Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Lakehouse
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 94 74 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.30% 0.34% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £483 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% - -
75th Percentile £488 £513 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £538 -
% change year-on-year -9.77% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 855 553 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 84.49% 94.85% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 363 189
10th Percentile £363 £291 £381
25th Percentile £432 £370 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £466 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.98% -10.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £594
90th Percentile £681 £613 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £463 £520
% change year-on-year +8.38% -11.06% -11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £14.77 £15.88
25th Percentile - £15.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £13.69 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.80% -13.31% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £18.87 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.60 £18.21 £12.83
% change year-on-year +13.16% +41.89% -36.64%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Lakehouse
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks