Data Lake Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Lakes
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 134 194 171
Rank change year-on-year +60 -23 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 246 322 709
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.66% 1.31% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.56% 6.85% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 252 483
10th Percentile £413 £413 £406
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -2.22% +10.02%
75th Percentile £850 £675 £650
90th Percentile £888 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,875 4,698 9,504
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.43% 19.06% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,118 3,428 6,908
10th Percentile £357 £385 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 80 91
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.16 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £43.75 £23.05
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% +38.95% +41.79%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%

Data Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Data Lake daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 97 (39.43%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (30.89%) Apache
3 16 (6.50%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (8.94%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.81%) Magento
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.81%) PeopleSoft CRM
3 2 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 109 (44.31%) AWS
2 105 (42.68%) Azure
3 97 (39.43%) Snowflake
4 94 (38.21%) dbt
5 60 (24.39%) Power Platform
6 49 (19.92%) GCP
7 38 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (14.23%) Power Automate
9 34 (13.82%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (11.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (11.79%) PowerApps
11 23 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (6.91%) Serverless
13 14 (5.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (3.25%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (2.85%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.85%) GitHub
16 6 (2.44%) Amazon S3
16 6 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
17 5 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Firewall
1 1 (0.41%) Network Security
1 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (39.02%) Amazon Athena
2 91 (36.99%) Apache Arrow
2 91 (36.99%) Dremio
3 74 (30.08%) Apache Ignite
4 59 (23.98%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (21.54%) Power BI
6 39 (15.85%) Big Data
7 13 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (5.28%) BigQuery
8 11 (4.47%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (3.66%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.85%) Metadata
11 5 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.03%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.03%) OLTP
11 5 (2.03%) Power Query
11 5 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.88%) Git
2 7 (2.85%) JIRA
3 5 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.41%) Deequ
5 1 (0.41%) ERwin
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 144 (58.54%) Finance
2 83 (33.74%) Banking
3 75 (30.49%) Front Office
3 75 (30.49%) Investment Banking
4 53 (21.54%) Social Skills
5 34 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (13.01%) Public Sector
7 25 (10.16%) General Ledger
8 24 (9.76%) Retail
9 5 (2.03%) Marketing
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Billing
11 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.81%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.81%) Law
12 2 (0.81%) Legal
12 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.41%) Advertising
13 1 (0.41%) German Language
Job Titles
1 56 (22.76%) Data Engineer
2 50 (20.33%) Software Engineer
3 47 (19.11%) AWS Engineer
4 46 (18.70%) Lead
5 43 (17.48%) Architect
6 37 (15.04%) Senior
7 33 (13.41%) Python Engineer
8 32 (13.01%) Developer
9 30 (12.20%) Consultant
9 30 (12.20%) Java Engineer
9 30 (12.20%) Java Software Engineer
9 30 (12.20%) Python Software Engineer
10 28 (11.38%) AWS Software Engineer
10 28 (11.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (10.57%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (10.16%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (9.35%) Lead Developer
13 23 (9.35%) Software Developer
14 22 (8.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 22 (8.94%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (36.59%) gRPC
1 90 (36.59%) Protocol Buffers
2 74 (30.08%) NumPy
2 74 (30.08%) Pandas
2 74 (30.08%) SciPy
3 28 (11.38%) PySpark
4 10 (4.07%) JSON
5 7 (2.85%) XML
6 6 (2.44%) .NET
6 6 (2.44%) Kafka
7 4 (1.63%) ADO
7 4 (1.63%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.22%) Web Services
9 2 (0.81%) Apache Avro
9 2 (0.81%) JSON Schema
9 2 (0.81%) Middleware
9 2 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.41%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.41%) MACH
10 1 (0.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (36.99%) Hedge funds
2 75 (30.49%) Derivative
2 75 (30.49%) Equities
2 75 (30.49%) Fixed Income
2 75 (30.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (8.94%) Data Structures
4 16 (6.50%) Clustering
5 10 (4.07%) Pricing Data
6 9 (3.66%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.22%) NHS
7 3 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.81%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.81%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Life Science
9 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (45.53%) Agile
2 92 (37.40%) Asset Management
3 80 (32.52%) DevOps
3 80 (32.52%) Investment Management
3 80 (32.52%) Software Engineering
4 58 (23.58%) Business Intelligence
5 43 (17.48%) ETL
6 41 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 40 (16.26%) Analytics
8 37 (15.04%) Data Pipeline
9 36 (14.63%) Data Engineering
10 33 (13.41%) Line Management
11 31 (12.60%) Greeks
12 24 (9.76%) CI/CD
12 24 (9.76%) Requirements Gathering
13 22 (8.94%) Accounts Payable
13 22 (8.94%) Accounts Receivable
13 22 (8.94%) Data Transformation
13 22 (8.94%) Requirements Workshops
14 18 (7.32%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 142 (57.72%) Python
2 99 (40.24%) Java
3 90 (36.59%) JavaScript
4 74 (30.08%) TypeScript
5 61 (24.80%) SQL
6 16 (6.50%) Go
7 8 (3.25%) C#
7 8 (3.25%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.44%) Scala
9 5 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.63%) R
10 4 (1.63%) X++
11 1 (0.41%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (8.94%) Degree
2 11 (4.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.41%) CDISC
3 1 (0.41%) COBIT
3 1 (0.41%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) GxP
3 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 7 (2.85%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (13.82%) Terraform
2 24 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (21.95%) Databricks
1 54 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.03%) Google
2 5 (2.03%) Oracle
3 4 (1.63%) Informatica
4 2 (0.81%) Marketo
4 2 (0.81%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (0.81%) SAP
5 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.41%) Facebook
5 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.41%) Twitter
5 1 (0.41%) Workday
5 1 (0.41%) Wrike