Data Lake Contracts in the East of England

Data Lakes
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 107 112
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 12 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.06% 0.16% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.22% 2.63% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 8
10th Percentile £495 £243 £280
25th Percentile £550 £269 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £325 £538
Median % change year-on-year +78.46% -39.53% -24.03%
75th Percentile - £376 £563
90th Percentile £643 £400 £600
England median daily rate £600 £673 £575
% change year-on-year -10.78% +16.96% -0.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 146 114 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.86% 5.96% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 74 163
10th Percentile £345 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £330 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -18.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £544 £589
90th Percentile £675 £650 £695
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 12
10th Percentile £19.11 £13.30 £17.58
25th Percentile £20.86 £14.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.98 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.00% -74.63% +80.00%
75th Percentile £34.16 £26.25 £67.94
90th Percentile £64.65 £29.70 £73.75
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -15.15% -29.08% +49.21%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the East of England

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. 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
Bedfordshire - 6 £580 - 7
Norfolk - 3 £600 - 4
Hertfordshire +26 2 £775 +138.46% 13
Cambridgeshire - 1 £488 - 5
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (41.67%) Snowflake
4 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (33.33%) SaaS
5 3 (25.00%) IaaS
5 3 (25.00%) PaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (50.00%) Power BI
3 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) PowerCenter
5 1 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (8.33%) Metadata
5 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ER Studio
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
1 1 (8.33%) Hudson
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) SAP Financial Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) IFS Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Analytics
1 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Inventory Management
4 4 (33.33%) Logistics
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Community of Practice
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
6 2 (16.67%) Quality Management
6 2 (16.67%) Record to Report
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (16.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Ariba
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Informatica
3 2 (16.67%) Anaplan
3 2 (16.67%) Hyperion
4 1 (8.33%) IFS
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Spotify
4 1 (8.33%) Sybase
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