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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 81 71
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 68 48 66
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.83% 2.51% 2.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.23% 12.24% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 53
10th Percentile £405 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -1.26%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £700
90th Percentile £750 £817 £738
London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%

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 419 392 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.41% 20.51% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 281 349
10th Percentile £363 £375 £413
25th Percentile £455 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -1.83%
75th Percentile £671 £688 £710
90th Percentile £773 £800 £825
London median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.70 £37.20
25th Percentile £19.63 £32.00 £37.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £22.75 £63.75 £41.38
90th Percentile £23.20 - £41.60
London median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -12.94%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +1 61 £550 - 43
West End of London -5 4 £475 -13.64% 6
City of Westminster -8 1 £475 - 8
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 11 (16.18%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
3 5 (7.35%) Confluence
4 4 (5.88%) Apache
5 2 (2.94%) SAS
6 1 (1.47%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 33 (48.53%) Azure
2 27 (39.71%) Power Platform
3 24 (35.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (26.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (25.00%) AWS
6 16 (23.53%) Snowflake
7 12 (17.65%) dbt
8 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (13.24%) GCP
9 6 (8.82%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.82%) GitHub
9 6 (8.82%) Power Automate
9 6 (8.82%) Serverless
10 5 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (5.88%) Azure Stack
11 4 (5.88%) PowerApps
11 4 (5.88%) SaaS
12 3 (4.41%) Azure Databricks
13 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.71%) Power BI
2 15 (22.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (19.12%) Data Lake
4 12 (17.65%) Metadata
4 12 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 11 (16.18%) Star Schema
6 9 (13.24%) Power Query
7 8 (11.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (8.82%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (7.35%) Delta Lake
10 4 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (5.88%) BigQuery
10 4 (5.88%) Data Hub
11 3 (4.41%) Looker
11 3 (4.41%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
12 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) JIRA
2 4 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) MLflow
General
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 19 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Retail
5 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Publishing
7 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Data Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Developer
3 12 (17.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Architect
5 10 (14.71%) Analyst
5 10 (14.71%) Senior
6 7 (10.29%) Data Analyst
6 7 (10.29%) Data Architect
7 6 (8.82%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Data Manager
9 3 (4.41%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Data Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) GCP Data Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.65%) PySpark
2 8 (11.76%) Terraform
3 6 (8.82%) Kafka
4 3 (4.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.94%) React
5 2 (2.94%) REST
5 2 (2.94%) Web Services
6 1 (1.47%) .NET
6 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.47%) Node.js
6 1 (1.47%) OAuth
6 1 (1.47%) SAML
6 1 (1.47%) Spring
6 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.88%) Reinsurance
4 3 (4.41%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
1 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (60.29%) Data Modelling
2 40 (58.82%) Analytics
3 39 (57.35%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (39.71%) ETL
5 26 (38.24%) Data Governance
6 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
7 22 (32.35%) Data Engineering
8 21 (30.88%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (27.94%) DevOps
11 17 (25.00%) Agile
12 16 (23.53%) AI
12 16 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (22.06%) Decision-Making
14 14 (20.59%) Migration
15 13 (19.12%) Performance Optimisation
16 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
17 11 (16.18%) Dimensional Modelling
17 11 (16.18%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 49 (72.06%) SQL
2 24 (35.29%) Python
3 16 (23.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (10.29%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.41%) Java
5 3 (4.41%) LookML
5 3 (4.41%) Scala
6 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.47%) Bash
7 1 (1.47%) Bicep
7 1 (1.47%) Perl
7 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) DBS Check
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.41%) PMI Certification
2 3 (4.41%) PMP
3 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (44.12%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) PSD2
3 1 (1.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (33.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.59%) Databricks
3 4 (5.88%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) Google
5 2 (2.94%) Planview
5 2 (2.94%) Teradata
5 2 (2.94%) UiPath
6 1 (1.47%) Braze
6 1 (1.47%) Calypso
6 1 (1.47%) FIS
6 1 (1.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.47%) Informatica
6 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.47%) Murex
6 1 (1.47%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) Sybase
6 1 (1.47%) Temenos