Data Lake Contracts in the Midlands

Data Lakes
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 111 126
Rank change year-on-year +16 +15 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 16 22 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.80% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.65% 5.29% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 35
10th Percentile £390 £263 £411
25th Percentile £400 £357 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £476 £622 £619
90th Percentile £500 £706 £654
England median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

Data Lake 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 Midlands +16 14 £438 +9.38% 23
East Midlands +2 2 - - 14
Data Lake
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
3 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 4 (25.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (18.75%) Big Data
3 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 2 (12.50%) Flink
4 2 (12.50%) Parquet
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (6.25%) Metadata
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) ERwin
2 1 (6.25%) ER Studio
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Junior
3 4 (25.00%) Junior Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modeller
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Scala Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Information Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Middleware
1 4 (25.00%) PySpark
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) FHIR
4 1 (6.25%) NumPy
4 1 (6.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (43.75%) ERP
3 6 (37.50%) Data Integration
3 6 (37.50%) ETL
3 6 (37.50%) Migration
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Data Extraction
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) B2B
5 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) Interface Catalogue
5 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (12.50%) R
4 1 (6.25%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) SAP