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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 83 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -25 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 62 47 79
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.63% 2.36% 3.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.80% 11.35% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 27 56
10th Percentile £420 £398 £438
25th Percentile £456 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -5.22%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £675
90th Percentile £709 £695 £756
London median daily rate £513 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -12.39% +1.74% +2.22%
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 £42.50 £51.13
% change year-on-year +47.06% -16.87% -23.69%

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 419 414 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.77% 20.80% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 267 368
10th Percentile £352 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £688
90th Percentile £738 £749 £788
London median daily rate £522 £563 £551
% change year-on-year -7.20% +2.09% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £46.06
% change year-on-year +7.06% -7.72% +1.08%

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 11 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 11 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 +7 58 £550 +2.33% 38
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 15 (24.19%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (9.68%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.45%) Apache
4 3 (4.84%) Confluence
5 2 (3.23%) SAS
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (8.06%) BambooHR
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.61%) Actimize
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) Power Platform
2 27 (43.55%) Azure
3 18 (29.03%) Snowflake
4 15 (24.19%) dbt
5 14 (22.58%) AWS
5 14 (22.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (19.35%) GCP
7 11 (17.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (14.52%) Prefect
9 7 (11.29%) Dagster
10 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
12 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (4.84%) Fivetran
12 3 (4.84%) OCI
12 3 (4.84%) Serverless
13 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (3.23%) Matillion
14 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (40.32%) Power BI
2 15 (24.19%) Tableau
3 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
4 8 (12.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (9.68%) BigQuery
5 6 (9.68%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.06%) Looker
6 5 (8.06%) Metadata
6 5 (8.06%) MySQL
6 5 (8.06%) Star Schema
7 4 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.84%) Power Query
8 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
9 2 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.84%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.61%) ERwin
4 1 (1.61%) Selenium
General
1 29 (46.77%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 8 (12.90%) Legal
5 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.61%) Front Office
7 1 (1.61%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (40.32%) Data Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Architect
2 10 (16.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Snowflake Engineer
3 8 (12.90%) Senior
4 6 (9.68%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Data Architect
5 5 (8.06%) Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) Kafka
2 4 (6.45%) Middleware
2 4 (6.45%) PySpark
2 4 (6.45%) XML
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.84%) Playwright
4 2 (3.23%) JSON
4 2 (3.23%) WPF
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.61%) OAuth
5 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.61%) REST
5 1 (1.61%) RESTful
5 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) Clustering
3 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.61%) Equities
4 1 (1.61%) Life Science
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (61.29%) Analytics
1 38 (61.29%) ETL
2 34 (54.84%) Data Modelling
3 31 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (45.16%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (41.94%) Data Engineering
6 16 (25.81%) Data Governance
7 14 (22.58%) CI/CD
7 14 (22.58%) Migration
8 13 (20.97%) Agile
8 13 (20.97%) Data Integration
8 13 (20.97%) Decision-Making
8 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
9 12 (19.35%) Visualisation
10 11 (17.74%) AI
10 11 (17.74%) Use Case
10 11 (17.74%) Validation
11 10 (16.13%) Data Transformation
11 10 (16.13%) DevOps
11 10 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (74.19%) SQL
2 24 (38.71%) Python
3 4 (6.45%) C#
4 3 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.84%) Scala
5 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) Bicep
6 1 (1.61%) Java
6 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.45%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) PMP
4 2 (3.23%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) CFA
5 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (38.71%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.68%) GDPR
3 3 (4.84%) GAAP
4 2 (3.23%) Basel III
4 2 (3.23%) QA
5 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.61%) GxP
5 1 (1.61%) IFRS
5 1 (1.61%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.35%) Databricks
3 8 (12.90%) Workday
4 7 (11.29%) Google
4 7 (11.29%) Informatica
5 5 (8.06%) Oracle
5 5 (8.06%) SAP
6 2 (3.23%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.61%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.61%) OpenText
7 1 (1.61%) Pega
7 1 (1.61%) Planview
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Teradata