Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Lakehouse
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 100 72 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.27% 0.47% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £366 -
25th Percentile £483 £409 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% - -
75th Percentile £488 £634 -
90th Percentile - £659 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £538 -
% change year-on-year -14.42% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 947 605 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 84.86% 95.13% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 398 212
10th Percentile £362 £289 £323
25th Percentile £425 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £463 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -11.06% -11.68%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.77 -
25th Percentile £13.35 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.60 £18.21 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +41.89% -36.64%
75th Percentile £23.25 £18.87 £20.75
90th Percentile £24.29 - £21.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.15 £22.14 £15.09
% change year-on-year +0.05% +46.77% -24.58%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -20 3 £485 +14.12%
Lakehouse
Yorkshire

Lakehouse
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks