Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Data Lakes
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.17% 0.63% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.33% 2.44% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £369 - -
25th Percentile £378 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £356 £513
Median % change year-on-year +13.06% -30.54% -
75th Percentile £423 - £519
90th Percentile £430 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £465 £356 £513
% change year-on-year +30.62% -30.54% +13.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 36 41 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 14.06% 25.63% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 14
10th Percentile £325 £296 £195
25th Percentile £390 £356 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £383 £390
Median % change year-on-year +8.68% -1.79% -22.00%
75th Percentile £447 £425 £475
90th Percentile £459 £498 £519
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -0.03% -14.98% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £11.33
25th Percentile - - £11.52
Median hourly rate - - £11.83
75th Percentile - - £17.78
90th Percentile - - £21.35
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £22.50 £17.05
% change year-on-year +5.37% +31.95% -71.58%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Northampton -15 3 £403 +13.06% 1
Data Lake
East Midlands

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Ab Initio Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) A/B Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Fintech
1 2 (66.67%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Complex ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Ab Initio
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft