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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 74 69
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 45 49 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.20% 2.33% 2.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.61% 12.04% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 31 53
10th Percentile £410 £463 £413
25th Percentile £456 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £638
90th Percentile £681 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -11.67% +6.19% +29.50%

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 357 407 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.42% 19.39% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 266 386
10th Percentile £324 £406 £413
25th Percentile £408 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £700
90th Percentile £741 £744 £825
London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £37.20 £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.88 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.50 £41.38 £47.19
90th Percentile - £41.60 £49.03
London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.14% -2.78%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -10 41 £525 -4.55% 36
City of Westminster +3 1 £475 -20.83%
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 8 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 2 (4.44%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (2.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) AWS
2 13 (28.89%) Power Platform
3 12 (26.67%) Snowflake
4 8 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (17.78%) dbt
5 6 (13.33%) GCP
6 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.67%) OCI
9 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.44%) Dagster
9 2 (4.44%) GitHub
9 2 (4.44%) Prefect
9 2 (4.44%) Serverless
10 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Tableau
3 5 (11.11%) Metadata
3 5 (11.11%) MySQL
4 4 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.44%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.44%) OLAP
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.44%) Power Query
6 2 (4.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.22%) ERwin
4 1 (2.22%) Selenium
General
1 20 (44.44%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Banking
5 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) General Ledger
6 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Legal
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.33%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Data Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Lead
3 5 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Data Modeller
6 2 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) Kafka
2 4 (8.89%) PySpark
2 4 (8.89%) XML
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.44%) Middleware
5 1 (2.22%) .NET
5 1 (2.22%) ADO
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.22%) JSON
5 1 (2.22%) Node.js
5 1 (2.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Equities
4 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.22%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Data Modelling
2 21 (46.67%) ETL
3 20 (44.44%) Analytics
4 19 (42.22%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (35.56%) Data Integration
5 16 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (26.67%) Data Engineering
6 12 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 12 (26.67%) Migration
7 11 (24.44%) Visualisation
8 10 (22.22%) Agile
8 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (20.00%) Data Architecture
9 9 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (17.78%) Data Transformation
11 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
11 7 (15.56%) Data Migration
12 6 (13.33%) DevOps
12 6 (13.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) SQL
2 17 (37.78%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.67%) Scala
5 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.44%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) LookML
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) PMP
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CFA
4 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) GAAP
3 2 (4.44%) Basel III
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.22%) IFRS
4 1 (2.22%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Databricks
2 8 (17.78%) Oracle
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 4 (8.89%) Workday
5 2 (4.44%) Google
5 2 (4.44%) Informatica
5 2 (4.44%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.22%) eFront
6 1 (2.22%) Teradata
6 1 (2.22%) Vertica