Data Warehouse Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Warehousing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Warehouse skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Warehouse over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 181 144
Rank change year-on-year +43 -37 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 241 239 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.89% 1.15% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.94% 9.21% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 179 308
10th Percentile £315 £360 £303
25th Percentile £384 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% -0.20% +0.20%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £599
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile £20.78 £28.23 £27.13
25th Percentile £22.56 £28.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.20 £31.75 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -20.13% +13.57%
75th Percentile £30.51 £33.44 £59.54
90th Percentile £32.69 £33.48 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £50.50 £49.79
% change year-on-year -23.08% +1.44% +10.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Data Warehouse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South East +57 58 £479 -4.25% 247
North of England -2 58 £463 -7.50% 185
Midlands +15 42 £470 -10.48% 148
North West -3 41 £525 +5.00% 96
Scotland +26 37 £435 -8.42% 36
South West +53 36 £465 +3.33% 112
West Midlands +12 34 £475 -9.52% 88
East of England +32 17 £580 +22.11% 86
Yorkshire +5 14 £145 -70.26% 73
East Midlands +5 8 £459 -10.44% 49
Wales +1 3 £200 -38.46% 18
North East -4 3 £450 -30.77% 17
Data Warehouse
UK

Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (6.22%) Confluence
2 12 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.73%) SAS
4 8 (3.32%) Apache
5 7 (2.90%) Apache Spark
6 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.83%) CICS
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.41%) Luigi
Applications
1 15 (6.22%) MS Visio
2 12 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.24%) Maximo
3 2 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (29.05%) Power Platform
2 65 (26.97%) Azure
3 62 (25.73%) AWS
4 48 (19.92%) Snowflake
5 32 (13.28%) GCP
6 18 (7.47%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.81%) Serverless
8 12 (4.98%) Adobe Analytics
8 12 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (4.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.15%) dbt
11 8 (3.32%) GitHub
12 7 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.90%) Matillion
13 5 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (29.05%) Power BI
2 29 (12.03%) Data Lake
3 27 (11.20%) Tableau
4 25 (10.37%) SQL Server
5 24 (9.96%) Metadata
5 24 (9.96%) Relational Database
6 23 (9.54%) Big Data
7 19 (7.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (5.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (5.39%) BigQuery
10 12 (4.98%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (3.73%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (3.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 8 (3.32%) Looker
12 8 (3.32%) Oracle Database
13 6 (2.49%) Qlik Sense
14 5 (2.07%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.88%) JIRA
2 13 (5.39%) ERwin
3 11 (4.56%) GitLab
4 10 (4.15%) Git
5 9 (3.73%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.07%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.66%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.83%) Selenium
9 2 (0.83%) SOAtest
10 1 (0.41%) Hudson
10 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 72 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.50%) Finance
3 35 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.88%) Marketing
6 18 (7.47%) Banking
7 9 (3.73%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.90%) Retail
10 6 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.07%) Automotive
12 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Legal
12 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Billing
13 2 (0.83%) Local Government
13 2 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 67 (27.80%) Data Engineer
2 54 (22.41%) Analyst
3 35 (14.52%) Architect
4 32 (13.28%) Data Analyst
5 26 (10.79%) Data Architect
6 23 (9.54%) Senior
7 16 (6.64%) Developer
8 15 (6.22%) Data Modeller
8 15 (6.22%) Snowflake Engineer
9 14 (5.81%) Business Analyst
9 14 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (5.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 13 (5.39%) Lead
11 12 (4.98%) Data Manager
12 11 (4.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) Analytics Manager
13 7 (2.90%) Data Analytics Manager
13 7 (2.90%) Insight Manager
13 7 (2.90%) Strategy Manager
14 6 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.22%) Kafka
2 13 (5.39%) PySpark
3 9 (3.73%) OAuth
4 8 (3.32%) REST
5 7 (2.90%) AWS CDK
6 4 (1.66%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.66%) OpenID
6 4 (1.66%) SAML
7 3 (1.24%) PostGIS
7 3 (1.24%) Web Services
7 3 (1.24%) XML
7 3 (1.24%) YAML
8 2 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.83%) J2EE
8 2 (0.83%) JDBC
8 2 (0.83%) JSON
8 2 (0.83%) Middleware
8 2 (0.83%) NumPy
8 2 (0.83%) Pandas
8 2 (0.83%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (2.90%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.90%) Data Structures
2 7 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (2.90%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.49%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.66%) Life Science
5 3 (1.24%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.83%) FMCG
6 2 (0.83%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (0.83%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (0.83%) NHS
6 2 (0.83%) Replication
6 2 (0.83%) VSAM
7 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.90%) Unix
2 6 (2.49%) Linux
3 3 (1.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (53.53%) ETL
2 84 (34.85%) Analytics
2 84 (34.85%) Data Modelling
3 81 (33.61%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (22.41%) Data Governance
5 52 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (20.75%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (20.33%) Data Engineering
7 49 (20.33%) Migration
8 43 (17.84%) Data Integration
8 43 (17.84%) Visualisation
9 41 (17.01%) Agile
10 37 (15.35%) CI/CD
11 34 (14.11%) DevOps
12 32 (13.28%) Data Migration
12 32 (13.28%) Data Security
13 30 (12.45%) Data Analysis
14 28 (11.62%) Data Management
15 26 (10.79%) Data Visualisation
16 25 (10.37%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 146 (60.58%) SQL
2 58 (24.07%) Python
3 12 (4.98%) R
4 9 (3.73%) Java
5 8 (3.32%) PL/SQL
6 7 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.90%) Scala
7 6 (2.49%) Bash
8 5 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.83%) COBOL
9 2 (0.83%) JCL
9 2 (0.83%) REXX
10 1 (0.41%) ABAP
10 1 (0.41%) C#
10 1 (0.41%) C++
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) Perl
10 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (14.52%) Degree
2 34 (14.11%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.54%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.39%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) ISEB
10 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.41%) PMP
10 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (27.80%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.05%) QA
3 16 (6.64%) GDPR
4 8 (3.32%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.07%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.24%) PMO
7 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (4.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.81%) Terraform
2 7 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.24%) Grafana
3 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.13%) Databricks
2 22 (9.13%) SAP
3 18 (7.47%) Oracle
4 17 (7.05%) Google
5 12 (4.98%) Adobe
5 12 (4.98%) Informatica
6 10 (4.15%) Teradata
7 7 (2.90%) Ariba
8 6 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.66%) Talend
10 3 (1.24%) Ab Initio
10 3 (1.24%) Denodo
10 3 (1.24%) IBM
10 3 (1.24%) UiPath
11 2 (0.83%) Brio
11 2 (0.83%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.83%) Parasoft
11 2 (0.83%) Sparx
11 2 (0.83%) TikTok