Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data Lakehouse
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 160 176
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 +29
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 41 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.62% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 5
10th Percentile £376 £371 -
25th Percentile £416 £373 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £300
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +56.25% -42.86%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £338
90th Percentile £688 £689 £458
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,363 3,173 3,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.61% 89.36% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 1,973 2,337
10th Percentile £280 £238 £260
25th Percentile £421 £393 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £674 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 308 294
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.30 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%
75th Percentile £71.00 £53.56 £70.39
90th Percentile £87.99 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the South East

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the South East over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the South East

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
West Sussex - 24 £428 -
Thames Valley -33 7 £538 -15.69% 3
Surrey - 7 £500 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 6 £531 -
Hampshire -29 2 £614 +60.98%
Berkshire -19 1 £588 -7.84% 2
Middlesex - 1 £470 -
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
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 1 (2.44%) Apache
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) Power Platform
2 16 (39.02%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) dbt
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (7.32%) SaaS
5 2 (4.88%) AWS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.44%) Collibra
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (56.10%) Power BI
2 8 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.32%) Metadata
4 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.44%) Power Query
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.44%) Tableau
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Finance
2 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Billing
3 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Architect
3 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 7 (17.07%) Data Architect
3 7 (17.07%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Databricks Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Automation Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Business Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 1 (2.44%) ETL Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Head of Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) PySpark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.44%) Kafka
2 1 (2.44%) MDX
2 1 (2.44%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.44%) Media Streaming
2 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (73.17%) ETL
2 23 (56.10%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (53.66%) Data Modelling
4 17 (41.46%) Analytics
5 16 (39.02%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (24.39%) Decision-Making
7 8 (19.51%) Data Governance
7 8 (19.51%) Runbook
8 7 (17.07%) Use Case
9 6 (14.63%) Data Architecture
9 6 (14.63%) Data Engineering
9 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (12.20%) AI
10 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (9.76%) Agile
11 4 (9.76%) E-Commerce
11 4 (9.76%) ERP
11 4 (9.76%) Integration Patterns
11 4 (9.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) SQL
2 16 (39.02%) T-SQL
3 6 (14.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (9.76%) Python
5 1 (2.44%) Groovy
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
1 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (63.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Databricks
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.44%) Teradata