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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 173 138
Rank change year-on-year +46 -35 -26
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 253 240 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.94% 1.16% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.20% 9.39% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 176 302
10th Percentile £337 £325 £321
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -7.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £625
90th Percentile £640 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £19.92 £17.63 £33.50
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.11 £35.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.49 £49.79
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -50.81% +42.24%
75th Percentile £28.95 £29.12 £79.19
90th Percentile £32.07 £31.75 -
UK median hourly rate £38.17 £49.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -22.88% -22.66% +63.23%

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 2,074 2,557 3,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.92% 12.31% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 1,806 2,413
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 107 107
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.61 £21.66
25th Percentile £22.61 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -40.26% +67.40%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.50 £73.73
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.19 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.53% -33.33% +37.35%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +45 55 £478 -4.50% 638
Midlands +23 54 £450 -2.70% 384
North of England -25 53 £475 -5.00% 511
North West -10 41 £513 +2.50% 244
South West +51 40 £429 -14.20% 258
West Midlands +29 40 £450 +9.09% 201
Scotland +16 32 £450 -5.26% 93
East of England +38 26 £501 +0.10% 301
East Midlands +14 13 £451 -18.09% 159
Yorkshire -3 9 £218 -54.21% 208
North East -6 3 £450 -30.77% 60
Wales +6 2 £525 +61.54% 58
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 18 (7.11%) Confluence
2 15 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.56%) SAS
4 6 (2.37%) Apache
5 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.79%) CICS
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.79%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (6.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) Maple
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.19%) Maximo
4 2 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.25%) AWS
2 73 (28.85%) Azure
3 68 (26.88%) Power Platform
4 49 (19.37%) Snowflake
5 36 (14.23%) GCP
6 19 (7.51%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (5.53%) Serverless
9 13 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.14%) dbt
10 9 (3.56%) Adobe Analytics
10 9 (3.56%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.77%) GitHub
12 7 (2.77%) Matillion
13 6 (2.37%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.98%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (26.88%) Power BI
2 35 (13.83%) Data Lake
3 31 (12.25%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.49%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (9.49%) SQL Server
5 23 (9.09%) Metadata
5 23 (9.09%) Tableau
6 22 (8.70%) Big Data
7 15 (5.93%) BigQuery
7 15 (5.93%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (3.95%) Hadoop
9 10 (3.95%) Oracle Database
9 10 (3.95%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.77%) Looker
11 6 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.91%) JIRA
2 13 (5.14%) ERwin
2 13 (5.14%) Git
3 12 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.77%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.58%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.19%) GitLab
7 2 (0.79%) Selenium
7 2 (0.79%) SOAtest
8 1 (0.40%) Hudson
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.92%) Finance
3 43 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.30%) Banking
6 16 (6.32%) Marketing
7 11 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.35%) Retail
8 8 (3.16%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.77%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.98%) Automotive
12 4 (1.58%) Legal
12 4 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.19%) Billing
13 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.19%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.79%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 60 (23.72%) Data Engineer
2 48 (18.97%) Analyst
3 42 (16.60%) Architect
4 30 (11.86%) Data Architect
5 29 (11.46%) Data Analyst
6 22 (8.70%) Developer
6 22 (8.70%) Senior
7 19 (7.51%) Lead
8 17 (6.72%) Business Analyst
9 16 (6.32%) Data Modeller
10 14 (5.53%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (5.53%) Snowflake Engineer
11 13 (5.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 12 (4.74%) Data Manager
13 9 (3.56%) Analytics Manager
13 9 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 9 (3.56%) Data Analytics Manager
14 8 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 8 (3.16%) Consultant
14 8 (3.16%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.30%) Kafka
2 13 (5.14%) PySpark
3 9 (3.56%) OAuth
4 4 (1.58%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.58%) OpenID
4 4 (1.58%) SAML
5 3 (1.19%) React
5 3 (1.19%) REST
5 3 (1.19%) SOAP
5 3 (1.19%) Web Services
5 3 (1.19%) XML
5 3 (1.19%) YAML
6 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.79%) J2EE
6 2 (0.79%) JDBC
6 2 (0.79%) JSON
6 2 (0.79%) Middleware
7 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.40%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.56%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.58%) Life Science
7 3 (1.19%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.19%) NHS
7 3 (1.19%) Replication
7 3 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.79%) Clustering
8 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.79%) FMCG
8 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (0.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.74%) Linux
2 6 (2.37%) Unix
3 3 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (55.34%) ETL
2 104 (41.11%) Data Modelling
3 99 (39.13%) Analytics
4 95 (37.55%) Business Intelligence
5 63 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (24.11%) Data Pipeline
7 58 (22.92%) Data Governance
8 53 (20.95%) Data Engineering
9 52 (20.55%) Migration
10 48 (18.97%) Agile
10 48 (18.97%) Data Integration
11 44 (17.39%) Visualisation
12 40 (15.81%) Data Security
13 33 (13.04%) CI/CD
14 29 (11.46%) Data Analysis
14 29 (11.46%) Data Migration
14 29 (11.46%) Data Visualisation
14 29 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (11.07%) DevOps
16 26 (10.28%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (62.85%) SQL
2 64 (25.30%) Python
3 17 (6.72%) Java
4 10 (3.95%) PL/SQL
4 10 (3.95%) R
5 9 (3.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (3.56%) Scala
6 6 (2.37%) Bash
6 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.58%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.58%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.79%) COBOL
8 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.79%) JCL
8 2 (0.79%) REXX
9 1 (0.40%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.40%) C++
9 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (15.81%) Degree
2 36 (14.23%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.74%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.40%) CBAP
10 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.40%) IIBA
10 1 (0.40%) ISEB
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (27.67%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.32%) GDPR
3 13 (5.14%) QA
4 8 (3.16%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.98%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.19%) PMO
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (3.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.93%) Terraform
2 11 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.49%) SAP
3 23 (9.09%) Oracle
4 21 (8.30%) Databricks
5 18 (7.11%) Google
6 15 (5.93%) Informatica
7 11 (4.35%) Teradata
8 9 (3.56%) Adobe
9 7 (2.77%) Ariba
9 7 (2.77%) IBM
10 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.58%) Cognos
12 3 (1.19%) Ab Initio
12 3 (1.19%) Denodo
12 3 (1.19%) UiPath
13 2 (0.79%) Parasoft
13 2 (0.79%) Sparx
13 2 (0.79%) StreamSets
13 2 (0.79%) Virgin Media
13 2 (0.79%) Workday