Delta Lake Contract Job Trends in the South East

Delta Lake
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 173 211
Rank change year-on-year +2 +38 +48
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.053% 0.15% 0.055%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.40% 1.00% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £394 £560 -
25th Percentile £416 £575 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% -4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £528 £638 £650
90th Percentile £556 £645 £658
England median daily rate £550 £550 £690
% change year-on-year - -20.29% -4.83%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

Delta 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 503 602 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.25% 14.56% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 394 547
10th Percentile £205 £239 £303
25th Percentile £329 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £680
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 38
10th Percentile - £22.07 £21.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £30.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.08% -2.67% +132.39%
75th Percentile £40.90 £61.60 £69.69
90th Percentile £70.41 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year +24.29% -27.76% -7.72%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Delta Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in the South East

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Delta Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Delta Lake

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in the South East over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the South East

Delta 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 Delta Lake within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 November 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 +7 1 £550 -10.20% 2
Hampshire +4 1 £384 -30.18%
Thames Valley +4 1 £550 -10.20% 2
Delta Lake
England

Delta 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Parquet
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
1 1 (50.00%) Poetry
1 1 (50.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat