Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Data Lakes
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 87
Rank change year-on-year -7 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.50% 0.43% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.06% 5.00% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile - - £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile - - £650
90th Percentile - - £680
South West median daily rate £600 £563 £554
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.58% +5.48%

All Database & BI Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 66 40 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 8.21% 8.57% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 37
10th Percentile £373 £401 £341
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £607 £635 £693
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £33.98 - -
25th Percentile £39.56 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £44.36 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.13% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £38.50 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.00% +75.00% -39.39%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Swindon -5 4 £530 -18.46% 2
Data Lake
South West

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) DataOps
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) Business Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform