Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Lakehouse
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 181 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 38 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.50% 0.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 28 3 0
10th Percentile £407 £378 -
25th Percentile £453 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% - -
75th Percentile £553 £644 -
90th Percentile £694 £663 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,314 3,577 3,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.20% 89.05% 84.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,727 2,308 2,082
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £405 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 206 208
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.10 £11.66
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.44 £15.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -29.28% +15.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £51.22
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.98 £69.05
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the North of England

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 August 2026. 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
Yorkshire -32 21 £460 -14.42% 6
North West -45 12 £563 -2.17% 15
North East - 5 £520 - 3
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.26%) SAS
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 29 (76.32%) Azure
2 21 (55.26%) Power Platform
3 11 (28.95%) AWS
4 6 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.53%) dbt
6 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) SaaS
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Storage
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.63%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) Power BI
2 8 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (21.05%) Metadata
3 7 (18.42%) Semantic Layer
4 5 (13.16%) Data Lake
4 5 (13.16%) Delta Lake
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (7.89%) Data Vault
6 3 (7.89%) Looker
6 3 (7.89%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (7.89%) Star Schema
6 3 (7.89%) Tableau
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.63%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Claude Code
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) MLflow
2 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Lead
2 9 (23.68%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Data Architect
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Databricks Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) DataOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.63%) Head of Architecture
7 1 (2.63%) Head of Data Architecture
7 1 (2.63%) Head of Digital
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) PySpark
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.26%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) Data Modelling
2 26 (68.42%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (63.16%) Analytics
3 24 (63.16%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (60.53%) Data Engineering
5 19 (50.00%) Migration
6 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
7 15 (39.47%) Data Transformation
7 15 (39.47%) ETL
8 11 (28.95%) Data Architecture
9 10 (26.32%) Data Migration
9 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
9 10 (26.32%) Validation
10 8 (21.05%) Data Governance
10 8 (21.05%) Data Integration
11 7 (18.42%) AI
11 7 (18.42%) Decision-Making
11 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) SQL
2 12 (31.58%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (2.63%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (63.16%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.53%) QA
3 3 (7.89%) GDPR
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 16 (42.11%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) Informatica
3 2 (5.26%) Remedy
4 1 (2.63%) Teradata