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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 66 82
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 43 60 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.50% 2.84% 2.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.68% 13.54% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 49 49
10th Percentile £404 £425 £403
25th Percentile £466 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +8.00%
75th Percentile £698 £703 £675
90th Percentile £825 £738 £728
Central London median daily rate £550 £594 £594
% change year-on-year -7.37% -0.04% +8.00%

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 368 443 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.38% 21.01% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 311 363
10th Percentile £381 £413 £400
25th Percentile £427 £486 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £712 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.46% -0.04% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

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 6 November 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 9 (20.93%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (11.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (9.30%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) JBoss
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) AWS
2 14 (32.56%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) Snowflake
4 7 (16.28%) GCP
4 7 (16.28%) Power Platform
5 6 (13.95%) dbt
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.65%) Dagster
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) Prefect
9 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Data Lake
2 7 (16.28%) Power BI
3 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (9.30%) Metadata
4 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.98%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.98%) DataStage
5 3 (6.98%) Star Schema
6 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.65%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) ER Studio
General
1 15 (34.88%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Back Office
7 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Police
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Data Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Architect
3 9 (20.93%) Data Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Data Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) Developer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Senior
7 3 (6.98%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Snowflake Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Architect
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Pricing Data Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Reinsurance Data Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Kafka
2 4 (9.30%) XML
3 3 (6.98%) PySpark
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) ADO
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
1 3 (6.98%) Pricing Data
1 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.65%) Reinsurance
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) Data Modelling
2 20 (46.51%) Analytics
3 17 (39.53%) ETL
4 16 (37.21%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (32.56%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (27.91%) Data Integration
7 10 (23.26%) Migration
8 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (18.60%) Agile
9 8 (18.60%) Data Engineering
9 8 (18.60%) Data Governance
9 8 (18.60%) Data Management
10 7 (16.28%) Data Architecture
10 7 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
11 6 (13.95%) Data Transformation
12 5 (11.63%) Actionable Insight
12 5 (11.63%) Data Science
12 5 (11.63%) Decision-Making
12 5 (11.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) SQL
2 17 (39.53%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) Java
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.65%) VBA
6 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.33%) LookML
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (41.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Terraform
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) Databricks
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) Foundry
5 2 (4.65%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (4.65%) Palantir
6 1 (2.33%) eFront
6 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Sparx
6 1 (2.33%) Temenos
6 1 (2.33%) Workday