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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 97 116
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 40 25 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.45% 1.17% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.05% 6.44% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 35
10th Percentile £339 £401 £413
25th Percentile £413 £429 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% -3.06% -5.54%
75th Percentile £477 £519 £544
90th Percentile £549 £675 £628
UK median daily rate £511 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £19.59 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £50.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -21.09% +42.22%

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 362 388 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.18% 18.16% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 295 449
10th Percentile £295 £316 £400
25th Percentile £410 £400 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -4.18% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £589 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.67% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile - £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £19.59 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.15% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile - £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £34.58 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.56% -31.73% +30.20%

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 20 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 20 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 +28 32 £450 +1.12% 12
Glasgow -14 7 £296 -38.44% 12
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 11 (27.50%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 13 (32.50%) Amazon S3
3 9 (22.50%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (22.50%) Serverless
4 7 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (17.50%) AWS CodePipeline
4 7 (17.50%) Azure
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 5 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.50%) Collibra
8 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle Database
3 5 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (12.50%) Power BI
4 4 (10.00%) Star Schema
5 3 (7.50%) BigQuery
5 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (5.00%) PowerCenter
6 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.50%) Big Data
7 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) GitLab
1 11 (27.50%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
4 7 (17.50%) Banking
5 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Analyst
2 14 (35.00%) Data Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Data Analyst
4 8 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Business Data Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) ETL Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Re-Platforming Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Modeller
8 1 (2.50%) Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) AWS CDK
2 6 (15.00%) REST
3 3 (7.50%) Kafka
3 3 (7.50%) PostGIS
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
4 1 (2.50%) Node.js
4 1 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.50%) PySpark
4 1 (2.50%) React
4 1 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) ETL
2 16 (40.00%) Migration
3 15 (37.50%) Analytics
4 13 (32.50%) Data Modelling
4 13 (32.50%) Data Transformation
4 13 (32.50%) DevOps
5 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 12 (30.00%) Data Integration
6 11 (27.50%) Data Migration
6 11 (27.50%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (22.50%) Business Analysis
7 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
7 9 (22.50%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 8 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (17.50%) Data Engineering
9 7 (17.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (15.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) SQL
2 16 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CBAP
5 1 (2.50%) IIBA
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (17.50%) QA
3 5 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
3 3 (7.50%) Informatica
3 3 (7.50%) Teradata
4 1 (2.50%) IDERA
4 1 (2.50%) Pega
4 1 (2.50%) TSYS