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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 335 355
Rank change year-on-year -63 +20 +135
Contract jobs citing Parquet 19 18 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.64% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 32
10th Percentile £359 £378 -
25th Percentile £446 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £415 £520
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% -20.22% -18.40%
75th Percentile £561 £488 £566
90th Percentile £575 £513 £649
England median daily rate £520 £425 £518
% change year-on-year +22.35% -17.93% -18.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £59.25 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.05% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.05% - -

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 3,288 2,800 3,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.96% 22.13% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,261 1,982 2,769
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +1.35% -3.04%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £696
90th Percentile £750 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 38
10th Percentile £21.39 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.74 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +4.35%
75th Percentile £61.13 £60.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £85.50 £78.50 £63.98
England median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +52.52% -17.23% -28.19%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 - 3 £520 -
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 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Power Platform
3 7 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (26.32%) AWS
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub
6 4 (21.05%) GCP
6 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (15.79%) Collibra
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (10.53%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (10.53%) dbt
8 2 (10.53%) Serverless
9 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Delta Lake
2 8 (42.11%) Power BI
3 5 (26.32%) Metadata
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
4 4 (21.05%) BigQuery
4 4 (21.05%) Data Lake
4 4 (21.05%) Spark SQL
5 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
5 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
5 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
6 2 (10.53%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (10.53%) Flink
6 2 (10.53%) Power Query
6 2 (10.53%) PowerPivot
7 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ER Studio
1 1 (5.26%) ERwin
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Data Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) GCP Data Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Product Owner
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Product Owner
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) BigQuery Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Modeller
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) PySpark
2 5 (26.32%) JSON
2 5 (26.32%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) Pandas
4 3 (15.79%) Apache Avro
5 2 (10.53%) Apache Beam
6 1 (5.26%) XML
6 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Data Fabric
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) Data Modelling
2 12 (63.16%) ETL
3 11 (57.89%) Analytics
3 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (52.63%) Decision-Making
5 9 (47.37%) Data Engineering
6 8 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (31.58%) Agile
7 6 (31.58%) AI
8 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (21.05%) Data Development
9 4 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (21.05%) DataOps
9 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 4 (21.05%) Metadata Management
9 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (21.05%) Validation
10 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 12 (63.16%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Bicep
3 4 (21.05%) Scala
4 3 (15.79%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) R
5 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.26%) LookML
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (63.16%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Databricks
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Sparx
4 1 (5.26%) Tealium