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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	431	351	365
Rank change year-on-year	-80	+14	+50
Contract jobs citing Parquet	26	9	17
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.13%	0.068%	0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	0.73%	0.32%	0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	20	3	9
10^th Percentile	£436	£465	£436
25^th Percentile	£515	£488	£513
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£520	£550	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-5.45%	+4.76%	-2.78%
75^th Percentile	£607	£631	£550
90^th Percentile	£670	£665	£583
England median daily rate	£520	£450	£525
% change year-on-year	+15.56%	-14.29%	-2.78%
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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	3,578	2,781	3,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	17.57%	20.92%	22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,463	1,928	2,524
10^th Percentile	£363	£375	£363
25^th Percentile	£430	£431	£456
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£537	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-2.36%	-4.35%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£675	£700
90^th Percentile	£738	£802	£850
England median daily rate	£510	£510	£550
% change year-on-year	-	-7.27%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	33	39	22
10^th Percentile	£20.10	£18.25	£27.81
25^th Percentile	£25.25	£31.29	£36.25
Median hourly rate	£36.25	£52.50	£43.75
Median % change year-on-year	-30.95%	+20.00%	-12.06%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£68.38	£62.21
90^th Percentile	£67.50	£87.50	£78.75
England median hourly rate	£40.25	£42.00	£34.47
% change year-on-year	-4.16%	+21.85%	-33.44%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 19 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.

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 19 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	-23	3	£615	+11.82%	2
Parquet England

Parquet Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Parquet also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Parquet.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	92.3%	24
2	Python	88.5%	23
3	CI/CD	65.4%	17
3	Data Modelling	65.4%	17
3	ETL	65.4%	17
6	AWS	61.5%	16
6	Data Pipeline	61.5%	16
8	Data Governance	57.7%	15
9	Data Engineering	53.8%	14
9	Data Quality	53.8%	14
9	DevOps	53.8%	14
12	Agile	42.3%	11
12	Metadata	42.3%	11
12	Observability	42.3%	11
15	Continuous Improvement	38.5%	10
15	Delta Lake	38.5%	10
15	JSON	38.5%	10
15	Stakeholder Management	38.5%	10
19	Azure	34.6%	9
19	Business Intelligence	34.6%	9
19	Collibra	34.6%	9
19	Metadata Management	34.6%	9
19	Terraform	34.6%	9
24	Problem-Solving	30.8%	8
25	Data Warehouse	26.9%	7
25	Databricks	26.9%	7
25	Infrastructure as Code	26.9%	7
25	Power Platform	26.9%	7
25	PySpark	26.9%	7
25	Roadmaps	26.9%	7

Parquet Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Metadata	42.3%	11
2	Delta Lake	38.5%	10
3	Data Warehouse	26.9%	7
4	Power BI	23.1%	6
5	Apache Iceberg	15.4%	4
5	BigQuery	15.4%	4
5	Data Lake	15.4%	4
5	Relational Database	15.4%	4
9	Amazon Redshift	11.5%	3
9	NoSQL	11.5%	3
11	Amazon Athena	7.7%	2
11	Apache Hive	7.7%	2
11	Data Vault	7.7%	2
11	Enterprise Data Warehouse	7.7%	2
11	Flink	7.7%	2
11	Oracle Exadata	7.7%	2
11	Power Query	7.7%	2
11	PowerCenter	7.7%	2
11	PowerPivot	7.7%	2
11	RDBMS	7.7%	2