Data Lake Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Lakes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 272 246
Rank change year-on-year +19 -26 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 86 128 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.67% 0.62% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.25% 4.93% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 95 167
10th Percentile £358 £349 £413
25th Percentile £416 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% -6.67%
75th Percentile £559 £580 £644
90th Percentile £620 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £553 £575
% change year-on-year +8.50% -3.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.71% -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,022 2,597 3,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 12.51% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,828 2,658
10th Percentile £318 £325 £350
25th Percentile £401 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -4.40% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £677 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 111
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.48 £66.28
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.60% -31.73% +37.86%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +5 29 £463 -3.65% 61
South East +42 26 £491 -14.61% 99
North West -7 18 £497 +3.62% 38
Midlands +13 16 £438 -10.26% 46
West Midlands +17 14 £438 +9.38% 26
Scotland +11 9 £577 +18.36% 14
East of England +34 8 £580 +38.92% 22
North East +4 7 £358 -57.88% 4
South West +32 4 £563 +25.00% 32
Yorkshire +4 4 £438 -2.78% 19
East Midlands +6 2 - - 15
Wales - 2 £359 - 4
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.81%) Apache
3 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.16%) SAS
5 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (70.93%) Azure
2 29 (33.72%) AWS
3 19 (22.09%) Power Platform
4 18 (20.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (16.28%) GCP
5 14 (16.28%) Snowflake
6 12 (13.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (6.98%) Serverless
8 5 (5.81%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.81%) GitHub
9 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.65%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.49%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) SMS
2 1 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) Network Security
2 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.16%) VPN
2 1 (1.16%) WAN
2 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (33.72%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (17.44%) Big Data
2 15 (17.44%) Power BI
3 12 (13.95%) SQL Server
4 11 (12.79%) NoSQL
5 10 (11.63%) Metadata
6 9 (10.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (9.30%) Relational Database
8 7 (8.14%) Hadoop
9 6 (6.98%) MongoDB
10 5 (5.81%) RDBMS
11 4 (4.65%) Delta Lake
11 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (3.49%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (3.49%) Parquet
12 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) ERwin
1 8 (9.30%) GitLab
2 2 (2.33%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.16%) Git
3 1 (1.16%) Hudson
3 1 (1.16%) JMeter
General
1 20 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.81%) Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.33%) Billing
8 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Data Engineer
2 16 (18.60%) Architect
3 8 (9.30%) Data Architect
3 8 (9.30%) Senior
4 6 (6.98%) Data Modeller
4 6 (6.98%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Lead
6 4 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 4 (4.65%) Developer
6 4 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Junior
6 4 (4.65%) Junior Architect
6 4 (4.65%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.65%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.12%) PySpark
2 8 (9.30%) JSON
2 8 (9.30%) Kafka
3 6 (6.98%) REST
4 4 (4.65%) Middleware
5 2 (2.33%) Apache Avro
5 2 (2.33%) Spring
5 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.16%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.16%) FHIR
6 1 (1.16%) NumPy
6 1 (1.16%) Pandas
6 1 (1.16%) Web Services
6 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.98%) CSOC
2 6 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Life Science
5 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.33%) NHS
6 2 (2.33%) Replication
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.16%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.16%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Unix
2 3 (3.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.21%) Data Modelling
2 28 (32.56%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (29.07%) Analytics
4 24 (27.91%) ETL
5 22 (25.58%) Migration
6 20 (23.26%) CI/CD
6 20 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (22.09%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (20.93%) Data Governance
8 18 (20.93%) DevOps
9 16 (18.60%) Data Engineering
10 14 (16.28%) Data Migration
11 12 (13.95%) Agile
11 12 (13.95%) Data Architecture
11 12 (13.95%) Data Integration
12 11 (12.79%) Data Transformation
12 11 (12.79%) ERP
12 11 (12.79%) Process Improvement
13 10 (11.63%) Data Security
14 9 (10.47%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (61.63%) SQL
2 26 (30.23%) Python
3 7 (8.14%) Java
4 6 (6.98%) Scala
5 4 (4.65%) R
6 3 (3.49%) Bash
6 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.16%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (1.16%) Groovy
8 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Degree
2 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.98%) GIAC
3 6 (6.98%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.33%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.33%) PMP
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.98%) GDPR
3 5 (5.81%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.49%) PMO
5 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (9.30%) Terraform
2 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (32.56%) Databricks
2 23 (26.74%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.14%) SAP
4 5 (5.81%) Google
5 4 (4.65%) Ariba
5 4 (4.65%) Oracle
6 3 (3.49%) Informatica
7 2 (2.33%) Anaplan
7 2 (2.33%) Hyperion
7 2 (2.33%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.16%) Confluent
8 1 (1.16%) Dell KACE
8 1 (1.16%) IFS
8 1 (1.16%) Meraki
8 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.16%) Spotify
8 1 (1.16%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.16%) Ubiquiti