Data Lake Contracts in the North of England

Data Lakes
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 146 160
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 47 74 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.99% 1.27% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.00% 8.67% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 56 47
10th Percentile £400 £416 £426
25th Percentile £416 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £678 £688
90th Percentile £585 £700 £775
England median daily rate £550 £573 £588
% change year-on-year -3.93% -2.55% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 671 854 1,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.14% 14.60% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 617 970
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 44
10th Percentile £11.50 £35.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.44 £39.90 £17.44
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.29 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% +91.40% +17.05%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £50.18
90th Percentile - £65.10 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £40.62
% change year-on-year -31.52% +44.26% +63.64%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
North West +7 39 £490 -18.33% 17
Yorkshire +12 7 £450 -32.58% 6
North East +17 1 £850 +61.90%
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (10.64%) SAS
2 4 (8.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) Snowflake
3 15 (31.91%) Power Platform
4 14 (29.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (25.53%) AWS
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (10.64%) Collibra
7 5 (10.64%) Power Automate
8 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (8.51%) Serverless
9 3 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (6.38%) GCP
10 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (44.68%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (31.91%) Power BI
3 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
4 6 (12.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (12.77%) DynamoDB
4 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
5 5 (10.64%) Ataccama
5 5 (10.64%) Big Data
5 5 (10.64%) Data Mining
5 5 (10.64%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.38%) MySQL
6 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (4.26%) Apache Hive
7 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.26%) Metadata
7 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.26%) Spark SQL
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) SonarQube
3 5 (10.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (25.53%) Pharmaceutical
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) French Language
5 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Azure Data Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Data Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Data Quality Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) QA Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Senior QA Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Data Modeller
6 4 (8.51%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Data Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) PySpark
2 2 (4.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
1 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.38%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) NHS
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.13%) Solar Power
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Data Modelling
2 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (36.17%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (34.04%) ETL
5 13 (27.66%) Analytics
5 13 (27.66%) Data Engineering
6 12 (25.53%) Data Architecture
7 10 (21.28%) Data Integration
7 10 (21.28%) DevOps
7 10 (21.28%) Visualisation
8 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
8 9 (19.15%) Data Analysis
8 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
8 9 (19.15%) Data Management
9 8 (17.02%) Data Cleansing
9 8 (17.02%) Data Security
9 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (14.89%) Data Science
11 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (65.96%) SQL
2 23 (48.94%) Python
3 6 (12.77%) Bash
3 6 (12.77%) Go
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) R
5 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.13%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (21.28%) QA
3 3 (6.38%) ISO 22301
3 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) Ansible
2 6 (12.77%) HP Fortify
2 6 (12.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Databricks
2 8 (17.02%) SAP
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.77%) Splunk
5 5 (10.64%) Alteryx
5 5 (10.64%) Dataiku
5 5 (10.64%) Trillium
6 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.13%) Anaplan
7 1 (2.13%) Facebook
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.13%) Twitter