Lakehouse Contract Job Trends

Data Lakehouse
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 485 502
Rank change year-on-year +182 +17 +94
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 463 75 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.25% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 50 33
10th Percentile £400 £403 £330
25th Percentile £450 £513 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +4.35% -5.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £700 £810 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £300
% change year-on-year -4.55% +83.33% -46.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,677 29,801 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.45% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,947 18,563 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.65 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -47.37% +14.67%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the UK

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the UK

Lakehouse
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lakehouse within the UK over the 6 months to 30 August 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 +171 423 £525 -12.50% 221
London +78 221 £568 -9.10% 174
UK excluding London +70 194 £525 -4.55% 74
Work from Home +65 151 £575 -14.81% 78
Midlands +27 79 £565 +37.80% 9
West Midlands - 69 £565 - 2
South East -25 41 £475 +1.33% 11
North of England -42 38 £493 -14.35% 24
South West -21 23 £525 +23.53% 5
Yorkshire -32 21 £460 -14.42% 6
North West -45 12 £563 -2.17% 15
East Midlands -7 7 £625 +52.44% 7
Scotland -15 7 £573 - 13
Wales - 7 £450 - 3
North East - 5 £520 - 3
East of England -26 2 - - 4

Lakehouse
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 60 (12.96%) Apache Spark
2 48 (10.37%) Apache
3 47 (10.15%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (6.91%) SAS
5 8 (1.73%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) PowerExchange
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (1.51%) Notepad++
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 269 (58.10%) Azure
2 148 (31.97%) Power Platform
3 142 (30.67%) AWS
4 92 (19.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 64 (13.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 64 (13.82%) GCP
6 44 (9.50%) dbt
7 43 (9.29%) Azure Databricks
8 41 (8.86%) Snowflake
9 36 (7.78%) Amazon S3
9 36 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (7.34%) Serverless
11 24 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (5.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (3.67%) GitHub
13 14 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (2.38%) Azure Functions
14 11 (2.38%) Azure Storage
15 9 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.51%) PuTTY
1 7 (1.51%) WinSCP
2 3 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (33.91%) Data Warehouse
2 144 (31.10%) Power BI
3 107 (23.11%) Data Lake
4 94 (20.30%) Metadata
5 90 (19.44%) Delta Lake
6 31 (6.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (6.48%) BigQuery
8 27 (5.83%) Spark SQL
9 25 (5.40%) Data Vault
10 24 (5.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 24 (5.18%) Star Schema
11 23 (4.97%) SQL Server
12 21 (4.54%) NoSQL
13 20 (4.32%) Semantic Layer
14 19 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (3.67%) Apache Iceberg
16 16 (3.46%) Tableau
17 15 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (3.24%) Base SAS
17 15 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (9.72%) Git
2 13 (2.81%) GitLab
2 13 (2.81%) MLflow
3 12 (2.59%) ERwin
4 11 (2.38%) JIRA
5 8 (1.73%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.08%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.86%) Selenium
8 2 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.22%) Deequ
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.22%) TestRail
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 109 (23.54%) Finance
3 67 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.54%) Banking
5 21 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.32%) Retail
7 14 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.73%) Marketing
10 7 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.65%) Law
11 3 (0.65%) Local Government
12 2 (0.43%) Billing
12 2 (0.43%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 180 (38.88%) Data Engineer
2 134 (28.94%) Architect
3 105 (22.68%) Data Architect
4 88 (19.01%) Senior
5 69 (14.90%) Senior Data Engineer
6 62 (13.39%) Lead
7 28 (6.05%) Databricks Engineer
8 26 (5.62%) Developer
9 25 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (4.75%) Azure Data Engineer
10 22 (4.75%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 21 (4.54%) Lead Data Engineer
12 20 (4.32%) Microsoft Engineer
13 17 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.46%) Databricks Architect
15 14 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 14 (3.02%) Consultant
16 13 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
17 12 (2.59%) Data Modeller
17 12 (2.59%) SAS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (23.76%) PySpark
2 50 (10.80%) Terraform
3 43 (9.29%) Kafka
4 10 (2.16%) Great Expectations
5 7 (1.51%) Spark Streaming
5 7 (1.51%) YAML
6 6 (1.30%) pytest
7 4 (0.86%) Apache Avro
7 4 (0.86%) Apache Beam
7 4 (0.86%) JSON
7 4 (0.86%) Playwright
7 4 (0.86%) React
8 3 (0.65%) .NET
8 3 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.65%) REST
8 3 (0.65%) Spring
8 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.43%) ADO
9 2 (0.43%) Jinja
9 2 (0.43%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.53%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (3.89%) Reference Data
5 17 (3.67%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.73%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.51%) Autonomous Agent
9 7 (1.51%) Data Fabric
9 7 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.08%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.08%) Pricing Data
12 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.73%) Unix
2 7 (1.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (54.00%) Data Modelling
2 243 (52.48%) Analytics
3 215 (46.44%) Data Pipeline
4 198 (42.76%) ETL
5 189 (40.82%) Data Engineering
6 168 (36.29%) Business Intelligence
7 164 (35.42%) CI/CD
8 154 (33.26%) Data Governance
9 141 (30.45%) Migration
10 135 (29.16%) Data Architecture
11 125 (27.00%) AI
12 94 (20.30%) Data Transformation
12 94 (20.30%) DevOps
13 92 (19.87%) Agile
14 83 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 80 (17.28%) Decision-Making
16 78 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
17 68 (14.69%) Machine Learning
18 63 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 63 (13.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 255 (55.08%) SQL
2 160 (34.56%) Python
3 38 (8.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 26 (5.62%) T-SQL
5 22 (4.75%) Java
6 17 (3.67%) Scala
7 14 (3.02%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.73%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.30%) Bicep
10 4 (0.86%) Bash
10 4 (0.86%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.86%) R
11 3 (0.65%) Go
11 3 (0.65%) Groovy
12 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) Ada
13 1 (0.22%) C#
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 95 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 72 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.46%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.02%) Degree
5 13 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.51%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (36.07%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.18%) GDPR
3 23 (4.97%) QA
4 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.08%) Solvency II
6 4 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.65%) IFRS
7 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) PMO
9 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.18%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.30%) Grafana
3 4 (0.86%) Ansible
4 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.22%) Kibana
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 230 (49.68%) Databricks
2 151 (32.61%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.05%) Oracle
4 26 (5.62%) Informatica
5 14 (3.02%) Google
6 11 (2.38%) Denodo
7 10 (2.16%) SAP
8 8 (1.73%) Talend
9 7 (1.51%) Teradata
10 4 (0.86%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.86%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.43%) GoldenSource
11 2 (0.43%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.43%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.43%) IBM
11 2 (0.43%) Remedy
11 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.43%) Sparx