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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 147 203
Rank change year-on-year +35 +56 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 382 443 569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.16% 1.75% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.71% 8.57% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 337 360
10th Percentile £475 £475 £431
25th Percentile £525 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £688 £696
90th Percentile £888 £775 £775
England median daily rate £600 £575 £589
% change year-on-year +4.35% -2.34% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -55.56% +76.97%
England median hourly rate £50.75 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +45.00% - -21.35%

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 3,936 5,168 8,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.30% 20.45% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,929 3,792 6,037
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.71% +10.38%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 52 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.69
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.10 £34.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £53.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +2.38% +70.39%
75th Percentile £54.13 £80.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.40 £90.00 £75.34
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +70.00%

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 7 June 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 7 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
Central London 0 32 £563 -13.46% 15
West London +21 1 - - 6
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
1 145 (37.96%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (36.65%) Apache
3 39 (10.21%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.79%) Confluence
4 3 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (5.50%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.79%) Primavera
3 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.26%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 197 (51.57%) AWS
2 194 (50.79%) Azure
3 149 (39.01%) dbt
4 147 (38.48%) Snowflake
5 92 (24.08%) GCP
6 79 (20.68%) Power Platform
7 65 (17.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 48 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (10.73%) Power Automate
10 38 (9.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (9.42%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (8.64%) PowerApps
13 29 (7.59%) Serverless
14 19 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (4.71%) Azure Functions
16 14 (3.66%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
18 12 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
19 10 (2.62%) Azure API Management
19 10 (2.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) Firewall
1 1 (0.26%) Network Security
1 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (37.96%) Dremio
2 143 (37.43%) Amazon Athena
3 142 (37.17%) Apache Arrow
4 116 (30.37%) Apache Ignite
5 91 (23.82%) Big Data
6 77 (20.16%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (18.85%) Power BI
8 32 (8.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (5.24%) SQL Server
10 19 (4.97%) NoSQL
11 14 (3.66%) Delta Lake
11 14 (3.66%) Relational Database
12 12 (3.14%) OLTP
12 12 (3.14%) Parquet
13 11 (2.88%) Tableau
14 9 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (2.36%) Spark SQL
15 8 (2.09%) DynamoDB
15 8 (2.09%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (3.40%) Git
2 6 (1.57%) Visual Studio Team System
3 4 (1.05%) Deequ
4 3 (0.79%) ERwin
4 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.79%) JIRA
4 3 (0.79%) MLflow
5 2 (0.52%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.52%) Maven
6 1 (0.26%) Ant
6 1 (0.26%) git-flow
6 1 (0.26%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) Gradle
6 1 (0.26%) JUnit
6 1 (0.26%) kappa
6 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 227 (59.42%) Finance
2 142 (37.17%) Banking
3 127 (33.25%) Front Office
4 125 (32.72%) Investment Banking
5 78 (20.42%) Social Skills
6 49 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (7.33%) Retail
8 27 (7.07%) Public Sector
9 21 (5.50%) General Ledger
10 6 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.57%) Legal
11 4 (1.05%) Marketing
11 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Czech Language
13 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.26%) German Language
14 1 (0.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 95 (24.87%) Architect
2 79 (20.68%) Data Engineer
3 71 (18.59%) Software Engineer
4 66 (17.28%) AWS Engineer
5 65 (17.02%) Lead
6 61 (15.97%) Senior
7 56 (14.66%) Solutions Architect
8 48 (12.57%) Python Engineer
9 44 (11.52%) Java Engineer
10 43 (11.26%) Data Architect
10 43 (11.26%) Java Software Engineer
10 43 (11.26%) Python Software Engineer
11 42 (10.99%) AWS Software Engineer
11 42 (10.99%) Developer
12 41 (10.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 39 (10.21%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (9.69%) Azure Data Engineer
14 37 (9.69%) Consultant
15 31 (8.12%) Lead Developer
15 31 (8.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (35.08%) gRPC
1 134 (35.08%) Protocol Buffers
2 119 (31.15%) NumPy
2 119 (31.15%) Pandas
2 119 (31.15%) SciPy
3 53 (13.87%) PySpark
4 14 (3.66%) JSON
5 13 (3.40%) ARM Templates
6 9 (2.36%) .NET
6 9 (2.36%) Apache Avro
6 9 (2.36%) Kafka
7 7 (1.83%) XML
8 6 (1.57%) Web Services
9 5 (1.31%) JSON Schema
9 5 (1.31%) Middleware
10 4 (1.05%) Great Expectations
11 3 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.52%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.52%) pytest
12 2 (0.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 143 (37.43%) Hedge funds
2 124 (32.46%) Derivative
2 124 (32.46%) Equities
2 124 (32.46%) Fixed Income
2 124 (32.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (7.33%) Data Structures
4 18 (4.71%) Clustering
4 18 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.19%) Pricing Data
6 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.31%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.79%) Grid Computing
8 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.52%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.40%) Linux
2 2 (0.52%) Android
2 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.52%) Unix
2 2 (0.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) VMS
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (51.57%) Agile
2 147 (38.48%) Asset Management
3 132 (34.55%) Software Engineering
4 116 (30.37%) Investment Management
5 98 (25.65%) DevOps
6 85 (22.25%) Analytics
7 75 (19.63%) Data Modelling
8 71 (18.59%) Business Intelligence
9 64 (16.75%) Data Pipeline
10 60 (15.71%) Line Management
11 59 (15.45%) ETL
12 58 (15.18%) Data Engineering
13 41 (10.73%) CI/CD
14 40 (10.47%) Greeks
15 37 (9.69%) Migration
16 35 (9.16%) Data Governance
17 30 (7.85%) Data Architecture
17 30 (7.85%) Machine Learning
17 30 (7.85%) Scrum
18 28 (7.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 222 (58.12%) Python
2 146 (38.22%) Java
3 134 (35.08%) JavaScript
4 116 (30.37%) TypeScript
5 98 (25.65%) SQL
6 23 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 20 (5.24%) T-SQL
8 18 (4.71%) Go
9 17 (4.45%) Scala
10 9 (2.36%) C#
11 8 (2.09%) R
12 7 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.52%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.26%) C
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (9.16%) Degree
2 31 (8.12%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.79%) CIMA
9 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (18.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.57%) GDPR
3 4 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.05%) QA
4 3 (0.79%) PMO
5 2 (0.52%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) SLA
6 1 (0.26%) COBIT
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (11.52%) Terraform
2 25 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.71%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.14%) Ansible
5 10 (2.62%) Puppet
6 2 (0.52%) Ambari
6 2 (0.52%) Oozie
7 1 (0.26%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 102 (26.70%) Databricks
2 76 (19.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.40%) SAP
4 9 (2.36%) Google
5 8 (2.09%) Oracle
6 4 (1.05%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.05%) Reuters
7 3 (0.79%) Talend
8 2 (0.52%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (0.52%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.52%) Informatica
8 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.52%) Teradata
9 1 (0.26%) Ariba
9 1 (0.26%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.26%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.26%) Sage
9 1 (0.26%) Wrike