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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 146 178
Rank change year-on-year -27 +32 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 16 29 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.38% 0.73% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.07% 5.01% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 27
10th Percentile £400 £461 £463
25th Percentile £413 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% -8.75% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £638
90th Percentile £690 £700 £668
England median daily rate £600 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +71.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 522 579 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.31% 14.62% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 381 525
10th Percentile £205 £258 £305
25th Percentile £350 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £630
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 37
10th Percentile £30.10 £22.09 £21.00
25th Percentile - £41.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +125.63%
75th Percentile £52.58 £63.53 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.09 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%

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

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -15 11 £456 -20.65% 17
Berkshire -10 7 £538 -6.52% 10
Buckinghamshire +2 3 £425 -21.66% 4
Surrey +1 3 £425 - 2
Hampshire -5 2 £513 +10.81% 5
Oxfordshire -13 1 £750 +7.14% 4
Data Lake
England

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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 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (18.75%) OCI
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (12.50%) Metadata
4 2 (12.50%) Power BI
4 2 (12.50%) Tableau
5 1 (6.25%) Data Vault
5 1 (6.25%) MySQL
5 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) MLflow
2 1 (6.25%) Poetry
2 1 (6.25%) Pylint
2 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Lead
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Specialist
1 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Head of Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) Head of Data Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) PyTorch
1 5 (31.25%) TensorFlow
2 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (18.75%) REST
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
5 1 (6.25%) PySpark
5 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Analytics
1 8 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Data Integration
3 6 (37.50%) ETL
4 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
4 5 (31.25%) MLOps
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Data Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) DataOps
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) R
4 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Kubeflow
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Databricks
1 3 (18.75%) Google
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) SAP