Data Lake Contract Job Trends in South London

Data Lakes
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.15% - 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.55% - 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
London median daily rate £625 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 44 30 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 25.29% 15.08% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 32
10th Percentile £400 £413 £231
25th Percentile £463 £425 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £519 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +18.63% -18.60%
75th Percentile £630 £558 £503
90th Percentile £648 £588 £621
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.33
25th Percentile - - £15.82
Median hourly rate - - £17.63
75th Percentile - - £20.19
90th Percentile - - £21.13
London median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £46.06
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.29% -16.26%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in South London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Bromley - 2 £450 - 2
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality