Data Lake Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Lakes
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 111 185 189
Rank change year-on-year +74 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 284 316 672
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.93% 1.32% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.88% 7.01% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 250 473
10th Percentile £445 £413 £406
25th Percentile £518 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £850 £663 £650
90th Percentile £888 £739 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £566 £575
% change year-on-year +6.10% -1.65% +10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £50.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -36.51% +65.79%
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.75 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +45.00% - -26.32%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,874 4,510 9,433
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.53% 18.83% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,123 3,305 6,887
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 86
10th Percentile £18.00 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £21.88 £45.31 £21.19
Median hourly rate £37.75 £65.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +35.05% +56.45%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.78%

Data Lake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Lake trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Lake over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Data Lake daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Lake.

Data Lake hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 129 (45.42%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (39.44%) Apache
3 17 (5.99%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.41%) SAS
5 2 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (7.75%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.70%) PeopleSoft CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (52.11%) AWS
2 134 (47.18%) dbt
3 127 (44.72%) Snowflake
4 106 (37.32%) Azure
5 65 (22.89%) Power Platform
6 63 (22.18%) GCP
7 38 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (13.03%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (11.97%) Power Automate
10 30 (10.56%) PowerApps
11 27 (9.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (8.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (5.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 16 (5.63%) Serverless
15 8 (2.82%) Azure Functions
16 7 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (2.46%) GitHub
17 6 (2.11%) Amazon S3
18 5 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
18 5 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Firewall
1 1 (0.35%) Network Security
1 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (46.13%) Dremio
2 129 (45.42%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (45.07%) Apache Arrow
4 102 (35.92%) Apache Ignite
5 60 (21.13%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (20.07%) Power BI
7 48 (16.90%) Big Data
8 13 (4.58%) BigQuery
9 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (3.52%) Delta Lake
11 10 (3.52%) Tableau
12 9 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (2.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 6 (2.11%) Data Vault
14 6 (2.11%) Metadata
14 6 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.76%) OLTP
15 5 (1.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.23%) Git
2 7 (2.46%) JIRA
3 5 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (0.70%) MLflow
6 1 (0.35%) Deequ
6 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 185 (65.14%) Finance
2 121 (42.61%) Banking
3 113 (39.79%) Front Office
4 110 (38.73%) Investment Banking
5 52 (18.31%) Social Skills
6 35 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (10.92%) Public Sector
8 27 (9.51%) General Ledger
9 24 (8.45%) Retail
10 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Legal
10 3 (1.06%) Marketing
11 2 (0.70%) Billing
11 2 (0.70%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.70%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) German Language
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (24.65%) Software Engineer
2 63 (22.18%) AWS Engineer
3 57 (20.07%) Data Engineer
3 57 (20.07%) Lead
4 49 (17.25%) Senior
5 48 (16.90%) Architect
5 48 (16.90%) Python Engineer
6 43 (15.14%) Java Engineer
6 43 (15.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 43 (15.14%) Python Software Engineer
7 42 (14.79%) AWS Software Engineer
8 40 (14.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 39 (13.73%) Developer
10 31 (10.92%) Lead Developer
10 31 (10.92%) Software Developer
11 30 (10.56%) Consultant
11 30 (10.56%) Lead Software Developer
11 30 (10.56%) Lead Software Engineer
11 30 (10.56%) Software Team Leader
11 30 (10.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (42.25%) gRPC
1 120 (42.25%) Protocol Buffers
2 105 (36.97%) NumPy
2 105 (36.97%) Pandas
2 105 (36.97%) SciPy
3 31 (10.92%) PySpark
4 10 (3.52%) JSON
5 7 (2.46%) XML
6 6 (2.11%) .NET
7 5 (1.76%) Kafka
8 4 (1.41%) ADO
8 4 (1.41%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.06%) Web Services
10 2 (0.70%) Apache Avro
10 2 (0.70%) JSON Schema
10 2 (0.70%) Middleware
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.35%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.35%) Great Expectations
11 1 (0.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 128 (45.07%) Hedge funds
2 110 (38.73%) Derivative
2 110 (38.73%) Equities
2 110 (38.73%) Fixed Income
2 110 (38.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (7.75%) Data Structures
4 18 (6.34%) Clustering
5 16 (5.63%) Pricing Data
6 15 (5.28%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.06%) NHS
7 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.70%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.70%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (51.76%) Agile
2 131 (46.13%) Asset Management
3 109 (38.38%) Software Engineering
4 106 (37.32%) Investment Management
5 81 (28.52%) DevOps
6 55 (19.37%) Business Intelligence
7 51 (17.96%) Analytics
8 46 (16.20%) Line Management
9 43 (15.14%) ETL
10 41 (14.44%) Data Modelling
11 40 (14.08%) Data Engineering
11 40 (14.08%) Greeks
12 37 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (8.80%) CI/CD
14 23 (8.10%) Requirements Gathering
15 22 (7.75%) Accounts Payable
15 22 (7.75%) Accounts Receivable
15 22 (7.75%) Data Transformation
15 22 (7.75%) Requirements Workshops
16 21 (7.39%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 180 (63.38%) Python
2 132 (46.48%) Java
3 120 (42.25%) JavaScript
4 102 (35.92%) TypeScript
5 70 (24.65%) SQL
6 18 (6.34%) Go
7 8 (2.82%) C#
7 8 (2.82%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.76%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.41%) R
9 4 (1.41%) Scala
9 4 (1.41%) X++
10 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 23 (8.10%) Degree
2 11 (3.87%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (17.61%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.70%) NIST
3 1 (0.35%) CDISC
3 1 (0.35%) COBIT
3 1 (0.35%) GDPR
3 1 (0.35%) GxP
3 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (2.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (13.38%) Terraform
2 25 (8.80%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.34%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 54 (19.01%) Databricks
3 5 (1.76%) Oracle
4 4 (1.41%) Bloomberg
4 4 (1.41%) Google
4 4 (1.41%) Informatica
4 4 (1.41%) Reuters
5 2 (0.70%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe
6 1 (0.35%) Facebook
6 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.35%) Twitter
6 1 (0.35%) Workday
6 1 (0.35%) Wrike