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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 655 735
Rank change year-on-year +119 +80 -44
Contract jobs citing Delta Lake 35 32 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.056% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.48% 0.31% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 80
10th Percentile £504 £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 £750 £675 £738
90th Percentile £850 £830 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £600 £643
% change year-on-year -15.63% -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 7,304 10,170 17,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 17.86% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,238 12,433
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 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.08% +61.14% +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 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Delta Lake in the UK

Delta Lake
Top 10 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 18 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 +113 30 £600 - 23
London +103 23 £600 -5.88% 14
Work from Home +112 18 £600 +4.35% 12
UK excluding London +61 6 £506 -15.63% 12
East of England - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 5
West Midlands - 2 - - 4
North of England +32 1 £480 -20.00% 1
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 19 (54.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 34 (97.14%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 10 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 10 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) AWS
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) dbt
7 1 (2.86%) Slack
7 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (54.29%) Big Data
1 19 (54.29%) Data Lake
2 10 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (28.57%) Power BI
3 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (14.29%) Data Mart
5 4 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (11.43%) Spark SQL
6 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.57%) Star Schema
7 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.86%) Data Hub
8 1 (2.86%) Metadata
8 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.86%) SAP BW
8 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Marketing
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Back Office
5 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Games
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Data Engineer
2 14 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) Senior
4 9 (25.71%) Azure Data Engineer
5 8 (22.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (20.00%) Architect
7 6 (17.14%) Data Architect
8 5 (14.29%) Azure Architect
9 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Architect
10 3 (8.57%) Lead
10 3 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
11 2 (5.71%) Analyst
11 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
11 2 (5.71%) Platform Architect
11 2 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
12 1 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 1 (2.86%) Developer
12 1 (2.86%) Java Developer
12 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
12 1 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (74.29%) PySpark
2 4 (11.43%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) .NET
3 2 (5.71%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (5.71%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (2.86%) ADO
4 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Market Risk
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.71%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (71.43%) Analytics
2 21 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 20 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (54.29%) Agile
5 17 (48.57%) Data Modelling
6 15 (42.86%) DevOps
6 15 (42.86%) ETL
7 13 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
8 11 (31.43%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (20.00%) Data Architecture
10 7 (20.00%) SDLC
11 6 (17.14%) Performance Monitoring
11 6 (17.14%) Project Delivery
11 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (14.29%) Data Integration
12 5 (14.29%) Data Strategy
13 4 (11.43%) Data Transformation
13 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) SQL
2 25 (71.43%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) Scala
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) R
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kibana
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (94.29%) Databricks
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.86%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) SAP