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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 72 71
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 41 41 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.20% 2.21% 2.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.42% 10.96% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 50
10th Percentile £408 £436 £413
25th Percentile £456 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £693 £647
90th Percentile £689 £738 £739
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 330 374 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.71% 20.16% 20.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 241 356
10th Percentile £324 £405 £413
25th Percentile £408 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £595
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -2.52% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £691
90th Percentile £749 £760 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -10.98% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 £47.19
90th Percentile - - £49.03
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -48.57%

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 February 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 8 (19.51%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.88%) Apache
3 2 (4.88%) Confluence
4 1 (2.44%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (2.44%) Aladdin
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Snowflake
3 10 (24.39%) Power Platform
4 8 (19.51%) dbt
5 6 (14.63%) GCP
6 5 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (9.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
8 3 (7.32%) OCI
9 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.88%) Dagster
9 2 (4.88%) GitHub
9 2 (4.88%) Prefect
9 2 (4.88%) Serverless
10 1 (2.44%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.44%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) Power BI
2 5 (12.20%) Metadata
2 5 (12.20%) Tableau
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.88%) Data Vault
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
4 2 (4.88%) OLAP
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Power Query
4 2 (4.88%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.44%) ERwin
3 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 20 (48.78%) Finance
2 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.07%) Banking
5 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.88%) General Ledger
6 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Legal
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Front Office
7 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Data Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Architect
2 6 (14.63%) Data Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Lead
3 5 (12.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Data Modeller
6 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Tester
7 1 (2.44%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) Kafka
2 4 (9.76%) XML
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.88%) Middleware
5 1 (2.44%) .NET
5 1 (2.44%) ADO
5 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.44%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.44%) JSON
5 1 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (2.44%) Playwright
5 1 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Equities
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.44%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Data Modelling
2 20 (48.78%) Analytics
2 20 (48.78%) ETL
3 16 (39.02%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (31.71%) Data Integration
4 13 (31.71%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (26.83%) Migration
6 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.95%) Data Engineering
7 9 (21.95%) Data Governance
7 9 (21.95%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
9 7 (17.07%) Agile
9 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
9 7 (17.07%) Data Migration
10 6 (14.63%) Data Architecture
10 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (14.63%) Machine Learning
11 5 (12.20%) Data Transformation
11 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (80.49%) SQL
2 16 (39.02%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.88%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) LookML
5 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.32%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) PMP
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) CFA
3 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.44%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (41.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.32%) GAAP
3 2 (4.88%) Basel III
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) QA
4 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.44%) IFRS
4 1 (2.44%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
1 7 (17.07%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) Databricks
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
3 4 (9.76%) Workday
4 2 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Informatica
4 2 (4.88%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.44%) eFront
5 1 (2.44%) Teradata