Data Lake Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Lakes
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 113 120 125
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 17 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.64% 0.87% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.09% 5.92% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 33
10th Percentile - £500 £508
25th Percentile £413 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £763
90th Percentile £690 £682 £785
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £61.00 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 334 422 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.67% 14.74% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 286 434
10th Percentile £307 £340 £325
25th Percentile £382 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £624 £609 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £636
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 3
10th Percentile £19.74 £24.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.61 £30.75 £18.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £43.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.12% +94.00% -48.28%
75th Percentile - £76.61 £43.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.19 £54.55
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.44% +64.29% -19.54%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -15 9 £575 +9.52% 2
Buckinghamshire +30 8 £425 -22.73% 4
Data Lake
South East

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Power Platform
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) dbt
3 3 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (58.82%) Power BI
2 6 (35.29%) Big Data
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (17.65%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (17.65%) Tableau
5 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 2 (11.76%) Impala
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (11.76%) OLTP
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.88%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 3 (17.65%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Data Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modeller
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) HR Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Snowpark
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) NumPy
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (47.06%) Data Modelling
3 6 (35.29%) Analytics
4 5 (29.41%) Data Analysis
4 5 (29.41%) ETL
4 5 (29.41%) Visualisation
5 4 (23.53%) Data Science
5 4 (23.53%) Data Strategy
5 4 (23.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Conceptual Models
6 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (17.65%) Logical Data Model
6 3 (17.65%) Physical Data Model
6 3 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Data Management
7 2 (11.76%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Databricks
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Informatica