Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Warehousing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 83 109
Rank change year-on-year +15 +26 +13
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 41 37 22
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.52% 2.23% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.36% 10.82% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £379 £319 £413
25th Percentile £401 £387 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £469
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -9.33% +1.02%
75th Percentile £475 £473 £600
90th Percentile £575 £523 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.55% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +226.70% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £67.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £27.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +155.56% -46.53% +40.28%

All Database & BI 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 307 342 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.85% 20.64% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 230 283
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £363 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -4.74% -4.30%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £582 £590 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £17.32 - £18.93
25th Percentile - £19.59 £19.95
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.05 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +116.97% +6.49% -27.87%
75th Percentile £55.00 £27.91 £37.70
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.19 £47.33
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -32.92%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Warehouse in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 March 2026. 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
Glasgow +24 25 £418 +23.89% 6
Edinburgh -3 15 £485 +6.59% 5
Data Warehouse
UK

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 13 (31.71%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (26.83%) Apache Spark
3 10 (24.39%) Apache
4 1 (2.44%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) Azure
3 12 (29.27%) Snowflake
4 11 (26.83%) Serverless
5 9 (21.95%) Power Platform
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon S3
7 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.20%) GCP
8 4 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (4.88%) SaaS
10 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Data Lake
2 13 (31.71%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (21.95%) Big Data
3 9 (21.95%) Power BI
4 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
5 6 (14.63%) Hadoop
5 6 (14.63%) Metadata
6 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
7 4 (9.76%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (9.76%) MySQL
8 3 (7.32%) Apache Hive
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.88%) Delta Lake
9 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (4.88%) Tableau
10 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.44%) Data Mart
10 1 (2.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) MLflow
4 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
3 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Data Engineer
2 14 (34.15%) Architect
3 13 (31.71%) Data Architect
4 7 (17.07%) Lead
5 5 (12.20%) Snowflake Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Senior
6 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (4.88%) ETL Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.88%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.44%) Data Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) PySpark
2 6 (14.63%) REST
3 5 (12.20%) Kafka
4 3 (7.32%) NumPy
4 3 (7.32%) Pandas
5 2 (4.88%) Node.js
5 2 (4.88%) SOAP
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.44%) PostGIS
6 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Cloud Native
1 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (12.20%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Derivative
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (51.22%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (46.34%) ETL
4 17 (41.46%) Migration
5 16 (39.02%) Analytics
5 16 (39.02%) Data Engineering
6 15 (36.59%) Data Modelling
6 15 (36.59%) Machine Learning
7 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
8 13 (31.71%) AI
8 13 (31.71%) Data Security
9 12 (29.27%) Data Governance
9 12 (29.27%) Data Science
10 11 (26.83%) Data Integration
11 10 (24.39%) DevOps
11 10 (24.39%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (19.51%) Agile
13 8 (19.51%) Data Management
14 7 (17.07%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) Degree
2 7 (17.07%) Master's Degree
3 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) IBM Certification
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.32%) GDPR
4 2 (4.88%) QA
5 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
1 1 (2.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Terraform
2 6 (14.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Databricks
2 6 (14.63%) Greenplum
3 5 (12.20%) Informatica
3 5 (12.20%) Talend
4 4 (9.76%) IBM
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) Google
5 2 (4.88%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.44%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow