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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 65 82
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 46 59 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.69% 2.79% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.50% 13.05% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 48 48
10th Percentile £404 £425 £413
25th Percentile £470 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £598
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.04% +8.14%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £667
90th Percentile £821 £738 £708
Central London median daily rate £550 £581 £595
% change year-on-year -5.38% -2.31% +7.21%

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 368 452 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.56% 21.37% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 322 366
10th Percentile £390 £401 £400
25th Percentile £440 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £717 £713
90th Percentile £796 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +3.85%
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 18 October 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 7 (15.22%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.52%) Apache
4 1 (2.17%) JBoss
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Snowflake
4 7 (15.22%) GCP
5 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.52%) dbt
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Run
8 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.17%) SaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) Data Lake
2 6 (13.04%) Power BI
3 5 (10.87%) Metadata
3 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (6.52%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.52%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.52%) DataStage
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.35%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.35%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) ER Studio
General
1 17 (36.96%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Police
7 1 (2.17%) Back Office
7 1 (2.17%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Data Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Architect
3 9 (19.57%) Data Architect
4 7 (15.22%) Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Developer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Snowflake Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Data Modeller
8 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 2 (4.35%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Pricing Data Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Reinsurance Data Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Kafka
2 4 (8.70%) XML
3 3 (6.52%) PySpark
4 2 (4.35%) CSS
4 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 2 (4.35%) JSON
4 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) .NET
5 1 (2.17%) ADO
5 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.17%) JWT
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Data Structures
1 3 (6.52%) Pricing Data
1 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.35%) Reference Data
2 2 (4.35%) Reinsurance
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Data Modelling
2 23 (50.00%) Analytics
3 16 (34.78%) ETL
4 15 (32.61%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (28.26%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (23.91%) Data Integration
7 10 (21.74%) Data Governance
7 10 (21.74%) Data Management
7 10 (21.74%) Migration
8 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (17.39%) Agile
10 7 (15.22%) Data Engineering
11 6 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
11 6 (13.04%) Data Architecture
11 6 (13.04%) Data Strategy
11 6 (13.04%) Decision-Making
12 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
12 5 (10.87%) Metadata Management
12 5 (10.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) SQL
2 17 (36.96%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.35%) VBA
6 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.17%) LookML
6 1 (2.17%) R
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.35%) PMP
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Foundry
4 2 (4.35%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (4.35%) Palantir
5 1 (2.17%) Aderant
5 1 (2.17%) eFront
5 1 (2.17%) Okta
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Sparx
5 1 (2.17%) Temenos
5 1 (2.17%) Workday