Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Data Lakehouse
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 87 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.45% 0.098% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £639 £613 -
90th Percentile £691 - -
North West median daily rate £563 £575 -
% change year-on-year -2.17% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,677 907 1,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.81% 89.18% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 580 649
10th Percentile £306 £304 £331
25th Percentile £403 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £576 £600
90th Percentile £700 £664 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 62 44
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.20 £15.94
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.07 £21.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.63 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.95% -33.44% +74.36%
75th Percentile £75.00 £54.38 £59.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £73.60
North West median hourly rate £45.25 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +79.92% -37.63% +15.21%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Manchester

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in Manchester

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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%) SAS
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) dbt
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 3 (33.33%) Looker
1 3 (33.33%) Semantic Layer
1 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Data Vault
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Data Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PySpark
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Data Engineering
1 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
1 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
3 5 (55.56%) Data Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 3 (33.33%) DataOps
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (33.33%) Refactoring
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft