Parquet Contracts

Apache Parquet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Parquet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Parquet 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 486 542 690
Rank change year-on-year +56 +148 +96
Contract jobs citing Parquet 34 40 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.092% 0.047%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.61% 0.55% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 14
10th Percentile £380 £407 £458
25th Percentile £406 £413 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -16.48% +3.57%
75th Percentile £531 £563 £725
90th Percentile £563 £598 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 -
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Parquet 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Parquet in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Parquet in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Parquet in the UK

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Parquet over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Parquet in the UK

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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 Parquet 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 +46 25 £463 -5.13% 25
London +24 19 £450 -10.00% 16
Work from Home +46 14 £523 +7.28% 12
UK excluding London +68 11 £525 +10.53% 12
Scotland +15 6 £525 +10.53% 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
North of England - 2 £475 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
North West - 1 £475 -
South East - 1 £400 - 4

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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 14 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 5 (14.71%) nginx
3 4 (11.76%) Apache
4 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) Serverless
3 10 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (26.47%) Amazon S3
5 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon Cognito
6 6 (17.65%) AWS CloudTrail
6 6 (17.65%) Azure
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub
6 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
7 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (14.71%) GCP
8 4 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.94%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
1 5 (14.71%) HTTP
1 5 (14.71%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) DynamoDB
1 11 (32.35%) NoSQL
2 9 (26.47%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (26.47%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (26.47%) Hadoop
3 8 (23.53%) Apache Hive
3 8 (23.53%) Data Lake
4 7 (20.59%) Delta Lake
5 6 (17.65%) Big Data
5 6 (17.65%) Power BI
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (14.71%) Flink
6 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (14.71%) Presto
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
8 3 (8.82%) RDBMS
8 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) Poetry
3 1 (2.94%) ERwin
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Developer
3 9 (26.47%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Cloud Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Senior
6 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) AWS Developer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.88%) Architect
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Data Modeller
9 2 (5.88%) GCP Data Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (61.76%) JSON
2 10 (29.41%) Apache Avro
3 9 (26.47%) Kafka
4 7 (20.59%) AWS CDK
5 6 (17.65%) React
6 5 (14.71%) Dask
6 5 (14.71%) LAPP Stack
6 5 (14.71%) PySpark
7 3 (8.82%) Apache Beam
8 2 (5.88%) Plotly
8 2 (5.88%) XML
8 2 (5.88%) YAML
9 1 (2.94%) .NET
9 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.94%) OAuth
9 1 (2.94%) OpenID
9 1 (2.94%) REST
9 1 (2.94%) RESTful
9 1 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 19 (55.88%) DevOps
3 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (38.24%) Data Modelling
4 13 (38.24%) ETL
5 10 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (29.41%) Data Science
6 9 (26.47%) Event-Driven
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.59%) Agile
8 6 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
9 5 (14.71%) Analytics
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
9 5 (14.71%) Data Ingestion
9 5 (14.71%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (14.71%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (97.06%) SQL
2 28 (82.35%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) Scala
4 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 4 (11.76%) Java
6 3 (8.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (5.88%) Lua
7 2 (5.88%) Perl
7 2 (5.88%) PHP
7 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.94%) Bicep
8 1 (2.94%) C#
8 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) SAP