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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 345 376
Rank change year-on-year -27 +31 +138
Contract jobs citing Parquet 9 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.063% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.30% 0.60% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 19
10th Percentile £511 - £413
25th Percentile £520 £380 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £603 £538 £638
90th Percentile £654 - £670
England median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £105.00 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% - -
75th Percentile £110.00 £93.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 £92.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year +13.51% +19.35% -

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 2,960 3,159 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.60% 21.50% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,060 2,175 2,563
10th Percentile £359 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 26 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.15 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.54% -5.00% -16.28%
75th Percentile £68.69 £59.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%

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 30 December 2025.

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
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 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Delta Lake
2 4 (44.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Agriculture
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Database Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Database Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Development Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Perl Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Database Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PySpark
2 3 (33.33%) JSON
2 3 (33.33%) Pandas
2 3 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Avro
3 2 (22.22%) YAML
4 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
4 1 (11.11%) Flask
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) NumPy
4 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Data Development
5 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (22.22%) DataOps
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
6 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (11.11%) Data Validation
6 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Scala
4 2 (22.22%) Bicep
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (11.11%) R
5 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Refinitiv
3 1 (11.11%) Tealium