Delta Lake Contracts

Delta Lake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Delta Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Delta Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 547 684
Rank change year-on-year +71 +137 +74
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 44 35 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.080% 0.057%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.79% 0.48% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 27
10th Percentile £449 £503 £445
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - -13.36%
75th Percentile £641 £763 £675
90th Percentile £687 £850 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £506 £606
% change year-on-year +1.23% -16.49% -5.72%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Delta Lake over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Top 11 Contract 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 1 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
England +70 42 £600 - 75
London +45 29 £600 -7.69% 57
UK excluding London +71 13 £513 +1.23% 27
Work from Home +36 10 £600 - 28
North of England +28 10 £525 +9.38% 2
North West +22 6 £513 +6.77% 2
Midlands +22 2 - - 7
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £600 -
Scotland - 1 £463 - 1

Delta 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 26 (59.09%) Apache Spark
2 17 (38.64%) Apache
3 6 (13.64%) Jupyter
4 3 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (75.00%) Azure
2 14 (31.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 11 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.82%) Collibra
7 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.27%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.27%) Serverless
9 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 12 (27.27%) Power BI
2 10 (22.73%) Data Lake
2 10 (22.73%) SQL Server
3 8 (18.18%) Apache Hive
4 7 (15.91%) Big Data
4 7 (15.91%) Metadata
4 7 (15.91%) Parquet
5 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (11.36%) Hadoop
6 4 (9.09%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 3 (6.82%) Star Schema
7 3 (6.82%) Tableau
8 2 (4.55%) Apache Hudi
8 2 (4.55%) Data Vault
8 2 (4.55%) Flink
8 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Git
2 10 (22.73%) JIRA
3 6 (13.64%) RStudio
4 2 (4.55%) ERwin
4 2 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) Locust
5 1 (2.27%) MLflow
5 1 (2.27%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (31.82%) Banking
2 12 (27.27%) Finance
3 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (18.18%) Front Office
4 8 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 7 (15.91%) Financial Institution
5 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
6 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (61.36%) Data Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior
2 7 (15.91%) Senior Data Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Data Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Head of AI
3 6 (13.64%) Head of Analytics
3 6 (13.64%) Head of Data Science
3 6 (13.64%) Head of Engineering
4 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Architect
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.55%) Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Principal Data Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Scala Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) PySpark
2 11 (25.00%) JSON
3 9 (20.45%) YAML
4 8 (18.18%) pydantic
5 6 (13.64%) Kafka
6 2 (4.55%) ADO
6 2 (4.55%) Apache Avro
6 2 (4.55%) Pandas
6 2 (4.55%) Plotly
6 2 (4.55%) pytest
7 1 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.27%) boto
7 1 (2.27%) Great Expectations
7 1 (2.27%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (15.91%) Data Structures
2 7 (15.91%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.55%) Derivative
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Equities
3 2 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Analytics
2 19 (43.18%) Data Ingestion
3 18 (40.91%) Agile
3 18 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (36.36%) ETL
4 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
6 14 (31.82%) Data Modelling
6 14 (31.82%) Data Science
7 13 (29.55%) Data Governance
8 12 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (27.27%) Data Engineering
9 11 (25.00%) Machine Learning
10 10 (22.73%) Data Strategy
11 8 (18.18%) Data Security
12 7 (15.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 7 (15.91%) Scrum
12 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (13.64%) DevOps
13 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) SQL
2 32 (72.73%) Python
3 15 (34.09%) Scala
4 8 (18.18%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (38.64%) Data Quality
2 8 (18.18%) GDPR
3 4 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Terraform
2 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Ansible
3 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (77.27%) Databricks
2 5 (11.36%) Informatica
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) Talend