Parquet Contract Job Trends in London

Apache Parquet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Parquet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 335 355
Rank change year-on-year -45 +20 +126
Contract jobs citing Parquet 14 16 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.084% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.44% 0.57% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 31
10th Percentile £356 £378 -
25th Percentile £463 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £415 £523
Median % change year-on-year +22.89% -20.57% -17.23%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £569
90th Percentile - £513 £650
England median daily rate £530 £400 £520
% change year-on-year +32.50% -23.10% -17.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £59.25 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.05% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.05% - -

All Database & BI Skills
London

Parquet 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 3,159 2,811 3,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.94% 22.22% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,156 2,003 2,738
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £749 £832 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.56 £28.60 £25.79
Median hourly rate £46.50 £42.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -7.72% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66.88 £59.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £89.50 £77.50 £65.52
England median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.13
% change year-on-year +51.01% -17.48% -28.86%

Parquet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Parquet job vacancy trend in London

Parquet
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Parquet

Parquet
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parquet in London over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Parquet in London

Parquet
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Parquet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Parquet

Parquet
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 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (21.43%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) dbt
5 2 (14.29%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Delta Lake
2 6 (42.86%) Power BI
3 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
4 3 (21.43%) Spark SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (14.29%) Metadata
5 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.14%) Flink
6 1 (7.14%) Power Query
6 1 (7.14%) PowerPivot
6 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) ER Studio
1 1 (7.14%) ERwin
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Architect
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
5 2 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Tester
5 2 (14.29%) Tester
6 1 (7.14%) Administrator
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) BigQuery Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
6 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) PySpark
2 5 (35.71%) REST
3 4 (28.57%) JSON
3 4 (28.57%) Pandas
4 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Beam
5 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 8 (57.14%) ETL
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (42.86%) AI
5 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
6 4 (28.57%) Data Development
6 4 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (28.57%) DataOps
6 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Validation
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
8 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Bicep
4 3 (21.43%) Scala
5 2 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (7.14%) LookML
6 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Databricks
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Adobe
4 1 (7.14%) Sparx
4 1 (7.14%) Tealium