Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Lakehouse
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 148 115 123
Rank change year-on-year -33 +8 +26
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.12% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £473 £544 -
25th Percentile £513 £572 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +21.43% +20.69%
75th Percentile £569 £697 £538
90th Percentile £601 £721 -
South East median daily rate £475 £469 £300
% change year-on-year +1.33% +56.25% -42.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,533 1,530 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.34% 91.29% 84.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 919 1,086
10th Percentile £325 £293 £279
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.58%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 103 98
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £15.12 £26.09
Median hourly rate £62.25 £24.00 £58.34
Median % change year-on-year +159.38% -58.86% +16.68%
75th Percentile £85.33 £38.42 £70.06
90th Percentile £103.63 £76.30 £86.49
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
% change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the Thames Valley

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire - 6 £531 -
Berkshire -19 1 £588 -7.84% 2
Lakehouse
South East

Lakehouse
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) dbt
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Collibra
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Teradata