Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Lakehouse
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 133 112 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 23 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.63% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 1 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £450 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £550 £438 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,887 1,745 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 78.60% 89.95% 83.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 1,012 1,421
10th Percentile £325 £217 £263
25th Percentile £425 £363 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £630
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 221 236
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.00 £14.13
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.51 £38.42
Median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +5.23%
75th Percentile £69.69 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the South West

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the South West

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the South West 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
Wiltshire - 12 £500 - 1
Bristol -17 5 £575 +35.29%
Somerset -27 3 £475 -
Devon - 1 £450 -
Gloucestershire - 1 £525 -
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (30.43%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (4.35%) Collibra
6 1 (4.35%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Metadata
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
3 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.04%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Tableau
5 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) Dremio
5 1 (4.35%) Power Query
5 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Lead
1 7 (30.43%) QA Leader
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Data Modeller
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.70%) ETL Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Kafka
1 3 (13.04%) PySpark
2 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Fabric
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Data Governance
2 13 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (52.17%) Data Engineering
3 12 (52.17%) Data Modelling
4 11 (47.83%) Roadmaps
5 8 (34.78%) Data Science
5 8 (34.78%) ETL
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (30.43%) Analytics
6 7 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (30.43%) Data Management
6 7 (30.43%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (30.43%) Test Scripting
6 7 (30.43%) Test Strategy
7 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 3 (13.04%) Migration
8 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Groovy
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) DV Cleared
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (30.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Databricks
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Denodo
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) TIBCO