Hybrid/Remote Lakehouse Contract Job Trends

Data Lakehouse
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 219 284 315
Rank change year-on-year +65 +31 +95
Contract jobs citing Lakehouse 151 22 21
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.24% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 18 15
10th Percentile £395 £507 £290
25th Percentile £461 £563 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £671 £784 £706
90th Percentile £700 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £532 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.33% +4.35% -5.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,167 9,083 11,193
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 92.06% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,633 6,065 7,367
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 711 279 333
10th Percentile £16.33 £12.62 £17.65
25th Percentile £30.11 £19.07 £30.12
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.80% -17.44% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.55 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

Lakehouse
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Lakehouse and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Lakehouse job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lakehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lakehouse

Lakehouse
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Lakehouse over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Lakehouse daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Lakehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (16.56%) Apache Spark
2 22 (14.57%) Apache
3 16 (10.60%) SAS
4 14 (9.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.66%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (53.64%) Azure
2 47 (31.13%) AWS
3 45 (29.80%) Power Platform
4 24 (15.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (13.91%) GCP
6 16 (10.60%) Azure Databricks
7 14 (9.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (7.28%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.62%) Snowflake
10 9 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.30%) dbt
12 7 (4.64%) Collibra
12 7 (4.64%) Serverless
13 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (3.31%) Azure Storage
15 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
16 3 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (1.99%) Amazon Kinesis
16 3 (1.99%) Azure Key Vault
16 3 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) PuTTY
1 2 (1.32%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (41.06%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (29.14%) Power BI
3 39 (25.83%) Data Lake
4 37 (24.50%) Delta Lake
5 32 (21.19%) Metadata
6 13 (8.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (7.95%) BigQuery
8 9 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
9 8 (5.30%) Base SAS
9 8 (5.30%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.97%) Star Schema
11 5 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.31%) Data Vault
11 5 (3.31%) Pentaho
11 5 (3.31%) Spark SQL
11 5 (3.31%) Tableau
12 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.99%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Git
2 7 (4.64%) MLflow
3 6 (3.97%) ERwin
4 4 (2.65%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.99%) JIRA
6 2 (1.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.66%) TestRail
General
1 42 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.53%) Finance
3 23 (15.23%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.27%) Banking
6 11 (7.28%) Retail
7 9 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.97%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.99%) Law
12 2 (1.32%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.32%) Marketing
13 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.66%) Police
13 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (32.45%) Data Engineer
2 48 (31.79%) Architect
3 37 (24.50%) Data Architect
4 25 (16.56%) Senior
5 19 (12.58%) Senior Data Engineer
6 17 (11.26%) Lead
7 13 (8.61%) Developer
8 12 (7.95%) Databricks Engineer
9 10 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (5.30%) SAS Architect
11 8 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.64%) Azure Data Engineer
12 7 (4.64%) Databricks Architect
13 6 (3.97%) Lead Data Engineer
14 5 (3.31%) AWS Architect
14 5 (3.31%) Data Analyst
14 5 (3.31%) Data Warehouse Manager
14 5 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.18%) PySpark
2 11 (7.28%) Kafka
2 11 (7.28%) Terraform
3 5 (3.31%) YAML
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.66%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.66%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.66%) JSON
5 1 (0.66%) MDX
5 1 (0.66%) Middleware
5 1 (0.66%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.66%) Pandas
5 1 (0.66%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.66%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (0.66%) pytest
5 1 (0.66%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.66%) REST
5 1 (0.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.26%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.64%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.64%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.31%) Autonomous Agent
5 4 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.99%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.99%) Pricing Data
7 2 (1.32%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.66%) Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (50.99%) Analytics
1 77 (50.99%) Data Modelling
2 64 (42.38%) Data Pipeline
3 61 (40.40%) Data Governance
3 61 (40.40%) ETL
4 60 (39.74%) Data Engineering
5 47 (31.13%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (31.13%) Migration
6 46 (30.46%) Data Architecture
7 44 (29.14%) CI/CD
8 40 (26.49%) AI
9 35 (23.18%) Data Transformation
10 34 (22.52%) DevOps
11 30 (19.87%) Agile
12 26 (17.22%) Decision-Making
12 26 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (16.56%) Machine Learning
14 24 (15.89%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (15.23%) Data Management
16 21 (13.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (52.98%) SQL
2 44 (29.14%) Python
3 10 (6.62%) Java
4 9 (5.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (5.30%) Scala
6 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.32%) Go
7 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.66%) Ada
8 1 (0.66%) Bash
8 1 (0.66%) C#
8 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (30.46%) Security Cleared
2 39 (25.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.64%) Degree
5 5 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (38.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.61%) GDPR
3 5 (3.31%) QA
4 4 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.65%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.32%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.66%) GRC
6 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.66%) NCSC
6 1 (0.66%) PMO
6 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Grafana
2 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (52.98%) Databricks
2 52 (34.44%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.96%) Oracle
4 6 (3.97%) Denodo
5 5 (3.31%) Informatica
5 5 (3.31%) SAP
6 3 (1.99%) Google
7 2 (1.32%) Teradata
8 1 (0.66%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.66%) Confluent
8 1 (0.66%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.66%) IBM
8 1 (0.66%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.66%) Remedy
8 1 (0.66%) Talend