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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 69 72
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 43 51 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.34% 2.48% 2.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.29% 11.97% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 51
10th Percentile £404 £452 £413
25th Percentile £451 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -0.44% +2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £701 £644
90th Percentile £735 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.19% +2.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 350 426 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.01% 20.72% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 275 353
10th Percentile £336 £407 £375
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -1.26% +1.28%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £700
90th Percentile £749 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £32.10 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -34.48%
75th Percentile £49.88 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £58.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -34.48%

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 December 2025.

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 8 (18.60%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) Apache
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) JBoss
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) AWS
1 14 (32.56%) Azure
2 12 (27.91%) Snowflake
3 10 (23.26%) Power Platform
4 7 (16.28%) dbt
5 6 (13.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.63%) GCP
7 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.65%) Dagster
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub
9 2 (4.65%) Prefect
10 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.33%) Fivetran
10 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Power BI
2 5 (11.63%) Data Lake
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (9.30%) Metadata
3 4 (9.30%) Tableau
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.98%) DataStage
4 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.98%) Power Query
4 3 (6.98%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.65%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.33%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 18 (41.86%) Finance
2 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Back Office
7 1 (2.33%) Front Office
7 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) Data Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Data Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Architect
8 1 (2.33%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Kafka
1 4 (9.30%) XML
2 2 (4.65%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) ADO
3 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) Node.js
3 1 (2.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Equities
2 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.33%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.33%) Pricing Data
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Replication
2 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Analytics
1 23 (53.49%) Data Modelling
2 19 (44.19%) ETL
3 17 (39.53%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (32.56%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (30.23%) Data Integration
6 11 (25.58%) Migration
6 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (23.26%) Data Governance
8 8 (18.60%) Data Engineering
8 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (18.60%) Visualisation
9 7 (16.28%) Agile
9 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
10 6 (13.95%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
11 5 (11.63%) AI
11 5 (11.63%) Data Architecture
11 5 (11.63%) Data Transformation
11 5 (11.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) SQL
2 15 (34.88%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) Java
4 3 (6.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.33%) LookML
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) CFA
4 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
4 1 (2.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (41.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Databricks
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) eFront
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Temenos
5 1 (2.33%) Teradata
5 1 (2.33%) Workday