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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 140 152
Rank change year-on-year -70 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 16 29 38
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.83% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% 6.09% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 25
10th Percentile £364 £359 £324
25th Percentile £394 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £488 £588
90th Percentile £631 £527 £702
England median daily rate £575 £580 £700
% change year-on-year -0.86% -17.14% +21.74%

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 791 476 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.84% 13.60% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 331 395
10th Percentile £313 £222 £290
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -6.54%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £614
90th Percentile £650 £638 £660
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 11 22
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £27.75 £22.18 £30.00
Median hourly rate £37.69 £24.00 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -53.48% -6.20%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.25 £62.83
England median hourly rate £38.38 £34.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +11.23% -8.00% -31.82%

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

Data Lake
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

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the South East

Data Lake
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 6 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
Thames Valley -59 8 £400 -15.79% 7
Berkshire -40 5 £375 -21.05% 4
West Sussex -21 4 £450 +3.69% 2
Buckinghamshire -38 3 £413 +32.00% 3
Surrey -28 1 £475 +19.87%
Hampshire -41 1 £758 +68.33% 1
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
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 (12.50%) SAS
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) GCP
4 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
7 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Power BI
2 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (25.00%) Big Data
4 4 (25.00%) Couchbase
4 4 (25.00%) MySQL
5 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
5 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (12.50%) PowerPivot
6 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
7 1 (6.25%) Db2
7 1 (6.25%) Metadata
7 1 (6.25%) Pentaho
7 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Java Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SAS Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
1 4 (25.00%) JPA
1 4 (25.00%) jQuery
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (6.25%) PostGIS
4 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Analytics
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) AI
2 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (50.00%) ETL
3 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Data Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
5 4 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (25.00%) System Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) QRadar
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Databricks
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Denodo
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) Guidewire
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk