Data Lake Contracts in the South East

Data Lakes
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 166 151
Rank change year-on-year +32 -15 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 29 38 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.88% 0.67% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.50% 5.82% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 55
10th Percentile £340 £341 £468
25th Percentile £381 £434 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £631 £638
90th Percentile £527 £725 £758
England median daily rate £586 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -13.19% +17.39% -
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 - £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +15.71% -

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 446 653 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.56% 11.50% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 409 564
10th Percentile £287 £313 £340
25th Percentile £375 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £606 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 42
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.20 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.18 £21.16 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £43.34 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -44.62% -22.95% +150.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £72.78
90th Percentile £36.25 £78.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the South East

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the South East

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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 July 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 +23 20 £468 -6.50% 14
Berkshire +28 16 £475 -20.83% 8
Surrey +14 4 £368 -20.54% 5
West Sussex +9 4 £434 -35.70% 2
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £350 -17.65% 6
Hampshire +25 1 £450 -18.18% 2
Data Lake
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) ArcGIS
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (10.34%) Smallworld
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) Power Platform
3 7 (24.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
5 4 (13.79%) AWS
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Akamai
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
1 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
1 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Power BI
2 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.34%) GIS
3 3 (10.34%) Spatial Data
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) Metadata
4 2 (6.90%) NewSQL
4 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Tableau
5 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 10 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Billing
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Analyst
1 6 (20.69%) Data Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
2 5 (17.24%) SIEM Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) GIS Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Migration Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Platform Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Head of Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) JSON
1 5 (17.24%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Middleware
2 3 (10.34%) PostGIS
3 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Onboarding
2 5 (17.24%) CSOC
2 5 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (13.79%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (10.34%) Smart Meter
5 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (6.90%) Replication
6 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Analytics
1 10 (34.48%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
1 10 (34.48%) Migration
2 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 8 (27.59%) Data Migration
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Data Security
4 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
4 6 (20.69%) Security Operations
4 6 (20.69%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (17.24%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
5 5 (17.24%) Data Governance
5 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
5 5 (17.24%) SIEM
5 5 (17.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (72.41%) SQL
2 13 (44.83%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) R
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) Magik
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) GIAC
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (44.83%) Data Quality
2 5 (17.24%) GDPR
2 5 (17.24%) HIPAA
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) ESRI
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco
5 1 (3.45%) Dell KACE
5 1 (3.45%) Meraki
5 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.45%) Ubiquiti