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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.92% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
London median daily rate £600 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -

All Database & BI 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 76 46 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 23.31% 23.23% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 26 42
10th Percentile £445 £448 £379
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% +2.89% -7.32%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £523
90th Percentile £621 £669 £633
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%

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 18 April 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
Bromley - 2 £450 -
Croydon - 1 £500 -
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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure App Service
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI