Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Data Lakes
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 1.44% 1.16% 4.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.12% 4.88% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £442 - -
25th Percentile £443 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £450
75th Percentile £447 - £468
90th Percentile £447 - £473
Northamptonshire median daily rate £445 - £450

All Database & BI Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 49 41 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 23.44% 23.70% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 36 36
10th Percentile £347 £276 £356
25th Percentile £375 £337 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £372 £412
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -9.78% +2.94%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £459
90th Percentile £575 £515 £503
Northamptonshire median daily rate £410 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +9.33% -6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - - £14.00

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Northampton

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Repository
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks