Data Lake Contracts in the Midlands

Data Lakes
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 121 158
Rank change year-on-year +11 +37 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 23 37 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.82% 1.13% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.42% 6.80% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 43
10th Percentile £263 £410 £401
25th Percentile £369 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £536 £638 £619
90th Percentile £695 £656 £750
England median daily rate £600 £575 £590
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
England median hourly rate £50.75 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +45.00% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 424 544 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.19% 16.64% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 364 715
10th Percentile £288 £311 £314
25th Percentile £356 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £540
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 15
10th Percentile - £21.04 £16.45
25th Percentile - £24.00 £20.38
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -27.86% +66.67%
75th Percentile £27.83 £26.48 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £31.64 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.96
% change year-on-year -31.73% +36.39% +71.83%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
East Midlands +4 13 £459 +1.94% 5
West Midlands +7 10 £400 -27.27% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (26.09%) Power BI
3 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
4 3 (13.04%) Big Data
4 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.70%) OLAP
5 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.35%) DB2
6 1 (4.35%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (4.35%) OLTP
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (4.35%) Redis
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) JIRA
2 7 (30.43%) Git
2 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Ant
3 1 (4.35%) Gradle
3 1 (4.35%) Hudson
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (34.78%) Banking
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Data Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Project Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Report Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) RESTful
1 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Credit Risk
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Architectural Patterns
3 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
4 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) Architectural Design
5 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) ETL
6 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.04%) API Design
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
8 2 (8.70%) Agile
8 2 (8.70%) Data Acquisition
8 2 (8.70%) Data Lineage
8 2 (8.70%) Data Strategy
8 2 (8.70%) Open Source
8 2 (8.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) C
2 2 (8.70%) C++
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Bicep
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Scala
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Progress Chef
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (4.35%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle