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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 71 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 59 55 67
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.40% 2.78% 2.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% 12.70% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 31 46
10th Percentile £413 £413 £438
25th Percentile £450 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £593 £655 £675
90th Percentile £717 £685 £750
London median daily rate £520 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -5.45% -3.93% -0.43%
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 £34.65 £51.13
% change year-on-year +80.38% -32.22% -26.96%

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 413 433 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.79% 21.91% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 280 360
10th Percentile £350 £404 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £702
90th Percentile £742 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -4.76%

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 May 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 May 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 -6 56 £525 -4.55% 32
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 12 (20.34%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.08%) Confluence
4 2 (3.39%) Apache
4 2 (3.39%) SAS
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) BambooHR
2 3 (5.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.69%) Actimize
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) Azure
1 26 (44.07%) Power Platform
2 15 (25.42%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (23.73%) Snowflake
4 12 (20.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (18.64%) AWS
5 11 (18.64%) dbt
6 10 (16.95%) GCP
7 7 (11.86%) Prefect
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (8.47%) Dagster
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (5.08%) OCI
9 3 (5.08%) Serverless
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.39%) Fivetran
10 2 (3.39%) Matillion
11 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (38.98%) Power BI
2 13 (22.03%) Tableau
3 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
4 8 (13.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (13.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (11.86%) Data Lake
5 7 (11.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (10.17%) BigQuery
7 5 (8.47%) Looker
8 4 (6.78%) Metadata
8 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (6.78%) Star Schema
9 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (5.08%) MySQL
9 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
10 2 (3.39%) Big Data
10 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.39%) Power Query
10 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
10 2 (3.39%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.69%) ERwin
4 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 29 (49.15%) Finance
2 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Legal
5 7 (11.86%) Banking
6 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Front Office
8 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Law
8 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Data Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Snowflake Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Senior
5 5 (8.47%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Data Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Kafka
2 4 (6.78%) Middleware
2 4 (6.78%) XML
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.08%) Playwright
3 3 (5.08%) PySpark
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
4 2 (3.39%) WPF
5 1 (1.69%) OAuth
5 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.69%) REST
5 1 (1.69%) RESTful
5 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Clustering
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.69%) CMDB
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) Equities
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.69%) Life Science
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.69%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.69%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (61.02%) ETL
2 35 (59.32%) Analytics
3 28 (47.46%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (47.46%) Data Modelling
4 24 (40.68%) Data Engineering
4 24 (40.68%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (27.12%) Migration
6 13 (22.03%) Test Automation
6 13 (22.03%) Validation
7 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
7 12 (20.34%) Data Governance
7 12 (20.34%) Decision-Making
8 10 (16.95%) Agile
8 10 (16.95%) AI
9 9 (15.25%) Data Migration
9 9 (15.25%) DevOps
9 9 (15.25%) Dimensional Modelling
9 9 (15.25%) Use Case
10 8 (13.56%) Data Integration
11 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (71.19%) SQL
2 21 (35.59%) Python
3 4 (6.78%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.39%) Scala
4 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.69%) Bicep
5 1 (1.69%) Java
5 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.08%) DBS Check
2 3 (5.08%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.39%) PMP
3 2 (3.39%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) CFA
4 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (32.20%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.17%) GDPR
3 3 (5.08%) GAAP
4 2 (3.39%) Basel III
4 2 (3.39%) QA
5 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.69%) GxP
5 1 (1.69%) IFRS
5 1 (1.69%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) Databricks
2 8 (13.56%) Workday
3 7 (11.86%) Google
3 7 (11.86%) Informatica
4 5 (8.47%) Oracle
4 5 (8.47%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.69%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.69%) OpenText
5 1 (1.69%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) Planview
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Teradata