Data Lake Contracts in the North West

Data Lakes
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 102 98 102
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 18 39 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 1.42% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.33% 9.33% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 40
10th Percentile £401 £396 £413
25th Percentile £441 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £480 £619
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -22.42% +8.79%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £675
90th Percentile £640 £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
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 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the North West

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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 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
Manchester +2 9 £475 -1.04% 45
Cheshire -4 8 £580 +16.00% 25
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 6 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 6 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (33.33%) Power BI
3 4 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (16.67%) Big Data
4 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
5 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 2 (11.11%) Metadata
5 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (5.56%) Pentaho
6 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.56%) SAP BW
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) ERwin
1 5 (27.78%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
3 4 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Data Modeller
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Financial Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Life Science
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Data Modelling
2 7 (38.89%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (27.78%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
4 5 (27.78%) Customer Acquisition
4 5 (27.78%) High Availability
4 5 (27.78%) Logistics
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (27.78%) Process Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) Resource Allocation
5 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Inmon Methodology
5 4 (22.22%) Inventory Management
6 3 (16.67%) Community of Practice
6 3 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 3 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
6 3 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (16.67%) PMO
3 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Databricks
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (22.22%) Ariba
3 2 (11.11%) Anaplan
3 2 (11.11%) Hyperion
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Hitachi
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Pega
4 1 (5.56%) Talend