.88%) GitHub
15 11 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
18 5 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 5 (2.26%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Network Security
2 1 (0.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (32.13%) Data Warehouse
2 59 (26.70%) Delta Lake
3 52 (23.53%) Data Lake
3 52 (23.53%) Power BI
4 49 (22.17%) Metadata
5 26 (11.76%) BigQuery
6 24 (10.86%) Spark SQL
7 23 (10.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (8.60%) Star Schema
9 17 (7.69%) Data Vault
10 14 (6.33%) Apache Iceberg
11 13 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (5.43%) NoSQL
13 9 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (4.07%) Flink
13 9 (4.07%) Relational Database
13 9 (4.07%) SQL Server
14 8 (3.62%) Power Query
14 8 (3.62%) Semantic Layer
15 7 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (9.95%) Git
2 10 (4.52%) ERwin
3 9 (4.07%) GitLab
4 8 (3.62%) ER Studio
5 7 (3.17%) MLflow
6 5 (2.26%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.26%) Terragrunt
7 4 (1.81%) Selenium
8 3 (1.36%) JIRA
9 2 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.45%) TestRail
General
1 83 (37.56%) Finance
2 63 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.60%) Banking
5 17 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.98%) Retail
8 7 (3.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.81%) Marketing
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (42.08%) Data Engineer
2 67 (30.32%) Architect
3 45 (20.36%) Senior
4 44 (19.91%) Data Architect
5 39 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 35 (15.84%) Lead
7 20 (9.05%) Databricks Engineer
8 18 (8.14%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 14 (6.33%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) Databricks Architect
11 10 (4.52%) Azure Data Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Developer
12 9 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.62%) Data Modeller
13 8 (3.62%) Python Data Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (31.67%) PySpark
2 41 (18.55%) Terraform
3 36 (16.29%) Kafka
4 9 (4.07%) Great Expectations
5 7 (3.17%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (2.71%) pytest
6 6 (2.71%) YAML
7 4 (1.81%) Apache Avro
7 4 (1.81%) Apache Beam
7 4 (1.81%) Playwright
7 4 (1.81%) React
8 3 (1.36%) .NET
8 3 (1.36%) JSON
9 2 (0.90%) ADO
9 2 (0.90%) Jinja
9 2 (0.90%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.45%) REST
10 1 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.86%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.33%) Reference Data
4 9 (4.07%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.62%) Reinsurance
6 7 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.26%) Pricing Data
8 4 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.81%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.36%) Clustering
9 3 (1.36%) Derivative
9 3 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.90%) PACS
10 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (58.37%) Analytics
2 120 (54.30%) Data Modelling
3 107 (48.42%) Data Engineering
4 105 (47.51%) Data Pipeline
5 99 (44.80%) CI/CD
6 90 (40.72%) Data Governance
7 83 (37.56%) ETL
8 80 (36.20%) AI
9 78 (35.29%) Data Architecture
10 74 (33.48%) Business Intelligence
11 69 (31.22%) DevOps
12 59 (26.70%) Agile
12 59 (26.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 54 (24.43%) Data Transformation
14 50 (22.62%) Migration
15 48 (21.72%) Machine Learning
16 41 (18.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 40 (18.10%) Technical Leadership
18 34 (15.38%) Mentoring
18 34 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 133 (60.18%) SQL
2 94 (42.53%) Python
3 21 (9.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 12 (5.43%) Scala
5 11 (4.98%) Java
6 5 (2.26%) Bicep
6 5 (2.26%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.81%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.36%) Bash
9 2 (0.90%) Go
9 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.90%) R
10 1 (0.45%) C#
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.17%) DBS Check
4 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.71%) Degree
6 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.98%) GDPR
3 9 (4.07%) QA
4 5 (2.26%) Solvency II
5 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (1.36%) IFRS
6 3 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.90%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (9.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.81%) Ansible
2 4 (1.81%) Grafana
3 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 128 (57.92%) Databricks
2 66 (29.86%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.79%) Oracle
4 10 (4.52%) Google
5 6 (2.71%) Informatica
6 4 (1.81%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (1.81%) Teradata
7 2 (0.90%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.90%) Confluent
7 2 (0.90%) GoldenSource
7 2 (0.90%) Hitachi
7 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.90%) Sparx
7 2 (0.90%) Talend
8 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.45%) IBM
8 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.45%) Reuters
8 1 (0.45%) Trayport