Apache Iceberg Contracts

Apache Iceberg
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apache Iceberg skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Iceberg over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 321 648
Rank change year-on-year -128 +327 +212
Contract jobs citing Apache Iceberg 102 262 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.67% 0.015%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.71% 3.73% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 260 5
10th Percentile - £675 £433
25th Percentile £675 £750 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +39.13% -39.47%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £663
90th Percentile - - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Apache Iceberg 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,960 7,032 8,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.06% 18.10% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 4,970 6,222
10th Percentile £343 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 101 160
10th Percentile £21.02 £15.00 £20.84
25th Percentile £27.11 £20.00 £29.28
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.36% +35.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.74 £71.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.85 £30.00 £49.79
% change year-on-year +6.15% -39.74% +42.24%

Apache Iceberg
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Iceberg as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Iceberg.

Daily rate trend for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Iceberg over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Iceberg within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 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
England -118 100 £750 -6.25% 24
London -115 99 £750 -6.25% 18
Work from Home -89 89 £750 -6.25% 13
East Midlands 0 1 - -
UK excluding London -6 1 - - 8
Midlands -10 1 - -

Apache Iceberg
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 96 (94.12%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (64.71%) Apache
3 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) AWS
2 94 (92.16%) dbt
3 58 (56.86%) Snowflake
4 36 (35.29%) GCP
5 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.92%) Serverless
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.96%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.98%) Azure
9 1 (0.98%) Dagster
9 1 (0.98%) GitHub
9 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (96.08%) Amazon Athena
2 93 (91.18%) Apache Arrow
2 93 (91.18%) Dremio
3 50 (49.02%) Data Lake
4 47 (46.08%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.90%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.92%) Apache Hudi
8 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.96%) Big Data
9 2 (1.96%) Parquet
10 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.98%) Flink
10 1 (0.98%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.98%) Metadata
10 1 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.98%) Git
General
1 94 (92.16%) Finance
2 93 (91.18%) Front Office
3 58 (56.86%) Banking
4 57 (55.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.96%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (94.12%) AWS Engineer
2 91 (89.22%) AWS Software Engineer
2 91 (89.22%) Software Engineer
3 74 (72.55%) Python Engineer
4 72 (70.59%) Python Software Engineer
5 63 (61.76%) Java Engineer
5 63 (61.76%) Java Software Engineer
6 47 (46.08%) Developer
7 46 (45.10%) AWS Developer
7 46 (45.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 45 (44.12%) Senior
8 45 (44.12%) Senior Java Engineer
8 45 (44.12%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 45 (44.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 28 (27.45%) Python Developer
10 18 (17.65%) Java Developer
10 18 (17.65%) Java Software Developer
11 13 (12.75%) Snowflake Engineer
12 12 (11.76%) Snowflake Developer
12 12 (11.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (77.45%) NumPy
1 79 (77.45%) Pandas
1 79 (77.45%) SciPy
2 45 (44.12%) gRPC
2 45 (44.12%) Protocol Buffers
3 34 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 34 (33.33%) Node.js
3 34 (33.33%) React
3 34 (33.33%) Vue
4 18 (17.65%) PySpark
5 3 (2.94%) Kafka
6 2 (1.96%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.96%) J2EE
7 1 (0.98%) JSON
7 1 (0.98%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 91 (89.22%) Fixed Income
2 87 (85.29%) Equities
2 87 (85.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 57 (55.88%) Derivative
3 57 (55.88%) Hedge funds
4 44 (43.14%) Pricing Data
5 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (91.18%) Agile
1 93 (91.18%) Asset Management
1 93 (91.18%) Software Engineering
2 78 (76.47%) Investment Management
3 34 (33.33%) Fintech
3 34 (33.33%) Order Management
3 34 (33.33%) Performance Attribution
3 34 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 12 (11.76%) Data Management
5 8 (7.84%) CI/CD
6 4 (3.92%) Data Engineering
6 4 (3.92%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (2.94%) ETL
7 3 (2.94%) Event-Driven
7 3 (2.94%) Open Source
8 2 (1.96%) Data Governance
8 2 (1.96%) Data Modelling
8 2 (1.96%) DevOps
8 2 (1.96%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (1.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (81.37%) Python
2 79 (77.45%) JavaScript
2 79 (77.45%) TypeScript
3 72 (70.59%) Java
4 14 (13.73%) SQL
5 2 (1.96%) Go
5 2 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.98%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (0.98%) Databricks