Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Lakehouse
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 114 141 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 79 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.66% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 65 1 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £425 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% - -
75th Percentile £656 £415 -
90th Percentile £671 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,924 2,244 2,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.21% 87.45% 81.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,299 1,456 1,444
10th Percentile £306 £243 £255
25th Percentile £406 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £612
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 173 86
10th Percentile £13.14 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.06 £17.87 £14.78
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.39 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +4.34% -25.45%
75th Percentile £42.00 £27.21 £37.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the Midlands

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 Midlands - 69 £565 - 2
East Midlands -7 7 £625 +52.44% 7
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 25 (31.65%) SAS
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.10%) Azure
2 25 (31.65%) Power Platform
3 24 (30.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (13.92%) AWS
5 10 (12.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (10.13%) Azure Storage
7 7 (8.86%) Azure Functions
7 7 (8.86%) GCP
7 7 (8.86%) Serverless
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (5.06%) Matillion
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.53%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.27%) GitHub
11 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) PuTTY
1 5 (6.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (62.03%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (43.04%) Data Lake
3 25 (31.65%) Power BI
4 19 (24.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 17 (21.52%) Metadata
6 14 (17.72%) Base SAS
7 9 (11.39%) Delta Lake
8 8 (10.13%) NoSQL
9 6 (7.59%) Pentaho
10 5 (6.33%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
11 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (2.53%) Data Vault
14 1 (1.27%) Data Hub
14 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
14 1 (1.27%) Power Query
14 1 (1.27%) Spark SQL
14 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) GitLab
General
1 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.39%) Finance
4 9 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.59%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Marketing
7 3 (3.80%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.27%) Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Architect
1 30 (37.97%) Data Engineer
2 28 (35.44%) Data Architect
3 14 (17.72%) Senior
4 11 (13.92%) SAS Architect
4 11 (13.92%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Consultant
5 5 (6.33%) Data Manager
5 5 (6.33%) Data Warehouse Manager
6 3 (3.80%) Analyst
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.80%) Databricks Consultant
6 3 (3.80%) Databricks Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Developer
6 3 (3.80%) Lead
6 3 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) SAP Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) PySpark
2 3 (3.80%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.59%) Autonomous Agent
3 5 (6.33%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.80%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.53%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.23%) Migration
2 42 (53.16%) ETL
3 36 (45.57%) Data Modelling
4 33 (41.77%) Analytics
5 27 (34.18%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (31.65%) CI/CD
7 22 (27.85%) Data Architecture
8 21 (26.58%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (24.05%) AI
9 19 (24.05%) Decision-Making
10 17 (21.52%) Data Engineering
11 16 (20.25%) Roadmaps
11 16 (20.25%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (20.25%) Validation
12 14 (17.72%) Agile
12 14 (17.72%) Integration Patterns
13 13 (16.46%) Data Transformation
13 13 (16.46%) Test Automation
14 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (13.92%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (43.04%) SQL
2 19 (24.05%) Python
3 7 (8.86%) PL/SQL
4 6 (7.59%) Java
4 6 (7.59%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.27%) Ada
7 1 (1.27%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) R
7 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 28 (35.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (32.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
Vendors
1 37 (46.84%) Databricks
2 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (15.19%) Informatica
4 8 (10.13%) Denodo
4 8 (10.13%) Oracle
5 6 (7.59%) Talend
6 4 (5.06%) SAP
7 2 (2.53%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.27%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.27%) QAD