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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 84 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 -16 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 70 48 60
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.84% 2.49% 2.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.91% 11.76% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 32 48
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £468 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% -1.04%
75th Percentile £625 £686 £700
90th Percentile £746 £823 £738
London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%

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 440 408 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.82% 21.16% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 277 345
10th Percentile £363 £384 £413
25th Percentile £463 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £713
90th Percentile £754 £800 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 £37.20
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.13 £37.88
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.56% +20.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 £41.38
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 £41.60
London median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -34.55% +22.22% -16.28%

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 23 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 23 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 +2 65 £550 - 52
West End of London -7 4 £475 -13.64% 1
City of Westminster -9 1 £475 - 6
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 6 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 4 (5.71%) Confluence
5 3 (4.29%) Apache
6 2 (2.86%) SAS
7 1 (1.43%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.43%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) Azure
2 27 (38.57%) Power Platform
3 23 (32.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (27.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (25.71%) Snowflake
6 17 (24.29%) AWS
7 13 (18.57%) dbt
8 10 (14.29%) GCP
9 9 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (8.57%) GitHub
11 5 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 5 (7.14%) Power Automate
11 5 (7.14%) Serverless
12 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.71%) Azure Stack
12 4 (5.71%) PowerApps
12 4 (5.71%) SaaS
13 3 (4.29%) Azure Databricks
14 2 (2.86%) Dagster
14 2 (2.86%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (38.57%) Power BI
2 15 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
5 11 (15.71%) Metadata
5 11 (15.71%) Star Schema
6 9 (12.86%) Power Query
7 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (8.57%) BigQuery
8 6 (8.57%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (7.14%) Delta Lake
9 5 (7.14%) Looker
10 4 (5.71%) Data Hub
11 3 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (4.29%) Tableau
12 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
12 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 28 (40.00%) Finance
2 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 17 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Retail
5 3 (4.29%) Legal
6 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Publishing
7 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 14 (20.00%) Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Architect
4 11 (15.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 10 (14.29%) Analyst
6 9 (12.86%) Senior
7 7 (10.00%) Data Analyst
7 7 (10.00%) Data Architect
8 6 (8.57%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Architect
10 4 (5.71%) Data Manager
10 4 (5.71%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) GCP Data Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) Lead
11 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) PySpark
2 7 (10.00%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) Kafka
4 2 (2.86%) React
4 2 (2.86%) REST
4 2 (2.86%) SOAP
5 1 (1.43%) .NET
5 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.43%) Node.js
5 1 (1.43%) OAuth
5 1 (1.43%) SAML
5 1 (1.43%) Spring
5 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.29%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) Replication
6 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (60.00%) Analytics
2 40 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 38 (54.29%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (40.00%) ETL
5 26 (37.14%) Data Governance
6 24 (34.29%) Data Engineering
7 23 (32.86%) CI/CD
7 23 (32.86%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (27.14%) DevOps
8 19 (27.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (22.86%) Decision-Making
9 16 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (21.43%) Agile
10 15 (21.43%) AI
10 15 (21.43%) Migration
11 13 (18.57%) Translating Business Requirements
12 12 (17.14%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (15.71%) Dimensional Modelling
14 10 (14.29%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (68.57%) SQL
2 26 (37.14%) Python
3 16 (22.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.29%) Java
5 3 (4.29%) LookML
5 3 (4.29%) Scala
6 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.43%) Bash
7 1 (1.43%) Bicep
7 1 (1.43%) Perl
7 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) DBS Check
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
3 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.86%) PMP
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) PSD2
3 1 (1.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.86%) Databricks
3 4 (5.71%) Google
3 4 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) Teradata
4 2 (2.86%) Workday
5 1 (1.43%) Braze
5 1 (1.43%) Calypso
5 1 (1.43%) FIS
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.43%) Murex
5 1 (1.43%) Planview
5 1 (1.43%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) Sybase
5 1 (1.43%) Temenos
5 1 (1.43%) UiPath