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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 325 357
Rank change year-on-year -66 +32 +98
Contract jobs citing Parquet 24 17 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.72% 0.63% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 29
10th Percentile £361 - £411
25th Percentile £446 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £563
90th Percentile £583 £595 £608
England median daily rate £520 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -16.67%
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 3,334 2,713 3,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.05% 22.13% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 1,896 2,877
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.18% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
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 26 31 33
10th Percentile £17.94 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.67 £25.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £35.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -27.84% -7.62%
75th Percentile £61.19 £54.38 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.50 £77.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £39.75 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +24.82% -20.39% -33.33%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 - 5 £520 -
Central London -16 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 2 (8.33%) 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 10 (41.67%) AWS
1 10 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (29.17%) GitHub
4 6 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
5 5 (20.83%) Collibra
6 4 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (12.50%) Serverless
8 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
8 2 (8.33%) dbt
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) Delta Lake
2 10 (41.67%) Power BI
3 8 (33.33%) Metadata
4 6 (25.00%) BigQuery
5 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
5 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
5 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
6 4 (16.67%) Apache Hive
6 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (16.67%) Flink
6 4 (16.67%) Power Query
6 4 (16.67%) PowerPivot
7 3 (12.50%) Spark SQL
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.17%) ERwin
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) 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 11 (45.83%) Data Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Product Owner
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Data Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Technical Product Owner
4 4 (16.67%) GCP Data Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Architect
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Tester
6 2 (8.33%) Tester
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) BigQuery Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Modeller
7 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) PySpark
2 5 (20.83%) Apache Avro
2 5 (20.83%) JSON
3 4 (16.67%) Apache Beam
3 4 (16.67%) Pandas
3 4 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
4 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Clustering
5 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) DevOps
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 16 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 16 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (66.67%) ETL
3 13 (54.17%) Decision-Making
4 11 (45.83%) Analytics
4 11 (45.83%) Data Engineering
5 10 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (33.33%) Agile
8 7 (29.17%) AI
8 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (25.00%) Metadata Management
10 5 (20.83%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 5 (20.83%) Epics
10 5 (20.83%) Observability
10 5 (20.83%) Product Backlog
10 5 (20.83%) Technical Debt
10 5 (20.83%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Python
2 18 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Scala
4 4 (16.67%) Bicep
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%) 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 13 (54.17%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Databricks
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (8.33%) Foundry
4 2 (8.33%) Palantir
5 1 (4.17%) Sparx