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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 112 136
Rank change year-on-year -33 +24 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 28 70 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 1.49% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.51% 9.80% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 59 55
10th Percentile £400 £410 £413
25th Percentile £422 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £675
90th Percentile £580 £595 £700
England median daily rate £580 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -14.07% +17.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +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 621 714 786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.22% 15.18% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 491 557
10th Percentile £322 £350 £331
25th Percentile £393 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £569 £620
90th Percentile £614 £625 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 28 18
10th Percentile £21.17 £11.00 £21.35
25th Percentile £22.86 £17.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £29.90 £37.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% -5.94% +29.03%
75th Percentile £35.85 £45.10 £54.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £54.75 £63.90
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.69% -33.04% +52.12%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -23 18 £488 -0.51% 20
Yorkshire -8 9 £451 -9.90% 14
North East -4 1 - - 2
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 8 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 7 (25.00%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) AWS
4 6 (21.43%) Snowflake
5 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) GCP
8 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (3.57%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (42.86%) Power BI
2 6 (21.43%) Delta Lake
3 4 (14.29%) DataStage
4 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (10.71%) Big Data
5 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 2 (7.14%) Metadata
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.14%) Power Query
5 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
5 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.57%) SAP BW
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) GitLab
2 4 (14.29%) ERwin
3 3 (10.71%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
4 4 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (10.71%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Architect
1 5 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Modeller
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (7.14%) SAP Financial Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Life Science
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 14 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (39.29%) Analytics
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 9 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (25.00%) ETL
5 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
7 5 (17.86%) Customer Acquisition
7 5 (17.86%) High Availability
7 5 (17.86%) Logistics
7 5 (17.86%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
7 5 (17.86%) Resource Allocation
8 4 (14.29%) Data Architecture
8 4 (14.29%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Scala
3 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) PMO
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Databricks
2 6 (21.43%) Informatica
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) SAP
3 5 (17.86%) Talend
4 4 (14.29%) Ariba
5 2 (7.14%) Anaplan
5 2 (7.14%) Hyperion
6 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.57%) Veeam
6 1 (3.57%) VMware