Apache Parquet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Parquet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Parquet over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 675 771
Rank change year-on-year +135 +96 -132
Contract jobs citing Parquet 42 28 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.048% 0.078%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 14 47
10th Percentile £408 £458 £385
25th Percentile £413 £531 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +3.41% -8.33%
75th Percentile £559 £725 £652
90th Percentile £593 £788 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £519
% change year-on-year - - -13.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Parquet 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 7,285 10,396 17,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.94% 17.96% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,209 7,401 12,423
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 187 197
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +42.86%

Parquet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Parquet in the UK

Parquet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Parquet in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parquet over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Parquet in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Parquet in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parquet within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +109 38 £500 -12.09% 4
London +105 36 £500 -12.09% 4
Work from Home +117 9 £488 -30.36% 5
UK excluding London +61 5 £475 - 1
Scotland - 4 £475 - 1
South West - 1 - -

Parquet
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 9 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 6 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) AWS
2 24 (57.14%) Serverless
3 23 (54.76%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (54.76%) AWS Step Functions
4 19 (45.24%) Amazon MSK
5 16 (38.10%) Azure
6 14 (33.33%) Amazon S3
7 9 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (11.90%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (9.52%) GCP
11 4 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
12 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
13 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 21 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 21 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 16 (38.10%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (28.57%) Data Lake
4 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
5 9 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (21.43%) Big Data
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.14%) Power BI
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.76%) Bigtable
8 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (4.76%) HBase
8 2 (4.76%) IBM BigInsights
8 2 (4.76%) PolyBase
8 2 (4.76%) Power Query
8 2 (4.76%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Deequ
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.38%) ERwin
3 1 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) NUnit
General
1 12 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (69.05%) Data Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Architect
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Analytics Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (85.71%) Apache Avro
2 32 (76.19%) JSON
3 13 (30.95%) PySpark
4 12 (28.57%) Kafka
5 9 (21.43%) JSON Schema
6 6 (14.29%) YAML
7 4 (9.52%) ARM Templates
7 4 (9.52%) Great Expectations
7 4 (9.52%) XML
8 2 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (4.76%) Middleware
8 2 (4.76%) REST
9 1 (2.38%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.38%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (78.57%) ETL
2 29 (69.05%) Data Modelling
3 24 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (47.62%) Data Ingestion
5 15 (35.71%) Analytics
6 12 (28.57%) Agile
6 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 11 (26.19%) Predictive Modelling
8 10 (23.81%) Business Transformation
8 10 (23.81%) Migration
9 9 (21.43%) Data Migration
10 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
11 7 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (16.67%) DevOps
11 7 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
12 6 (14.29%) Scrum
13 5 (11.90%) Data Transformation
13 5 (11.90%) Log Analytics
13 5 (11.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (85.71%) SQL
2 33 (78.57%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) Scala
3 6 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) Lua
4 2 (4.76%) Perl
4 2 (4.76%) PHP
4 2 (4.76%) U-SQL
5 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) SC Cleared
1 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (40.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Ambari
2 2 (4.76%) Ansible
2 2 (4.76%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Databricks
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Google