Data Lake Contracts in London

Data Lakes
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 153 190
Rank change year-on-year +29 +37 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 341 457 607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.95% 1.76% 1.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.82% 8.61% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 353 383
10th Percentile £475 £475 £438
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £688
90th Percentile £888 £775 £773
England median daily rate £585 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -55.56% +41.89%
England median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -36.94%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,866 5,307 8,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.12% 20.40% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 3,892 6,122
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 51 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.62 £23.70 £32.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +77.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £78.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £90.00 £76.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +85.57%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in London

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London -2 33 £538 -17.31% 11
West London +18 1 - - 4
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 115 (33.72%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (30.21%) Apache
3 36 (10.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.88%) Confluence
4 3 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 21 (6.16%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.88%) Primavera
3 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) Maximo
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.29%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 183 (53.67%) Azure
2 161 (47.21%) AWS
3 122 (35.78%) Snowflake
4 113 (33.14%) dbt
5 78 (22.87%) GCP
6 73 (21.41%) Power Platform
7 65 (19.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 46 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (12.02%) Power Automate
10 35 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (9.68%) PowerApps
12 27 (7.92%) Serverless
13 19 (5.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (4.40%) Amazon Kinesis
14 15 (4.40%) Azure Functions
15 14 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (2.93%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (2.93%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
1 1 (0.29%) Network Security
1 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (33.43%) Amazon Athena
2 109 (31.96%) Apache Arrow
2 109 (31.96%) Dremio
3 89 (26.10%) Apache Ignite
4 81 (23.75%) Big Data
5 75 (21.99%) Data Warehouse
6 66 (19.35%) Power BI
7 29 (8.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (5.57%) SQL Server
9 17 (4.99%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.81%) Delta Lake
10 13 (3.81%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.52%) OLTP
12 11 (3.23%) Parquet
13 10 (2.93%) Spark SQL
14 9 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (2.64%) DynamoDB
15 7 (2.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 7 (2.05%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.76%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 13 (3.81%) Git
2 6 (1.76%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (1.17%) Deequ
4 3 (0.88%) ERwin
4 3 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.88%) JIRA
5 2 (0.59%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.59%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.59%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Ant
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) Gradle
6 1 (0.29%) JUnit
6 1 (0.29%) kappa
6 1 (0.29%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 187 (54.84%) Finance
2 104 (30.50%) Banking
3 92 (26.98%) Investment Banking
4 91 (26.69%) Front Office
5 76 (22.29%) Social Skills
6 43 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (8.50%) Retail
8 28 (8.21%) Public Sector
9 21 (6.16%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.76%) Marketing
10 6 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.17%) Legal
13 3 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.59%) Czech Language
14 2 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.29%) Billing
15 1 (0.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 87 (25.51%) Architect
2 77 (22.58%) Data Engineer
3 56 (16.42%) Lead
4 53 (15.54%) Software Engineer
5 52 (15.25%) AWS Engineer
6 49 (14.37%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (12.90%) Senior
8 41 (12.02%) Azure Engineer
8 41 (12.02%) Data Architect
9 38 (11.14%) Azure Data Engineer
9 38 (11.14%) Developer
10 35 (10.26%) Consultant
11 34 (9.97%) Python Engineer
12 32 (9.38%) Java Engineer
13 31 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
13 31 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
14 29 (8.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 28 (8.21%) AWS Software Engineer
16 27 (7.92%) Software Developer
17 25 (7.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (31.38%) gRPC
1 107 (31.38%) Protocol Buffers
2 89 (26.10%) NumPy
2 89 (26.10%) Pandas
2 89 (26.10%) SciPy
3 48 (14.08%) PySpark
4 14 (4.11%) JSON
5 13 (3.81%) ARM Templates
6 11 (3.23%) Kafka
7 9 (2.64%) .NET
7 9 (2.64%) Apache Avro
8 7 (2.05%) Web Services
8 7 (2.05%) XML
9 5 (1.47%) JSON Schema
9 5 (1.47%) Middleware
10 4 (1.17%) Great Expectations
10 4 (1.17%) REST
11 3 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.59%) OpenAPI
12 2 (0.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 110 (32.26%) Hedge funds
2 91 (26.69%) Derivative
2 91 (26.69%) Equities
2 91 (26.69%) Fixed Income
2 91 (26.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (7.92%) Data Structures
4 18 (5.28%) Clustering
5 11 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.93%) Pricing Data
7 7 (2.05%) Data Fabric
8 6 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.88%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.59%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.59%) IoT
10 2 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.40%) Linux
2 2 (0.59%) Unix
2 2 (0.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Android
3 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.29%) VMS
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (48.09%) Agile
2 111 (32.55%) Asset Management
3 102 (29.91%) Software Engineering
4 97 (28.45%) DevOps
5 91 (26.69%) Investment Management
6 71 (20.82%) Business Intelligence
7 68 (19.94%) Analytics
7 68 (19.94%) Data Modelling
8 59 (17.30%) Data Pipeline
9 56 (16.42%) ETL
10 49 (14.37%) Data Engineering
11 48 (14.08%) Line Management
12 39 (11.44%) CI/CD
13 36 (10.56%) Data Governance
14 32 (9.38%) Migration
14 32 (9.38%) Scrum
15 31 (9.09%) Greeks
16 29 (8.50%) SDLC
17 26 (7.62%) Data Architecture
17 26 (7.62%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 186 (54.55%) Python
2 119 (34.90%) Java
3 107 (31.38%) JavaScript
4 89 (26.10%) TypeScript
5 88 (25.81%) SQL
6 23 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 20 (5.87%) T-SQL
8 19 (5.57%) Go
9 16 (4.69%) Scala
10 9 (2.64%) C#
11 7 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.76%) R
13 2 (0.59%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.29%) C
14 1 (0.29%) C++
14 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (9.68%) Degree
2 29 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.88%) CIMA
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (17.01%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.76%) GDPR
3 5 (1.47%) QA
4 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.88%) PMO
5 2 (0.59%) NIST
5 2 (0.59%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) COBIT
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (12.61%) Terraform
2 24 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.28%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.81%) Ansible
5 11 (3.23%) Puppet
6 2 (0.59%) Ambari
6 2 (0.59%) Oozie
7 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 99 (29.03%) Databricks
2 75 (21.99%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.11%) SAP
4 8 (2.35%) Google
5 7 (2.05%) Oracle
6 3 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.88%) Talend
7 2 (0.59%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.59%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (0.59%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.59%) Teradata
8 1 (0.29%) Ariba
8 1 (0.29%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.29%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.29%) IBM
8 1 (0.29%) Informatica
8 1 (0.29%) Sage
8 1 (0.29%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.29%) Wrike