Data Lake Contracts

Data Lakes
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 215 210
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 498 760 1,225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.28% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.81% 7.14% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 575 784
10th Percentile £413 £450 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -0.87% +12.75%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £675
90th Percentile £888 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -6.90% -6.67% +18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £56.88
90th Percentile £57.30 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,314 10,642 17,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.86% 17.96% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,221 7,561 12,736
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.74% +9.91%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £765 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 188 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%
75th Percentile £58.81 £72.80 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £71.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +45.83%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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 +14 454 £575 - 187
London +6 315 £658 +9.58% 105
Work from Home +42 222 £675 +22.73% 108
UK excluding London -13 129 £489 -6.90% 87
North of England +4 48 £478 -13.18% 17
North West +4 40 £478 -25.83% 10
South East -1 29 £575 +9.52% 25
Midlands +11 22 £488 - 12
South West +16 16 £469 -10.71% 12
West Midlands +18 12 £400 -31.91% 8
Scotland +31 11 £488 -7.14% 10
East Midlands +9 10 £513 +13.89% 4
Yorkshire +12 7 £450 -32.58% 7
East of England +5 3 £418 -24.09% 9
North East +11 1 £850 +51.11%

Data Lake
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 98 (19.68%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (17.47%) Apache
3 49 (9.84%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.41%) SAS
5 4 (0.80%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 29 (5.82%) Dynamics AX
2 14 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.60%) Primavera
5 2 (0.40%) Magento
5 2 (0.40%) Maximo
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft CRM
6 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 277 (55.62%) Azure
2 173 (34.74%) AWS
3 145 (29.12%) Power Platform
4 125 (25.10%) Snowflake
5 109 (21.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 90 (18.07%) GCP
7 88 (17.67%) dbt
8 70 (14.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 67 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
10 59 (11.85%) Power Automate
11 52 (10.44%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (9.44%) Serverless
13 45 (9.04%) PowerApps
14 22 (4.42%) Amazon S3
14 22 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (4.42%) Azure Functions
15 20 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
17 17 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
18 16 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) VPN
3 2 (0.40%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (32.53%) Data Warehouse
2 133 (26.71%) Power BI
3 94 (18.88%) Big Data
4 92 (18.47%) Amazon Athena
5 79 (15.86%) Apache Arrow
5 79 (15.86%) Dremio
6 67 (13.45%) Apache Ignite
7 48 (9.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (8.43%) SQL Server
9 33 (6.63%) NoSQL
10 25 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (4.82%) Relational Database
12 18 (3.61%) Delta Lake
13 16 (3.21%) BigQuery
13 16 (3.21%) DynamoDB
13 16 (3.21%) Metadata
13 16 (3.21%) Spark SQL
14 15 (3.01%) Tableau
15 14 (2.81%) OLTP
15 14 (2.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (5.82%) Git
2 9 (1.81%) JIRA
3 6 (1.20%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.20%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (0.80%) Deequ
4 4 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.80%) Maven
5 3 (0.60%) kappa
6 2 (0.40%) Ant
6 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.40%) ERwin
6 2 (0.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.40%) Gradle
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.40%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) Hudson
7 1 (0.20%) NUnit
7 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 193 (38.76%) Finance
2 128 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 85 (17.07%) Banking
4 80 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (13.86%) Investment Banking
6 67 (13.45%) Front Office
7 45 (9.04%) Public Sector
8 40 (8.03%) Retail
9 29 (5.82%) General Ledger
10 16 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (2.41%) Marketing
12 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.20%) Legal
13 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.80%) Electronics
15 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (28.51%) Data Engineer
2 111 (22.29%) Architect
3 65 (13.05%) Azure Engineer
4 59 (11.85%) Lead
5 58 (11.65%) Azure Data Engineer
6 55 (11.04%) Data Architect
7 54 (10.84%) Solutions Architect
8 52 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (10.04%) Developer
10 49 (9.84%) Senior
11 48 (9.64%) Consultant
12 39 (7.83%) Software Engineer
13 34 (6.83%) Analyst
14 28 (5.62%) Python Engineer
15 25 (5.02%) Azure Architect
16 24 (4.82%) Data Analyst
17 23 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
17 23 (4.62%) Java Engineer
18 22 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
18 22 (4.42%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.86%) gRPC
1 79 (15.86%) Protocol Buffers
2 68 (13.65%) NumPy
2 68 (13.65%) Pandas
3 67 (13.45%) SciPy
4 66 (13.25%) PySpark
5 20 (4.02%) JSON
6 17 (3.41%) Kafka
7 16 (3.21%) .NET
8 13 (2.61%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.61%) XML
9 9 (1.81%) Apache Avro
10 8 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (1.41%) REST
11 7 (1.41%) Web Services
12 6 (1.20%) Middleware
12 6 (1.20%) YAML
13 5 (1.00%) JSON Schema
14 4 (0.80%) .NET Framework
14 4 (0.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 83 (16.67%) Hedge funds
2 68 (13.65%) Derivative
3 67 (13.45%) Equities
3 67 (13.45%) Fixed Income
3 67 (13.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (7.43%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.41%) Clustering
7 7 (1.41%) Data Fabric
7 7 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.20%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.80%) CMDB
10 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (34.54%) Agile
2 152 (30.52%) Business Intelligence
3 131 (26.31%) Data Modelling
3 131 (26.31%) DevOps
4 121 (24.30%) Analytics
5 117 (23.49%) ETL
6 95 (19.08%) Data Pipeline
7 88 (17.67%) Data Engineering
8 84 (16.87%) Software Engineering
9 82 (16.47%) Asset Management
10 77 (15.46%) Investment Management
11 68 (13.65%) CI/CD
12 64 (12.85%) Data Governance
13 52 (10.44%) Migration
14 50 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (9.64%) Data Architecture
16 46 (9.24%) Scrum
17 45 (9.04%) Visualisation
18 43 (8.63%) Data Integration
19 40 (8.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 221 (44.38%) Python
2 191 (38.35%) SQL
3 103 (20.68%) Java
4 79 (15.86%) JavaScript
5 67 (13.45%) TypeScript
6 29 (5.82%) T-SQL
7 28 (5.62%) Scala
8 27 (5.42%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.82%) Go
10 17 (3.41%) C#
11 12 (2.41%) R
12 10 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.41%) Bash
13 7 (1.41%) Bicep
14 5 (1.00%) X++
15 3 (0.60%) C
15 3 (0.60%) C++
15 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.40%) U-SQL
17 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (9.84%) Degree
2 44 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.02%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.60%) CIMA
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.20%) PhD
9 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (14.26%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.41%) QA
3 6 (1.20%) GDPR
4 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.60%) PMO
6 2 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) CDISC
7 1 (0.20%) COBIT
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (4.02%) Docker
2 8 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.60%) HDFS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 57 (11.45%) Terraform
2 36 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.02%) Ansible
4 12 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.41%) Puppet
5 6 (1.20%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.40%) Ambari
6 2 (0.40%) Oozie
7 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.20%) Kibana
7 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 145 (29.12%) Databricks
2 121 (24.30%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.02%) SAP
4 21 (4.22%) Oracle
5 14 (2.81%) Google
6 13 (2.61%) Informatica
7 11 (2.21%) Talend
8 8 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.41%) Dataiku
10 6 (1.20%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.20%) Splunk
10 6 (1.20%) Trillium
11 3 (0.60%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.60%) Teradata
12 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.40%) Marketo
12 2 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud