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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 67 74
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 44 61 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.43% 2.84% 2.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.43% 13.56% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 51
10th Percentile £404 £433 £413
25th Percentile £448 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £585
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.85% +6.36%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £594 £580
% change year-on-year -11.58% +2.37% +5.45%

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 354 450 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.59% 20.95% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 303 352
10th Percentile £343 £408 £375
25th Percentile £427 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £588 £594
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -1.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £700
90th Percentile £754 £825 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £595
% change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £32.15 - -
25th Percentile £32.38 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% +1.32% -34.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% +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 4 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 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (11.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.82%) Apache
4 1 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) JBoss
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) Azure
3 11 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 7 (15.91%) dbt
6 6 (13.64%) GCP
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (4.55%) Dagster
10 2 (4.55%) GitHub
10 2 (4.55%) Prefect
11 1 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.27%) Fivetran
11 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Data Lake
1 8 (18.18%) Power BI
2 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (9.09%) Metadata
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.82%) DataStage
4 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.82%) Power Query
4 3 (6.82%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
5 2 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.55%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.55%) Spark SQL
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) Star Schema
5 2 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
General
1 20 (45.45%) Finance
2 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Back Office
5 1 (2.27%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Data Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Data Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Kafka
1 4 (9.09%) PySpark
1 4 (9.09%) XML
2 2 (4.55%) CSS
2 2 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) ADO
3 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.82%) Data Structures
1 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.27%) Replication
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 23 (52.27%) Analytics
3 18 (40.91%) ETL
4 17 (38.64%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (34.09%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (31.82%) Data Integration
7 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (22.73%) Data Governance
9 9 (20.45%) Agile
9 9 (20.45%) Migration
10 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 8 (18.18%) Data Engineering
10 8 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (15.91%) Data Transformation
11 7 (15.91%) Visualisation
12 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
13 5 (11.36%) Data Architecture
13 5 (11.36%) Data Science
13 5 (11.36%) Data Visualisation
13 5 (11.36%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) SQL
2 17 (38.64%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) Java
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.27%) LookML
7 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (38.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Databricks
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Foundry
4 2 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (4.55%) Palantir
5 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.27%) eFront
5 1 (2.27%) Informatica
5 1 (2.27%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Temenos
5 1 (2.27%) Teradata
5 1 (2.27%) Workday