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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 338 365
Rank change year-on-year -33 +27 +134
Contract jobs citing Parquet 13 19 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.088% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.44% 0.63% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 25
10th Percentile £446 - £409
25th Percentile £515 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -13.88% -13.81%
75th Percentile £575 £497 £563
90th Percentile £620 £538 £638
England median daily rate £550 £450 £511
% change year-on-year +22.22% -11.98% -18.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 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 -
% change year-on-year +13.51% - -

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 2,961 3,004 3,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.99% 21.63% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,041 2,045 2,609
10th Percentile £353 £369 £381
25th Percentile £415 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.41 £28.60 £26.02
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -22.73%
75th Percentile £74.25 £58.25 £53.94
90th Percentile £89.25 £78.75 £64.35
England median hourly rate £46.50 £39.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.90% -27.53%

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 January 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
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 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Delta Lake
2 6 (46.15%) Data Lake
3 5 (38.46%) Power BI
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
5 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (15.38%) Metadata
5 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ER Studio
1 1 (7.69%) ERwin
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Agriculture
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.69%) Database Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Database Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Development Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Perl Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Database Developer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) PySpark
2 5 (38.46%) Pandas
2 5 (38.46%) REST
3 3 (23.08%) JSON
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Avro
4 2 (15.38%) YAML
5 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 1 (7.69%) Flask
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) NumPy
5 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Reference Data
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Analytics
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) AI
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Data Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (46.15%) ETL
4 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
5 4 (30.77%) Data Development
5 4 (30.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (30.77%) DataOps
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (15.38%) Data Science
7 2 (15.38%) Use Case
7 2 (15.38%) Validation
8 1 (7.69%) Data Cleansing
8 1 (7.69%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Bicep
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) Scala
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) C#
6 1 (7.69%) LookML
6 1 (7.69%) Perl
6 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.69%) R
6 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Bloomberg
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Refinitiv
3 1 (7.69%) Sparx
3 1 (7.69%) Tealium