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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 360 363
Rank change year-on-year -41 +3 +90
Contract jobs citing Parquet 28 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.080% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.80% 0.37% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 16
10th Percentile £363 £455 £419
25th Percentile £440 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile - £575 £581
90th Percentile £600 £635 £644
England median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -19.05% - -

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 3,518 2,938 3,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.68% 21.49% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,374 2,065 2,898
10th Percentile £363 £378 £366
25th Percentile £438 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.14 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.27 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £48.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% -3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £86.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +13.46% -9.57% -30.00%

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 27 July 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
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 Parquet within the London region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
West London - 8 £520 -
Central London -15 1 - - 2
Parquet
England

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 5 (17.86%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.71%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Collibra
2 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 6 (21.43%) GCP
5 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
6 4 (14.29%) GitHub
7 3 (10.71%) AWS KMS
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (10.71%) Serverless
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Stack
8 2 (7.14%) dbt
8 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 12 (42.86%) Metadata
3 8 (28.57%) Power BI
4 6 (21.43%) BigQuery
4 6 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
5 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
5 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
6 4 (14.29%) Apache Hive
6 4 (14.29%) Flink
6 4 (14.29%) Power Query
6 4 (14.29%) PowerPivot
7 3 (10.71%) Spark SQL
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
8 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) ER Studio
3 1 (3.57%) ERwin
3 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 13 (46.43%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Product Owner
1 8 (28.57%) Technical Product Owner
2 7 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Tester
6 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) JSON
2 7 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 7 (25.00%) PySpark
3 4 (14.29%) Apache Beam
4 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (32.14%) Product Ownership
3 8 (28.57%) Onboarding
4 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
4 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Clustering
5 1 (3.57%) Data Fabric
5 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) ETL
2 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
2 18 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
2 18 (64.29%) DevOps
3 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 13 (46.43%) Agile
5 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (42.86%) Data Engineering
5 12 (42.86%) Data Governance
6 11 (39.29%) Decision-Making
6 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (35.71%) Analytics
7 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (32.14%) Metadata Management
8 9 (32.14%) User Stories
8 9 (32.14%) Visualisation
9 8 (28.57%) Observability
9 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
10 7 (25.00%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) SQL
2 22 (78.57%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) Scala
4 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) R
5 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) LookML
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Databricks
2 4 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (10.71%) Foundry
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Palantir
4 1 (3.57%) Sparx