Data Lake Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Lakes
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 65 89
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 7 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.90% 1.07% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 6.47% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £420 £420 £430
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £469 £550 £513
90th Percentile £480 - £520
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £507 £475
% change year-on-year -6.31% +6.74% -13.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 153 139 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.72% 16.55% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 92 119
10th Percentile £355 £352 £385
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £638
90th Percentile £692 £648 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -5.84% +1.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £20.05 £17.12
25th Percentile - £22.38 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%
75th Percentile - £31.25 £22.68
90th Percentile - £32.75 £25.14
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +11.63%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in West Yorkshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Leeds -3 6 £463 -7.45% 6
Data Lake
Yorkshire

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) DataStage
1 3 (42.86%) Delta Lake
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) Star Schema
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Transpiler
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
1 3 (42.86%) Informatica
1 3 (42.86%) Talend
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce