Data Lake Contracts in Central London

Data Lakes
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 103 150
Rank change year-on-year -1 +47 -36
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 33 73 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.38% 1.98% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.21% 9.49% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 51 21
10th Percentile £475 £488 £413
25th Percentile £497 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £647 £730 £706
90th Percentile £703 £755 £775
London median daily rate £750 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +25.00% - +9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 531 769 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.19% 20.84% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 490 694
10th Percentile £408 £413 £419
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £729 £712
90th Percentile £784 £800 £800
London median daily rate £554 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -3.74% -0.86% +10.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £42.50 £39.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +52.89% +223.53%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £48.00 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -8.57% -2.33% +74.44%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Central London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London -3 29 £538 -17.31% 14
West End of London +5 2 - - 1
City of Westminster - 1 £650 - 1
Data Lake
London

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (6.06%) Primavera
3 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (3.03%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) Power Platform
3 11 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (30.30%) Power Automate
4 10 (30.30%) PowerApps
5 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) AWS
6 6 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.09%) GCP
8 3 (9.09%) WhatsApp
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) Power BI
2 8 (24.24%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (21.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
4 4 (12.12%) Parquet
5 2 (6.06%) Big Data
5 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) Power Query
6 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Deequ
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (42.42%) Finance
3 9 (27.27%) Public Sector
4 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (24.24%) General Ledger
4 8 (24.24%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Consultant
1 8 (24.24%) Data Engineer
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Consultant
2 5 (15.15%) Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Business Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Data Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) PySpark
2 4 (12.12%) JSON
3 3 (9.09%) Apache Avro
3 3 (9.09%) JSON Schema
3 3 (9.09%) Kafka
4 2 (6.06%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.06%) Great Expectations
4 2 (6.06%) Middleware
5 1 (3.03%) pytest
5 1 (3.03%) REST
5 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Accounts Payable
4 8 (24.24%) Accounts Receivable
4 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Data Engineering
4 8 (24.24%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (24.24%) Requirements Workshops
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) ETL
5 7 (21.21%) Migration
6 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
8 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
8 4 (12.12%) Data Transformation
8 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
9 3 (9.09%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (30.30%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) T-SQL
4 3 (9.09%) Scala
5 2 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) CIMA
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
1 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Databricks
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce