Data Lake Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Lakes
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 44 53
Rank change year-on-year -48 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.39% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.76% 1.92% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £613 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +78.57% -50.00%
75th Percentile - £638 £375
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £538 £450
% change year-on-year +6.98% +19.44% -18.18%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 170 52 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 21.99% 15.52% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 39 19
10th Percentile £319 £143 £320
25th Percentile £384 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £549 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +21.90% -22.41%
75th Percentile £525 £630 £700
90th Percentile £600 £705 £726
Yorkshire median daily rate £497 £500 £489
% change year-on-year -0.70% +2.30% -10.32%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Sheffield -46 3 £600 -4.00%
Data Lake
Yorkshire

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) DataStage
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (33.33%) Talend