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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 76 72
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 71 52 58
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.87% 2.67% 2.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.21% 12.35% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 34 46
10th Percentile £413 £388 £425
25th Percentile £459 £444 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% -1.04%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £700
90th Percentile £748 £819 £738
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% -16.53%

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 438 421 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.72% 21.62% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 283 350
10th Percentile £363 £382 £413
25th Percentile £463 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £658 £675 £717
90th Percentile £757 £798 £816
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 £36.75
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% -10.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -35.18% +7.14% -8.84%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -3 67 £550 - 52
West End of London -7 3 £475 -13.64% 1
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 14 (19.72%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.04%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.23%) Apache
4 3 (4.23%) Confluence
5 2 (2.82%) SAS
6 1 (1.41%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 35 (49.30%) Azure
2 28 (39.44%) Power Platform
3 25 (35.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (29.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (26.76%) Snowflake
6 18 (25.35%) AWS
7 14 (19.72%) dbt
8 12 (16.90%) GCP
9 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
11 5 (7.04%) Azure Stack
11 5 (7.04%) GitHub
11 5 (7.04%) Serverless
12 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.63%) Power Automate
12 4 (5.63%) PowerApps
12 4 (5.63%) SaaS
13 3 (4.23%) Prefect
14 2 (2.82%) Azure Databricks
14 2 (2.82%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (38.03%) Power BI
2 17 (23.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (21.13%) Data Lake
4 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
4 13 (18.31%) Star Schema
5 10 (14.08%) Metadata
6 9 (12.68%) Power Query
7 8 (11.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 7 (9.86%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (8.45%) BigQuery
10 5 (7.04%) Looker
10 5 (7.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (5.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (5.63%) Data Hub
11 4 (5.63%) Delta Lake
11 4 (5.63%) Tableau
12 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
13 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Git
1 3 (4.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) MLflow
General
1 28 (39.44%) Finance
2 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Banking
4 6 (8.45%) Retail
5 3 (4.23%) Legal
6 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
7 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Data Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Developer
3 12 (16.90%) Architect
4 11 (15.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 9 (12.68%) Analyst
6 8 (11.27%) Senior
7 7 (9.86%) Data Analyst
8 6 (8.45%) Data Architect
8 6 (8.45%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Business Intelligence Architect
10 4 (5.63%) Data Manager
11 3 (4.23%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Data Migration Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) GCP Data Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) PySpark
2 8 (11.27%) Terraform
3 7 (9.86%) Kafka
4 2 (2.82%) React
4 2 (2.82%) REST
5 1 (1.41%) .NET
5 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.41%) Node.js
5 1 (1.41%) OAuth
5 1 (1.41%) SAML
5 1 (1.41%) SOAP
5 1 (1.41%) Spring
5 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
1 7 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (4.23%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.82%) Replication
5 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Clustering
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
1 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.97%) Analytics
2 39 (54.93%) Data Modelling
3 38 (53.52%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (45.07%) ETL
5 26 (36.62%) Data Engineering
6 25 (35.21%) Data Governance
7 24 (33.80%) CI/CD
8 23 (32.39%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (28.17%) DevOps
10 18 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (23.94%) AI
12 16 (22.54%) Decision-Making
12 16 (22.54%) Migration
13 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (18.31%) Agile
14 13 (18.31%) Dimensional Modelling
14 13 (18.31%) Translating Business Requirements
15 12 (16.90%) Performance Optimisation
15 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (15.49%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 49 (69.01%) SQL
2 25 (35.21%) Python
3 16 (22.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (9.86%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.23%) Java
5 3 (4.23%) LookML
6 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) Scala
6 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) Bicep
7 1 (1.41%) Perl
7 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) DBS Check
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.82%) Degree
4 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.41%) PMP
4 1 (1.41%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (39.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) PSD2
4 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (33.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.54%) Databricks
3 6 (8.45%) Google
4 5 (7.04%) Oracle
5 2 (2.82%) Informatica
5 2 (2.82%) Teradata
5 2 (2.82%) Workday
6 1 (1.41%) Calypso
6 1 (1.41%) FIS
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.41%) Murex
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) Sybase
6 1 (1.41%) Temenos