Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Lakehouse
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 278 348 367
Rank change year-on-year +70 +19 +50
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 194 23 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.15% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.17% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 11 5
10th Percentile £380 £369 -
25th Percentile £425 £390 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £300
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +83.33% -46.67%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £338
90th Percentile £675 £675 £458
UK median daily rate £532 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.33% +4.35% -5.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,516 13,744 14,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.09% 89.12% 82.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,080 8,260 8,815
10th Percentile £300 £240 £250
25th Percentile £406 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £598 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,509 1,399 1,350
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.00 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.95 £16.50
Median hourly rate £42.65 £22.63 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.47% -47.37% +14.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the UK excluding London

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +27 79 £565 +37.80% 9
West Midlands - 69 £565 - 2
South East -25 41 £475 +1.33% 11
North of England -42 38 £493 -14.35% 24
South West -21 23 £525 +23.53% 5
Yorkshire -32 21 £460 -14.42% 6
North West -45 12 £563 -2.17% 15
East Midlands -7 7 £625 +52.44% 7
Scotland -15 7 £573 - 13
Wales - 7 £450 - 3
North East - 5 £520 - 3
East of England -26 2 - - 4
Lakehouse
UK

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 27 (13.92%) SAS
2 7 (3.61%) Confluence
3 6 (3.09%) Apache
3 6 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Notepad++
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 102 (52.58%) Azure
2 79 (40.72%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (17.01%) AWS
5 19 (9.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 11 (5.67%) Azure Databricks
6 11 (5.67%) GCP
7 10 (5.15%) Azure Storage
8 9 (4.64%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.64%) dbt
8 9 (4.64%) Serverless
9 7 (3.61%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.09%) SaaS
11 5 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (2.58%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.06%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.58%) PuTTY
1 5 (2.58%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (40.72%) Power BI
2 68 (35.05%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (23.71%) Data Lake
4 34 (17.53%) Metadata
5 20 (10.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 18 (9.28%) Delta Lake
7 14 (7.22%) Base SAS
8 12 (6.19%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (6.19%) SQL Server
9 11 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (5.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (4.12%) NoSQL
11 7 (3.61%) Tableau
12 6 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (3.09%) Data Vault
12 6 (3.09%) Pentaho
13 5 (2.58%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (2.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Git
2 8 (4.12%) JIRA
3 3 (1.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.52%) MLflow
4 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.31%) Finance
5 9 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.06%) Marketing
8 4 (2.06%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) Local Government
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (33.51%) Data Engineer
2 51 (26.29%) Architect
3 47 (24.23%) Data Architect
4 32 (16.49%) Senior
5 23 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Lead
7 17 (8.76%) Microsoft Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Developer
9 11 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) SAS Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Azure Data Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (4.12%) Databricks Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) QA Leader
13 6 (3.09%) Consultant
13 6 (3.09%) Data Manager
14 5 (2.58%) Data Warehouse Manager
15 4 (2.06%) Platform Engineer
15 4 (2.06%) Senior Architect
15 4 (2.06%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.49%) PySpark
2 6 (3.09%) Kafka
2 6 (3.09%) Terraform
3 2 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.03%) Spring
3 2 (1.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.52%) Celery
4 1 (0.52%) Django
4 1 (0.52%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.52%) Flask
4 1 (0.52%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.52%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.52%) JSON
4 1 (0.52%) JWT
4 1 (0.52%) MDX
4 1 (0.52%) Middleware
4 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.52%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.31%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.70%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.09%) Autonomous Agent
5 5 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.06%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.52%) NHS
9 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.09%) Unix
2 3 (1.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (52.58%) Data Modelling
2 96 (49.48%) ETL
3 88 (45.36%) Data Pipeline
4 87 (44.85%) Analytics
5 79 (40.72%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (37.11%) Migration
7 62 (31.96%) Data Engineering
8 50 (25.77%) CI/CD
9 44 (22.68%) Data Architecture
10 43 (22.16%) Data Governance
11 39 (20.10%) Decision-Making
12 35 (18.04%) Roadmaps
13 34 (17.53%) AI
14 31 (15.98%) Data Transformation
15 29 (14.95%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (13.92%) Validation
17 26 (13.40%) Test Automation
18 25 (12.89%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 96 (49.48%) SQL
2 45 (23.20%) Python
3 20 (10.31%) T-SQL
4 17 (8.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (5.15%) Java
6 9 (4.64%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.55%) Scala
9 2 (1.03%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) Ada
10 1 (0.52%) Bicep
10 1 (0.52%) R
10 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.15%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.61%) Degree
5 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (38.14%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.70%) QA
3 9 (4.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 79 (40.72%) Databricks
2 72 (37.11%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.73%) Informatica
4 10 (5.15%) Oracle
5 9 (4.64%) Denodo
5 9 (4.64%) SAP
6 6 (3.09%) Talend
7 2 (1.03%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.03%) Remedy
7 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.03%) Teradata
8 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.52%) Google
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.52%) QAD
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) TIBCO