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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 83 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 66 52 76
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.54% 2.54% 3.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.21% 11.40% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 30 61
10th Percentile £420 £402 £425
25th Percentile £453 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -0.81%
75th Percentile £597 £627 £700
90th Percentile £741 £808 £750
London median daily rate £519 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.73% -4.35% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
London median hourly rate - £40.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year - -19.80% -21.71%

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 434 456 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.73% 22.28% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 303 360
10th Percentile £355 £400 £400
25th Percentile £464 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £690 £710
90th Percentile £755 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £39.50 £48.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% -3.96% -12.17%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +4 64 £550 - 17
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 (19.70%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.03%) Confluence
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.52%) Actimize
2 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.91%) Power Platform
2 26 (39.39%) Azure
3 17 (25.76%) Snowflake
4 15 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (21.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (21.21%) dbt
6 12 (18.18%) AWS
7 11 (16.67%) GCP
8 7 (10.61%) Prefect
9 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (7.58%) Dagster
10 3 (4.55%) Serverless
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.03%) Azure Stack
11 2 (3.03%) Fivetran
11 2 (3.03%) GitHub
11 2 (3.03%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.36%) Power BI
2 10 (15.15%) Data Lake
2 10 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 9 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (13.64%) Tableau
4 8 (12.12%) BigQuery
4 8 (12.12%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (9.09%) Looker
5 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (9.09%) Star Schema
6 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.58%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.06%) Metadata
8 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.55%) Power Query
8 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (39.39%) Finance
2 13 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Legal
5 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.55%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (34.85%) Data Engineer
2 11 (16.67%) Architect
2 11 (16.67%) Developer
3 9 (13.64%) Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Senior
4 7 (10.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Snowflake Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 6 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.03%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) Kafka
2 4 (6.06%) PySpark
3 2 (3.03%) JSON
3 2 (3.03%) Middleware
3 2 (3.03%) Playwright
3 2 (3.03%) React
3 2 (3.03%) WPF
3 2 (3.03%) XML
4 1 (1.52%) OAuth
4 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) RESTful
4 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.55%) Clustering
2 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.03%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.52%) CMDB
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.52%) Life Science
4 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.52%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) Analytics
2 36 (54.55%) ETL
3 35 (53.03%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (51.52%) Data Modelling
5 24 (36.36%) Data Engineering
6 23 (34.85%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (24.24%) Decision-Making
8 15 (22.73%) AI
9 14 (21.21%) CI/CD
10 13 (19.70%) Data Governance
11 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
11 12 (18.18%) Validation
12 11 (16.67%) DevOps
12 11 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
12 11 (16.67%) Migration
13 10 (15.15%) Agile
13 10 (15.15%) Use Case
14 8 (12.12%) Asset Management
15 7 (10.61%) Data Architecture
15 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (68.18%) SQL
2 22 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (10.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (7.58%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.06%) C#
5 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) Java
7 1 (1.52%) LookML
Qualifications
1 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.55%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.03%) Degree
3 2 (3.03%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.09%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) Databricks
2 7 (10.61%) Google
3 5 (7.58%) Informatica
3 5 (7.58%) Workday
4 2 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.52%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.52%) OpenText
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) Pega
5 1 (1.52%) Planview
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow