Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Warehousing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 108 136
Rank change year-on-year -49 +28 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 54 54 50
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.14% 1.50% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.12% 10.65% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 33 44
10th Percentile £344 £143 £361
25th Percentile £375 £345 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% -7.29% -12.73%
75th Percentile £540 £503 £591
90th Percentile £575 £665 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.75 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £64.50 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +134.55% - -
75th Percentile £69.25 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £35.00 £51.06
% change year-on-year +51.43% -31.45% +45.87%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 758 507 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.04% 14.11% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 316 471
10th Percentile £316 £325 £305
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £539 £576 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 17
10th Percentile £48.43 £22.72 £17.79
25th Percentile £58.25 £23.87 £21.31
Median hourly rate £69.38 £26.47 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +162.16% -42.69% -18.98%
75th Percentile £82.38 £41.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.30 £65.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Warehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the North of England

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Warehouse within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -20 38 £492 +9.33% 53
Yorkshire -47 15 £500 +17.65% 36
North East -6 1 £450 +30.43% 8
Data Warehouse
England

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (22.22%) SAS
2 9 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.41%) Apache
4 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 16 (29.63%) GCP
3 15 (27.78%) AWS
4 14 (25.93%) Power Platform
5 11 (20.37%) Snowflake
6 7 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (12.96%) dbt
7 6 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (11.11%) Prefect
8 5 (9.26%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) GitHub
10 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.93%) Power BI
2 9 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 8 (14.81%) Tableau
4 5 (9.26%) Data Lake
4 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.41%) BigQuery
5 4 (7.41%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 4 (7.41%) Cognos Report Studio
5 4 (7.41%) Power Query
6 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.56%) Big Data
6 3 (5.56%) Cognos Transformer
6 3 (5.56%) Metadata
6 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.56%) OLAP
6 3 (5.56%) OLAP Cube
6 3 (5.56%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.70%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (31.48%) Finance
3 16 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.56%) Law
5 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Military
7 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Data Engineer
1 14 (25.93%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Cognos Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Lead
4 4 (7.41%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Senior
6 2 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Test Leader
7 1 (1.85%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) Playwright
1 2 (3.70%) pytest
2 1 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.85%) FHIR
2 1 (1.85%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) PySpark
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) Web Services
2 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Credit Risk
2 6 (11.11%) Clustering
2 6 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.26%) NHS
4 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) Data Modelling
2 32 (59.26%) Analytics
3 24 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (44.44%) ETL
4 15 (27.78%) Data Governance
4 15 (27.78%) Data Science
5 13 (24.07%) Data Integration
5 13 (24.07%) Visualisation
6 12 (22.22%) Agile
6 12 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (20.37%) Decision-Making
8 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (18.52%) Data Engineering
8 10 (18.52%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 9 (16.67%) Migration
9 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (14.81%) Dashboard Development
10 8 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) SQL
2 18 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (14.81%) R
4 6 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 4 (7.41%) T-SQL
6 3 (5.56%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.85%) LookML
7 1 (1.85%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.85%) Scala
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
1 1 (1.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.96%) Pega
3 4 (7.41%) Cognos
4 3 (5.56%) SAP
5 2 (3.70%) Databricks
5 2 (3.70%) Google
5 2 (3.70%) IBM
5 2 (3.70%) Informatica
6 1 (1.85%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.85%) Infor
6 1 (1.85%) Sage
6 1 (1.85%) Talend
6 1 (1.85%) Workday