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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 79 74
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 70 52 60
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.80% 2.62% 2.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.36% 12.09% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 31 49
10th Percentile £413 £381 £425
25th Percentile £463 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £628 £644 £700
90th Percentile £738 £825 £740
London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.94%
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 428 430 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.15% 21.64% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 288 365
10th Percentile £370 £379 £403
25th Percentile £463 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.26% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £676 £710
90th Percentile £754 £800 £788
London median daily rate £529 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
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 £34.03 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.18% +5.00% -13.04%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 - 37
West End of London -7 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 17 (24.29%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.86%) Apache
3 2 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.71%) Azure
2 29 (41.43%) Power Platform
3 22 (31.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (30.00%) Snowflake
5 19 (27.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (27.14%) dbt
6 17 (24.29%) AWS
7 10 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (14.29%) GCP
8 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 7 (10.00%) Prefect
9 5 (7.14%) Dagster
9 5 (7.14%) Serverless
10 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Stack
10 4 (5.71%) GitHub
10 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
10 4 (5.71%) PowerApps
11 3 (4.29%) SaaS
12 2 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (40.00%) Power BI
2 15 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
3 12 (17.14%) Star Schema
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (12.86%) Data Lake
5 8 (11.43%) BigQuery
5 8 (11.43%) Looker
5 8 (11.43%) Power Query
5 8 (11.43%) Tableau
6 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 7 (10.00%) Metadata
7 6 (8.57%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (8.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.71%) Delta Lake
9 3 (4.29%) Data Hub
9 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 29 (41.43%) Finance
2 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Legal
4 5 (7.14%) Retail
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 15 (21.43%) Developer
3 11 (15.71%) Architect
4 10 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Analyst
5 9 (12.86%) Senior
6 7 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 7 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.29%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Lead
10 2 (2.86%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) PySpark
2 7 (10.00%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) Kafka
4 2 (2.86%) Playwright
4 2 (2.86%) React
4 2 (2.86%) WPF
5 1 (1.43%) Middleware
5 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
1 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.86%) Clustering
4 2 (2.86%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.43%) Life Science
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) Analytics
2 40 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 38 (54.29%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (48.57%) ETL
5 28 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 25 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (32.86%) CI/CD
8 21 (30.00%) Data Governance
8 21 (30.00%) DevOps
9 19 (27.14%) Decision-Making
10 18 (25.71%) AI
11 15 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (20.00%) Agile
12 14 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (17.14%) Migration
13 12 (17.14%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (15.71%) Dimensional Modelling
14 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (14.29%) Data Transformation
15 10 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 51 (72.86%) SQL
2 28 (40.00%) Python
3 14 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (8.57%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.29%) LookML
7 2 (2.86%) C#
7 2 (2.86%) Java
7 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.86%) Scala
8 1 (1.43%) Bash
8 1 (1.43%) Bicep
8 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) DBS Check
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) Degree
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (41.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 18 (25.71%) Databricks
3 5 (7.14%) Google
3 5 (7.14%) Workday
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 3 (4.29%) Informatica
6 2 (2.86%) Teradata
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) OpenText
7 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) SAP