Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the North West

Data Lakehouse
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 171 126 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.30% 0.045% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £469 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -
75th Percentile £649 £613 -
90th Percentile £694 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,279 1,962 2,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.97% 88.70% 84.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,912 1,278 1,226
10th Percentile £290 £300 £311
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £680 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 131 136
10th Percentile £16.26 £13.50 £10.98
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.44 £19.80
Median hourly rate £45.25 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +79.92% -37.63% +15.21%
75th Percentile £72.75 £52.50 £54.45
90th Percentile £84.38 £72.50 £70.90
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 West

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the North West

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the North West

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the North West 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
Manchester -26 9 £500 -13.04% 11
Merseyside - 2 £603 - 2
Cheshire - 1 £600 - 2
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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 2 (16.67%) SAS
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (33.33%) dbt
3 3 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (8.33%) Fivetran
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 3 (25.00%) Looker
2 3 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
2 3 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Metadata
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Claude Code
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
1 7 (58.33%) Data Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DataOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) PySpark
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 8 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 8 (66.67%) Migration
2 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 6 (50.00%) Data Architecture
4 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) AI
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (25.00%) DataOps
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (25.00%) Refactoring
6 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Informatica
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Teradata