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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 151 164
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 25 31 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.69% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.10% 5.12% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 39
10th Percentile £375 £413 £473
25th Percentile £406 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -13.04% +0.88%
75th Percentile £475 £625 £638
90th Percentile £533 £658 £756
England median daily rate £600 £708 £575
% change year-on-year -15.19% +23.04% -0.90%
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 490 606 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.55% 14.22% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 393 554
10th Percentile £205 £270 £305
25th Percentile £333 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £680
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 46
10th Percentile - £22.24 £20.63
25th Percentile £13.25 £30.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £48.18 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.98% -2.67% +139.71%
75th Percentile £19.13 £61.60 £69.69
90th Percentile £22.35 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £42.00 £34.47 £51.78
% change year-on-year +21.85% -33.44% +3.56%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 0 17 £450 -14.29% 11
Berkshire +16 14 £468 -22.08% 10
Hampshire +10 3 £450 -2.70% 2
Surrey +9 3 £425 +13.33% 2
Buckinghamshire -2 3 £425 -
West Sussex - 2 £400 - 1
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 3 (12.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (12.00%) Smallworld
1 3 (12.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) OCI
5 3 (12.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) AWS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.00%) Dagster
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.00%) Power BI
3 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) GIS
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (12.00%) Spatial Data
5 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.00%) Tableau
6 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) MLflow
2 1 (4.00%) Poetry
2 1 (4.00%) Pylint
2 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Analyst
1 4 (16.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) GIS Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Specialist
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Head of Analytics
3 2 (8.00%) Head of Data Analytics
3 2 (8.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) PyTorch
1 6 (24.00%) TensorFlow
2 5 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (12.00%) Middleware
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (12.00%) PostGIS
3 3 (12.00%) REST
3 3 (12.00%) SOAP
4 2 (8.00%) Kafka
5 1 (4.00%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.00%) PySpark
5 1 (4.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (12.00%) Smart Meter
2 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Analytics
2 9 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
4 7 (28.00%) Data Migration
4 7 (28.00%) Migration
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (24.00%) Data Integration
5 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (24.00%) MLOps
6 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (20.00%) DevOps
6 5 (20.00%) ETL
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (16.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) SQL
2 13 (52.00%) Python
3 9 (36.00%) R
4 3 (12.00%) Magik
4 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Bicep
5 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) GRC
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) ESRI
2 3 (12.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) SAP