Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Warehousing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 78 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 70 54 67
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.71% 2.62% 2.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.02% 11.84% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 32 57
10th Percentile £420 £406 £425
25th Percentile £456 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £597 £630 £700
90th Percentile £745 £805 £750
London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
London median hourly rate - £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year - -13.86% -21.09%

All Database & BI Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 437 456 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.91% 22.15% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 304 364
10th Percentile £363 £400 £402
25th Percentile £463 £437 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £584
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% -3.44% -2.71%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £710
90th Percentile £754 £775 £786
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -15.83%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in Central London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in Central London

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. 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
City of London +2 67 £550 - 19
West End of London -6 2 £475 -13.64% 1
Southwark - 1 £450 -
Data Warehouse
London

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 13 (18.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
4 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.86%) Confluence
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.43%) Actimize
2 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 34 (48.57%) Power Platform
2 31 (44.29%) Azure
3 20 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (27.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (25.71%) Snowflake
6 14 (20.00%) dbt
7 13 (18.57%) AWS
8 11 (15.71%) GCP
9 8 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (10.00%) Prefect
11 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 5 (7.14%) Dagster
11 5 (7.14%) Power Automate
11 5 (7.14%) PowerApps
12 3 (4.29%) Azure Stack
12 3 (4.29%) Serverless
13 2 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (2.86%) GitHub
13 2 (2.86%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (44.29%) Power BI
2 15 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 11 (15.71%) Data Lake
4 11 (15.71%) Star Schema
5 9 (12.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (12.86%) Tableau
6 8 (11.43%) BigQuery
6 8 (11.43%) Power Query
7 7 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (8.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (8.57%) Looker
8 6 (8.57%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (7.14%) Metadata
9 5 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
11 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 30 (42.86%) Finance
2 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Legal
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Retail
5 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Data Engineer
2 15 (21.43%) Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Architect
4 10 (14.29%) Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Senior
6 7 (10.00%) Data Analyst
7 6 (8.57%) Data Architect
7 6 (8.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
10 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) Kafka
2 5 (7.14%) PySpark
3 2 (2.86%) JSON
3 2 (2.86%) Middleware
3 2 (2.86%) Playwright
3 2 (2.86%) React
3 2 (2.86%) WPF
3 2 (2.86%) XML
4 1 (1.43%) OAuth
4 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.43%) REST
4 1 (1.43%) RESTful
4 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Clustering
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) CMDB
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.43%) Life Science
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.43%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (61.43%) Analytics
2 41 (58.57%) Business Intelligence
3 40 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 39 (55.71%) ETL
5 24 (34.29%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (32.86%) Data Engineering
7 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
8 17 (24.29%) Decision-Making
9 16 (22.86%) Data Governance
9 16 (22.86%) DevOps
10 15 (21.43%) AI
11 13 (18.57%) Dimensional Modelling
12 11 (15.71%) Agile
12 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
13 10 (14.29%) Migration
13 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (14.29%) Validation
14 9 (12.86%) Asset Management
14 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (12.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 49 (70.00%) SQL
2 23 (32.86%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.71%) C#
5 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.43%) Bicep
7 1 (1.43%) Java
7 1 (1.43%) LookML
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) Degree
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (31.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) Databricks
3 7 (10.00%) Google
4 5 (7.14%) Informatica
4 5 (7.14%) Workday
5 2 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (1.43%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.43%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.43%) OpenText
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) Pega
6 1 (1.43%) Planview
6 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow