Apache Iceberg Contracts

Apache Iceberg
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apache Iceberg skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Iceberg over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 401 678
Rank change year-on-year -20 +277 +175
Contract jobs citing Apache Iceberg 111 189 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.43% 0.013%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 2.52% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 187 4
10th Percentile - £675 -
25th Percentile £675 £750 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +33.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £875 £888 £669
90th Percentile - - £680
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Apache Iceberg 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,548 7,513 9,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.60% 17.13% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 5,361 6,810
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 155 174
10th Percentile £19.59 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.01 £20.88 £32.32
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +34.95%
75th Percentile £66.00 £53.94 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £72.50 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.85 £34.47 £56.95
% change year-on-year -7.60% -39.48% +62.71%

Apache Iceberg
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Iceberg over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Iceberg in the UK

Apache Iceberg
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 Apache Iceberg within the UK over the 6 months to 18 June 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
England -1 111 £775 -3.13% 51
London -20 109 £775 -3.13% 34
Work from Home -25 98 £775 -3.13% 20
UK excluding London - 2 - - 29
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2

Apache Iceberg
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
1 103 (92.79%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (66.67%) Apache
3 20 (18.02%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.90%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) AWS
2 103 (92.79%) dbt
3 47 (42.34%) Snowflake
4 43 (38.74%) GCP
5 22 (19.82%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (17.12%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (17.12%) Serverless
7 17 (15.32%) OpenShift
8 9 (8.11%) Dagster
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.60%) Azure
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.80%) GitHub
12 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.90%) AWS Control Tower
12 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.90%) Firewall
1 1 (0.90%) HTTP
1 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (96.40%) Amazon Athena
2 102 (91.89%) Dremio
3 98 (88.29%) Apache Arrow
4 53 (47.75%) Apache Ignite
5 38 (34.23%) Data Lake
6 30 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.50%) Parquet
8 4 (3.60%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.80%) Apache Hudi
10 2 (1.80%) Big Data
10 2 (1.80%) Flink
10 2 (1.80%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.80%) Tableau
11 1 (0.90%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.90%) Presto
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.80%) Git
2 2 (1.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) Poetry
3 1 (0.90%) Travis CI
General
1 103 (92.79%) Finance
2 102 (91.89%) Front Office
3 53 (47.75%) Banking
4 47 (42.34%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.90%) Military
5 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (92.79%) AWS Engineer
2 81 (72.97%) AWS Software Engineer
2 81 (72.97%) Software Engineer
3 77 (69.37%) Python Engineer
4 56 (50.45%) Python Software Engineer
5 52 (46.85%) Developer
6 51 (45.95%) Java Engineer
6 51 (45.95%) Java Software Engineer
7 50 (45.05%) AWS Developer
7 50 (45.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 31 (27.93%) Senior
9 30 (27.03%) Python Developer
10 29 (26.13%) Senior Java Engineer
10 29 (26.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 29 (26.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (23.42%) Data Engineer
12 20 (18.02%) Java Developer
12 20 (18.02%) Java Software Developer
13 18 (16.22%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (16.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (62.16%) NumPy
1 69 (62.16%) Pandas
1 69 (62.16%) SciPy
2 46 (41.44%) PySpark
3 36 (32.43%) gRPC
3 36 (32.43%) Protocol Buffers
4 35 (31.53%) React
5 34 (30.63%) AngularJS
5 34 (30.63%) Node.js
5 34 (30.63%) Vue
6 19 (17.12%) Kafka
7 17 (15.32%) J2EE
8 5 (4.50%) Redux
9 2 (1.80%) Apache Avro
9 2 (1.80%) JSON
9 2 (1.80%) Plotly
10 1 (0.90%) Dask
10 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.90%) Jinja
10 1 (0.90%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (72.97%) Fixed Income
2 70 (63.06%) Equities
2 70 (63.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 47 (42.34%) Derivative
3 47 (42.34%) Hedge funds
4 26 (23.42%) Pricing Data
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (94.59%) Agile
2 102 (91.89%) Asset Management
2 102 (91.89%) Software Engineering
3 64 (57.66%) Investment Management
4 38 (34.23%) Fintech
5 34 (30.63%) Performance Attribution
6 29 (26.13%) Order Management
6 29 (26.13%) Risk Management
7 24 (21.62%) CI/CD
8 22 (19.82%) Data Engineering
9 19 (17.12%) DevOps
9 19 (17.12%) Open Source
10 18 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (14.41%) Data Management
12 6 (5.41%) Migration
13 5 (4.50%) Analytics
13 5 (4.50%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 5 (4.50%) Data Pipeline
13 5 (4.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 4 (3.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (85.59%) Python
2 80 (72.07%) Java
3 66 (59.46%) TypeScript
4 65 (58.56%) JavaScript
5 23 (20.72%) SQL
6 17 (15.32%) Go
7 2 (1.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) Bash
8 1 (0.90%) R
8 1 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 21 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (19.82%) Kubernetes
1 22 (19.82%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) Ansible
2 1 (0.90%) Grafana
2 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (1.80%) Databricks
2 1 (0.90%) TOWER Software
OSZAR »