Data Lake Contracts in South Wales

Data Lakes
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.42% - 0.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.00% - 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £436
25th Percentile - - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £167 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.31%
75th Percentile - - £597
90th Percentile - - £629
Wales median daily rate £167 - £481
% change year-on-year - - -25.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 20 60 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 8.37% 18.02% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 51 56
10th Percentile £190 £381 £344
25th Percentile £207 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £266 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -48.36% -6.36% +6.80%
75th Percentile £392 £581 £650
90th Percentile £538 £646 £672
Wales median daily rate £275 £515 £536
% change year-on-year -46.60% -3.96% +4.13%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in South Wales

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in South Wales

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Cardiff - 1 £167 - 3
Data Lake
Wales

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Repository
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy