Lakehouse Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Lakehouse
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Lakehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 69 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.99% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 57 0 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £670 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Lakehouse falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,938 1,559 1,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.82% 88.33% 81.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,811 997 1,013
10th Percentile £313 £250 £250
25th Percentile £410 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 102 51
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.34 £14.85
Median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +12.74% -21.49%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.45 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.16 £50.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lakehouse in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lakehouse in the West Midlands

Lakehouse
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 Lakehouse within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Shropshire - 29 £656 -
Warwickshire - 13 £525 -
Birmingham - 7 £373 - 2
Staffordshire - 5 £625 -
Dudley - 5 £400 -
Coventry - 4 £363 -
Lakehouse
England

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 25 (36.23%) SAS
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.90%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.03%) Azure
2 19 (27.54%) Azure Data Factory
2 19 (27.54%) Power Platform
3 10 (14.49%) AWS
4 8 (11.59%) Azure Storage
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Functions
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (10.14%) GCP
5 7 (10.14%) Serverless
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.80%) Matillion
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) PuTTY
1 5 (7.25%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (69.57%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (43.48%) Data Lake
3 19 (27.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 19 (27.54%) Power BI
4 17 (24.64%) Metadata
5 14 (20.29%) Base SAS
6 8 (11.59%) NoSQL
7 6 (8.70%) Pentaho
8 5 (7.25%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (7.25%) Delta Lake
9 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.90%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.45%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.45%) MySQL
11 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.45%) PowerCenter
11 1 (1.45%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) GitLab
General
1 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (11.59%) Finance
4 6 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.35%) Marketing
5 3 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Advertising
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (43.48%) Architect
2 28 (40.58%) Data Architect
3 26 (37.68%) Data Engineer
4 11 (15.94%) SAS Architect
4 11 (15.94%) Senior
5 8 (11.59%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Data Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) SAP Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Data Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Databricks Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) PySpark
2 2 (2.90%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Autonomous Agent
3 5 (7.25%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.90%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) Migration
2 37 (53.62%) ETL
3 28 (40.58%) Analytics
4 27 (39.13%) Data Modelling
5 24 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (28.99%) CI/CD
7 19 (27.54%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (27.54%) Data Architecture
7 19 (27.54%) Decision-Making
8 16 (23.19%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (20.29%) Agile
9 14 (20.29%) AI
9 14 (20.29%) Integration Patterns
10 13 (18.84%) Roadmaps
10 13 (18.84%) Test Automation
11 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (17.39%) Validation
12 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
12 10 (14.49%) Data Engineering
12 10 (14.49%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.58%) SQL
2 17 (24.64%) Python
3 7 (10.14%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.70%) Java
4 6 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.45%) Ada
7 1 (1.45%) Bicep
7 1 (1.45%) R
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (44.93%) Security Cleared
2 28 (40.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 27 (39.13%) Databricks
2 17 (24.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.04%) Informatica
4 8 (11.59%) Denodo
4 8 (11.59%) Oracle
5 6 (8.70%) Talend
6 4 (5.80%) SAP
7 2 (2.90%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.45%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.45%) QAD