Data Lake Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Lakes
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 133 126
Rank change year-on-year +54 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 23 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.52% 0.45% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.91% 3.52% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 21
10th Percentile £381 £438 £500
25th Percentile £467 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £544 £653 £613
90th Percentile £607 £713 £763
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +39 14 £500 -25.93% 27
Buckinghamshire +16 6 £400 -15.79% 17
Oxfordshire - 3 £700 - 13
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Snowflake
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AI
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (26.09%) Big Data
3 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata
6 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Power BI
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) SIEM Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Report Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) JSON
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) PySpark
3 2 (8.70%) PyTorch
3 2 (8.70%) scikit-learn
3 2 (8.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) CSOC
1 6 (26.09%) Onboarding
2 5 (21.74%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) Migration
3 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (30.43%) ETL
4 6 (26.09%) Analytics
4 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
4 6 (26.09%) Data Migration
4 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
4 6 (26.09%) Process Improvement
4 6 (26.09%) Security Operations
4 6 (26.09%) SIEM
4 6 (26.09%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Data Management
5 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 12 (52.17%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) GIAC
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
3 2 (8.70%) PMP
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 3 (13.04%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Databricks
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Alteryx