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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 365 377
Rank change year-on-year -74 +12 +41
Contract jobs citing Parquet 26 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.075% 0.099%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.73% 0.36% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 9
10th Percentile £436 £473 £436
25th Percentile £515 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% -14.29%
75th Percentile £607 £678 £550
90th Percentile £670 £684 £583
England median daily rate £520 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.75 -
England median hourly rate £62.40 £78.75 -
% change year-on-year -20.76% - -

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 3,555 2,810 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.58% 21.14% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,454 1,948 2,570
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £808 £850
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 22
10th Percentile £19.25 £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% -13.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £62.21
90th Percentile £68.75 £87.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%

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 12 October 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 12 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
West London - 7 £520 - 1
Central London -26 3 £615 +11.82% 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 6 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 3 (11.54%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (7.69%) PowerExchange
4 1 (3.85%) Apache
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Collibra
3 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub
6 4 (15.38%) AWS KMS
6 4 (15.38%) GCP
6 4 (15.38%) Serverless
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (7.69%) dbt
8 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Metadata
2 10 (38.46%) Delta Lake
3 7 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (23.08%) Power BI
5 4 (15.38%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (15.38%) BigQuery
5 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
5 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (7.69%) Apache Hive
7 2 (7.69%) Data Vault
7 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (7.69%) Flink
7 2 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (7.69%) Power Query
7 2 (7.69%) PowerPivot
7 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
7 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
1 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Product Owner
1 7 (26.92%) Technical Product Owner
2 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Product Owner
4 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Databricks Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) JSON
2 9 (34.62%) Terraform
3 7 (26.92%) PySpark
4 6 (23.08%) Apache Avro
5 4 (15.38%) Kafka
6 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.69%) Apache Beam
6 2 (7.69%) Django
6 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
6 2 (7.69%) Flask
6 2 (7.69%) React
6 2 (7.69%) Vue
6 2 (7.69%) XML
7 1 (3.85%) .NET
7 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
7 1 (3.85%) REST
7 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
7 1 (3.85%) SOAP
7 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (26.92%) Product Ownership
3 6 (23.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.69%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.85%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
1 17 (65.38%) Data Modelling
1 17 (65.38%) ETL
2 16 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (57.69%) Data Governance
4 14 (53.85%) Data Engineering
4 14 (53.85%) DevOps
5 11 (42.31%) Agile
5 11 (42.31%) Observability
6 10 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (34.62%) Metadata Management
8 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
10 6 (23.08%) Analytics
10 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (23.08%) User Stories
10 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) SQL
2 23 (88.46%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) COBOL
4 1 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (53.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) systemd
3 1 (3.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Databricks
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Foundry
3 3 (11.54%) Palantir
4 2 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Google