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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 360 372
Rank change year-on-year -55 +12 +68
Contract jobs citing Parquet 32 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.097% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.87% 0.46% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 4 14
10th Percentile £416 £473 £425
25th Percentile £500 £506 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £609
90th Percentile £645 £645 £646
England median daily rate £520 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +12.43% -15.91% -15.38%
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 £81.88 -
90th Percentile - £98.75 -
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 3,672 2,827 3,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.17% 21.11% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 1,961 2,724
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £39.00 £40.49 £33.93
% change year-on-year -3.68% +19.33% -38.31%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 - 10 £520 - 1
Central London -20 2 £830 +50.91% 3
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 7 (21.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.38%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (6.25%) PowerExchange
4 1 (3.13%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) AWS
2 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) Collibra
3 9 (28.13%) Power Platform
4 8 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (21.88%) Amazon S3
5 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (21.88%) GCP
6 5 (15.63%) GitHub
7 4 (12.50%) AWS KMS
7 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (12.50%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (12.50%) Serverless
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (9.38%) dbt
8 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
9 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 13 (40.63%) Metadata
3 9 (28.13%) Power BI
4 7 (21.88%) BigQuery
4 7 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
6 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
6 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
7 4 (12.50%) Apache Hive
7 4 (12.50%) Data Lake
7 4 (12.50%) Flink
7 4 (12.50%) Power Query
7 4 (12.50%) PowerPivot
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (9.38%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (9.38%) Spark SQL
9 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (6.25%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 13 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Product Owner
1 10 (31.25%) Technical Product Owner
2 8 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Architect
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Product Owner
5 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) JSON
2 11 (34.38%) Terraform
3 9 (28.13%) Apache Avro
3 9 (28.13%) PySpark
4 4 (12.50%) Apache Beam
5 3 (9.38%) Kafka
6 2 (6.25%) XML
7 1 (3.13%) .NET
7 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
7 1 (3.13%) REST
7 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
7 1 (3.13%) SOAP
7 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Distributed Computing
1 11 (34.38%) Product Ownership
2 9 (28.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Data Fabric
3 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Data Modelling
1 23 (71.88%) ETL
2 22 (68.75%) DevOps
3 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
4 20 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (53.13%) Data Governance
6 16 (50.00%) Data Engineering
7 15 (46.88%) Agile
7 15 (46.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (40.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (37.50%) Observability
9 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (34.38%) Decision-Making
10 11 (34.38%) Metadata Management
11 10 (31.25%) Roadmaps
12 9 (28.13%) User Stories
12 9 (28.13%) Visualisation
13 8 (25.00%) Analytics
14 7 (21.88%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 29 (90.63%) SQL
2 28 (87.50%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) Java
3 5 (15.63%) Scala
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.25%) R
5 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (56.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GRC
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Control-M
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Foundry
3 3 (9.38%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) Palantir
4 2 (6.25%) Informatica
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle