Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Data Lakes
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.64% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £457 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £444 £400
% change year-on-year +15.49% +10.94% -33.33%

All Database & BI Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 182 27 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 28.98% 21.09% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 18 21
10th Percentile £358 £435 £335
25th Percentile £412 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £493 £358
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +37.71% -33.46%
75th Percentile £515 £512 £450
90th Percentile £564 £516 £503
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +60.40%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Shropshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Shropshire

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Telford - 4 £570 - 2
Data Lake
West Midlands

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (100.00%) SAS
2 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) Pentaho
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Denodo
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (50.00%) Informatica
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle