Data Lake Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Lakes
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake 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 83 99 119
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 14 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.62% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.64% 3.97% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 17
10th Percentile £390 - £463
25th Percentile £400 £263 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -33.33% +24.35%
75th Percentile £476 £515 £650
90th Percentile £500 £660 £700
England median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +60.49% +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 211 302 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.69% 15.51% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 232 283
10th Percentile £295 £301 £350
25th Percentile £410 £358 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £588
90th Percentile £690 £700 £698
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £15.80 - £24.13
25th Percentile £16.57 - £24.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £19.00 - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the West Midlands

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region 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
Birmingham +21 8 £438 +6.71% 16
Coventry +11 5 £390 -42.22% 13
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England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 4 (28.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) Metadata
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) ERwin
2 1 (7.14%) ER Studio
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Junior
3 4 (28.57%) Junior Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Junior Solutions Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Information Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Middleware
1 4 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) FHIR
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) NumPy
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 7 (50.00%) ERP
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 6 (42.86%) Data Integration
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Data Extraction
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) B2B
5 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
5 4 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (28.57%) Interface Catalogue
5 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 4 (28.57%) Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
6 3 (21.43%) API Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) R
3 2 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) SAP