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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 70 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 43 50 78
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.06% 2.41% 3.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.62% 12.41% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 55
10th Percentile £409 £463 £413
25th Percentile £463 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £685 £663
90th Percentile £681 £703 £745
London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +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 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +20.33%

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 370 403 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.71% 19.46% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 260 384
10th Percentile £329 £405 £413
25th Percentile £410 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £685 £713
90th Percentile £738 £748 £829
London median daily rate £525 £560 £558
% change year-on-year -6.25% +0.45% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.83 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £38.33 £37.88 £46.75
Median hourly rate £45.88 £40.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -17.53% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.67 £41.38 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.30 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £54.25 £42.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +29.17% -4.00% -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 11 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 11 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 -14 39 £525 -4.55% 26
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 (18.60%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (13.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) Power Platform
3 12 (27.91%) AWS
3 12 (27.91%) Snowflake
4 8 (18.60%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (18.60%) dbt
5 6 (13.95%) GCP
6 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) OCI
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.65%) Dagster
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) Prefect
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Power BI
2 8 (18.60%) Tableau
3 5 (11.63%) Metadata
3 5 (11.63%) MySQL
4 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (9.30%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.65%) OLAP
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.65%) Power Query
6 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.65%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) ERwin
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 20 (46.51%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Front Office
7 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Data Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Snowflake Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 3 (6.98%) Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
5 2 (4.65%) Automation Tester
5 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Data Modeller
5 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) Kafka
2 4 (9.30%) PySpark
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (6.98%) XML
4 2 (4.65%) Middleware
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.33%) Node.js
5 1 (2.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Equities
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.33%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Data Modelling
2 21 (48.84%) Analytics
3 20 (46.51%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (46.51%) ETL
4 16 (37.21%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (34.88%) Data Integration
6 13 (30.23%) Data Engineering
6 13 (30.23%) Data Governance
7 12 (27.91%) Visualisation
8 11 (25.58%) Migration
9 10 (23.26%) Data Architecture
9 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (20.93%) Agile
10 9 (20.93%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (20.93%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
12 7 (16.28%) Data Migration
12 7 (16.28%) Data Transformation
13 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
14 5 (11.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (83.72%) SQL
2 16 (37.21%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.98%) Scala
4 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.65%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) LookML
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) PMP
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CFA
5 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (44.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) GAAP
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) Basel III
3 2 (4.65%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.33%) IFRS
4 1 (2.33%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Databricks
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.30%) SAP
4 4 (9.30%) Workday
5 2 (4.65%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) Informatica
5 2 (4.65%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.33%) Teradata