Data Lake Contracts in the North of England

Data Lakes
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 141 181
Rank change year-on-year +18 +40 -45
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 64 72 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.38% 1.29% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.96% 8.78% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 56 42
10th Percentile £400 £416 £404
25th Percentile £419 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £678 £734
90th Percentile £586 £700 £775
England median daily rate £585 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -36.94%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 714 820 1,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.38% 14.68% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 596 937
10th Percentile £350 £363 £315
25th Percentile £413 £419 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £663
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 51
10th Percentile £11.00 £35.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £38.70 £17.56
Median hourly rate £40.25 £49.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +58.06% +40.91%
75th Percentile £44.74 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £50.69 £65.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the North of England

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West +14 49 £475 -24.00% 17
Yorkshire +15 14 £500 -27.01% 6
North East +3 1 £850 +41.67% 1
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (17.19%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.81%) SAS
3 2 (3.13%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.88%) Azure
2 23 (35.94%) AWS
3 17 (26.56%) Snowflake
4 16 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 14 (21.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (18.75%) Amazon S3
7 11 (17.19%) Serverless
8 10 (15.63%) GCP
9 9 (14.06%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (10.94%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 7 (10.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (9.38%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (7.81%) Collibra
12 5 (7.81%) Power Automate
13 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (3.13%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (25.00%) Power BI
3 13 (20.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (18.75%) Big Data
5 10 (15.63%) BigQuery
5 10 (15.63%) Hadoop
6 9 (14.06%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
7 7 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (9.38%) DynamoDB
8 6 (9.38%) NoSQL
9 5 (7.81%) Ataccama
9 5 (7.81%) Data Mining
9 5 (7.81%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
11 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Git
2 11 (17.19%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.38%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 15 (23.44%) Pharmaceutical
2 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Banking
5 5 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Architect
1 15 (23.44%) Data Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (12.50%) Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Data Quality Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) QA Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Quality Analyst
5 6 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Data Manager
5 6 (9.38%) Data Modeller
5 6 (9.38%) Senior
5 6 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (9.38%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 6 (9.38%) Senior QA Analyst
5 6 (9.38%) Senior Quality Analyst
5 6 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) Kafka
2 5 (7.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
1 5 (7.81%) Reference Data
2 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.56%) Solar Power
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.13%) Data Modelling
2 29 (45.31%) ETL
3 22 (34.38%) Analytics
3 22 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (32.81%) Data Integration
5 19 (29.69%) DevOps
6 18 (28.13%) Data Governance
7 17 (26.56%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (26.56%) Data Engineering
7 17 (26.56%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (25.00%) Data Architecture
9 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
9 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (18.75%) Visualisation
11 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (14.06%) CI/CD
12 9 (14.06%) Data Analysis
12 9 (14.06%) Data Management
12 9 (14.06%) Data Science
12 9 (14.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (62.50%) SQL
2 30 (46.88%) Python
3 9 (14.06%) Java
4 6 (9.38%) Bash
4 6 (9.38%) Go
5 2 (3.13%) Scala
6 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) Data Quality
2 10 (15.63%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) ISO 22301
3 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (20.31%) Terraform
2 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.38%) Ansible
3 6 (9.38%) HP Fortify
4 4 (6.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.31%) Databricks
3 8 (12.50%) Google
3 8 (12.50%) SAP
4 6 (9.38%) Splunk
5 5 (7.81%) Alteryx
5 5 (7.81%) Dataiku
5 5 (7.81%) Trillium
6 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.56%) Facebook
7 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.56%) Twitter