Data Warehouse Contracts in Scotland

Data Warehousing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Warehouse skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Warehouse over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 106 120
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 37 23 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.28% 1.04% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.34% 5.78% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 34
10th Percentile £331 £415 £413
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -4.04% -2.22%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £547
90th Percentile £566 £675 £630
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £19.59 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £50.50 £49.79
% change year-on-year -23.08% +1.44% +10.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Warehouse in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Warehouse in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Warehouse in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +24 30 £450 +1.12% 8
Glasgow -1 6 £324 -32.68% 5
Data Warehouse
UK

Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (21.62%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (27.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) AWS
2 13 (35.14%) Amazon S3
3 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) Serverless
4 7 (18.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.92%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
6 5 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
6 5 (13.51%) Snowflake
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (5.41%) GCP
9 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.22%) Oracle Database
2 6 (16.22%) Power BI
3 5 (13.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (5.41%) PowerCenter
6 1 (2.70%) Big Data
6 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.70%) GIS
6 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) GitLab
2 8 (21.62%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (43.24%) Public Sector
2 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Finance
4 7 (18.92%) Banking
5 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Analyst
1 14 (37.84%) Data Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Business Analyst
2 7 (18.92%) Data Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Architect
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Designer
5 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Lead Designer
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) AWS CDK
2 6 (16.22%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) PostGIS
4 1 (2.70%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) NHS
3 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) ETL
2 14 (37.84%) DevOps
3 13 (35.14%) Data Transformation
3 13 (35.14%) Migration
4 12 (32.43%) Analytics
4 12 (32.43%) Data Integration
5 11 (29.73%) Data Migration
5 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (29.73%) Translating Business Requirements
6 9 (24.32%) Data Governance
6 9 (24.32%) Data Modelling
7 8 (21.62%) Business Analysis
7 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
7 8 (21.62%) Data Engineering
8 7 (18.92%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (18.92%) Data Analysis
8 7 (18.92%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (13.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) SQL
2 14 (37.84%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (16.22%) QA
3 5 (13.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Databricks
4 3 (8.11%) Informatica
4 3 (8.11%) Teradata
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) IDERA
5 1 (2.70%) Pega
5 1 (2.70%) TSYS