Delta Lake Contract Job Trends

Delta Lake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Delta Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 452 515
Rank change year-on-year -26 +63 +95
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 189 100 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.089%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.35% 1.67% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 62 29
10th Percentile £398 £387 -
25th Percentile £438 £451 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £600
90th Percentile £700 £656 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -4.47% -9.52% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,053 5,991 6,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.81% 18.15% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,357 4,002 4,614
10th Percentile £351 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 87 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.71 £38.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +10.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £34.43 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.14% +14.77% -42.86%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Delta Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Delta Lake job vacancy trend in the UK

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Delta Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Delta Lake

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 October 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
England -47 170 £525 -4.55% 172
London -21 127 £525 -8.70% 130
Work from Home -40 64 £550 - 69
UK excluding London -95 36 £454 -4.47% 62
North of England -68 15 £550 +12.82% 20
Midlands -43 10 £450 +9.09% 3
West Midlands -47 10 £450 +11.94% 2
Yorkshire -34 7 £550 +2.33% 4
North West -41 7 £690 +41.54% 10
South East -53 6 £400 -14.35% 19
Scotland -13 3 £402 -20.59% 9
East of England -24 1 - - 2
North East -39 1 £450 -2.70% 6
South West - 1 £500 - 3

Delta Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 49 (25.93%) Apache Spark
2 41 (21.69%) Apache
3 34 (17.99%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.70%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (2.12%) SugarCRM
6 2 (1.06%) SAS
7 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 129 (68.25%) Azure
2 89 (47.09%) AWS
3 43 (22.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 43 (22.75%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (16.93%) Azure Databricks
5 31 (16.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 30 (15.87%) GitHub
7 28 (14.81%) dbt
8 26 (13.76%) GCP
8 26 (13.76%) Serverless
9 24 (12.70%) Amazon S3
10 22 (11.64%) Power Platform
11 20 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (10.58%) Snowflake
12 15 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (5.82%) Entra ID
15 10 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (4.23%) Collibra
16 8 (4.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) Network Security
2 2 (1.06%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.69%) Data Lake
2 33 (17.46%) Metadata
3 32 (16.93%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (11.64%) Power BI
5 18 (9.52%) Parquet
6 16 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (6.35%) Spark SQL
8 10 (5.29%) BigQuery
8 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
10 7 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (3.70%) Data Vault
10 7 (3.70%) Redis
10 7 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (3.17%) Star Schema
12 4 (2.12%) Hadoop
12 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.12%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (1.59%) Looker
Development Applications
1 39 (20.63%) Git
2 21 (11.11%) MLflow
3 9 (4.76%) GitLab
4 7 (3.70%) ERwin
5 5 (2.65%) ER Studio
5 5 (2.65%) RStudio
6 4 (2.12%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.59%) Terragrunt
8 2 (1.06%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.53%) JIRA
9 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (28.57%) Finance
2 49 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Banking
5 15 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.65%) Billing
6 5 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.59%) Legal
7 3 (1.59%) Marketing
7 3 (1.59%) Military
7 3 (1.59%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Back Office
8 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Front Office
9 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (44.97%) Data Engineer
2 43 (22.75%) Senior
3 40 (21.16%) Architect
4 39 (20.63%) Databricks Engineer
5 31 (16.40%) Lead
6 29 (15.34%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (13.23%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Data Architect
9 13 (6.88%) Databricks Architect
10 12 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) Technical Leader
11 11 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.23%) Azure Data Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Platform Architect
12 8 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Product Owner
12 8 (4.23%) Technical Product Owner
13 7 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (52.91%) PySpark
2 48 (25.40%) Terraform
3 28 (14.81%) Kafka
4 10 (5.29%) REST
5 7 (3.70%) JSON
6 6 (3.17%) LangChain
7 5 (2.65%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.59%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (1.06%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.06%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.06%) Great Expectations
9 2 (1.06%) Pandas
9 2 (1.06%) pydantic
9 2 (1.06%) pytest
9 2 (1.06%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.53%) pgvector
10 1 (0.53%) Playwright
10 1 (0.53%) Plotly
10 1 (0.53%) Streamlit
10 1 (0.53%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.17%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.64%) Cloud Native
3 19 (10.05%) Onboarding
4 16 (8.47%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (5.82%) Data Structures
7 9 (4.76%) AI Agents
8 7 (3.70%) Reference Data
9 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.65%) Pricing Data
9 5 (2.65%) Replication
10 4 (2.12%) Data Fabric
10 4 (2.12%) Educational Technology
10 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.59%) Clustering
12 2 (1.06%) IoT
12 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.06%) NHS
12 2 (1.06%) SCADA
12 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.06%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 110 (58.20%) Data Pipeline
3 105 (55.56%) Data Engineering
4 91 (48.15%) Data Modelling
5 89 (47.09%) ETL
6 88 (46.56%) Analytics
7 87 (46.03%) DevOps
7 87 (46.03%) Lakehouse
8 70 (37.04%) AI
9 69 (36.51%) Data Governance
10 57 (30.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 54 (28.57%) Data Architecture
11 54 (28.57%) Migration
12 53 (28.04%) Agile
13 51 (26.98%) Infrastructure as Code
13 51 (26.98%) Machine Learning
14 39 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (20.63%) Validation
15 37 (19.58%) Data Transformation
16 35 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 142 (75.13%) SQL
2 121 (64.02%) Python
3 12 (6.35%) Bicep
4 9 (4.76%) Bash
5 8 (4.23%) Scala
6 5 (2.65%) R
7 4 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.06%) C#
8 2 (1.06%) Java
9 1 (0.53%) Ada
9 1 (0.53%) Go
9 1 (0.53%) Korn
9 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.82%) Azure Certification
4 8 (4.23%) Degree
5 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (48.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.41%) GDPR
3 5 (2.65%) SLA
4 4 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.12%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.59%) QA
6 2 (1.06%) COPPA
6 2 (1.06%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (13.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (11.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Grafana
2 1 (0.53%) QRadar
Vendors
1 161 (85.19%) Databricks
2 35 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.88%) Foundry
4 9 (4.76%) Oracle
4 9 (4.76%) SAP
5 8 (4.23%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.70%) Palantir
7 6 (3.17%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.65%) Mistral
9 4 (2.12%) HubSpot
9 4 (2.12%) Sage
10 3 (1.59%) Google
10 3 (1.59%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (1.59%) Teradata
11 2 (1.06%) Informatica
12 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.53%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.53%) IBM
12 1 (0.53%) Reuters
12 1 (0.53%) Trayport