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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 71 127
Rank change year-on-year -55 +56 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 26 37 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.72% 1.96% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.24% 17.45% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 11
10th Percentile £460 £328 £313
25th Percentile £503 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £632 £488 £663
90th Percentile £647 £538 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +35.80% -2.41% -35.16%

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 359 212 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.99% 11.22% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 152 240
10th Percentile £350 £301 £363
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £738 £675 £680
England median daily rate £500 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.45% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £60.63 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £67.19 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +133.33% -51.65%
75th Percentile £46.43 £75.63 £71.50
90th Percentile £51.00 £78.83 £85.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.58 £36.25
% change year-on-year +11.35% -4.62% -34.09%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -32 8 £525 +23.53% 12
Wiltshire -10 7 £725 +45.05% 1
Somerset -24 5 £550 -5.38% 4
Gloucestershire -13 2 £569 +28.10% 3
Dorset - 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 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 14 (53.85%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) Snowflake
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (19.23%) Serverless
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (11.54%) dbt
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (7.69%) Matillion
9 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
9 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
9 1 (3.85%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (7.69%) Data Vault
3 2 (7.69%) Metadata
3 2 (7.69%) WhereScape RED
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.85%) Looker
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Digital Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.85%) GCP Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Analytics
2 14 (53.85%) Data Engineering
2 14 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (46.15%) Data Modelling
4 10 (38.46%) Data Architecture
5 9 (34.62%) ETL
6 8 (30.77%) Agile
6 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 7 (26.92%) AI
7 7 (26.92%) Roadmaps
8 6 (23.08%) Data Science
8 6 (23.08%) DevOps
8 6 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (19.23%) Generative AI
10 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
10 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (15.38%) Scrum
10 4 (15.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) Denodo
2 1 (3.85%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) SAP
2 1 (3.85%) Talend