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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 72 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 57 54 73
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.33% 2.68% 2.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.54% 12.62% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 52
10th Percentile £418 £405 £428
25th Percentile £452 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.53% -11.46%
75th Percentile £593 £685 £675
90th Percentile £717 - £761
London median daily rate £516 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -9.56% -0.87% -
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 421 428 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.24% 21.24% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 276 360
10th Percentile £343 £404 £406
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% -3.54% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £695
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £554 £563
% change year-on-year -5.23% -1.51% -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 £48.25 £40.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year +19.14% -17.77% -6.19%

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 28 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 28 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 -4 54 £525 - 17
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 (19.30%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.26%) Confluence
4 2 (3.51%) Apache
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%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (24.56%) Snowflake
4 13 (22.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (19.30%) dbt
6 10 (17.54%) GCP
7 9 (15.79%) AWS
8 7 (12.28%) Prefect
9 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.77%) Dagster
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
11 3 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (5.26%) OCI
12 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (3.51%) Fivetran
12 2 (3.51%) Matillion
12 2 (3.51%) Serverless
13 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (40.35%) Power BI
2 13 (22.81%) Tableau
3 9 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
5 7 (12.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (12.28%) Data Lake
6 6 (10.53%) BigQuery
6 6 (10.53%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (8.77%) Looker
7 5 (8.77%) Metadata
8 4 (7.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (7.02%) Star Schema
9 3 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (5.26%) MySQL
9 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
9 3 (5.26%) Power Query
10 2 (3.51%) Big Data
10 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
10 2 (3.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Git
2 3 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.75%) ERwin
4 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 30 (52.63%) Finance
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.04%) Legal
5 7 (12.28%) Banking
6 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.51%) Marketing
9 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.75%) Front Office
9 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Law
9 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
9 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
4 7 (12.28%) Senior
5 5 (8.77%) Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Lead
6 4 (7.02%) Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) Kafka
2 4 (7.02%) Middleware
2 4 (7.02%) XML
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.26%) Playwright
3 3 (5.26%) PySpark
4 2 (3.51%) JSON
4 2 (3.51%) WPF
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%) Legacy Code
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 36 (63.16%) Analytics
2 35 (61.40%) ETL
3 29 (50.88%) Data Modelling
4 28 (49.12%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (40.35%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (38.60%) Data Engineering
7 15 (26.32%) Migration
8 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
8 13 (22.81%) Data Governance
8 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
9 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
9 12 (21.05%) Validation
10 11 (19.30%) Agile
10 11 (19.30%) Use Case
11 9 (15.79%) AI
11 9 (15.79%) Data Integration
11 9 (15.79%) Data Migration
11 9 (15.79%) DevOps
11 9 (15.79%) Dimensional Modelling
12 8 (14.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (73.68%) SQL
2 20 (35.09%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) Scala
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 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.51%) PMP
3 2 (3.51%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.75%) CFA
4 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (35.09%) 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%) GxP
5 1 (1.75%) IFRS
5 1 (1.75%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.54%) 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