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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 384 435
Rank change year-on-year +62 +51 +73
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 21 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.030% 0.017%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.04% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £462 £484 £589
25th Percentile £478 £489 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -15.63% -6.69%
75th Percentile £600 £532 £617
90th Percentile £725 £542 £626
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -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 2,023 2,570 3,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.72% 12.68% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,824 2,528
10th Percentile £313 £313 £335
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.78% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 99 110
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.50 £21.21
25th Percentile £22.85 £17.85 £28.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -29.76% +62.71%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.55 £68.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.00 £75.98
UK median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.49% -33.33% +33.33%

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 16 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 16 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 +27 10 £525 +9.38% 7
Midlands +22 10 £538 - 2
West Midlands +16 7 £600 - 1
North West +13 6 £513 +6.77% 5
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £600 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
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 (33.33%) Apache
2 6 (28.57%) Apache Spark
3 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (28.57%) AWS
5 6 (28.57%) Collibra
6 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (19.05%) GitHub
7 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (14.29%) Serverless
9 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (9.52%) GCP
9 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
10 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (28.57%) GIS
2 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 5 (23.81%) Big Data
3 5 (23.81%) Hadoop
3 5 (23.81%) Power BI
4 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
4 4 (19.05%) Parquet
5 3 (14.29%) Metadata
6 2 (9.52%) Apache Hudi
6 2 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (9.52%) Flink
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) ERwin
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Data Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Scala Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) PySpark
3 3 (14.29%) JSON
4 2 (9.52%) ADO
4 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
5 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.76%) boto
5 1 (4.76%) Great Expectations
5 1 (4.76%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) IoT
1 6 (28.57%) SCADA
2 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
1 11 (52.38%) ETL
2 10 (47.62%) Data Governance
3 9 (42.86%) Analytics
3 9 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
6 5 (23.81%) Data Management
6 5 (23.81%) Data Mapping
6 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
6 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) Migration
6 5 (23.81%) Validation
7 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
7 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (19.05%) Bicep
5 2 (9.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (23.81%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Databricks
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (33.33%) Informatica
3 7 (33.33%) SAP
4 6 (28.57%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Talend