Data Lake Contracts in the North West

Data Lakes
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 93 107 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +38 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 49 53 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.84% 1.73% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.45% 10.64% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 25
10th Percentile £404 £413 £372
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £738
90th Percentile £585 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 428 498 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.05% 16.22% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 368 557
10th Percentile £348 £338 £313
25th Percentile £409 £411 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 45
10th Percentile £26.85 £35.00 £12.41
25th Percentile £39.44 £38.25 £16.23
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.08 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +38.71% +38.47%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.70 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the North West

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +15 27 £465 -19.13% 12
Cheshire +18 19 £475 +5.56% 3
Lancashire +5 1 £600 +11.63% 1
Data Lake
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (10.20%) SAS
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
1 16 (32.65%) Snowflake
2 14 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 13 (26.53%) AWS
4 10 (20.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.20%) Collibra
6 5 (10.20%) Power Automate
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.16%) Serverless
8 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (40.82%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (28.57%) Power BI
3 9 (18.37%) SQL Server
4 6 (12.24%) DynamoDB
5 5 (10.20%) Ataccama
5 5 (10.20%) Data Mining
5 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
5 5 (10.20%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (8.16%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (6.12%) Big Data
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (6.12%) MySQL
7 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.08%) Metadata
8 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) SonarQube
3 5 (10.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 15 (30.61%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.20%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Retail
8 1 (2.04%) Advertising
8 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Analyst
2 8 (16.33%) Data Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Data Quality Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Architect
4 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Data Manager
4 6 (12.24%) Data Modeller
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Senior QA Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Quality Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Product Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Product Ownership
1 5 (10.20%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.08%) Credit Risk
2 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Data Modelling
1 20 (40.82%) ETL
2 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 13 (26.53%) Analytics
5 13 (26.53%) Data Engineering
6 12 (24.49%) Data Integration
6 12 (24.49%) Visualisation
7 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
7 11 (22.45%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (20.41%) DevOps
9 9 (18.37%) Data Management
10 8 (16.33%) Roadmaps
11 7 (14.29%) Data Analysis
12 6 (12.24%) Data Cleansing
12 6 (12.24%) Data Security
12 6 (12.24%) Data Visualisation
12 6 (12.24%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (55.10%) SQL
2 18 (36.73%) Python
3 6 (12.24%) Bash
3 6 (12.24%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) Data Quality
1 10 (20.41%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) ISO 22301
2 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Ansible
1 6 (12.24%) HP Fortify
1 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
1 6 (12.24%) Terraform
2 4 (8.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Databricks
2 8 (16.33%) SAP
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.24%) Splunk
5 5 (10.20%) Alteryx
5 5 (10.20%) Dataiku
5 5 (10.20%) Trillium
6 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.04%) Anaplan
7 1 (2.04%) Facebook
7 1 (2.04%) Google
7 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.04%) Twitter