Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Data Lakehouse
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset 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 55 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.66% 0.56% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £516 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £425 -
% change year-on-year +23.53% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 337 163 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 74.39% 91.06% 71.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 95 89
10th Percentile £295 £186 £200
25th Percentile £413 £263 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £743 £678
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 25 10
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.06 -
25th Percentile £48.88 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £18.51 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +236.30% +15.69% -69.17%
75th Percentile £90.63 £63.75 £41.88
90th Percentile £100.00 - £61.88
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +5.23%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in Somerset

Lakehouse
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the Somerset 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
Bath - 2 £525 -
Bridgwater - 1 £425 -
Lakehouse
South West

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) QA Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft