Delta Lake Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Delta Lake
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Delta Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Delta 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 294 330 462
Rank change year-on-year +36 +132 +123
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 10 15 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.098% 0.058%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.48% 0.52% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 15
10th Percentile £463 £500 £400
25th Percentile £499 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -16.97%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £669
90th Percentile £690 £665 £675
UK median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - -13.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Delta 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Delta Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Delta Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Delta Lake trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Delta Lake.

Delta Lake daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Delta Lake over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Delta Lake daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Delta Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Collibra
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (40.00%) Metadata
3 3 (30.00%) Parquet
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) ERwin
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
2 1 (10.00%) RStudio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Plotly
2 1 (10.00%) pydantic
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Data Management
6 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (10.00%) Data Security
7 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Project Management
7 1 (10.00%) Scrum
7 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Google