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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 143 156
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 23 37 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.67% 0.81% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.13% 6.11% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 46
10th Percentile £375 £413 £475
25th Percentile £409 £463 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £488 £644 £638
90th Percentile £588 £707 £721
England median daily rate £600 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.43% -
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 - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 448 606 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.01% 13.27% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 402 527
10th Percentile £205 £301 £317
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.83% +8.50%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 46
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.24 £21.05
25th Percentile £18.38 £30.00 £31.12
Median hourly rate £32.05 £51.59 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% -1.26% +134.83%
75th Percentile £34.15 £61.60 £69.69
90th Percentile £43.25 £61.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.85% -34.09% +22.66%

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

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Berkshire +13 14 £475 -20.83% 12
Thames Valley +1 14 £475 -15.56% 17
Surrey +5 4 £488 +11.43% 2
Hampshire +11 3 £450 -10.00% 3
West Sussex -1 2 £400 -40.74%
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
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 (13.04%) ArcGIS
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (13.04%) Smallworld
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
5 4 (17.39%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (17.39%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) AWS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Akamai
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) GIS
2 3 (13.04%) Spatial Data
3 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.70%) Tableau
4 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) MLflow
2 1 (4.35%) Poetry
2 1 (4.35%) Pylint
2 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
3 1 (4.35%) Billing
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
1 5 (21.74%) Data Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) GIS Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Head of Analytics
3 2 (8.70%) Head of Data Analytics
3 2 (8.70%) Migration Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Excel Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) GIS Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) PyTorch
1 5 (21.74%) TensorFlow
2 4 (17.39%) scikit-learn
3 3 (13.04%) Middleware
3 3 (13.04%) PostGIS
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
5 1 (4.35%) 802.1X
5 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.35%) PySpark
5 1 (4.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
1 3 (13.04%) Smart Meter
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
2 8 (34.78%) Analytics
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) Data Engineering
3 7 (30.43%) Data Migration
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
5 5 (21.74%) MLOps
6 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
6 4 (17.39%) Data Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Open Source
6 4 (17.39%) Validation
7 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) SQL
2 12 (52.17%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) R
4 3 (13.04%) Magik
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) GRC
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Databricks
1 3 (13.04%) ESRI
1 3 (13.04%) Google
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Dell KACE
2 1 (4.35%) Meraki
2 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
2 1 (4.35%) Ubiquiti