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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 251 244
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +39
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 85 150 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.72% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.07% 5.83% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 120 164
10th Percentile £361 £363 £413
25th Percentile £407 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -9.53% -6.52%
75th Percentile £526 £585 £650
90th Percentile £589 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £50.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £50.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +45.00% -

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 2,088 2,571 3,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.02% 12.41% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,821 2,411
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 106 109
10th Percentile £18.72 £13.59 £21.80
25th Percentile £22.66 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £30.82 £36.75 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% -37.28% +67.40%
75th Percentile £65.62 £60.50 £73.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +33.33%

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 31 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 31 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
South East +40 30 £460 -8.00% 35
North of England -21 26 £475 -5.00% 49
North West -21 19 £475 - 23
Midlands +4 14 £438 -1.69% 25
East of England +31 10 £580 +41.46% 6
West Midlands +13 10 £438 +9.38% 16
South West +31 4 £563 +5.63% 19
Yorkshire +4 4 £450 -10.00% 19
Scotland +1 4 £577 +28.22% 18
North East +3 3 - - 7
East Midlands -1 3 £400 -12.81% 8
Wales - 1 £167 - 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 6 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.71%) Apache
2 4 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.53%) ArcGIS
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle Spatial
3 3 (3.53%) Smallworld
4 2 (2.35%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.18%) SAS
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.88%) Azure
2 29 (34.12%) AWS
3 22 (25.88%) Power Platform
4 14 (16.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (14.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (14.12%) Snowflake
6 10 (11.76%) GCP
7 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.06%) Serverless
8 5 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (5.88%) GitHub
8 5 (5.88%) SaaS
9 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.71%) PaaS
10 3 (3.53%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.53%) IaaS
11 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) SMS
2 1 (1.18%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
2 1 (1.18%) WAN
2 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (23.53%) Power BI
3 11 (12.94%) NoSQL
4 10 (11.76%) Big Data
4 10 (11.76%) Metadata
4 10 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 8 (9.41%) RDBMS
6 7 (8.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
7 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.71%) Delta Lake
8 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.53%) GIS
9 3 (3.53%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (3.53%) Parquet
9 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.53%) Spatial Data
9 3 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) ERwin
2 7 (8.24%) GitLab
3 2 (2.35%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.18%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) Hudson
General
1 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Finance
3 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.88%) Retail
7 4 (4.71%) Banking
8 3 (3.53%) Billing
8 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Architect
2 14 (16.47%) Data Engineer
3 8 (9.41%) Analyst
3 8 (9.41%) Data Architect
3 8 (9.41%) Lead
4 7 (8.24%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.06%) Data Modeller
5 6 (7.06%) Developer
5 6 (7.06%) SIEM Engineer
6 5 (5.88%) Senior
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.53%) AWS Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) REST
2 8 (9.41%) JSON
3 7 (8.24%) Kafka
4 6 (7.06%) PySpark
5 5 (5.88%) Middleware
6 3 (3.53%) PostGIS
6 3 (3.53%) SOAP
7 2 (2.35%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.35%) Spring
7 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.18%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.18%) FHIR
8 1 (1.18%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.18%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (1.18%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.18%) Web Services
8 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.06%) CSOC
3 5 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.71%) Life Science
4 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.53%) Smart Meter
6 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.35%) NHS
6 2 (2.35%) Replication
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.18%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) EPoS
7 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Unix
2 3 (3.53%) Linux
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) Data Modelling
2 26 (30.59%) Analytics
2 26 (30.59%) Data Pipeline
2 26 (30.59%) ETL
3 24 (28.24%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (22.35%) CI/CD
4 19 (22.35%) DevOps
4 19 (22.35%) Migration
5 18 (21.18%) Data Governance
6 17 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 15 (17.65%) Data Integration
7 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.29%) Agile
8 13 (15.29%) Data Engineering
9 11 (12.94%) Data Security
9 11 (12.94%) Process Improvement
10 10 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (11.76%) Data Analysis
11 9 (10.59%) Data Ingestion
11 9 (10.59%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 56 (65.88%) SQL
2 24 (28.24%) Python
3 6 (7.06%) Java
3 6 (7.06%) R
4 5 (5.88%) Scala
5 3 (3.53%) Bash
5 3 (3.53%) Magik
5 3 (3.53%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Degree
2 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
3 6 (7.06%) GIAC
3 6 (7.06%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (31.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.06%) GDPR
3 5 (5.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.53%) PMO
5 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (3.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) Terraform
2 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Databricks
2 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
4 6 (7.06%) SAP
5 5 (5.88%) Informatica
6 4 (4.71%) Ariba
7 3 (3.53%) ESRI
7 3 (3.53%) Google
7 3 (3.53%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.35%) Anaplan
8 2 (2.35%) Hyperion
8 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.18%) Cisco
9 1 (1.18%) Dell KACE
9 1 (1.18%) Meraki
9 1 (1.18%) Remedy
9 1 (1.18%) Sybase
9 1 (1.18%) Veeam
9 1 (1.18%) VMware