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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 83 116
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 10 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.64% 1.28% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.26% 7.82% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 2
10th Percentile £428 - £430
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +6.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £513
90th Percentile - £590 £520
England median daily rate £600 £750 £586
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.93% +1.96%

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 307 243 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.59% 16.34% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 160 153
10th Percentile £320 £375 £325
25th Percentile £385 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +1.95% -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £20.05 £17.12
25th Percentile - £22.38 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% +11.63%
75th Percentile - £31.25 £22.68
90th Percentile - £32.75 £25.14
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +11.11%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Yorkshire

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 25 September 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 -7 7 £451 -9.90% 8
South Yorkshire -21 3 £600 +16.85% 3
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (40.00%) DataStage
1 4 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Star Schema
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ETL
2 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Transpiler
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Scala
3 3 (30.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks
2 4 (40.00%) Informatica
2 4 (40.00%) Talend
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce