Data Warehouse Contracts

Data Warehousing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Warehouse skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 106 95
Rank change year-on-year -19 -11 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 792 1,394 2,396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 2.33% 2.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.93% 12.93% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 1,016 1,768
10th Percentile £400 £373 £381
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% +0.20% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 12
10th Percentile £31.25 - £20.26
25th Percentile £31.56 £35.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £49.57 £44.21
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +12.13% +49.86%
75th Percentile £54.03 £79.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.70 £80.00 £65.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.75 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.81% +2.86% +34.62%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Warehouse is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -17 700 £550 - 359
London -5 460 £575 - 200
Work from Home -3 325 £525 -4.55% 175
UK excluding London -37 239 £500 -0.20% 159
North of England +26 81 £500 -4.76% 44
North West +17 61 £500 - 27
Midlands -24 49 £525 -2.33% 30
South East -27 46 £500 -4.76% 34
West Midlands +2 36 £525 -2.33% 19
South West +4 29 £450 -11.11% 17
Scotland +13 23 £475 -4.04% 6
Yorkshire +14 17 £488 -11.36% 14
East of England -9 15 £475 +53.23% 21
East Midlands +7 13 £513 +28.13% 11
North East +24 7 £650 +8.33% 4
Wales +8 3 £325 -31.58% 10

Data Warehouse
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 45 (5.68%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.15%) Apache
4 10 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.14%) SAS
6 8 (1.01%) Confluence
7 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.51%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.25%) HFM
6 2 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 284 (35.86%) Azure
2 222 (28.03%) Power Platform
3 171 (21.59%) AWS
4 101 (12.75%) GCP
5 90 (11.36%) Snowflake
6 82 (10.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 55 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 54 (6.82%) Serverless
9 37 (4.67%) Amazon S3
10 36 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (4.04%) GitHub
13 31 (3.91%) dbt
14 23 (2.90%) Azure Stack
14 23 (2.90%) Power Automate
14 23 (2.90%) PowerApps
15 20 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (2.27%) OCI
17 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.88%) Internet
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (26.52%) Power BI
2 158 (19.95%) Data Lake
3 136 (17.17%) SQL Server
4 98 (12.37%) Big Data
5 82 (10.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 65 (8.21%) Tableau
7 60 (7.58%) Relational Database
8 54 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (5.93%) BigQuery
10 41 (5.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 40 (5.05%) Metadata
12 38 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (4.42%) NoSQL
14 31 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (3.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 29 (3.66%) Hadoop
17 28 (3.54%) Star Schema
18 24 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 24 (3.03%) MySQL
19 23 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 33 (4.17%) ERwin
2 30 (3.79%) JIRA
3 25 (3.16%) Git
4 18 (2.27%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.39%) GitLab
6 8 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (0.88%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (0.63%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.63%) kappa
9 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.25%) Deequ
11 2 (0.25%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.25%) Selenium
11 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.13%) GoCD
12 1 (0.13%) MLflow
12 1 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 191 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 133 (16.79%) Finance
3 103 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.35%) Public Sector
5 35 (4.42%) Banking
6 24 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.02%) Retail
8 13 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.39%) Marketing
11 9 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.88%) Legal
14 6 (0.76%) Back Office
14 6 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.76%) Publishing
15 5 (0.63%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.51%) Automotive
16 4 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 211 (26.64%) Data Engineer
2 167 (21.09%) Architect
3 129 (16.29%) Data Architect
4 114 (14.39%) Developer
5 89 (11.24%) Analyst
6 66 (8.33%) Senior
7 42 (5.30%) Data Analyst
8 37 (4.67%) Business Analyst
9 36 (4.55%) Data Modeller
9 36 (4.55%) Project Manager
10 34 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
11 32 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 30 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (3.79%) Lead
13 26 (3.28%) Azure Data Engineer
13 26 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 26 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
15 21 (2.65%) Consultant
16 19 (2.40%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.06%) PySpark
2 45 (5.68%) JSON
3 38 (4.80%) XML
4 29 (3.66%) Kafka
5 24 (3.03%) REST
6 23 (2.90%) .NET
7 11 (1.39%) Apache Avro
8 10 (1.26%) Web Services
9 8 (1.01%) ARM Templates
9 8 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.88%) Middleware
10 7 (0.88%) ODBC
11 6 (0.76%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.63%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.63%) JSON Schema
13 4 (0.51%) FIX Protocol
13 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
13 4 (0.51%) Node.js
13 4 (0.51%) PostGIS
13 4 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.41%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.65%) NHS
5 18 (2.27%) Reference Data
6 17 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
9 9 (1.14%) Freedom of Information Act
10 7 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.88%) Reinsurance
10 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.63%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.63%) Market Risk
12 5 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.63%) Replication
12 5 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.39%) Linux
2 6 (0.76%) Unix
3 5 (0.63%) CentOS
3 5 (0.63%) Windows
4 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (49.62%) Data Modelling
2 358 (45.20%) ETL
3 282 (35.61%) Business Intelligence
4 240 (30.30%) Analytics
5 176 (22.22%) Agile
6 142 (17.93%) Migration
7 141 (17.80%) Data Integration
8 129 (16.29%) Data Governance
9 125 (15.78%) Data Pipeline
9 125 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
10 112 (14.14%) Data Engineering
11 105 (13.26%) DevOps
12 100 (12.63%) Visualisation
13 93 (11.74%) Data Migration
14 89 (11.24%) Data Analysis
15 82 (10.35%) Data Architecture
16 79 (9.97%) Data Management
17 74 (9.34%) Data Science
18 71 (8.96%) Scrum
19 69 (8.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 429 (54.17%) SQL
2 206 (26.01%) Python
3 64 (8.08%) Java
4 54 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 41 (5.18%) C#
6 30 (3.79%) PL/SQL
6 30 (3.79%) Scala
7 20 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.27%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.52%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.39%) R
11 9 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.88%) XPath
12 7 (0.88%) XQuery
13 6 (0.76%) Bash
13 6 (0.76%) VB
14 5 (0.63%) Go
14 5 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.63%) X++
15 4 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (8.71%) Security Cleared
2 64 (8.08%) Degree
3 51 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.38%) MCITP
9 3 (0.38%) MCTS
10 2 (0.25%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.13%) PhD
11 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (20.20%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.64%) GDPR
4 10 (1.26%) QA
4 10 (1.26%) SLA
5 8 (1.01%) IFRS
6 7 (0.88%) IFRS 17
7 5 (0.63%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) GxP
9 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.25%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) CDISC
10 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (2.53%) Docker
2 6 (0.76%) HDFS
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (4.17%) Terraform
2 16 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.88%) Ansible
4 2 (0.25%) Ambari
4 2 (0.25%) Control-M
4 2 (0.25%) Grafana
4 2 (0.25%) Oozie
5 1 (0.13%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 150 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.37%) Oracle
3 95 (11.99%) Databricks
4 46 (5.81%) Google
5 36 (4.55%) Informatica
6 35 (4.42%) SAP
7 14 (1.77%) Sparx
8 13 (1.64%) AVEVA
8 13 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.52%) Foundry
9 12 (1.52%) Palantir
10 10 (1.26%) Talend
11 7 (0.88%) Remedy
12 5 (0.63%) Autodesk
12 5 (0.63%) Brio
13 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.51%) Embarcadero
13 4 (0.51%) NEC
13 4 (0.51%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.38%) JD Edwards