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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 75 129
Rank change year-on-year -41 +54 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 30 40 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.85% 2.12% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.24% 18.10% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 12
10th Percentile £450 £329 £321
25th Percentile £513 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £644 £516 £650
90th Percentile £738 £543 £688
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +13.64% -48.44%

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 364 221 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.29% 11.69% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 158 253
10th Percentile £350 £305 £353
25th Percentile £410 £377 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £743 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £516 £535
% change year-on-year -3.10% -3.55% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 15
10th Percentile £14.00 £65.13 -
25th Percentile £18.25 £66.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +133.33% -50.41%
75th Percentile £49.50 £71.88 £71.50
90th Percentile £51.00 £78.58 £85.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £34.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +17.77% -9.57% -30.00%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -18 13 £525 +23.53% 8
Wiltshire -5 7 £725 +41.51% 3
Somerset -26 4 £575 -1.08% 5
Gloucestershire -14 2 £569 +28.10% 1
Dorset - 1 - - 1
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 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) AWS
2 16 (53.33%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
3 8 (26.67%) Snowflake
4 7 (23.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (16.67%) Serverless
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (10.00%) dbt
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (6.67%) Matillion
9 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (13.33%) Power BI
3 3 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (6.67%) Data Vault
4 2 (6.67%) Metadata
4 2 (6.67%) WhereScape RED
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Architect
2 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Data Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Lead
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Strategy Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Analytics
2 16 (53.33%) Data Engineering
2 16 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 13 (43.33%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 9 (30.00%) Data Science
7 8 (26.67%) Agile
7 8 (26.67%) ETL
7 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
8 7 (23.33%) AI
8 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
9 6 (20.00%) DevOps
9 6 (20.00%) Generative AI
9 6 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (20.00%) Use Case
10 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
11 4 (13.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 13 (43.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) Denodo
2 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) Talend