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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 84 69
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 71 55 64
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.79% 2.69% 2.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.36% 12.30% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 33 55
10th Percentile £413 £407 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £713
90th Percentile £738 £821 £750
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% -25.19%

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 434 447 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.06% 21.84% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 293 365
10th Percentile £363 £396 £403
25th Percentile £463 £438 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £710
90th Percentile £756 £785 £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 £48.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%

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 18 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 18 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 +1 68 £550 - 14
West End of London -7 2 £475 -13.64% 1
Southwark - 1 £450 - 1
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 14 (19.72%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.23%) Apache
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.82%) Confluence
4 2 (2.82%) SAS
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.41%) Actimize
2 1 (1.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.07%) Azure
1 32 (45.07%) Power Platform
2 21 (29.58%) Azure Data Factory
3 20 (28.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (23.94%) Snowflake
5 15 (21.13%) dbt
6 14 (19.72%) AWS
7 10 (14.08%) GCP
8 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (9.86%) Prefect
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
11 5 (7.04%) Dagster
12 4 (5.63%) Power Automate
12 4 (5.63%) PowerApps
13 3 (4.23%) Azure Stack
13 3 (4.23%) Serverless
14 2 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (2.82%) GitHub
14 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.85%) Power BI
2 15 (21.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
4 11 (15.49%) Data Lake
4 11 (15.49%) Star Schema
5 9 (12.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (12.68%) Tableau
6 8 (11.27%) BigQuery
6 8 (11.27%) Power Query
7 7 (9.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (8.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (8.45%) Looker
9 5 (7.04%) Metadata
9 5 (7.04%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (5.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (4.23%) Delta Lake
11 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.82%) Data Hub
12 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Git
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
1 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 31 (43.66%) Finance
2 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Legal
5 5 (7.04%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Retail
6 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.23%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Law
9 1 (1.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Data Engineer
2 16 (22.54%) Developer
3 12 (16.90%) Architect
4 10 (14.08%) Analyst
4 10 (14.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 8 (11.27%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) Data Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Data Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Data Manager
10 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Lead
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) PySpark
2 6 (8.45%) Kafka
3 2 (2.82%) Middleware
3 2 (2.82%) Playwright
3 2 (2.82%) React
3 2 (2.82%) WPF
4 1 (1.41%) JSON
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.41%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) RESTful
4 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Clustering
3 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.82%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) CMDB
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.41%) Life Science
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (59.15%) Analytics
2 39 (54.93%) Data Modelling
3 38 (53.52%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (53.52%) ETL
4 24 (33.80%) Data Engineering
4 24 (33.80%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (28.17%) CI/CD
6 19 (26.76%) DevOps
7 18 (25.35%) Data Governance
7 18 (25.35%) Decision-Making
8 16 (22.54%) AI
9 13 (18.31%) Migration
10 12 (16.90%) Agile
10 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (15.49%) Dimensional Modelling
11 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
12 10 (14.08%) Data Transformation
13 9 (12.68%) Use Case
13 9 (12.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (69.01%) SQL
2 23 (32.39%) Python
3 13 (18.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (8.45%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.23%) C#
6 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) Bicep
8 1 (1.41%) Java
8 1 (1.41%) LookML
8 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) DBS Check
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.82%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.04%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.41%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Terraform
2 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (21.13%) Databricks
3 7 (9.86%) Google
4 5 (7.04%) Informatica
4 5 (7.04%) Workday
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.41%) IBM
7 1 (1.41%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.41%) OpenText
7 1 (1.41%) Pega
7 1 (1.41%) Planview
7 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.41%) Teradata