Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Warehousing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 42 47
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 16 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.72% 1.97% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 11.63% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 7
10th Percentile £372 £408 £358
25th Percentile £425 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -11.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £563
90th Percentile £740 £668 £632
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £465 £525
% change year-on-year +0.86% -11.43% -2.33%

All Database & BI Skills
Birmingham

Data Warehouse 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 152 86 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.33% 16.96% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 64 95
10th Percentile £325 £107 £285
25th Percentile £407 £393 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -17.07%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £600 £700 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.40%
West Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £18.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -55.56% +60.40%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Warehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in Birmingham

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) SAS
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) dbt
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Matillion
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) Tableau
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (12.50%) Data Vault
4 2 (12.50%) Metadata
4 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (12.50%) Power Query
5 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Data Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Insight Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Insight Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Insight Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Credit Risk
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) FMCG
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Data Modelling
2 7 (43.75%) Analytics
2 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) ETL
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) AI
6 3 (18.75%) Data Extraction
6 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
6 3 (18.75%) Validation
7 2 (12.50%) Anomaly Detection
7 2 (12.50%) Data Lineage
7 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Databricks
3 3 (18.75%) Informatica
3 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 2 (12.50%) Teradata
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle