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 citing Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	197	149	145
Rank change year-on-year	-48	-4	+22
Contract jobs citing Data Lake	38	24	34
As % of all contract jobs in the South East	0.56%	0.63%	0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	5.62%	4.74%	5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted	29	16	23
10^th Percentile	£395	£375	£420
25^th Percentile	£400	£405	£469
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£431	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+21.74%	-17.86%	-8.70%
75^th Percentile	£600	£478	£588
90^th Percentile	£609	£544	£648
England median daily rate	£550	£600	£675
% change year-on-year	-8.33%	-11.11%	+20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£86.25	-	-
Median hourly rate	£87.50	-	-
75^th Percentile	£88.75	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	£35.45	-	-

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

	6 months to 4 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	676	506	602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East	9.99%	13.21%	14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	433	378	394
10^th Percentile	£321	£205	£239
25^th Percentile	£413	£329	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£450	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+11.11%	-10.00%	-6.54%
75^th Percentile	£600	£550	£625
90^th Percentile	£652	£638	£660
England median daily rate	£515	£505	£550
% change year-on-year	+1.98%	-8.18%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	60	4	19
10^th Percentile	£14.09	-	£22.07
25^th Percentile	£22.50	£13.25	£30.00
Median hourly rate	£29.07	£18.75	£48.18
Median % change year-on-year	+55.04%	-61.08%	-2.67%
75^th Percentile	£55.00	£40.90	£61.60
90^th Percentile	£83.78	£70.41	£64.73
England median hourly rate	£40.61	£43.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-6.66%	+24.29%	-26.62%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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 4 November 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.

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 4 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Thames Valley	-35	13	£400	-11.11%	5
Hampshire	-20	9	£600	+17.07%	1
Buckinghamshire	-24	9	£400	-5.88%	4
Surrey	-12	7	£525	+23.53%
West Sussex	-16	7	£438	+9.38%
Berkshire	-30	4	£375	-19.79%	1
Middlesex	-	1	-	-
Home Counties	-	1	-	-
Data Lake England

Data Lake Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Lake also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region citing Data Lake.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	60.5%	23
2	Analytics	55.3%	21
2	SQL	55.3%	21
4	ETL	52.6%	20
5	Power Platform	44.7%	17
6	Business Intelligence	42.1%	16
6	Databricks	42.1%	16
8	AI	39.5%	15
8	Data Modelling	39.5%	15
10	Microsoft	36.8%	14
10	Power BI	36.8%	14
12	Agile	31.6%	12
12	Python	31.6%	12
14	Data Integration	28.9%	11
14	Security Cleared	28.9%	11
16	AWS	26.3%	10
16	Data Quality	26.3%	10
18	Azure Data Factory	23.7%	9
18	Data Engineering	23.7%	9
18	Data Pipeline	23.7%	9
21	SC Cleared	21.1%	8
21	Serverless	21.1%	8
23	Amazon Redshift	18.4%	7
23	Dimensional Modelling	18.4%	7
23	GCP	18.4%	7
23	JavaScript	18.4%	7
23	Machine Learning	18.4%	7
23	Scrum	18.4%	7
23	System Testing	18.4%	7
30	Amazon Kinesis	15.8%	6

Data Lake Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Power BI	36.8%	14
2	Amazon Redshift	18.4%	7
3	Data Warehouse	15.8%	6
4	Amazon Athena	13.2%	5
4	Amazon RDS	13.2%	5
4	Data Mining	13.2%	5
4	SQL Server	13.2%	5
4	SQL Server Integration Services	13.2%	5
9	Apache Cassandra	10.5%	4
9	Azure SQL Database	10.5%	4
9	Couchbase	10.5%	4
9	MySQL	10.5%	4
13	Big Data	5.3%	2
13	Geospatial Data	5.3%	2
13	Metadata	5.3%	2
13	Neo4j	5.3%	2
17	Azure SQL Data Warehouse	2.6%	1
17	BigQuery	2.6%	1
17	Data Mart	2.6%	1
17	Db2	2.6%	1