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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 74 56
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 55 48 86
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.49% 2.37% 3.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.96% 11.46% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 61
10th Percentile £432 £463 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £675
90th Percentile £704 £703 £763
London median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% +4.55%
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 £62.50 £42.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +47.06% -17.87% -19.14%

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 394 419 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.84% 20.69% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 279 367
10th Percentile £342 £405 £402
25th Percentile £425 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £741 £750 £834
London median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £30.61 -
25th Percentile £55.81 £32.91 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £41.00 £50.25
90th Percentile - £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £48.25 £41.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +17.68% -8.89% -14.29%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 51 £525 -4.55% 46
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 (23.64%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (14.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.27%) Apache
4 3 (5.45%) Confluence
5 2 (3.64%) SAS
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) BambooHR
1 3 (5.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.82%) Actimize
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) Power Platform
2 20 (36.36%) Azure
3 16 (29.09%) Snowflake
4 15 (27.27%) AWS
5 14 (25.45%) dbt
6 11 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (16.36%) GCP
8 7 (12.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (10.91%) Prefect
10 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 5 (9.09%) Dagster
11 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (5.45%) OCI
13 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (3.64%) Fivetran
13 2 (3.64%) GitHub
13 2 (3.64%) Matillion
13 2 (3.64%) Serverless
14 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) Power BI
2 12 (21.82%) Tableau
3 7 (12.73%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (10.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (10.91%) Metadata
5 5 (9.09%) MySQL
5 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.27%) BigQuery
6 4 (7.27%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.45%) Looker
7 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.45%) OLAP
7 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.82%) ERwin
4 1 (1.82%) Selenium
General
1 25 (45.45%) Finance
2 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Banking
5 6 (10.91%) Legal
6 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.64%) Retail
9 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.82%) Front Office
9 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.82%) Marketing
9 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Data Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Architect
2 8 (14.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Snowflake Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Lead
3 6 (10.91%) Senior
4 5 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Automation Tester
6 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Data Modeller
6 2 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Tester
7 1 (1.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) Kafka
2 5 (9.09%) XML
3 4 (7.27%) Middleware
3 4 (7.27%) PySpark
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.64%) JSON
6 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.82%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.82%) Node.js
6 1 (1.82%) OAuth
6 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.82%) Playwright
6 1 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.82%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.64%) Clustering
2 2 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) CMDB
3 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.82%) Equities
3 1 (1.82%) Life Science
3 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.82%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) ETL
2 30 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 29 (52.73%) Analytics
3 29 (52.73%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
5 22 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 14 (25.45%) Data Governance
6 14 (25.45%) Data Integration
6 14 (25.45%) Migration
7 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.82%) Visualisation
8 11 (20.00%) Agile
8 11 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (18.18%) Decision-Making
10 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (16.36%) Test Automation
10 9 (16.36%) Validation
11 8 (14.55%) AI
11 8 (14.55%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (14.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 44 (80.00%) SQL
2 22 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (5.45%) Java
3 3 (5.45%) Scala
4 2 (3.64%) C#
4 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.82%) Bicep
5 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) PMP
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) CFA
4 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.82%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (41.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.27%) GDPR
3 3 (5.45%) GAAP
4 2 (3.64%) Basel III
4 2 (3.64%) QA
5 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.82%) GxP
5 1 (1.82%) IFRS
5 1 (1.82%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Databricks
2 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 6 (10.91%) SAP
3 6 (10.91%) Workday
4 5 (9.09%) Informatica
5 4 (7.27%) Google
6 2 (3.64%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.82%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.82%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.82%) OpenText
7 1 (1.82%) Pega
7 1 (1.82%) Planview
7 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.82%) Teradata