Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Lakes
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 87 105
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 12 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.66% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.43% 2.27% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £510 £444 £345
25th Percentile £525 £472 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +19.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile - £597 £500
90th Percentile £615 £621 £515
England median daily rate £600 £628 £550
% change year-on-year -4.38% +14.09% -5.58%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 350 176 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.13% 14.90% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 113 137
10th Percentile £326 £326 £303
25th Percentile £400 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £20.83 £16.97
25th Percentile - £24.31 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% -
75th Percentile - £30.00 £21.97
90th Percentile - £32.25 £24.86
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -14.08%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
West Yorkshire -8 9 £550 +22.22% 3
South Yorkshire -44 3 £600 -4.00% 1
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) DataStage
1 4 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Star Schema
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) Big Data
4 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Parquet
4 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Engineering
1 7 (58.33%) ETL
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) AI
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Data Security
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) RBAC
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) Informatica
2 4 (33.33%) Talend
3 1 (8.33%) Brio
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft