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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 346 364
Rank change year-on-year -63 +18 +100
Contract jobs citing Parquet 24 14 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.70% 0.49% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 27
10th Percentile £361 £456 £396
25th Percentile £446 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +2.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £556
90th Percentile £600 £625 £615
England median daily rate £520 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +9.47% -3.55% -21.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 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 £73.75 -
90th Percentile - £85.75 -
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 3,429 2,854 4,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.65% 21.48% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,317 1,995 3,041
10th Percentile £363 £385 £373
25th Percentile £435 £450 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 33
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.40 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £27.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -11.58% -24.60%
75th Percentile £60.56 £61.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.25 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.69% -34.29%

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 6 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 6 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 - 6 £520 -
Central London -15 1 - - 1
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 (20.83%) Apache Spark
2 3 (12.50%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 7 (29.17%) Azure
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Collibra
4 6 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) GitHub
6 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
6 4 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (12.50%) AWS KMS
7 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (12.50%) Serverless
8 2 (8.33%) dbt
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Delta Lake
2 10 (41.67%) Metadata
3 8 (33.33%) Power BI
4 6 (25.00%) BigQuery
5 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
5 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
6 4 (16.67%) Apache Hive
6 4 (16.67%) Flink
6 4 (16.67%) Power Query
6 4 (16.67%) PowerPivot
7 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (12.50%) Spark SQL
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
8 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.17%) ERwin
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 6 (25.00%) Technical Product Owner
3 4 (16.67%) GCP Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Tester
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Architect
6 1 (4.17%) BigQuery Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.17%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) PySpark
2 7 (29.17%) JSON
3 5 (20.83%) Apache Avro
4 4 (16.67%) Apache Beam
5 1 (4.17%) Pandas
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
3 6 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (4.17%) Clustering
6 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
6 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) DevOps
2 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 15 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 15 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (62.50%) ETL
3 11 (45.83%) Decision-Making
4 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (37.50%) Analytics
5 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
6 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (29.17%) Data Governance
7 7 (29.17%) Metadata Management
7 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (29.17%) User Stories
8 6 (25.00%) Epics
8 6 (25.00%) Observability
8 6 (25.00%) Product Backlog
8 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) SQL
2 19 (79.17%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Scala
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) R
5 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Bicep
6 1 (4.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (12.50%) Foundry
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Palantir
4 1 (4.17%) Sparx