Data Lake Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data Lakes
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 127 163
Rank change year-on-year -71 +36 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 18 23 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.31% 0.77% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.61% 5.82% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 18
10th Percentile £411 £331 £290
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £653
90th Percentile £623 £600 £744
England median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.50
Median hourly rate - - £61.00
75th Percentile - - £61.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.49% +15.71%

All Database & BI Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 690 395 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.77% 13.24% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 270 371
10th Percentile £290 £325 £315
25th Percentile £394 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £624
90th Percentile £638 £676 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 10 30
10th Percentile £13.48 £23.24 £18.08
25th Percentile £26.40 £24.40 £21.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.05 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% -45.59% +7.10%
75th Percentile £52.87 £49.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 £80.45
England median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.33% -19.88% -30.43%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Lake

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Lake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Thames Valley -50 11 £425 -11.83% 6
Buckinghamshire -32 5 £425 +21.43% 2
Berkshire -34 5 £485 -2.22% 4
Surrey -14 4 £425 +15.65% 1
Oxfordshire -22 1 £750 +7.14%
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (11.11%) SAS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Functions
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 4 (22.22%) AWS
5 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) GitHub
6 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
6 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (33.33%) Power BI
3 5 (27.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 3 (16.67%) Metadata
5 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (11.11%) Big Data
6 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (5.56%) Pentaho
7 1 (5.56%) PowerPivot
7 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SAS Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SAS Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) PySpark
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) XML
2 2 (11.11%) YAML
3 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Wiki
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) EPoS
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) ETL
2 12 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 10 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 7 (38.89%) Data Engineering
5 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (33.33%) Agile
6 6 (33.33%) Analytics
6 6 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 6 (33.33%) DevOps
7 5 (27.78%) Data Transformation
7 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
8 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
8 4 (22.22%) Data Management
8 4 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
9 3 (16.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 4 (22.22%) T-SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Bicep
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Scala
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Databricks
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Informatica
4 2 (11.11%) Ab Initio
5 1 (5.56%) Denodo
5 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle