Delta Lake Contracts

Delta Lake
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Delta Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Delta 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 542 662 754
Rank change year-on-year +120 +92 -73
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 37 32 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.51% 0.31% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 80
10th Percentile £500 £445 £513
25th Percentile £513 £525 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £693
Median % change year-on-year - -13.36% +20.43%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £738
90th Percentile £850 £830 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £643
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.69% +7.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Delta 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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,287 10,222 17,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 17.85% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,225 7,278 12,532
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 175 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.38 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +45.83%

Delta Lake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Delta Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delta Lake within the UK 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
England +121 32 £600 - 23
London +106 24 £600 -5.88% 14
Work from Home +120 21 £600 +4.35% 12
UK excluding London +55 7 £500 -16.67% 12
North of England +30 2 £490 -18.33% 1
Midlands - 2 - - 5
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £480 - 1
South West - 1 £533 - 2

Delta Lake
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 20 (54.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.11%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (97.30%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (32.43%) Azure Logic Apps
4 11 (29.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (24.32%) Power Platform
6 5 (13.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (8.11%) GCP
8 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) Serverless
9 1 (2.70%) AWS
9 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.70%) dbt
9 1 (2.70%) Slack
9 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (56.76%) Data Lake
2 20 (54.05%) Big Data
3 9 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (24.32%) Power BI
4 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
5 5 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (13.51%) Spark SQL
6 4 (10.81%) Data Mart
7 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
7 3 (8.11%) Star Schema
8 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
9 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.70%) Data Hub
9 1 (2.70%) Looker
9 1 (2.70%) Metadata
9 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Marketing
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Back Office
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Data Engineer
2 14 (37.84%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (27.03%) Azure Data Engineer
3 10 (27.03%) Senior
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Data Engineer
5 7 (18.92%) Architect
6 6 (16.22%) Data Architect
7 5 (13.51%) Azure Architect
8 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Architect
9 3 (8.11%) Lead
9 3 (8.11%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (5.41%) Analyst
10 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
10 2 (5.41%) Platform Architect
10 2 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
11 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
11 1 (2.70%) Java Software Developer
11 1 (2.70%) QA Tester
11 1 (2.70%) Technical Architect
11 1 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (72.97%) PySpark
2 4 (10.81%) Kafka
3 3 (8.11%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (5.41%) .NET
4 2 (5.41%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (2.70%) ADO
5 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.70%) pytest
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (5.41%) Market Risk
1 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Analytics
2 22 (59.46%) Data Engineering
3 19 (51.35%) Agile
3 19 (51.35%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (45.95%) Data Modelling
5 16 (43.24%) DevOps
6 15 (40.54%) ETL
7 13 (35.14%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
9 11 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (27.03%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (18.92%) Data Architecture
11 7 (18.92%) Project Delivery
11 7 (18.92%) SDLC
11 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (16.22%) Performance Monitoring
13 5 (13.51%) Data Integration
13 5 (13.51%) Data Strategy
14 4 (10.81%) Data Transformation
14 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) SQL
2 27 (72.97%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) Scala
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) R
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Kibana
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (94.59%) Databricks
2 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.70%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) SAP