Parquet Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Parquet
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Parquet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Parquet over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 388 447
Rank change year-on-year +62 +59 +46
Contract jobs citing Parquet 10 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.024% 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.49% 0.20% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £544 £480 -
90th Percentile £563 £488 -
UK median daily rate £481 £486 £569
% change year-on-year -1.03% -14.51% +3.41%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Parquet 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 2,021 2,559 3,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 12.49% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 1,810 2,589
10th Percentile £313 £316 £337
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £599
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 97 114
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.50 £21.46
25th Percentile £22.85 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -29.76% +62.71%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.50 £67.27
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.68
UK median hourly rate £33.11 £40.13 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% -33.13% +39.80%

Parquet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Parquet in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Parquet in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Parquet in the UK excluding London

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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 Parquet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +17 5 £525 +10.53%
North of England - 2 £475 - 4
East Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
North West - 1 £475 -
South East - 1 £400 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
Parquet
UK

Parquet
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 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (40.00%) Delta Lake
4 3 (30.00%) Big Data
4 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (20.00%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (20.00%) Flink
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
6 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Developer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Scala Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) JSON
2 5 (50.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
5 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth
5 1 (10.00%) OpenID
5 1 (10.00%) PySpark
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Event-Driven
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 3 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
6 3 (30.00%) Release Management
7 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 2 (20.00%) Data Science
7 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (20.00%) Open Source
7 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
8 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) SAP