Data Lake Contracts in the North East

Data Lakes
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 31 37 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 7 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.19% 0.30% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.07% 2.44% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - £825 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £850 £525
Median % change year-on-year -57.88% +61.90% -0.94%
75th Percentile £374 £875 £600
90th Percentile £384 - £660
England median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 41 41 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.81% 12.13% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 63
10th Percentile £358 £404 £414
25th Percentile £400 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £476 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -17.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £700
90th Percentile £665 £678 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear - 7 £358 - 3
Data Lake
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (28.57%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) API Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Transformation
2 5 (71.43%) ERP
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Development
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks