Data Lake Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Lakes
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 111 135
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 10 18 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.81% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.31% 5.04% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 35
10th Percentile - £433 £402
25th Percentile £263 £500 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% -3.31%
75th Percentile £515 £644 £575
90th Percentile £660 £654 £750
England median daily rate £648 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +12.61% - +12.20%
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
West Midlands

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 302 357 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.79% 16.13% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 230 529
10th Percentile £300 £313 £333
25th Percentile £358 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +11.43%
75th Percentile £594 £630 £575
90th Percentile £714 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £34.59 £24.13 -
25th Percentile £35.57 £24.31 -
Median hourly rate £37.22 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.39% - -
75th Percentile £38.86 £30.48 -
90th Percentile £39.84 £33.24 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in the West Midlands

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham +8 4 £410 -34.40% 3
Coventry +9 2 £675 +35.00%
Warwickshire -4 1 - -
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England

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Power BI
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) DB2
4 1 (10.00%) OLAP
4 1 (10.00%) OLTP
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Ant
2 1 (10.00%) Gradle
2 1 (10.00%) Hudson
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) API Design
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) B2C
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (10.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle