Apache Parquet
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 688 796
Rank change year-on-year +153 +108 -151
Contract jobs citing Parquet 43 28 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.047% 0.080%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.59% 0.26% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 48
10th Percentile £409 £458 £389
25th Percentile £413 £531 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +3.41% -8.33%
75th Percentile £556 £725 £651
90th Percentile £590 £788 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £519
% change year-on-year - - -13.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Parquet 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 7,337 10,575 17,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 17.90% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,241 7,524 12,672
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% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £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 143 186 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +60.89%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.41 £62.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.25 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

Parquet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Parquet in the UK

Parquet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Parquet in the UK

Parquet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parquet over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Parquet in the UK

Parquet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Parquet in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parquet within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +121 39 £500 -12.09% 4
London +122 36 £500 -12.09% 4
Work from Home +128 9 £488 -30.36% 4
UK excluding London +64 6 £475 -
Scotland - 4 £475 -
South West - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £475 -

Parquet
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 9 (20.93%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.95%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) AWS
2 24 (55.81%) Serverless
3 23 (53.49%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (53.49%) AWS Step Functions
4 19 (44.19%) Amazon MSK
5 17 (39.53%) Azure
6 14 (32.56%) Amazon S3
7 9 (20.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (18.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (13.95%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (11.63%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (9.30%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (9.30%) GCP
11 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (6.98%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (6.98%) AWS CodeCommit
12 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
13 2 (4.65%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (4.65%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (48.84%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (48.84%) Amazon Redshift
1 21 (48.84%) DynamoDB
2 16 (37.21%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (27.91%) Data Lake
4 10 (23.26%) NoSQL
5 9 (20.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (20.93%) Big Data
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
7 3 (6.98%) Power BI
8 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.65%) Bigtable
8 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (4.65%) HBase
8 2 (4.65%) IBM BigInsights
8 2 (4.65%) PolyBase
8 2 (4.65%) Power Query
8 2 (4.65%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Deequ
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.33%) ERwin
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) NUnit
General
1 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (69.77%) Data Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Data Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Data Architect
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Data Analytics Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (86.05%) Apache Avro
2 33 (76.74%) JSON
3 13 (30.23%) PySpark
4 12 (27.91%) Kafka
5 9 (20.93%) JSON Schema
6 6 (13.95%) YAML
7 5 (11.63%) XML
8 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
8 4 (9.30%) Great Expectations
9 2 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (4.65%) Middleware
9 2 (4.65%) REST
10 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
10 1 (2.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.33%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (79.07%) ETL
2 30 (69.77%) Data Modelling
3 24 (55.81%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (46.51%) Data Ingestion
5 16 (37.21%) Analytics
6 12 (27.91%) Agile
6 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
7 11 (25.58%) Migration
7 11 (25.58%) Predictive Modelling
8 10 (23.26%) Business Transformation
9 9 (20.93%) Data Migration
10 8 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (18.60%) Kimball Methodology
10 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
11 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (16.28%) DevOps
12 6 (13.95%) Scrum
13 5 (11.63%) Data Transformation
13 5 (11.63%) Log Analytics
13 5 (11.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 37 (86.05%) SQL
2 34 (79.07%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) Scala
3 6 (13.95%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.65%) Bash
4 2 (4.65%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.65%) Lua
4 2 (4.65%) Perl
4 2 (4.65%) PHP
4 2 (4.65%) U-SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Jython
5 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
1 19 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (39.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Ambari
2 2 (4.65%) Ansible
2 2 (4.65%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Databricks
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle