Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Warehousing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 83 122
Rank change year-on-year -43 +39 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 26 32 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.70% 1.68% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.97% 15.92% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 12
10th Percentile £417 £370 £316
25th Percentile £484 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £433 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% -3.78% -11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £500 £553
90th Percentile £646 £536 £683
England median daily rate £500 £500 £537
% change year-on-year - -6.85% -4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -19.80% -10.62%

All Database & BI Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 373 201 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.11% 10.53% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 139 245
10th Percentile £350 £291 £363
25th Percentile £413 £366 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £746 £654 £679
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 14
10th Percentile £14.60 £41.80 -
25th Percentile £20.06 £65.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £41.71 £70.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.41% +133.33% -60.78%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £71.50
90th Percentile £61.12 £78.46 £85.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £40.25 £34.47
% change year-on-year -4.34% +16.77% -37.34%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in the South West over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the South West

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Wiltshire -7 9 £576 +29.69% 3
Bristol -31 9 £525 +10.53% 7
Somerset -28 4 £525 -9.68% 3
Gloucestershire -3 1 £638 +40.42% 4
Data Warehouse
England

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (7.69%) Jupyter
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 8 (30.77%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (23.08%) Serverless
4 6 (23.08%) Snowflake
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (11.54%) dbt
6 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Run
7 2 (7.69%) Matillion
7 2 (7.69%) Vertex AI
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (15.38%) Tableau
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.69%) Data Vault
4 2 (7.69%) Looker
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) WhereScape RED
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Pinecone
5 1 (3.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) RStudio
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) BigQuery Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) GCP Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Modeller
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) JSON
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.85%) Faiss
3 1 (3.85%) LangChain
3 1 (3.85%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (3.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Analytics
1 15 (57.69%) Data Engineering
2 13 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 12 (46.15%) ETL
4 10 (38.46%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) Data Architecture
5 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
6 8 (30.77%) AI
7 7 (26.92%) DevOps
7 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
8 6 (23.08%) Data Science
8 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (19.23%) Generative AI
9 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
9 5 (19.23%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (15.38%) Business Analytics
10 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (15.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) SQL
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Google
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) Denodo
2 1 (3.85%) Talend