Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Lakehouse
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 130 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.062% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.069% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £542 - -
25th Percentile £551 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 - -
75th Percentile £589 - -
90th Percentile £596 - -
UK median daily rate £532 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.33% +4.35% -5.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,922 1,458 1,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.78% 91.07% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 798 985
10th Percentile £263 £263 £213
25th Percentile £375 £368 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 97 44
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.75 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £13.60
Median hourly rate £17.36 £20.00 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +7.02% +5.46%
75th Percentile £38.75 £25.15 £26.94
90th Percentile £71.60 £34.00 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Scotland

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +1 7 £573 - 2
Glasgow - 1 - - 8
Lakehouse
UK

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Power Query
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Report Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks