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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 81 117
Rank change year-on-year -28 +36 0
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 33 36 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.07% 2.12% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.71% 15.19% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 17
10th Percentile £394 £329 £400
25th Percentile £463 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £433 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -21.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £648 £522 £588
90th Percentile £738 £645 £665
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 308 237 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.97% 13.93% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 179 217
10th Percentile £357 £356 £358
25th Percentile £409 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £606 £659 £650
90th Percentile £700 £740 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 14
10th Percentile £18.25 £25.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £32.50 £52.56 £15.67
Median hourly rate £51.00 £68.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +71.88% -38.46%
75th Percentile £74.68 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -28.19%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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
Bristol -17 13 £525 +31.25% 6
Gloucestershire -8 5 £525 +15.38% 1
Wiltshire -16 4 £725 +38.14% 6
Dorset -1 3 £400 -17.95% 2
Somerset -11 2 £630 -3.08% 3
Devon -5 1 - - 3
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 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) Snowflake
4 8 (24.24%) GCP
5 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (15.15%) Matillion
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.03%) dbt
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub
8 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Power BI
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (9.09%) Star Schema
3 2 (6.06%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.06%) Metadata
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (6.06%) WhereScape RED
4 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) DBeaver
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Billing
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Architect
3 8 (24.24%) Data Architect
4 6 (18.18%) Analyst
5 4 (12.12%) Data Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (9.09%) Lead Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Developer
7 2 (6.06%) ETL Tester
7 2 (6.06%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
2 1 (3.03%) Pandas
2 1 (3.03%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) React
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) Data Modelling
2 13 (39.39%) Analytics
2 13 (39.39%) Data Engineering
3 10 (30.30%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (30.30%) ETL
4 9 (27.27%) Agile
5 7 (21.21%) Data Architecture
5 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
5 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 5 (15.15%) Data Science
7 5 (15.15%) Data Strategy
7 5 (15.15%) Migration
8 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.12%) Data Analysis
8 4 (12.12%) DevOps
8 4 (12.12%) TOGAF
9 3 (9.09%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) SQL
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) Talend
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Denodo
3 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow