Delta Lake Contracts in the UK excluding London

Delta Lake
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Delta Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Delta Lake over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 398 451
Rank change year-on-year +77 +53 +70
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 13 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.64% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £461 £484 £589
25th Percentile £481 £489 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £606
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -16.49% -5.72%
75th Percentile £631 £532 £636
90th Percentile £725 £542 £644
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -13.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,017 2,593 3,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.78% 12.55% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 1,829 2,654
10th Percentile £315 £324 £343
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 115
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.53
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.20 £32.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.00 £66.28
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.98% -31.73% +37.86%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Delta Lake in the UK excluding London

Delta Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Delta Lake in the UK excluding London

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the UK excluding London

Delta 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 Delta Lake within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +26 10 £525 +9.38% 4
North West +20 6 £513 +6.77% 4
Midlands +14 2 - - 10
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £600 -
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
Scotland - 1 £463 - 2
Delta Lake
UK

Delta 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 (53.85%) Apache
2 6 (46.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Big Data
1 5 (38.46%) Hadoop
2 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
2 4 (30.77%) Parquet
3 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (23.08%) Metadata
3 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (15.38%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) Flink
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI
5 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) ERwin
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (15.38%) Banking
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) PySpark
2 3 (23.08%) JSON
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) ADO
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Avro
4 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.69%) boto
4 1 (7.69%) Great Expectations
4 1 (7.69%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) ETL
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (23.08%) Data Management
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Open Source
6 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Data Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Quality Management
6 2 (15.38%) Runbook
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Talend