Data Warehouse Contracts

Data Warehousing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Warehouse skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 113 100
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 777 1,269 2,307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 2.26% 2.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.63% 12.73% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 935 1,680
10th Percentile £400 £378 £381
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 20
10th Percentile - £32.50 £20.92
25th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £32.38
Median hourly rate £50.50 £64.00 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -21.09% +63.23% +50.80%
75th Percentile £53.75 £79.19 £61.00
90th Percentile £62.45 £81.25 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.49 £49.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year -50.81% +42.24% +46.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Warehouse 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 7,310 9,969 17,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 17.72% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,256 7,083 12,443
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £755 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 175 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £22.45
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.55 £73.75 £64.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £82.80 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -39.13% +64.29% +43.44%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse.

Daily rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse.

Hourly rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Warehouse within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -19 688 £550 - 445
London -11 447 £550 -4.35% 224
Work from Home +2 322 £525 -4.55% 209
UK excluding London -46 244 £500 -2.68% 230
North of England +27 88 £500 -3.38% 83
North West +25 66 £500 - 53
South East -32 51 £500 -4.76% 35
Midlands -33 39 £525 -2.33% 49
South West -3 29 £550 +10.00% 22
West Midlands -24 28 £525 -2.33% 34
Scotland +24 25 £475 -5.00% 15
Yorkshire +9 19 £475 -13.64% 23
East of England -11 16 £500 +32.45% 23
East Midlands 0 11 £550 +37.50% 15
North East +16 7 £650 +8.33% 7
Wales +10 3 £325 -35.00% 6

Data Warehouse
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 61 (7.85%) Apache Spark
2 33 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (4.12%) Apache
4 10 (1.29%) SAS
5 8 (1.03%) Confluence
5 8 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.51%) MIS ActiveH
3 4 (0.51%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.26%) OPENHousing
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.26%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) HFM
5 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 277 (35.65%) Azure
2 220 (28.31%) Power Platform
3 169 (21.75%) AWS
4 91 (11.71%) GCP
5 90 (11.58%) Snowflake
6 78 (10.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 55 (7.08%) Serverless
8 54 (6.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 45 (5.79%) dbt
10 44 (5.66%) Amazon S3
11 38 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (4.76%) GitHub
13 32 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.35%) Amazon EMR
15 24 (3.09%) Azure Stack
16 22 (2.83%) PowerApps
17 20 (2.57%) Power Automate
18 17 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
19 15 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
20 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (26.90%) Power BI
2 157 (20.21%) Data Lake
3 139 (17.89%) SQL Server
4 106 (13.64%) Big Data
5 78 (10.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 62 (7.98%) Tableau
7 61 (7.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 56 (7.21%) Relational Database
9 50 (6.44%) Metadata
10 47 (6.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 44 (5.66%) BigQuery
12 40 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 38 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
14 36 (4.63%) NoSQL
15 32 (4.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 31 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
17 29 (3.73%) Hadoop
18 25 (3.22%) MySQL
18 25 (3.22%) Star Schema
19 21 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (4.25%) JIRA
2 32 (4.12%) Git
3 28 (3.60%) ERwin
4 13 (1.67%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.54%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.29%) GitLab
7 8 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.77%) Selenium
8 6 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (0.64%) kappa
10 4 (0.51%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.39%) Appium
11 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.39%) Deequ
11 3 (0.39%) Postman
11 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.26%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 176 (22.65%) Social Skills
2 131 (16.86%) Finance
3 98 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.76%) Banking
6 19 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.45%) Retail
7 12 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.29%) Marketing
10 8 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.77%) Back Office
12 6 (0.77%) Legal
13 5 (0.64%) Publishing
14 4 (0.51%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Law
14 4 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 203 (26.13%) Data Engineer
2 157 (20.21%) Architect
3 129 (16.60%) Data Architect
4 122 (15.70%) Developer
5 89 (11.45%) Analyst
6 66 (8.49%) Senior
7 48 (6.18%) Data Analyst
8 38 (4.89%) Data Modeller
9 33 (4.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.12%) Lead
11 31 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (3.99%) Project Manager
12 29 (3.73%) Business Analyst
13 27 (3.47%) Azure Data Engineer
14 26 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (2.96%) Senior Data Engineer
16 22 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 22 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.57%) Consultant
18 19 (2.45%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.08%) PySpark
2 43 (5.53%) JSON
3 38 (4.89%) XML
4 32 (4.12%) Kafka
5 24 (3.09%) REST
6 22 (2.83%) .NET
7 14 (1.80%) Apache Avro
8 12 (1.54%) Web Services
9 9 (1.16%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.16%) YAML
10 8 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.90%) Middleware
12 6 (0.77%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.77%) AWS CDK
12 6 (0.77%) JSON Schema
12 6 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
13 5 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (0.64%) Node.js
13 5 (0.64%) RESTful
14 4 (0.51%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.63%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.60%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.83%) NHS
5 18 (2.32%) Reference Data
5 18 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
8 9 (1.16%) Freedom of Information Act
8 9 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 9 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.03%) Reinsurance
10 7 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.77%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.51%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.67%) Linux
2 7 (0.90%) Unix
3 6 (0.77%) CentOS
3 6 (0.77%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (48.52%) Data Modelling
2 350 (45.05%) ETL
3 253 (32.56%) Business Intelligence
4 239 (30.76%) Analytics
5 169 (21.75%) Agile
6 142 (18.28%) Data Pipeline
7 140 (18.02%) Migration
8 127 (16.34%) Data Integration
9 121 (15.57%) Data Governance
10 119 (15.32%) Data Engineering
11 118 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (14.16%) DevOps
13 97 (12.48%) Visualisation
14 94 (12.10%) Data Migration
15 91 (11.71%) Data Analysis
16 83 (10.68%) Data Architecture
16 83 (10.68%) Data Management
17 79 (10.17%) CI/CD
18 78 (10.04%) Data Science
19 64 (8.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 423 (54.44%) SQL
2 214 (27.54%) Python
3 66 (8.49%) Java
4 53 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 41 (5.28%) C#
6 36 (4.63%) Scala
7 29 (3.73%) PL/SQL
8 20 (2.57%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.67%) R
11 11 (1.42%) JavaScript
12 9 (1.16%) Bash
12 9 (1.16%) Go
12 9 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.16%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.90%) XPath
13 7 (0.90%) XQuery
14 6 (0.77%) VB
15 4 (0.51%) PHP
15 4 (0.51%) X++
Qualifications
1 70 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 67 (8.62%) Degree
3 51 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.77%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.39%) MCITP
11 3 (0.39%) MCTS
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.26%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.26%) PhD
12 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.54%) GDPR
4 10 (1.29%) QA
5 8 (1.03%) SLA
6 5 (0.64%) IFRS
6 5 (0.64%) IFRS 17
6 5 (0.64%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) GxP
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) CDISC
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (2.83%) Docker
2 6 (0.77%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (5.28%) Terraform
2 19 (2.45%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.16%) Ansible
4 7 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.26%) Ambari
5 2 (0.26%) Control-M
5 2 (0.26%) Grafana
5 2 (0.26%) Oozie
6 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 149 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 93 (11.97%) Databricks
3 85 (10.94%) Oracle
4 40 (5.15%) Google
5 34 (4.38%) SAP
6 24 (3.09%) Informatica
7 19 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.67%) AVEVA
9 12 (1.54%) Foundry
9 12 (1.54%) Palantir
10 9 (1.16%) Sparx
11 8 (1.03%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.03%) Remedy
12 7 (0.90%) Nexthink
13 6 (0.77%) Talend
14 5 (0.64%) Autodesk
14 5 (0.64%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.64%) Snow
15 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg
15 4 (0.51%) Embarcadero