Parquet Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Apache Parquet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Parquet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Parquet 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 290 336 466
Rank change year-on-year +46 +130 +120
Contract jobs citing Parquet 14 9 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.059% 0.043%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.67% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 3
10th Percentile - £463 £515
25th Percentile £380 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £488 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% -30.36% +29.33%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £763
90th Percentile £575 £571 £785
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £569
% change year-on-year +2.63% -16.48% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Parquet 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%

Parquet
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Parquet trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Parquet daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Parquet daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 6 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 4 (28.57%) nginx
3 2 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudTrail
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) HTTP
1 4 (28.57%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Hadoop
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Iceberg
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
3 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (28.57%) Presto
4 3 (21.43%) Big Data
4 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (21.43%) Delta Lake
4 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
5 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.14%) Power BI
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
6 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) Poetry
3 1 (7.14%) ERwin
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
6 1 (7.14%) Architect
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) GCP Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) JSON
2 4 (28.57%) Dask
2 4 (28.57%) LAPP Stack
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CDK
3 3 (21.43%) PySpark
4 2 (14.29%) Kafka
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
5 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (7.14%) Plotly
5 1 (7.14%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (7.14%) XML
5 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (50.00%) Data Science
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Trunk-Based Development
6 3 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) ETL
6 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
6 3 (21.43%) Release Management
7 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 11 (78.57%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle