Presto Contract Job Trends

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Presto skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 538 588
Rank change year-on-year -106 +50 +84
Contract jobs citing Presto 8 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.003% 0.018%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.10% 0.017% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £531 - £575
25th Percentile £560 - £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% -10.34% -14.71%
75th Percentile £586 - £775
90th Percentile £651 - £813
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £500
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -41.18%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Presto 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 7,946 5,822 7,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.29% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,243 3,941 5,416
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 103 153
10th Percentile £15.57 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.38 £20.49
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% -34.78%
75th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% +5.47% -45.45%

Presto
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Presto job vacancy trend in the UK

Presto
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Presto
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Presto over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Presto in the UK

Presto
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Presto
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Presto within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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 -100 6 £581 -10.56% 3
Work from Home - 6 £581 -
London - 5 £582 - 3

Presto
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 8 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (87.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon EMR
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (87.50%) Big Data
1 7 (87.50%) MongoDB
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (50.00%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (12.50%) Flink
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) Trino
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) CSS
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) Play Framework
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (75.00%) MVC
4 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) Clean Code
4 5 (62.50%) Data Protection
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
5 4 (50.00%) Customer Insight
5 4 (50.00%) Kanban
5 4 (50.00%) Scrum
5 4 (50.00%) Secrets Management
6 2 (25.00%) Co-Design
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (25.00%) Data Sharing
7 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) Scala
2 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Grafana
1 7 (87.50%) Kibana
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Splunk