Data Lake Contracts in the North West

Data Lakes
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 98 147
Rank change year-on-year 0 +49 -43
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 39 55 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.41% 1.71% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.42% 10.72% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 26
10th Percentile £396 £413 £384
25th Percentile £413 £459 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £619 £569
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% +8.79% +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £716
90th Percentile £585 £700 £775
England median daily rate £568 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -0.87% -0.43% +9.52%
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 West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 414 513 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.98% 15.97% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 376 569
10th Percentile £350 £338 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £583 £586 £588
90th Percentile £636 £667 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 37
10th Percentile £26.85 £35.00 £13.09
25th Percentile £39.44 £39.70 £16.23
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.29 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +52.53% +32.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.30 £61.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +14 24 £480 -12.73% 15
Cheshire +12 12 £500 +11.11% 1
Lancashire -1 1 £600 +11.63%
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.82%) SAS
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) Snowflake
2 13 (33.33%) Azure
3 11 (28.21%) Power Platform
4 9 (23.08%) AWS
5 8 (20.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
7 5 (12.82%) Collibra
7 5 (12.82%) Power Automate
8 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (10.26%) Serverless
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (28.21%) Power BI
3 6 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 5 (12.82%) Ataccama
4 5 (12.82%) Data Mining
4 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
4 5 (12.82%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (7.69%) Big Data
6 3 (7.69%) MySQL
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.13%) Metadata
7 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
1 6 (15.38%) SonarQube
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (30.77%) Pharmaceutical
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) French Language
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Data Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Analyst
2 8 (20.51%) Data Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Data Quality Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) QA Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Data Modeller
4 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Senior QA Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Senior Quality Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (35.90%) ETL
4 13 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (28.21%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (25.64%) Analytics
6 10 (25.64%) Data Architecture
6 10 (25.64%) Data Governance
6 10 (25.64%) Visualisation
7 9 (23.08%) Data Integration
7 9 (23.08%) Data Management
8 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (17.95%) Data Analysis
9 7 (17.95%) Data Engineering
10 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 6 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
10 6 (15.38%) Data Security
10 6 (15.38%) DevOps
10 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) SQL
2 18 (46.15%) Python
3 6 (15.38%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (5.13%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) R
5 1 (2.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) Data Quality
1 10 (25.64%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) ISO 22301
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
1 6 (15.38%) HP Fortify
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Databricks
2 8 (20.51%) SAP
3 6 (15.38%) Splunk
4 5 (12.82%) Alteryx
4 5 (12.82%) Dataiku
4 5 (12.82%) Trillium
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.56%) Anaplan
6 1 (2.56%) Facebook
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.56%) Twitter