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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 94 118
Rank change year-on-year -32 +24 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 28 23 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.75% 1.17% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.67% 10.31% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 13
10th Percentile £413 £375 £320
25th Percentile £431 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £588
90th Percentile £603 £534 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £42.73 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.78% +24.29% -30.00%

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 365 223 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.79% 11.30% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 154 223
10th Percentile £342 £309 £363
25th Percentile £419 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.28%
75th Percentile £669 £575 £613
90th Percentile £750 £650 £701
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 15 16
10th Percentile £17.17 £27.15 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £63.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £41.71 £65.00 £28.56
Median % change year-on-year -35.83% +127.57% -60.87%
75th Percentile £55.31 £70.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £74.68 £74.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -28.57%

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 3 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.

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 3 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -18 11 £500 +5.26% 21
Wiltshire -13 8 £525 +35.48% 7
Somerset -25 4 £525 +2.44% 6
Gloucestershire - 2 £494 - 16
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 5 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (3.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) GCP
3 8 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 7 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
5 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (21.43%) Azure
5 6 (21.43%) Cloud Functions
5 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (21.43%) Serverless
6 5 (17.86%) dbt
6 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
6 5 (17.86%) Vertex AI
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (14.29%) Cloud Run
8 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Databricks
10 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 6 (21.43%) Power BI
2 6 (21.43%) Tableau
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (17.86%) Data Lake
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (14.29%) Looker
4 4 (14.29%) Metadata
5 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (7.14%) DataStage
6 2 (7.14%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (3.57%) Big Data
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) RStudio
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Data Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Architect
3 7 (25.00%) GCP Architect
4 6 (21.43%) BigQuery Architect
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
8 1 (3.57%) Data Modeller
8 1 (3.57%) DataStage Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Junior
8 1 (3.57%) Junior Data Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Power BI Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.57%) Faiss
3 1 (3.57%) LangChain
3 1 (3.57%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (3.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Analytics
2 16 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (57.14%) ETL
3 15 (53.57%) Data Engineering
3 15 (53.57%) Data Modelling
4 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (42.86%) AI
5 12 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (42.86%) Data Architecture
5 12 (42.86%) DevOps
6 9 (32.14%) Agile
7 8 (28.57%) Data Governance
7 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (25.00%) Data Science
8 7 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (21.43%) Generative AI
9 6 (21.43%) Migration
10 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
10 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) SQL
2 13 (46.43%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.57%) JCL
4 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) IBM
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Teradata