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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 361 374
Rank change year-on-year -63 +13 +50
Contract jobs citing Parquet 29 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.082% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.81% 0.39% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 10
10th Percentile £408 £473 £414
25th Percentile £500 £506 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £550
90th Percentile £648 £684 £579
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 - £78.75 -

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 3,580 2,852 3,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.79% 21.34% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,463 1,987 2,613
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £432 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £645 £678 £719
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £509 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.73% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 37 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £24.81 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -10.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.00 £54.38
90th Percentile £65.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -34.58%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 - 9 £520 - 2
Central London -21 3 £615 +11.82% 4
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 7 (24.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.34%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (6.90%) PowerExchange
4 1 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Collibra
3 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
4 7 (24.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) GitHub
6 5 (17.24%) GCP
7 4 (13.79%) AWS KMS
7 4 (13.79%) Serverless
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (10.34%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (6.90%) Azure Stack
9 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
9 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Delta Lake
2 12 (41.38%) Metadata
3 8 (27.59%) Power BI
4 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (17.24%) BigQuery
5 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
6 4 (13.79%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
6 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (10.34%) Apache Hive
7 3 (10.34%) Flink
7 3 (10.34%) Power Query
7 3 (10.34%) PowerPivot
7 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
8 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.90%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (6.90%) PowerCenter
8 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
1 4 (13.79%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Product Owner
1 9 (31.03%) Technical Product Owner
2 7 (24.14%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Lead Product Owner
5 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Databricks Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) JSON
2 10 (34.48%) Terraform
3 8 (27.59%) PySpark
4 7 (24.14%) Apache Avro
5 4 (13.79%) Kafka
6 3 (10.34%) Apache Beam
6 3 (10.34%) XML
7 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.90%) Django
7 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
7 2 (6.90%) Flask
7 2 (6.90%) React
7 2 (6.90%) Vue
8 1 (3.45%) .NET
8 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
8 1 (3.45%) REST
8 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
8 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (31.03%) Product Ownership
3 8 (27.59%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.90%) Data Fabric
4 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
1 20 (68.97%) Data Modelling
1 20 (68.97%) ETL
2 19 (65.52%) Data Pipeline
3 18 (62.07%) DevOps
4 16 (55.17%) Data Governance
5 15 (51.72%) Data Engineering
6 13 (44.83%) Agile
6 13 (44.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (44.83%) Observability
7 12 (41.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (34.48%) Metadata Management
10 9 (31.03%) Decision-Making
10 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
11 8 (27.59%) User Stories
12 7 (24.14%) Analytics
12 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) SQL
2 26 (89.66%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (10.34%) Java
3 3 (10.34%) Scala
4 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.90%) R
4 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) C
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (51.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GRC
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) systemd
3 1 (3.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Databricks
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Foundry
3 3 (10.34%) Palantir
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Informatica
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle