Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Lakehouse
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.90% - 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -10.46% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 195 219 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 87.44% 90.87% 74.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 102 62
10th Percentile £252 £251 £148
25th Percentile £363 £325 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.15% +3.13%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £569
90th Percentile £694 £625 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 53 17
10th Percentile £14.50 £12.85 £17.61
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.78 £21.19
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -28.45% +79.64%
75th Percentile - £25.15 -
90th Percentile £44.50 - £40.25
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

Lakehouse
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
County Antrim - 2 - - 7
Lakehouse
UK

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Query
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft