Data Lake Contracts in the North of England

Data Lakes
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 137 138 144
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 29 47 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.88% 0.99% 1.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.99% 6.73% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 43 58
10th Percentile £358 £395 £417
25th Percentile £402 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -16.52% +3.37%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £675
90th Percentile - £585 £700
England median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West -4 18 £497 +3.62% 90
North East +6 7 £358 -57.88% 18
Yorkshire +5 4 £438 -2.78% 69
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 6 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
3 8 (27.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
5 5 (17.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (17.24%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub
6 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (31.03%) Power BI
2 4 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (13.79%) Big Data
2 4 (13.79%) Metadata
3 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.90%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.90%) Power Query
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.45%) HBase
5 1 (3.45%) Pentaho
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) GitLab
2 5 (17.24%) ERwin
3 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics Specialist
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Data Modeller
5 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (6.90%) SAP Financial Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) PySpark
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Life Science
2 2 (6.90%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Data Modelling
2 11 (37.93%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (31.03%) Analytics
4 8 (27.59%) DevOps
5 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Data Transformation
7 5 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (17.24%) API Integration
7 5 (17.24%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
7 5 (17.24%) Customer Acquisition
7 5 (17.24%) Data Architecture
7 5 (17.24%) ERP
7 5 (17.24%) High Availability
7 5 (17.24%) Logistics
7 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
7 5 (17.24%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Resource Allocation
8 4 (13.79%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (6.90%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Master's Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) PMO
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Databricks
2 6 (20.69%) SAP
3 4 (13.79%) Ariba
4 2 (6.90%) Anaplan
4 2 (6.90%) Hyperion
4 2 (6.90%) Informatica
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Pega
5 1 (3.45%) Talend