Delta Lake Contract Job Trends in the North West

Delta Lake
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.14% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.81% 0.97% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £472 -
25th Percentile - £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
75th Percentile £350 £619 -
90th Percentile £440 £683 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £725
% change year-on-year -12.50% -17.24% +4.69%

All Database & BI Skills
North West

Delta 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 370 310 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.82% 14.36% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 205 306
10th Percentile £313 £322 £306
25th Percentile £363 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £516
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -7.99% +3.25%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £617
90th Percentile £600 £673 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £57.95 £22.72 £41.74
25th Percentile £60.40 £23.87 £46.18
Median hourly rate £69.38 £25.43 £49.34
Median % change year-on-year +172.83% -48.46% -24.09%
75th Percentile £82.38 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.43 £64.00
England median hourly rate £54.85 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +40.64% -17.89% -13.64%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Delta Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in the North West

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Delta Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Delta Lake

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the North West

Delta 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 Delta Lake within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 -16 3 £200 -60.00% 4
Delta Lake
England

Delta Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks