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 citing Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	115	97	113
Rank change year-on-year	-18	+16	+14
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse	33	25	16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West	0.91%	1.19%	0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	9.19%	10.68%	4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted	23	18	12
10^th Percentile	£414	£375	£350
25^th Percentile	£444	£403	£388
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£475	£438
Median % change year-on-year	+10.53%	+8.57%	-16.67%
75^th Percentile	£594	£509	£597
90^th Percentile	£625	£538	£636
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Median hourly rate	-	£22.50	-
England median hourly rate	£42.73	£43.50	£27.50
% change year-on-year	-1.78%	+58.18%	-45.00%

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in the South West.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	359	234	328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West	9.91%	11.14%	13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	206	162	220
10^th Percentile	£400	£294	£381
25^th Percentile	£431	£400	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£525	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-	-8.30%
75^th Percentile	£675	£609	£632
90^th Percentile	£765	£681	£739
England median daily rate	£515	£505	£550
% change year-on-year	+1.98%	-8.18%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	61	12	11
10^th Percentile	£17.17	£22.73	-
25^th Percentile	-	£55.13	£17.50
Median hourly rate	£41.71	£65.00	£27.13
Median % change year-on-year	-35.83%	+139.63%	-56.29%
75^th Percentile	£55.31	-	£30.00
90^th Percentile	£74.68	£76.25	-
England median hourly rate	£40.61	£43.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-6.66%	+24.29%	-29.29%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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 31 October 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.

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 31 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Wiltshire	-4	12	£525	+35.48%
Bristol	-16	12	£575	+21.05%	5
Gloucestershire	0	2	£494	-3.66%	3
Somerset	-24	2	£500	-2.44%	1
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Data Warehouse Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Data Warehouse also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region citing Data Warehouse.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	84.8%	28
2	Analytics	66.7%	22
3	Data Modelling	60.6%	20
4	ETL	54.5%	18
5	Data Pipeline	48.5%	16
6	AI	45.5%	15
6	Data Engineering	45.5%	15
8	Data Quality	42.4%	14
8	Terraform	42.4%	14
10	AWS	39.4%	13
10	Business Intelligence	39.4%	13
12	CI/CD	36.4%	12
12	Python	36.4%	12
14	Data Governance	33.3%	11
15	Data Architecture	30.3%	10
15	DevOps	30.3%	10
15	Stakeholder Management	30.3%	10
15	Star Schema	30.3%	10
19	GCP	27.3%	9
19	Migration	27.3%	9
19	Stakeholder Engagement	27.3%	9
22	Amazon S3	24.2%	8
22	Infrastructure as Code	24.2%	8
22	Tableau	24.2%	8
25	BigQuery	21.2%	7
25	Cloud Composer	21.2%	7
25	Data Science	21.2%	7
25	Google	21.2%	7
25	Kimball Methodology	21.2%	7
25	Machine Learning	21.2%	7

Data Warehouse Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Star Schema	30.3%	10
2	Tableau	24.2%	8
3	BigQuery	21.2%	7
4	Amazon Athena	15.2%	5
4	DataStage	15.2%	5
4	Enterprise Data Warehouse	15.2%	5
4	Power BI	15.2%	5
4	Snowflake Schema	15.2%	5
9	Amazon Redshift	12.1%	4
9	Data Lake	12.1%	4
9	Looker	12.1%	4
9	Metadata	12.1%	4
13	Oracle Database	9.1%	3
13	Oracle ODI	9.1%	3
13	PostgreSQL	9.1%	3
16	Amazon RDS	6.1%	2
16	IBM InfoSphere	6.1%	2
16	Relational Database	6.1%	2
16	SQL Server	6.1%	2
20	Amazon Aurora	3.0%	1