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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 175 178
Rank change year-on-year +44 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 28 30 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 0.54% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.81% 4.93% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 36
10th Percentile £342 £290 £468
25th Percentile £458 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £543 £631 £613
90th Percentile £573 £744 £746
England median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +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 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +54 23 £505 -6.05% 20
Berkshire +39 14 £500 -25.93% 13
Buckinghamshire +16 6 £400 -15.79% 3
Surrey +14 3 £368 -23.64% 7
Oxfordshire - 3 £700 - 6
West Sussex +12 2 £469 -30.52% 4
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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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (17.86%) GCP
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.57%) Akamai
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
1 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
1 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (28.57%) Big Data
3 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
4 4 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.71%) Metadata
5 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 3 (10.71%) Power BI
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (7.14%) NewSQL
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Billing
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) SIEM Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Data Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 2 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) JSON
1 6 (21.43%) REST
2 4 (14.29%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 6 (21.43%) CSOC
3 5 (17.86%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (17.86%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
5 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (7.14%) Replication
6 1 (3.57%) IoT
6 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Migration
1 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) Analytics
2 9 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (32.14%) ETL
3 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 7 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 7 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (21.43%) Data Governance
5 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Process Improvement
5 6 (21.43%) SIEM
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
6 5 (17.86%) Data Security
6 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) SQL
2 16 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) R
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) GIAC
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
4 2 (7.14%) PMP
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (17.86%) GDPR
2 5 (17.86%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Dell KACE
4 1 (3.57%) Meraki
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.57%) Ubiquiti