Data Lake Contract Job Trends in West London

Data Lakes
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.36% - 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £591 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.16%
75th Percentile - - £775
90th Percentile £630 - -
London median daily rate £625 £700 £555
% change year-on-year -10.71% +26.13% -7.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 49 49 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 16.50% 22.48% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 38 57
10th Percentile £204 £371 £340
25th Percentile £363 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £580
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -18.10% +5.45%
75th Percentile £588 £568 £621
90th Percentile £625 £603 £697
London median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £31.72 £65.60
25th Percentile £27.25 £33.42 £66.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -47.18% +208.70%
75th Percentile £27.75 £69.38 £77.50
90th Percentile - £87.75 £82.00
London median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £45.53
% change year-on-year - -1.16% -17.22%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in West London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
Richmond upon Thames - 7 £625 -
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (57.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Collibra
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
1 4 (57.14%) Mixpanel
1 4 (57.14%) OLAP
1 4 (57.14%) OLTP
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata
General
1 3 (42.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Software Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (57.14%) Great Expectations
3 3 (42.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Batch Processing
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Data Privacy
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) LLM
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) MapReduce
2 4 (57.14%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (57.14%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) Google