Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Lakes
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.03% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £615 £425 £410
% change year-on-year +44.71% +3.66% -25.45%

All Database & BI Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 13 3 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 13.40% 5.00% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 13
10th Percentile £303 - £260
25th Percentile £386 £525 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +29.41% -16.67%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £488
90th Percentile £664 - £565
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.93
West Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.22
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.19% +47.39%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case