Data Lake Contracts in the South East

Data Lakes
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 165 158 169
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 36 53 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.64% 0.93% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 6.48% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 64
10th Percentile £307 £471 £500
25th Percentile £413 £513 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £713
90th Percentile £738 £758 £771
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
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.75 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +45.00% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 612 818 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.84% 14.43% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 573 956
10th Percentile £313 £319 £350
25th Percentile £380 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +10.25%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 42 28
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £20.08
25th Percentile £22.61 £27.76 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £58.05 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +101.90% -33.91%
75th Percentile £62.96 £74.69 £49.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.68 £57.50
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Lake in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +15 17 £500 -9.09% 6
Berkshire -14 9 £575 +9.52% 2
Buckinghamshire +31 8 £425 -22.73% 4
Hampshire +2 8 £519 +4.80% 2
Surrey +12 7 £463 -11.90%
West Sussex +1 2 £675 -7.53%
Data Lake
England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) Power Platform
2 17 (47.22%) Azure
3 9 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 6 (16.67%) PowerApps
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 3 (8.33%) AWS
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (8.33%) dbt
7 3 (8.33%) GCP
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (38.89%) Power BI
3 9 (25.00%) Big Data
4 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 4 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 3 (8.33%) Metadata
5 3 (8.33%) Tableau
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.56%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.56%) Impala
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (5.56%) OLTP
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) kappa
2 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) General Ledger
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Architect
2 6 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Integration Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Data Modeller
5 3 (8.33%) Lead
5 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) XML
2 4 (11.11%) ADO
2 4 (11.11%) JSON
3 3 (8.33%) Snowpark
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) Middleware
5 1 (2.78%) NumPy
5 1 (2.78%) Pandas
5 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Life Science
3 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (30.56%) Data Modelling
3 10 (27.78%) Analytics
4 9 (25.00%) Data Science
4 9 (25.00%) DevOps
5 7 (19.44%) Data Analysis
5 7 (19.44%) ETL
6 6 (16.67%) Data Mapping
6 6 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 6 (16.67%) Migration
7 5 (13.89%) Agile
7 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
7 5 (13.89%) Data Munging
7 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
7 5 (13.89%) Visualisation
8 4 (11.11%) API Development
8 4 (11.11%) Data Analytics
8 4 (11.11%) Data Transformation
8 4 (11.11%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) SQL
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 5 (13.89%) T-SQL
4 4 (11.11%) C#
4 4 (11.11%) X++
5 1 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) PHP
5 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Informatica
3 5 (13.89%) Databricks
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Adobe
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce