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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.18% 1.05% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.36% 4.76% 11.29%
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
East Midlands median daily rate £549 £400 £459
% change year-on-year +37.25% -12.81% +1.94%

All Database & BI 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 56 42 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 22.05% 21.99% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 37 50
10th Percentile £353 £277 £308
25th Percentile £375 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £445
90th Percentile £585 £510 £491
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £427 £400
% change year-on-year +8.31% +6.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £21.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +12.89% +50.00% -40.17%

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 26 May 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
Northampton -9 3 £445 - 2
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 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