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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 84 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 -24 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 70 52 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.70% 2.53% 3.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.80% 11.30% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 62
10th Percentile £420 £402 £425
25th Percentile £456 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year - -9.28% -0.21%
75th Percentile £591 £627 £700
90th Percentile £738 £808 £750
London median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -0.26%
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 443 460 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.11% 22.38% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 304 362
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £711
90th Percentile £750 £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 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -24.76% +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 4 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 4 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 +12 66 £550 - 22
West End of London -8 2 £475 -13.64%
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 (18.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
4 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.86%) Confluence
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.14%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.43%) Actimize
2 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) Power Platform
2 30 (42.86%) Azure
3 19 (27.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (25.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 18 (25.71%) Snowflake
5 14 (20.00%) dbt
6 13 (18.57%) AWS
7 11 (15.71%) GCP
8 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (10.00%) Prefect
9 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.14%) Dagster
9 5 (7.14%) Power Automate
9 5 (7.14%) PowerApps
10 3 (4.29%) Serverless
11 2 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.86%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.86%) GitHub
11 2 (2.86%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.86%) Power BI
2 14 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 10 (14.29%) Star Schema
4 9 (12.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (12.86%) Tableau
5 8 (11.43%) BigQuery
5 8 (11.43%) Power Query
5 8 (11.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (8.57%) Looker
7 5 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.71%) Metadata
9 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 31 (44.29%) Finance
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Legal
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Retail
5 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Data Engineer
2 15 (21.43%) Developer
3 11 (15.71%) Architect
4 10 (14.29%) Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Senior
6 7 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 7 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Data Architect
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
10 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Architect
11 2 (2.86%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) Kafka
2 4 (5.71%) PySpark
3 2 (2.86%) JSON
3 2 (2.86%) Middleware
3 2 (2.86%) Playwright
3 2 (2.86%) React
3 2 (2.86%) WPF
3 2 (2.86%) XML
4 1 (1.43%) OAuth
4 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.43%) REST
4 1 (1.43%) RESTful
4 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Clustering
3 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) CMDB
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.43%) Life Science
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.43%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (61.43%) Analytics
2 41 (58.57%) Business Intelligence
3 40 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 40 (57.14%) ETL
4 24 (34.29%) Data Engineering
5 23 (32.86%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (25.71%) CI/CD
6 18 (25.71%) Decision-Making
7 16 (22.86%) Data Governance
8 15 (21.43%) AI
8 15 (21.43%) DevOps
9 13 (18.57%) Dimensional Modelling
10 11 (15.71%) Agile
10 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
10 11 (15.71%) Validation
11 10 (14.29%) Migration
11 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.29%) Use Case
12 9 (12.86%) Asset Management
12 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 49 (70.00%) SQL
2 23 (32.86%) Python
3 12 (17.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.71%) C#
5 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.43%) Bicep
7 1 (1.43%) Java
7 1 (1.43%) LookML
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.57%) GDPR
3 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) Databricks
3 7 (10.00%) Google
4 5 (7.14%) Informatica
4 5 (7.14%) Workday
5 2 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (1.43%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.43%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.43%) OpenText
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) Pega
6 1 (1.43%) Planview
6 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow