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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 62 54
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 9 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.76% 0.20% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.00% 1.02% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile - - £498
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £507
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.57%
75th Percentile - - £528
90th Percentile £626 - £561
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £451 £500
% change year-on-year +33.19% -9.90% -27.01%

All Database & BI 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 180 98 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.19% 19.22% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 68 65
10th Percentile £357 £303 £405
25th Percentile £425 £379 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £535
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.89% +7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £545 £594
90th Percentile £675 £611 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £11.00
% change year-on-year +6.19% +199.64% -48.38%

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 3 July 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
Sheffield -33 9 £600 - 1
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 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Collibra
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
1 2 (22.22%) Spark SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Design Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Cryptography
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk