Data Warehouse Specialist Contracts

Data Warehousing Specialist (DWH Specialist)
UK

The median Data Warehousing Specialist (DWH Specialist) daily rate in the UK is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 579 655
Rank change year-on-year +31 +76 +197
Contract jobs requiring a Data Warehouse Specialist 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.003% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £498 - -
25th Percentile - £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - -
75th Percentile - £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,011 37,753 51,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 93.06% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,065 24,460 35,791
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.05% -0.28%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 2,320 1,548
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.69 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.24 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £43.81
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -5.26% +70.58%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.59 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +8.04% +87.29%

Data Warehouse Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Warehouse Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Data Warehouse Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse Specialist.

Daily rate trend for Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Data Warehouse Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse Specialist over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Data Warehouse Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse Specialist.

Hourly rate trend for Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Data Warehouse Specialist
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Warehouse Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 25 July 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
England +23 6 £700 +55.56%
London - 5 £700 -
Work from Home - 3 £700 -

Data Warehouse Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 July 2025, Data Warehouse Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Warehouse Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Validation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (66.67%) Metadata Management
3 4 (66.67%) Conceptual Models
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Metadata
4 3 (50.00%) Data Design
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (50.00%) QA
5 2 (33.33%) Banking
5 2 (33.33%) Informatica
5 2 (33.33%) Apache
5 2 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (33.33%) Talend
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (33.33%) dbt
5 2 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working

Data Warehouse Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (66.67%) Metadata
3 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Conceptual Models
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Design
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (50.00%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle