Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Warehousing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 74 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 55 41 69
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.60% 2.35% 2.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.99% 10.88% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 55
10th Percentile £416 £375 £421
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £688
90th Percentile £726 £703 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £545
% change year-on-year -3.51% +4.59% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £34.63 £46.75
Median hourly rate - £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - -28.56% -
75th Percentile - £34.68 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year - -28.56% -

All Database & BI Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 367 377 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.37% 21.60% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 244 330
10th Percentile £340 £401 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -1.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £749 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -5.35% -3.54% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £34.63 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.71% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £34.68 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £48.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% -34.31% -42.32%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Warehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the City of London

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (25.45%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.09%) 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%) Azure
1 23 (41.82%) Power Platform
2 17 (30.91%) Snowflake
3 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 15 (27.27%) dbt
4 11 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (20.00%) GCP
5 10 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (12.73%) Prefect
7 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.09%) Dagster
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.45%) Fivetran
8 3 (5.45%) OCI
8 3 (5.45%) Serverless
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.64%) Matillion
10 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (36.36%) Power BI
2 10 (18.18%) Tableau
3 8 (14.55%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (10.91%) Metadata
4 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
5 5 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (9.09%) Star Schema
6 4 (7.27%) BigQuery
6 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.45%) Looker
7 3 (5.45%) OLAP
7 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.45%) Power Query
7 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.64%) Data Vault
8 2 (3.64%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Git
2 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.82%) ERwin
3 1 (1.82%) Selenium
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 15 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) 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 22 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Snowflake Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior
5 6 (10.91%) Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Lead
6 5 (9.09%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
9 2 (3.64%) Data Modeller
9 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Kafka
2 4 (7.27%) Middleware
2 4 (7.27%) XML
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.45%) Playwright
4 2 (3.64%) JSON
4 2 (3.64%) WPF
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.82%) PySpark
5 1 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.82%) REST
5 1 (1.82%) RESTful
5 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.45%) Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Replication
4 1 (1.82%) CMDB
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Equities
4 1 (1.82%) Life Science
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (61.82%) ETL
2 33 (60.00%) Analytics
3 29 (52.73%) Data Modelling
4 26 (47.27%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (43.64%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (38.18%) Data Engineering
7 14 (25.45%) CI/CD
8 13 (23.64%) Migration
8 13 (23.64%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (21.82%) AI
10 11 (20.00%) Data Governance
10 11 (20.00%) Data Integration
10 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 10 (18.18%) Agile
11 10 (18.18%) Decision-Making
11 10 (18.18%) Validation
12 8 (14.55%) Data Science
12 8 (14.55%) Use Case
12 8 (14.55%) Visualisation
13 7 (12.73%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (78.18%) SQL
2 22 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (7.27%) C#
4 3 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.82%) Bicep
6 1 (1.82%) Java
6 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (5.45%) Degree
1 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) PMP
2 2 (3.64%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.82%) CFA
3 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.82%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (38.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) GAAP
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) Basel III
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) GxP
4 1 (1.82%) IFRS
4 1 (1.82%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) Databricks
3 7 (12.73%) Informatica
4 6 (10.91%) Google
4 6 (10.91%) Oracle
4 6 (10.91%) Workday
5 5 (9.09%) SAP
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%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.82%) Teradata