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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 512 557
Rank change year-on-year +44 +45 +215
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 116 28 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.083% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.83% 0.46% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 22 32
10th Percentile £380 £470 £529
25th Percentile £413 £513 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £713
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -19.30% +4.01%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £791
90th Percentile £650 £673 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -27.33% -4.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 - -
Median hourly rate £105.00 - -
75th Percentile £110.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,352 6,065 7,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.19% 18.08% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,390 4,010 5,119
10th Percentile £325 £345 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 84 142
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.74 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.66 £22.77
Median hourly rate £52.00 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% -31.69% -16.04%
75th Percentile £72.57 £64.56 £64.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.63 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -7.64%

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 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Top 15 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 28 December 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 +34 95 £545 -9.17% 91
London +42 67 £550 -4.35% 31
Work from Home +24 36 £575 +4.55% 73
UK excluding London -30 31 £436 -27.33% 65
North of England -34 10 £500 +1.52% 15
Scotland - 8 £432 - 2
South East -13 7 £425 -29.17% 20
Midlands - 5 £413 - 16
North East - 5 £525 - 3
North West -23 3 £200 -60.00% 5
West Midlands - 3 £402 - 12
Yorkshire -44 2 £650 +34.02% 7
East Midlands - 2 £506 - 3
South West - 1 £250 - 4
East of England - 1 £650 - 6

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 33 (28.45%) Apache Spark
2 26 (22.41%) Apache
3 15 (12.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 83 (71.55%) Azure
2 34 (29.31%) AWS
3 33 (28.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (28.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 28 (24.14%) Power Platform
5 26 (22.41%) GitHub
6 25 (21.55%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (12.93%) Amazon S3
8 15 (12.93%) Serverless
9 13 (11.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (9.48%) GCP
12 9 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (6.90%) Azure Functions
13 8 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (6.03%) dbt
15 6 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (5.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) SSH
1 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (35.34%) Data Lake
2 26 (22.41%) Power BI
3 18 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (14.66%) Parquet
5 13 (11.21%) SQL Server
6 11 (9.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (9.48%) Metadata
6 11 (9.48%) Spark SQL
7 10 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (5.17%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (5.17%) Big Data
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (4.31%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.31%) Tableau
11 4 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.59%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 21 (18.10%) MLflow
2 17 (14.66%) Git
3 8 (6.90%) GitLab
4 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.72%) ERwin
6 2 (1.72%) Poetry
6 2 (1.72%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.72%) PyCharm
6 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Finance
3 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.17%) Billing
6 4 (3.45%) Legal
6 4 (3.45%) Retail
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Law
8 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (44.83%) Data Engineer
2 37 (31.90%) Senior
3 26 (22.41%) Architect
4 18 (15.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Azure Architect
6 12 (10.34%) Data Architect
7 11 (9.48%) Azure Data Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Lead
9 9 (7.76%) Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.45%) Technical Leader
12 3 (2.59%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 3 (2.59%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (51.72%) PySpark
2 9 (7.76%) Kafka
3 8 (6.90%) JSON
4 7 (6.03%) YAML
5 6 (5.17%) Great Expectations
5 6 (5.17%) Pandas
6 5 (4.31%) PyTorch
6 5 (4.31%) scikit-learn
7 4 (3.45%) Apache Avro
7 4 (3.45%) REST
8 3 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.59%) Flask
8 3 (2.59%) NumPy
8 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.72%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.86%) Middleware
10 1 (0.86%) PyArrow
10 1 (0.86%) Shiny
10 1 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.90%) Reinsurance
2 5 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.59%) IoT
5 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.72%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.72%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 61 (52.59%) Data Pipeline
3 51 (43.97%) Data Engineering
4 50 (43.10%) Analytics
5 47 (40.52%) DevOps
6 45 (38.79%) ETL
7 40 (34.48%) Data Governance
7 40 (34.48%) Data Modelling
8 35 (30.17%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (23.28%) Data Architecture
10 24 (20.69%) Data Science
11 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (18.10%) Agile
12 21 (18.10%) AI
13 20 (17.24%) Data Transformation
13 20 (17.24%) Validation
14 19 (16.38%) Machine Learning
15 18 (15.52%) Observability
16 15 (12.93%) Decision-Making
16 15 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 73 (62.93%) SQL
2 65 (56.03%) Python
3 13 (11.21%) Scala
4 11 (9.48%) Bash
5 8 (6.90%) Bicep
5 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.17%) R
7 4 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.59%) Groovy
8 3 (2.59%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.72%) C#
9 2 (1.72%) Java
9 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.86%) Korn
10 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.48%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.31%) CTC Cleared
5 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) Degree
6 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.48%) GDPR
3 6 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.45%) NIST
5 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.72%) QA
7 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.86%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Docker
2 5 (4.31%) zsh
Systems Management
1 19 (16.38%) Terraform
2 8 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.59%) Argo
3 3 (2.59%) Istio
4 2 (1.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 101 (87.07%) Databricks
2 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.17%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.45%) Cloudera
5 4 (3.45%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.72%) New Relic
6 2 (1.72%) Oracle
6 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.86%) Informatica
7 1 (0.86%) Talend