Data Lake Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Lakes
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 130 119
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 4 10 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.38% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 2.97% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 24
10th Percentile - £475 £425
25th Percentile £463 £531 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £603
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.56% +26.84%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £688
90th Percentile £528 - £707
England median daily rate £600 £750 £586
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.93% +1.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 217 337 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.06% 12.93% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 232 288
10th Percentile £306 £363 £400
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £688 £729
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 24
10th Percentile £27.15 - £27.04
25th Percentile £63.25 £17.50 £49.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.56 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.57% -61.40% +30.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £85.00 £84.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +11.11%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the South West

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Gloucestershire - 2 £475 - 3
Bristol +9 1 - - 8
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks