Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Lakes
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.78% 4.21% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.57% 25.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £431 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £469 £585 -
90th Percentile £480 £600 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 £390 -
% change year-on-year +18.59% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 35 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.04% 16.36% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 16
10th Percentile £368 £358 £385
25th Percentile £413 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £407
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +35.14% -27.64%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £498
90th Percentile £638 £739 £570
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £513 £412
% change year-on-year -7.32% +24.39% -26.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £36.00 - -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lineage
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks