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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 71 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 58 47 60
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.40% 2.72% 2.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.68% 11.78% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 26 50
10th Percentile £418 £394 £424
25th Percentile £450 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.65%
75th Percentile £599 £627 £697
90th Percentile £729 £803 £751
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -10.93%
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 395 399 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.33% 23.09% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 266 345
10th Percentile £350 £404 £403
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -3.27% -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £711
90th Percentile £749 £775 £795
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £21.94 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.09 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +0.15% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £72.81 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £89.13 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -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 23 June 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 13 (22.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) BambooHR
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.72%) Actimize
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) Power Platform
2 23 (39.66%) Azure
3 13 (22.41%) Snowflake
4 12 (20.69%) AWS
4 12 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (20.69%) dbt
5 11 (18.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (18.97%) GCP
6 7 (12.07%) Prefect
7 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.62%) Dagster
9 4 (6.90%) Serverless
10 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.17%) OCI
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.45%) Fivetran
11 2 (3.45%) Matillion
12 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (37.93%) Power BI
2 9 (15.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.52%) Tableau
3 8 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 7 (12.07%) BigQuery
5 6 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (8.62%) Looker
7 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (6.90%) Star Schema
8 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.17%) Metadata
8 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
9 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
9 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.45%) Power Query
9 2 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.72%) ERwin
General
1 27 (46.55%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Legal
4 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.34%) Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Data Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Snowflake Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Senior
6 5 (8.62%) Lead
7 4 (6.90%) Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Data Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Kafka
2 4 (6.90%) Middleware
2 4 (6.90%) XML
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.17%) PySpark
4 2 (3.45%) JSON
4 2 (3.45%) Playwright
4 2 (3.45%) WPF
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth
5 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.72%) React
5 1 (1.72%) REST
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Clustering
2 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) CMDB
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Life Science
3 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.72%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (60.34%) ETL
2 33 (56.90%) Analytics
3 29 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (44.83%) Data Modelling
5 24 (41.38%) Data Engineering
6 23 (39.66%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (24.14%) Migration
8 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
8 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
9 12 (20.69%) AI
9 12 (20.69%) Test Automation
10 11 (18.97%) Validation
11 10 (17.24%) Data Governance
12 9 (15.52%) DevOps
12 9 (15.52%) Use Case
13 8 (13.79%) Agile
13 8 (13.79%) Data Migration
13 8 (13.79%) Dimensional Modelling
14 7 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
15 6 (10.34%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (67.24%) SQL
2 22 (37.93%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (6.90%) C#
4 4 (6.90%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.72%) Bicep
7 1 (1.72%) Java
7 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) DBS Check
1 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.45%) Degree
2 2 (3.45%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.72%) PMP
3 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) GDPR
3 3 (5.17%) GAAP
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) Basel III
4 1 (1.72%) GxP
4 1 (1.72%) IFRS
4 1 (1.72%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Workday
3 7 (12.07%) Databricks
3 7 (12.07%) Google
4 6 (10.34%) Informatica
5 5 (8.62%) Oracle
5 5 (8.62%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.72%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.72%) OpenText
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) Planview
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow