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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 130 167
Rank change year-on-year -77 +37 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 17 29 38
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.88% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.29% 6.50% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 27
10th Percentile £363 £340 £341
25th Percentile £416 £381 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £556 £488 £631
90th Percentile £588 £527 £725
England median daily rate £575 £586 £675
% change year-on-year -1.88% -13.19% +17.39%

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 741 446 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.57% 13.54% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 305 409
10th Percentile £306 £287 £313
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £606
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 11 34
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £24.62 £22.18 £21.16
Median hourly rate £36.71 £24.00 £43.34
Median % change year-on-year +52.96% -44.62% -22.95%
75th Percentile £51.27 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.25 £78.50
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.69% -34.29%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -52 8 £425 -9.09% 4
Berkshire -42 5 £463 -2.63%
West Sussex -20 4 £450 +3.69% 1
Buckinghamshire -35 3 £425 +21.43% 3
Surrey -24 1 £475 +29.25% 2
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
Middlesex - 1 - - 2
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 (11.76%) SAS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Power Platform
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Power BI
2 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (23.53%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (23.53%) Big Data
4 4 (23.53%) Couchbase
4 4 (23.53%) MySQL
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
5 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
7 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 4 (23.53%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Data Engineer
1 7 (41.18%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Java Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Report Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SAS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) CSS
1 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
1 4 (23.53%) HTML
1 4 (23.53%) JPA
1 4 (23.53%) jQuery
1 4 (23.53%) Spring
1 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
1 4 (23.53%) Spring MVC
2 3 (17.65%) PySpark
3 2 (11.76%) JSON
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) YAML
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Wiki
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) EPoS
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) ETL
2 8 (47.06%) AI
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (41.18%) Analytics
3 7 (41.18%) Data Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
5 5 (29.41%) Microservices
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
6 4 (23.53%) Data Management
6 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Digital Banking
6 4 (23.53%) Inversion of Control
6 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
6 4 (23.53%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
5 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
5 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
6 2 (11.76%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) Bicep
6 2 (11.76%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (11.76%) Scala
6 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (23.53%) QA
3 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (5.88%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Denodo
4 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.88%) Guidewire
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica