Hybrid/Remote Parquet Contract Job Trends

Apache Parquet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Parquet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 320 394
Rank change year-on-year +18 +74 +154
Contract jobs citing Parquet 11 6 18
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.050% 0.097%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.57% 0.25% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 13
10th Percentile £395 £385 £500
25th Percentile £551 £419 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -3.03%
75th Percentile £604 £513 £670
90th Percentile £617 £520 £1,120
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £573
% change year-on-year - -8.30% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £105.00 - £77.50

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 1,934 2,353 3,346
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.37% 19.46% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 1,624 2,411
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £413 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £533
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.13% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 29 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.93 £16.89
25th Percentile £21.02 £19.59 £21.14
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.50 £44.12
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% -37.67% -19.78%
75th Percentile £74.38 £40.25 £65.94
90th Percentile £87.50 £49.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +45.00% -35.04% -3.68%

Parquet
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Parquet job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Parquet
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Parquet
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Parquet over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

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

Parquet
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 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (9.09%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
1 7 (63.64%) GitHub
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 4 (36.36%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (9.09%) dbt
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) SSH
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Delta Lake
2 5 (45.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (18.18%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (18.18%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (18.18%) Big Data
4 2 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 2 (18.18%) Metadata
4 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) MLflow
1 2 (18.18%) Poetry
1 2 (18.18%) PyCharm
1 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
2 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (45.45%) Billing
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) JSON
2 5 (45.45%) PySpark
3 4 (36.36%) Great Expectations
4 3 (27.27%) NumPy
4 3 (27.27%) Pandas
5 2 (18.18%) Apache Avro
5 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (18.18%) Flask
5 2 (18.18%) REST
6 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 1 (9.09%) Matplotlib
6 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
6 1 (9.09%) pytest
6 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
6 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
6 1 (9.09%) Seaborn
6 1 (9.09%) SOAP
6 1 (9.09%) Swagger
6 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Life Science
2 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (45.45%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (45.45%) RBAC
3 5 (45.45%) Validation
4 4 (36.36%) Observability
5 3 (27.27%) Change Data Capture
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) ETL
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Memory Management
6 2 (18.18%) Metadata Management
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CTC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (18.18%) HIPAA
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Argo
1 2 (18.18%) Istio
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Cloudera
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) Progress