Pentaho Contract Job Trends

Pentaho
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Pentaho skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 531 569
Rank change year-on-year -58 +38 +55
Contract jobs citing Pentaho 82 28 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.085% 0.010%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.00% 0.47% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 21 3
10th Percentile £413 £508 £423
25th Percentile £431 £509 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £501 £583 £544
90th Percentile £641 £625 £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -10.24% -0.48% -2.78%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Pentaho 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 8,189 5,967 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.09% 18.12% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,468 3,995 4,734
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 93 86
10th Percentile £16.35 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.88 £29.33 £20.88
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.50 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.30% +18.30% -45.21%

Pentaho
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Pentaho job vacancy trend in the UK

Pentaho
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Pentaho
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pentaho over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pentaho in the UK

Pentaho
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pentaho.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Pentaho

Pentaho
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pentaho within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 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 -92 77 £469 -10.67% 8
UK excluding London -55 69 £469 -10.24% 4
Midlands +4 67 £469 -10.67% 4
West Midlands -5 67 £469 -10.67% 4
Work from Home -26 35 £472 -18.62% 1
South East - 8 £462 -
London -89 5 £575 -0.86% 4

Pentaho
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 35 (42.68%) SAS
2 9 (10.98%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 35 (42.68%) AWS
2 16 (19.51%) Power Platform
3 9 (10.98%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (7.32%) Amazon EMR
4 6 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.10%) Serverless
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.17%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (19.51%) Data Lake
2 16 (19.51%) Power BI
3 15 (18.29%) Oracle Database
4 11 (13.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (12.20%) NoSQL
6 9 (10.98%) Metadata
7 8 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (7.32%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (7.32%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (7.32%) DynamoDB
8 6 (7.32%) MySQL
9 1 (1.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (1.22%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 30 (36.59%) GitLab
2 18 (21.95%) Git
3 16 (19.51%) Jenkins
4 15 (18.29%) JIRA
General
1 26 (31.71%) Public Sector
2 24 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (80.49%) Data Engineer
2 10 (12.20%) Architect
2 10 (12.20%) Data Architect
3 9 (10.98%) AWS Data Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Senior
4 6 (7.32%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Pentaho Developer
7 2 (2.44%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) SAS Engineer
7 2 (2.44%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) ETL Developer
8 1 (1.22%) Informatica Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle ETL Developer
8 1 (1.22%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.98%) Autonomous Agent
3 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Unix
2 4 (4.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (75.61%) ETL
2 50 (60.98%) Agile
2 50 (60.98%) Data Modelling
3 48 (58.54%) Data Pipeline
4 46 (56.10%) Data Integration
5 37 (45.12%) Analytics
5 37 (45.12%) CI/CD
6 34 (41.46%) Test Automation
7 28 (34.15%) DevOps
7 28 (34.15%) Scrum
8 27 (32.93%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (32.93%) Data Virtualisation
9 26 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (29.27%) Business Analytics
10 24 (29.27%) Data Engineering
11 16 (19.51%) AI
11 16 (19.51%) Component Testing
11 16 (19.51%) Performance Testing
12 14 (17.07%) Migration
13 13 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 70 (85.37%) SQL
2 14 (17.07%) Java
3 11 (13.41%) Python
4 9 (10.98%) Bash
Qualifications
1 72 (87.80%) Security Cleared
2 67 (81.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.22%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.61%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.10%) FATCA
2 5 (6.10%) QA
3 3 (3.66%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (15.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 57 (69.51%) Talend
2 52 (63.41%) Oracle
3 35 (42.68%) Denodo
4 29 (35.37%) Informatica
5 6 (7.32%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.88%) Cloudera
6 4 (4.88%) Sage
7 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.22%) Atlassian