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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 79 67
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 65 51 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.71% 2.70% 3.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.05% 11.62% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 28 57
10th Percentile £420 £396 £425
25th Percentile £463 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.83%
75th Percentile £599 £633 £700
90th Percentile £741 £812 £755
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £606
% change year-on-year - -9.28% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.65 -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.65 -

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 405 439 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.87% 23.26% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 290 325
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.09% -0.08%
75th Percentile £655 £700 £725
90th Percentile £761 £776 £809
Central London median daily rate £550 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -1.11% -3.27% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -7.46% - -

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 2 August 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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) Apache
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.54%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.54%) Actimize
2 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) Power Platform
2 26 (40.00%) Azure
3 18 (27.69%) Snowflake
4 15 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (21.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (21.54%) dbt
6 13 (20.00%) AWS
7 11 (16.92%) GCP
8 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (10.77%) Prefect
9 5 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.69%) Dagster
10 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
10 3 (4.62%) Serverless
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Stack
11 2 (3.08%) GitHub
11 2 (3.08%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.00%) Power BI
2 11 (16.92%) SQL Server
3 10 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (13.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (13.85%) Data Lake
4 9 (13.85%) Tableau
5 8 (12.31%) BigQuery
5 8 (12.31%) Star Schema
6 7 (10.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (9.23%) Looker
8 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
8 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (6.15%) Metadata
9 4 (6.15%) Power Query
10 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
11 2 (3.08%) Big Data
11 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
11 2 (3.08%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Legal
5 4 (6.15%) Banking
5 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
8 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Data Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Architect
4 10 (15.38%) Analyst
5 8 (12.31%) Senior
6 7 (10.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Data Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) Data Architect
7 6 (9.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (4.62%) Data Manager
9 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Kafka
2 4 (6.15%) PySpark
3 2 (3.08%) JSON
3 2 (3.08%) Middleware
3 2 (3.08%) Playwright
3 2 (3.08%) React
3 2 (3.08%) WPF
3 2 (3.08%) XML
4 1 (1.54%) OAuth
4 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.54%) REST
4 1 (1.54%) RESTful
4 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Clustering
3 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.54%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.54%) Life Science
5 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.54%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (61.54%) Analytics
2 36 (55.38%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (55.38%) ETL
3 35 (53.85%) Data Modelling
4 23 (35.38%) Data Engineering
4 23 (35.38%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (26.15%) Decision-Making
6 15 (23.08%) AI
6 15 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 13 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 13 (20.00%) DevOps
8 11 (16.92%) Agile
8 11 (16.92%) Test Automation
9 10 (15.38%) Dimensional Modelling
9 10 (15.38%) Migration
9 10 (15.38%) Validation
10 9 (13.85%) Asset Management
10 9 (13.85%) Use Case
11 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 44 (67.69%) SQL
2 21 (32.31%) Python
3 8 (12.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.15%) C#
5 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.54%) Bicep
7 1 (1.54%) Java
7 1 (1.54%) LookML
Qualifications
1 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.08%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (32.31%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.69%) GDPR
3 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Databricks
3 7 (10.77%) Google
4 5 (7.69%) Informatica
4 5 (7.69%) Workday
5 2 (3.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.54%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.54%) OpenText
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle
6 1 (1.54%) Pega
6 1 (1.54%) Planview
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow