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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 110 124
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 15 20 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 0.75% 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.73% 4.75% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 32
10th Percentile £374 £263 £410
25th Percentile £393 £346 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -11.75% -
75th Percentile £463 £666 £638
90th Percentile £510 £714 £656
England median daily rate £625 £585 £575
% change year-on-year +6.84% +1.74% -4.17%
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 317 421 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.93% 15.69% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 311 381
10th Percentile £284 £288 £313
25th Percentile £391 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -13.79% +6.59%
75th Percentile £550 £554 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.04
25th Percentile £17.60 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £18.74 £14.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.86% -44.55% -27.86%
75th Percentile £21.25 £27.49 £26.48
90th Percentile £29.38 £40.50 £31.64
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.25 £58.59
% change year-on-year -20.37% -31.30% +30.20%

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

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 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 16 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 +11 12 £438 +9.38% 19
East Midlands +4 3 £400 -21.95% 5
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
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 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Flink
3 2 (13.33%) Parquet
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) ERwin
2 1 (6.67%) ER Studio
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Junior
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modeller
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Scala Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Information Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) PySpark
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) ERP
3 5 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Data Extraction
4 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Data Transformation
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) B2B
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) Interface Catalogue
5 3 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) SAP