Data Lake Contracts

Data Lakes
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 207 211
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 498 767 1,221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.29% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.82% 7.13% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 577 785
10th Percentile £406 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +12.20%
75th Percentile £763 £675 £675
90th Percentile £888 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.67% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £56.88
90th Percentile £57.30 - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,303 10,763 17,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 18.03% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,193 7,663 12,744
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.78% +9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 183 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%
75th Percentile £58.55 £70.88 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Lake in the UK

Data Lake
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +6 452 £575 - 195
London +9 311 £650 +8.33% 113
Work from Home +36 222 £650 +18.18% 104
UK excluding London -9 129 £490 -6.67% 83
North of England 0 47 £480 -16.52% 23
North West +8 39 £480 -22.42% 17
South East +4 30 £575 +9.52% 22
Midlands +9 22 £488 -2.50% 11
South West +9 16 £450 -14.29% 7
West Midlands +20 12 £400 -33.33% 7
Scotland +30 11 £488 -9.30% 9
East Midlands +10 10 £513 +13.89% 4
Yorkshire +14 7 £450 -32.58% 6
East of England +1 3 £418 -24.09% 9
North East +12 1 £850 +61.90%

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 93 (18.67%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (16.06%) Apache
3 46 (9.24%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.41%) SAS
5 4 (0.80%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 29 (5.82%) Dynamics AX
2 14 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.60%) Primavera
5 2 (0.40%) Magento
5 2 (0.40%) Maximo
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft CRM
6 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 276 (55.42%) Azure
2 171 (34.34%) AWS
3 146 (29.32%) Power Platform
4 120 (24.10%) Snowflake
5 104 (20.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 91 (18.27%) GCP
7 83 (16.67%) dbt
8 69 (13.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 68 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
10 59 (11.85%) Power Automate
11 52 (10.44%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (9.24%) Serverless
13 45 (9.04%) PowerApps
14 22 (4.42%) Amazon S3
14 22 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (4.22%) Azure Functions
15 21 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
16 19 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
17 17 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
18 16 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.80%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) VPN
3 2 (0.40%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (32.73%) Data Warehouse
2 134 (26.91%) Power BI
3 93 (18.67%) Big Data
4 88 (17.67%) Amazon Athena
5 74 (14.86%) Apache Arrow
5 74 (14.86%) Dremio
6 62 (12.45%) Apache Ignite
7 49 (9.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (9.04%) SQL Server
9 31 (6.22%) NoSQL
10 26 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (4.82%) Relational Database
12 18 (3.61%) Tableau
13 17 (3.41%) Delta Lake
14 16 (3.21%) BigQuery
14 16 (3.21%) DynamoDB
14 16 (3.21%) Metadata
14 16 (3.21%) Spark SQL
15 15 (3.01%) OLTP
15 15 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.82%) Git
2 9 (1.81%) JIRA
3 6 (1.20%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.20%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (0.80%) Deequ
4 4 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.80%) Maven
5 3 (0.60%) kappa
6 2 (0.40%) Ant
6 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.40%) ERwin
6 2 (0.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.40%) Gradle
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.40%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) NUnit
7 1 (0.20%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (38.15%) Finance
2 128 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 81 (16.27%) Banking
4 80 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (12.85%) Investment Banking
6 62 (12.45%) Front Office
7 47 (9.44%) Public Sector
8 40 (8.03%) Retail
9 29 (5.82%) General Ledger
10 16 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.81%) Marketing
12 10 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Electronics
14 6 (1.20%) Legal
15 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (28.31%) Data Engineer
2 112 (22.49%) Architect
3 64 (12.85%) Azure Engineer
4 58 (11.65%) Lead
5 57 (11.45%) Azure Data Engineer
6 55 (11.04%) Data Architect
6 55 (11.04%) Solutions Architect
7 50 (10.04%) Developer
8 49 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
8 49 (9.84%) Consultant
9 44 (8.84%) Senior
10 37 (7.43%) Analyst
11 35 (7.03%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.22%) Data Analyst
13 25 (5.02%) Azure Architect
13 25 (5.02%) Python Engineer
14 23 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 21 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (4.22%) Software Developer
16 20 (4.02%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (14.86%) gRPC
1 74 (14.86%) Protocol Buffers
2 63 (12.65%) NumPy
2 63 (12.65%) Pandas
3 62 (12.45%) PySpark
3 62 (12.45%) SciPy
4 20 (4.02%) JSON
5 17 (3.41%) Kafka
6 16 (3.21%) .NET
7 13 (2.61%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.61%) XML
8 8 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.41%) Apache Avro
9 7 (1.41%) REST
9 7 (1.41%) Web Services
10 6 (1.20%) Middleware
10 6 (1.20%) YAML
11 5 (1.00%) JSON Schema
12 4 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (0.80%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 77 (15.46%) Hedge funds
2 63 (12.65%) Derivative
3 62 (12.45%) Equities
3 62 (12.45%) Fixed Income
3 62 (12.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 37 (7.43%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.41%) Clustering
7 7 (1.41%) Data Fabric
7 7 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.00%) CMDB
9 5 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.80%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.80%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (0.80%) Windows
3 3 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) VMS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (33.13%) Agile
2 154 (30.92%) Business Intelligence
3 131 (26.31%) Data Modelling
3 131 (26.31%) DevOps
4 123 (24.70%) Analytics
5 120 (24.10%) ETL
6 91 (18.27%) Data Pipeline
7 86 (17.27%) Data Engineering
8 79 (15.86%) Software Engineering
9 78 (15.66%) Asset Management
10 72 (14.46%) Investment Management
11 67 (13.45%) CI/CD
12 65 (13.05%) Data Governance
13 52 (10.44%) Migration
14 51 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (9.44%) Data Architecture
15 47 (9.44%) Visualisation
16 45 (9.04%) Data Integration
16 45 (9.04%) Scrum
17 42 (8.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 211 (42.37%) Python
2 191 (38.35%) SQL
3 98 (19.68%) Java
4 74 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 62 (12.45%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.62%) T-SQL
7 27 (5.42%) PowerShell
8 26 (5.22%) Scala
9 19 (3.82%) Go
10 17 (3.41%) C#
11 13 (2.61%) R
12 12 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.41%) Bash
13 7 (1.41%) Bicep
14 5 (1.00%) X++
15 3 (0.60%) C
15 3 (0.60%) C++
15 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.40%) U-SQL
17 1 (0.20%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (10.04%) Degree
2 44 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.02%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.60%) CIMA
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.20%) PhD
9 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.25%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.41%) QA
3 6 (1.20%) GDPR
4 5 (1.00%) PMO
5 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.40%) NIST
7 2 (0.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) CDISC
8 1 (0.20%) COBIT
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (4.02%) Docker
2 8 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.60%) HDFS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 57 (11.45%) Terraform
2 36 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.02%) Ansible
4 12 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.41%) Puppet
5 6 (1.20%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.40%) Ambari
6 2 (0.40%) Oozie
7 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.20%) Kibana
7 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 144 (28.92%) Databricks
2 125 (25.10%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.43%) SAP
4 21 (4.22%) Oracle
5 15 (3.01%) Google
6 13 (2.61%) Informatica
7 11 (2.21%) Talend
8 8 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.41%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.20%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.20%) Splunk
10 6 (1.20%) Trillium
11 3 (0.60%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.60%) Teradata
12 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.40%) Marketo
12 2 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud