Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Wales

Data Lakes
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.29% - 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.56% - 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.23%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -23.33% +30.43% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

Data Lake 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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 39 53 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 11.40% 13.55% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 65
10th Percentile £281 £214 £217
25th Percentile £363 £381 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +7.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £486 £597 £569
90th Percentile £600 £650 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £541
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.07% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.85
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate £22.84 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £24.88
90th Percentile - - £25.55
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £33.22 £53.50
% change year-on-year +18.86% -37.92% +19.31%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Wales

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Wales region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
South Wales - 1 £500 - 3
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks