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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 107 95
Rank change year-on-year -15 -12 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 781 1,346 2,350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 2.32% 2.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.69% 12.90% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 983 1,731
10th Percentile £400 £371 £388
25th Percentile £456 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 15
10th Percentile £31.25 £34.13 £19.77
25th Percentile £31.56 £35.00 £29.75
Median hourly rate £50.50 £49.79 £43.42
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +14.67% +66.98%
75th Percentile £54.03 £79.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £63.70 £80.25 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.75 £39.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.13% +13.57% +39.61%

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 7,303 10,437 17,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.94% 17.97% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,214 7,433 12,551
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 186 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.69
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.41 £62.24
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.25 £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -22 691 £550 - 424
London -6 459 £575 - 216
Work from Home +1 323 £525 -4.55% 221
UK excluding London -36 232 £500 - 223
North of England +27 82 £500 -4.76% 58
North West +27 62 £500 - 36
Midlands -19 48 £525 -2.33% 50
South East -47 43 £500 -4.76% 40
West Midlands -1 35 £525 -2.33% 30
South West +3 27 £500 - 27
Scotland +20 22 £475 -3.06% 13
Yorkshire +21 17 £488 -11.36% 18
East of England -23 14 £475 +48.44% 21
East Midlands +7 13 £513 +28.13% 20
North East +21 7 £650 +8.33% 4
Wales +13 3 £325 -35.00% 10

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 50 (6.40%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.69%) Apache
4 11 (1.41%) SAS
5 10 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.02%) Confluence
7 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.30%) 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 18 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
4 3 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 283 (36.24%) Azure
2 231 (29.58%) Power Platform
3 166 (21.25%) AWS
4 95 (12.16%) GCP
5 86 (11.01%) Snowflake
6 82 (10.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 58 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 57 (7.30%) Serverless
9 38 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (4.74%) Amazon S3
11 33 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (4.23%) dbt
12 32 (4.10%) GitHub
13 24 (3.07%) Azure Stack
14 23 (2.94%) Power Automate
14 23 (2.94%) PowerApps
15 22 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
17 16 (2.05%) OCI
18 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.90%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (28.04%) Power BI
2 161 (20.61%) Data Lake
3 141 (18.05%) SQL Server
4 100 (12.80%) Big Data
5 80 (10.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 66 (8.45%) Tableau
7 60 (7.68%) Relational Database
8 55 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (6.02%) BigQuery
9 47 (6.02%) Metadata
10 42 (5.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 40 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (4.61%) NoSQL
13 32 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
14 30 (3.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 27 (3.46%) Star Schema
16 25 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (3.07%) Hadoop
18 23 (2.94%) MySQL
19 22 (2.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 32 (4.10%) JIRA
2 31 (3.97%) ERwin
3 26 (3.33%) Git
4 16 (2.05%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.41%) GitLab
6 7 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.77%) Visual Studio Team System
8 5 (0.64%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.64%) kappa
9 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.51%) Selenium
9 4 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.38%) Deequ
11 2 (0.26%) JUnit
11 2 (0.26%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.26%) TestNG
11 2 (0.26%) TestRail
11 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 182 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.90%) Finance
3 104 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.74%) Banking
6 22 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.18%) Retail
8 12 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.41%) Marketing
10 9 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.90%) Legal
11 7 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.77%) Back Office
12 6 (0.77%) Publishing
13 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 207 (26.50%) Data Engineer
2 164 (21.00%) Architect
3 129 (16.52%) Data Architect
4 111 (14.21%) Developer
5 88 (11.27%) Analyst
6 62 (7.94%) Senior
7 43 (5.51%) Data Analyst
8 37 (4.74%) Project Manager
9 36 (4.61%) Data Modeller
10 35 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.35%) Business Analyst
12 32 (4.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 30 (3.84%) Lead
14 28 (3.59%) Azure Data Engineer
15 27 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 20 (2.56%) Consultant
17 20 (2.56%) Data Manager
18 19 (2.43%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.91%) PySpark
2 45 (5.76%) JSON
3 38 (4.87%) XML
4 29 (3.71%) Kafka
5 24 (3.07%) REST
6 23 (2.94%) .NET
7 14 (1.79%) Apache Avro
8 12 (1.54%) Web Services
9 9 (1.15%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.02%) Middleware
10 8 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.77%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.77%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.77%) ODBC
11 6 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (0.64%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.51%) Node.js
13 4 (0.51%) PostGIS
13 4 (0.51%) RESTful
13 4 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.87%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 25 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.69%) NHS
5 18 (2.30%) Reference Data
6 16 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
9 9 (1.15%) Freedom of Information Act
10 8 (1.02%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.02%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.64%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.64%) Taxonomies
14 4 (0.51%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.54%) Linux
2 6 (0.77%) Unix
3 5 (0.64%) CentOS
3 5 (0.64%) Windows
4 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (49.55%) Data Modelling
2 350 (44.81%) ETL
3 280 (35.85%) Business Intelligence
4 245 (31.37%) Analytics
5 172 (22.02%) Agile
6 142 (18.18%) Migration
7 138 (17.67%) Data Integration
8 131 (16.77%) Data Pipeline
9 129 (16.52%) Data Governance
10 116 (14.85%) Data Engineering
11 115 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (13.70%) DevOps
13 104 (13.32%) Visualisation
14 96 (12.29%) Data Migration
15 88 (11.27%) Data Analysis
16 81 (10.37%) Data Architecture
16 81 (10.37%) Data Management
17 75 (9.60%) Data Science
18 71 (9.09%) CI/CD
19 69 (8.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 420 (53.78%) SQL
2 213 (27.27%) Python
3 70 (8.96%) Java
4 53 (6.79%) T-SQL
5 42 (5.38%) C#
6 37 (4.74%) Scala
7 28 (3.59%) PL/SQL
8 20 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 19 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.41%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.41%) R
11 9 (1.15%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.90%) Bash
12 7 (0.90%) XPath
12 7 (0.90%) XQuery
13 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.77%) VB
14 5 (0.64%) Go
15 4 (0.51%) VBA
15 4 (0.51%) X++
Qualifications
1 72 (9.22%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.07%) Degree
3 54 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 35 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.38%) MCITP
10 3 (0.38%) MCTS
11 2 (0.26%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.26%) PhD
11 2 (0.26%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (20.61%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.54%) GDPR
4 10 (1.28%) SLA
5 8 (1.02%) QA
6 6 (0.77%) IFRS
6 6 (0.77%) IFRS 17
6 6 (0.77%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) GxP
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.13%) CDISC
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (2.43%) Docker
2 6 (0.77%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (4.23%) Terraform
2 15 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.90%) Ansible
3 7 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.26%) Ambari
4 2 (0.26%) Control-M
4 2 (0.26%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) Oozie
5 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 155 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 97 (12.42%) Databricks
3 95 (12.16%) Oracle
4 41 (5.25%) Google
5 34 (4.35%) SAP
6 33 (4.23%) Informatica
7 13 (1.66%) AVEVA
7 13 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.54%) Foundry
8 12 (1.54%) Palantir
8 12 (1.54%) Sparx
9 10 (1.28%) Talend
10 7 (0.90%) Nexthink
10 7 (0.90%) Remedy
11 5 (0.64%) Autodesk
11 5 (0.64%) Snow
12 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.51%) Brio
12 4 (0.51%) Embarcadero
12 4 (0.51%) Red Hat