Data Lake Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Lakes
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 253 261 283
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -33
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 146 202 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.88% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.66% 5.74% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 164 176
10th Percentile £363 £413 £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +17.65%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £688
90th Percentile £668 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile £57.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.79%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,578 3,518 5,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.70% 15.29% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,831 2,518 3,826
10th Percentile £313 £337 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 112 135
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.32 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £30.54 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +44.03%
75th Percentile £61.53 £67.81 £62.15
90th Percentile £75.50 £75.73 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Lake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK excluding London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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 of England +18 64 £490 -18.33% 23
North West +14 49 £475 -24.00% 17
South East -4 30 £575 +4.55% 21
Midlands +15 26 £445 -11.00% 11
South West +8 17 £488 -7.14% 16
Yorkshire +15 14 £500 -27.01% 5
East Midlands +6 14 £464 +3.06% 2
West Midlands +20 12 £400 -36.00% 9
Scotland +29 9 £450 -12.20% 4
East of England -2 2 £418 -24.09% 7
North East +3 1 £850 +41.67% 1
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (11.64%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.79%) Apache
3 6 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.11%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.37%) Maximo
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 72 (49.32%) Azure
2 55 (37.67%) Power Platform
3 33 (22.60%) AWS
3 33 (22.60%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (17.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (16.44%) Snowflake
6 20 (13.70%) GCP
7 15 (10.27%) Amazon S3
7 15 (10.27%) Serverless
8 13 (8.90%) Power Automate
9 11 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (5.48%) PowerApps
12 7 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.79%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 7 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (4.11%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (41.10%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (34.25%) Power BI
3 25 (17.12%) Big Data
4 16 (10.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (10.96%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.59%) BigQuery
5 14 (9.59%) NoSQL
6 12 (8.22%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (8.22%) Hadoop
7 10 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (6.85%) Data Mining
8 8 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (5.48%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.11%) Ataccama
9 6 (4.11%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.11%) Metadata
9 6 (4.11%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (17.12%) Git
2 15 (10.27%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.22%) JIRA
4 6 (4.11%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.37%) kappa
6 1 (0.68%) Ant
6 1 (0.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.68%) Hudson
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.68%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (11.64%) Finance
4 15 (10.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.53%) Banking
7 7 (4.79%) Retail
8 6 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.05%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (26.71%) Data Engineer
2 33 (22.60%) Architect
3 20 (13.70%) Analyst
4 19 (13.01%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (9.59%) Data Analyst
6 13 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (8.22%) Data Architect
7 12 (8.22%) Developer
7 12 (8.22%) Senior
8 10 (6.85%) Azure Data Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Data Manager
9 8 (5.48%) Data Modeller
9 8 (5.48%) Data Quality Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) QA Analyst
9 8 (5.48%) Quality Analyst
10 7 (4.79%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.79%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
10 7 (4.79%) Senior QA Analyst
10 7 (4.79%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.85%) Kafka
2 9 (6.16%) PySpark
3 7 (4.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (4.11%) JSON
5 5 (3.42%) XML
6 4 (2.74%) ADO
6 4 (2.74%) OpenID
7 3 (2.05%) REST
7 3 (2.05%) SOAP
8 2 (1.37%) .NET
9 1 (0.68%) Apache Beam
9 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.68%) Middleware
9 1 (0.68%) NumPy
9 1 (0.68%) Pandas
9 1 (0.68%) RESTful
9 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.11%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.42%) Credit Risk
2 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.42%) Reference Data
3 4 (2.74%) Blockchain
3 4 (2.74%) CMDB
3 4 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.37%) NHS
4 2 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.68%) FMCG
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Life Science
5 1 (0.68%) Replication
5 1 (0.68%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (37.67%) Data Modelling
2 53 (36.30%) Business Intelligence
3 48 (32.88%) ETL
4 43 (29.45%) Analytics
5 40 (27.40%) DevOps
6 32 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (19.86%) Data Engineering
8 26 (17.81%) Data Governance
9 25 (17.12%) Data Integration
10 24 (16.44%) Data Architecture
11 22 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (15.07%) Visualisation
12 18 (12.33%) Data Science
13 17 (11.64%) Data Analysis
13 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (10.96%) Agile
14 16 (10.96%) CI/CD
15 15 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (9.59%) Containerisation
16 14 (9.59%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (54.79%) SQL
2 51 (34.93%) Python
3 13 (8.90%) Java
4 6 (4.11%) Bash
4 6 (4.11%) Go
5 5 (3.42%) Scala
5 5 (3.42%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.74%) C#
6 4 (2.74%) X++
7 2 (1.37%) C
7 2 (1.37%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) Bicep
8 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (10.96%) Degree
2 7 (4.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.22%) QA
3 3 (2.05%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (7.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (13.01%) Terraform
2 11 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.48%) Progress Chef
4 6 (4.11%) Ansible
4 6 (4.11%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.92%) Databricks
3 12 (8.22%) SAP
4 8 (5.48%) Google
4 8 (5.48%) Oracle
5 7 (4.79%) Informatica
6 6 (4.11%) Alteryx
6 6 (4.11%) Dataiku
6 6 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.11%) Splunk
6 6 (4.11%) Trillium
7 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.68%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.68%) Cognos
8 1 (0.68%) Facebook
8 1 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) Talend
8 1 (0.68%) Twitter