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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 142 149
Rank change year-on-year -55 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 24 22 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.37% 0.62% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.37% 4.46% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 19
10th Percentile £371 £375 £413
25th Percentile £400 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £531 £484 £631
90th Percentile £559 £566 £692
England median daily rate £550 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -8.33% -20.00% +29.31%

All Database & BI 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 713 493 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.96% 13.88% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 357 392
10th Percentile £313 £205 £301
25th Percentile £413 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £626
90th Percentile £650 £638 £660
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 5 22
10th Percentile £13.48 - £23.16
25th Percentile £27.75 £13.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £24.00 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -53.48% +3.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 - £64.41
England median hourly rate £41.71 £40.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year +3.64% +11.02% -33.49%

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

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 5 October 2026.

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 5 October 2026. 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 -46 8 £400 -14.44% 18
West Sussex -20 7 £438 +9.38% 4
Buckinghamshire - 6 £425 - 13
Surrey -15 5 £525 +23.53% 4
Berkshire -35 2 £375 -19.79% 5
Hampshire -36 2 £579 +28.61% 2
Middlesex - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Power Platform
3 7 (29.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.83%) AWS
6 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.33%) GitHub
7 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
7 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Batch
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
8 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Power BI
2 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (16.67%) Couchbase
3 4 (16.67%) MySQL
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.33%) Big Data
5 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
5 2 (8.33%) PowerPivot
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (4.17%) Data Mart
6 1 (4.17%) Db2
6 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Pentaho
6 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Report Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 2 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) CSS
1 4 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 4 (16.67%) HTML
1 4 (16.67%) JPA
1 4 (16.67%) jQuery
1 4 (16.67%) Spring
1 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 4 (16.67%) Spring MVC
2 2 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) PostGIS
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) AS400
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) DataPower
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (50.00%) Analytics
3 10 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 10 (41.67%) ETL
4 9 (37.50%) AI
5 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (20.83%) Data Architecture
7 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
7 5 (20.83%) Design Patterns
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
7 5 (20.83%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (20.83%) Microservices
7 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (20.83%) System Testing
8 4 (16.67%) Digital Banking
8 4 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
8 4 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.17%) GRC
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (4.17%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Databricks
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Denodo
5 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.17%) Guidewire
5 1 (4.17%) Informatica
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk