Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Lakes
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 60 52
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 9 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.83% 0.22% 2.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.14% 1.11% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile - - £498
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £507
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.57%
75th Percentile - - £528
90th Percentile £626 - £561
South Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £507
% change year-on-year - - -27.57%

All Database & BI Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 175 90 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.22% 20.22% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 62 64
10th Percentile £357 £324 £411
25th Percentile £425 £380 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £543
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -15.90% -1.36%
75th Percentile £600 £548 £594
90th Percentile £675 £612 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £535
% change year-on-year +11.11% -15.89% +7.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Collibra
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
1 2 (22.22%) Spark SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Design Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Cryptography
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk