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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 76 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 57 50 73
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.38% 2.49% 2.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.90% 11.57% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 52
10th Percentile £420 £398 £428
25th Percentile £456 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year - +1.15% -9.38%
75th Percentile £593 £685 £675
90th Percentile £717 £687 £761
London median daily rate £514 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.65% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £34.63 £46.75
Median hourly rate - £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - -28.56% -
75th Percentile - £34.68 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.58 £51.75
% change year-on-year +62.02% -25.46% -22.76%

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 410 432 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.11% 21.55% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 277 356
10th Percentile £349 £404 £406
25th Percentile £443 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -3.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £695
90th Percentile £738 £750 £794
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.64% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £40.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year +14.81% -17.77% -1.50%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 53 £550 +4.76% 22
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 (22.81%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.77%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.26%) Apache
3 3 (5.26%) Confluence
4 2 (3.51%) SAS
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) BambooHR
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.75%) Actimize
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) Azure
1 26 (45.61%) Power Platform
2 15 (26.32%) Snowflake
3 14 (24.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (22.81%) dbt
5 11 (19.30%) AWS
5 11 (19.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (19.30%) GCP
6 9 (15.79%) Prefect
7 7 (12.28%) Dagster
8 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (5.26%) Fivetran
10 3 (5.26%) OCI
10 3 (5.26%) Serverless
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.51%) Matillion
12 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (40.35%) Power BI
2 15 (26.32%) Tableau
3 8 (14.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (14.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (14.04%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.53%) BigQuery
4 6 (10.53%) Snowflake Schema
4 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.77%) Looker
5 5 (8.77%) Metadata
5 5 (8.77%) MySQL
5 5 (8.77%) Star Schema
6 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.26%) Power Query
7 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Git
2 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.75%) ERwin
3 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 28 (49.12%) Finance
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.04%) Legal
5 7 (12.28%) Banking
6 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.51%) Marketing
7 2 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) Front Office
8 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Data Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Snowflake Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Architect
3 8 (14.04%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) Kafka
2 4 (7.02%) Middleware
2 4 (7.02%) PySpark
2 4 (7.02%) XML
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.26%) Playwright
4 2 (3.51%) JSON
4 2 (3.51%) WPF
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.75%) OAuth
5 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.75%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Clustering
3 2 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.51%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Equities
4 1 (1.75%) Life Science
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (64.91%) ETL
2 35 (61.40%) Analytics
3 30 (52.63%) Data Modelling
4 29 (50.88%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (45.61%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (42.11%) Data Engineering
7 15 (26.32%) Data Governance
8 13 (22.81%) Agile
8 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
8 13 (22.81%) Migration
8 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
9 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
10 11 (19.30%) Data Integration
10 11 (19.30%) Use Case
10 11 (19.30%) Validation
11 10 (17.54%) Data Transformation
11 10 (17.54%) DevOps
11 10 (17.54%) Visualisation
12 9 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (14.04%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 43 (75.44%) SQL
2 21 (36.84%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.26%) Scala
5 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) Bicep
6 1 (1.75%) Java
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Degree
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.51%) PMP
4 2 (3.51%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.75%) CFA
5 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (38.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.53%) GDPR
3 3 (5.26%) GAAP
4 2 (3.51%) Basel III
4 2 (3.51%) QA
5 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.75%) GxP
5 1 (1.75%) IFRS
5 1 (1.75%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.30%) Databricks
3 8 (14.04%) Workday
4 7 (12.28%) Google
4 7 (12.28%) Informatica
5 5 (8.77%) Oracle
5 5 (8.77%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.75%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.75%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.75%) OpenText
6 1 (1.75%) Pega
6 1 (1.75%) Planview
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Teradata