Delta Lake Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Delta Lake
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 124 139
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 +43
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.10% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.71% 1.13% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £450 £575 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% -2.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £641 £650
90th Percentile £560 £646 £658
South East median daily rate £488 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -18.75% -4.00% -16.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

Delta 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 280 353 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.12% 16.56% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 220 271
10th Percentile £325 £360 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £643
90th Percentile £641 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 12
10th Percentile - £20.61 £34.14
25th Percentile £23.50 £41.25 £54.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £48.18 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.19% -21.66% +173.33%
75th Percentile £24.50 £63.53 £73.94
90th Percentile - £64.73 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £45.34 £50.53
% change year-on-year -11.78% -10.27% +129.67%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Delta Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Delta Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Delta Lake

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the Thames Valley

Delta Lake
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 Delta Lake within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 -3 2 £488 -20.41% 1
Delta Lake
South East

Delta Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks