Data Lake Contracts in London

Data Lakes
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 155 187
Rank change year-on-year +30 +32 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 331 462 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.90% 1.78% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.66% 8.74% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 358 385
10th Percentile £470 £475 £443
25th Percentile £523 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £699 £688
90th Percentile £888 £775 £763
England median daily rate £585 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -55.56% +41.89%
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -36.94%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,821 5,285 8,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.88% 20.39% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,827 3,879 6,092
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £800 £780
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 51 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.62 £23.70 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.99% +79.49%
75th Percentile £55.00 £78.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £90.00 £81.25
England median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.30% +30.20% +83.15%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London +2 33 £550 -15.38% 12
West London +19 1 - - 4
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 107 (32.33%) Apache Airflow
2 95 (28.70%) Apache
3 35 (10.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.91%) SAS
5 2 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (6.34%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.91%) Primavera
3 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Magento
4 1 (0.30%) Maximo
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 182 (54.98%) Azure
2 152 (45.92%) AWS
3 114 (34.44%) Snowflake
4 102 (30.82%) dbt
5 75 (22.66%) GCP
6 71 (21.45%) Power Platform
7 63 (19.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 45 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (12.39%) Power Automate
10 35 (10.57%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (9.97%) PowerApps
12 32 (9.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 27 (8.16%) Serverless
14 17 (5.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (4.53%) Amazon Kinesis
15 15 (4.53%) Azure Functions
16 14 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (3.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) Firewall
1 1 (0.30%) Network Security
1 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (32.02%) Amazon Athena
2 99 (29.91%) Apache Arrow
2 99 (29.91%) Dremio
3 83 (25.08%) Apache Ignite
4 77 (23.26%) Big Data
5 74 (22.36%) Data Warehouse
6 64 (19.34%) Power BI
7 29 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (5.74%) SQL Server
9 17 (5.14%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.93%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.63%) Delta Lake
11 12 (3.63%) OLTP
12 11 (3.32%) Parquet
13 10 (3.02%) Spark SQL
14 9 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (2.72%) DynamoDB
15 7 (2.11%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 6 (1.81%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 13 (3.93%) Git
2 6 (1.81%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (1.21%) Deequ
4 3 (0.91%) ERwin
4 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.60%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.60%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.60%) Maven
6 1 (0.30%) Ant
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.30%) Gradle
6 1 (0.30%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) kappa
6 1 (0.30%) MLflow
6 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 178 (53.78%) Finance
2 96 (29.00%) Banking
3 84 (25.38%) Investment Banking
4 83 (25.08%) Front Office
5 76 (22.96%) Social Skills
6 43 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (8.76%) Retail
8 28 (8.46%) Public Sector
9 21 (6.34%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.81%) Marketing
10 6 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.21%) Legal
13 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.60%) Czech Language
14 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.30%) Billing
15 1 (0.30%) German Language
Job Titles
1 86 (25.98%) Architect
2 75 (22.66%) Data Engineer
3 54 (16.31%) Lead
4 49 (14.80%) Software Engineer
5 48 (14.50%) AWS Engineer
5 48 (14.50%) Solutions Architect
6 42 (12.69%) Senior
7 41 (12.39%) Azure Engineer
7 41 (12.39%) Data Architect
8 38 (11.48%) Azure Data Engineer
9 36 (10.88%) Developer
10 35 (10.57%) Consultant
11 31 (9.37%) Python Engineer
12 29 (8.76%) Java Engineer
13 28 (8.46%) Java Software Engineer
13 28 (8.46%) Python Software Engineer
14 27 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (7.85%) AWS Software Engineer
16 25 (7.55%) Software Developer
17 23 (6.95%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (29.91%) gRPC
1 99 (29.91%) Protocol Buffers
2 83 (25.08%) NumPy
2 83 (25.08%) Pandas
2 83 (25.08%) SciPy
3 47 (14.20%) PySpark
4 14 (4.23%) JSON
5 13 (3.93%) ARM Templates
6 11 (3.32%) Kafka
7 9 (2.72%) .NET
7 9 (2.72%) Apache Avro
8 7 (2.11%) Web Services
8 7 (2.11%) XML
9 5 (1.51%) JSON Schema
9 5 (1.51%) Middleware
10 4 (1.21%) Great Expectations
10 4 (1.21%) REST
11 3 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.60%) OpenAPI
12 2 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 101 (30.51%) Hedge funds
2 83 (25.08%) Derivative
2 83 (25.08%) Equities
2 83 (25.08%) Fixed Income
2 83 (25.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (8.16%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.83%) Clustering
5 9 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.42%) Pricing Data
7 7 (2.11%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.91%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.60%) IoT
10 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Unix
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (46.83%) Agile
2 101 (30.51%) Asset Management
3 96 (29.00%) Software Engineering
4 95 (28.70%) DevOps
5 86 (25.98%) Investment Management
6 71 (21.45%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (20.24%) Data Modelling
8 66 (19.94%) Analytics
9 59 (17.82%) Data Pipeline
10 56 (16.92%) ETL
11 49 (14.80%) Data Engineering
12 44 (13.29%) Line Management
13 38 (11.48%) CI/CD
14 36 (10.88%) Data Governance
15 32 (9.67%) Migration
15 32 (9.67%) Scrum
16 31 (9.37%) Greeks
17 29 (8.76%) SDLC
18 26 (7.85%) Requirements Gathering
19 25 (7.55%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 174 (52.57%) Python
2 111 (33.53%) Java
3 99 (29.91%) JavaScript
4 85 (25.68%) SQL
5 83 (25.08%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.65%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.04%) T-SQL
8 17 (5.14%) Go
9 16 (4.83%) Scala
10 9 (2.72%) C#
11 7 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.81%) R
13 2 (0.60%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) C++
14 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (9.97%) Degree
2 29 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.53%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.91%) CIMA
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (17.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.81%) GDPR
3 5 (1.51%) QA
4 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.91%) PMO
5 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) COBIT
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.21%) Docker
2 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (11.78%) Terraform
2 22 (6.65%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.83%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.93%) Ansible
5 11 (3.32%) Puppet
6 2 (0.60%) Ambari
6 2 (0.60%) Oozie
7 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 97 (29.31%) Databricks
2 75 (22.66%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.93%) SAP
4 9 (2.72%) Google
5 7 (2.11%) Oracle
6 3 (0.91%) Talend
7 2 (0.60%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (0.60%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.60%) Teradata
8 1 (0.30%) Ariba
8 1 (0.30%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.30%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.30%) IBM
8 1 (0.30%) Informatica
8 1 (0.30%) Sage
8 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.30%) Sybase
8 1 (0.30%) TIBCO