Data Lake Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Lakes
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 273 240 243
Rank change year-on-year -33 +3 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 84 157 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.74% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.84% 5.83% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 127 174
10th Percentile £373 £363 £413
25th Percentile £404 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £530 £585 £650
90th Percentile £589 £630 £700
UK median daily rate £580 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -10.77% +13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.71% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £57.00
UK median hourly rate - £40.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +15.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,186 2,691 3,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.30% 12.72% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,857 2,358
10th Percentile £313 £313 £335
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.30% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 108 110
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.63 £21.05
25th Percentile £21.88 £18.03 £26.31
Median hourly rate £31.64 £31.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -42.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £61.00 £48.18 £69.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.85% -29.53% +47.35%

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 4 July 2025.

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
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 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
South East +30 28 £450 -10.00% 126
North of England -34 28 £475 -5.00% 116
North West -26 18 £488 +2.09% 61
East of England +32 12 £580 +78.46% 35
Midlands -2 12 £410 -7.87% 61
Yorkshire -6 9 £451 -9.90% 39
East Midlands -1 6 £405 -10.00% 24
West Midlands +5 5 £425 +3.66% 36
South West +23 4 £563 +15.38% 68
Scotland -3 4 £577 +28.22% 61
North East +2 1 - - 16
Data Lake
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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 8 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.76%) Apache
2 4 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.57%) ArcGIS
3 3 (3.57%) Oracle Spatial
3 3 (3.57%) Smallworld
4 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.19%) Endur
2 1 (1.19%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 52 (61.90%) Azure
2 24 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 21 (25.00%) AWS
4 18 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (15.48%) Snowflake
7 11 (13.10%) GCP
8 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (8.33%) GitHub
9 5 (5.95%) SaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (4.76%) Serverless
11 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (3.57%) IaaS
11 3 (3.57%) PaaS
12 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.19%) Firewall
1 1 (1.19%) Network Security
1 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.19%) VPN
1 1 (1.19%) WAN
1 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.90%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (28.57%) Power BI
3 11 (13.10%) Big Data
4 9 (10.71%) Delta Lake
4 9 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.33%) RDBMS
6 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 6 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (7.14%) Metadata
8 5 (5.95%) Hadoop
8 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
9 4 (4.76%) DataStage
9 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.76%) Tableau
10 3 (3.57%) GIS
10 3 (3.57%) Parquet
10 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.57%) Spatial Data
10 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.33%) ERwin
2 5 (5.95%) GitLab
3 3 (3.57%) Git
4 2 (2.38%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.19%) Hudson
General
1 18 (21.43%) Finance
1 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.95%) Banking
4 5 (5.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.57%) Billing
6 3 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Retail
6 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (16.67%) Architect
2 12 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 9 (10.71%) Analyst
3 9 (10.71%) Data Architect
4 8 (9.52%) Lead
5 7 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 7 (8.33%) Developer
6 5 (5.95%) Data Modeller
6 5 (5.95%) SIEM Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Architect
7 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Architect
7 4 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) PySpark
1 8 (9.52%) REST
2 7 (8.33%) JSON
3 6 (7.14%) Kafka
4 3 (3.57%) Middleware
4 3 (3.57%) PostGIS
4 3 (3.57%) SOAP
5 2 (2.38%) Apache Avro
5 2 (2.38%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.19%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.19%) FHIR
6 1 (1.19%) Prophet
6 1 (1.19%) pytest
6 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.19%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.19%) Web Services
6 1 (1.19%) XGBoost
6 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.95%) CSOC
2 5 (5.95%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.76%) Life Science
3 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.57%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.38%) NHS
5 2 (2.38%) Replication
6 1 (1.19%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) EPoS
6 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Unix
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
1 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) Data Modelling
2 29 (34.52%) Analytics
2 29 (34.52%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (32.14%) ETL
4 23 (27.38%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 18 (21.43%) DevOps
6 15 (17.86%) Data Governance
6 15 (17.86%) Migration
7 14 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.48%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (15.48%) Agile
8 13 (15.48%) Data Integration
8 13 (15.48%) Data Migration
9 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (13.10%) Visualisation
10 10 (11.90%) Data Architecture
10 10 (11.90%) Data Security
10 10 (11.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 58 (69.05%) SQL
2 23 (27.38%) Python
3 9 (10.71%) Scala
4 7 (8.33%) R
5 4 (4.76%) Java
6 3 (3.57%) Bash
6 3 (3.57%) Magik
6 3 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Degree
2 7 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.95%) GIAC
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (30.95%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.14%) GDPR
3 5 (5.95%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.57%) PMO
5 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.38%) GRC
6 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (29.76%) Databricks
2 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.71%) Informatica
4 7 (8.33%) Oracle
4 7 (8.33%) SAP
5 5 (5.95%) Talend
6 4 (4.76%) Ariba
6 4 (4.76%) Google
7 3 (3.57%) ESRI
7 3 (3.57%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.38%) Anaplan
8 2 (2.38%) Hyperion
8 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.19%) Cisco
9 1 (1.19%) Dell KACE
9 1 (1.19%) Meraki
9 1 (1.19%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.19%) Veeam
9 1 (1.19%) VMware
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