Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends

Data Warehousing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 123 126
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 874 664 781
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.81% 2.28% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.02% 12.01% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 465 576
10th Percentile £350 £351 £400
25th Percentile £413 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -4.39% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +0.42% -5.40% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £54.25 £26.72 -
25th Percentile £62.63 £33.05 £31.25
Median hourly rate £69.44 £38.85 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.76% -23.08% -21.09%
75th Percentile £82.25 £41.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - £62.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.44 £26.20 £31.75
% change year-on-year +165.04% -17.48% -36.23%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,274 5,530 7,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 19.00% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,902 3,794 5,225
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £475
% change year-on-year -1.45% +1.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 98 148
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £24.25 £20.93
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.83 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.96% -12.94% -30.43%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.90 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.86 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.85 £39.25
% change year-on-year +41.31% -18.87% -28.64%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Warehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Warehouse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Top 17 Contract Job 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 21 May 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
England -21 773 £500 -4.76% 198
London -6 416 £520 -5.45% 93
UK excluding London -38 350 £475 +0.42% 131
Work from Home -6 304 £506 -1.12% 90
Midlands +2 119 £469 +2.18% 17
West Midlands +5 112 £469 +2.51% 13
North of England -26 99 £469 -1.26% 46
South East -51 61 £500 +3.95% 34
North West -32 48 £463 -11.90% 22
Yorkshire -13 47 £525 +268.42% 17
South West -39 30 £525 +15.38% 14
Scotland -20 22 £500 +12.68% 4
East of England -30 20 £375 -25.07% 13
North East -19 7 £450 - 9
East Midlands -29 7 £450 -2.33% 4
Wales -9 4 £475 +58.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 77 (8.81%) Apache Spark
2 74 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (5.15%) Confluence
4 41 (4.69%) SAS
5 38 (4.35%) Apache
6 15 (1.72%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.34%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.23%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.80%) Notepad++
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.46%) Trello
4 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.69%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.57%) Actimize
3 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.23%) Primavera
5 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 364 (41.65%) Azure
2 273 (31.24%) Power Platform
3 207 (23.68%) AWS
4 160 (18.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 118 (13.50%) GCP
6 117 (13.39%) Snowflake
7 113 (12.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 86 (9.84%) dbt
9 60 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
10 52 (5.95%) Amazon S3
11 44 (5.03%) Serverless
12 31 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (3.55%) GitHub
13 20 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (2.06%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.95%) OCI
16 15 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (1.72%) Matillion
17 13 (1.49%) Prefect
18 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.80%) Firewall
1 7 (0.80%) PuTTY
1 7 (0.80%) WinSCP
2 6 (0.69%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) 4G
4 1 (0.11%) 5G
4 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (29.29%) Power BI
2 160 (18.31%) Data Lake
3 114 (13.04%) Metadata
3 114 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 98 (11.21%) Tableau
5 68 (7.78%) Big Data
6 60 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 60 (6.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 59 (6.75%) NoSQL
8 58 (6.64%) Snowflake Schema
9 53 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 52 (5.95%) Oracle Reports
11 48 (5.49%) Relational Database
12 46 (5.26%) BigQuery
13 40 (4.58%) Star Schema
14 36 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
15 33 (3.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 31 (3.55%) Delta Lake
17 28 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 26 (2.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 100 (11.44%) Git
2 87 (9.95%) JIRA
3 29 (3.32%) GitLab
4 28 (3.20%) Zephyr
5 27 (3.09%) Postman
6 23 (2.63%) ERwin
7 12 (1.37%) Jenkins
8 10 (1.14%) ER Studio
8 10 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
8 10 (1.14%) Selenium
9 5 (0.57%) MLflow
10 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.11%) Snyk
13 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 259 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 209 (23.91%) Finance
3 190 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.21%) Banking
6 22 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.40%) Marketing
8 18 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.06%) Retail
9 15 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.37%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.14%) Legal
14 8 (0.92%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.69%) Law
17 5 (0.57%) General Ledger
18 4 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 294 (33.64%) Data Engineer
2 130 (14.87%) Developer
3 127 (14.53%) Architect
4 112 (12.81%) Analyst
5 104 (11.90%) Senior
6 88 (10.07%) Data Architect
7 64 (7.32%) Data Analyst
8 61 (6.98%) Senior Data Engineer
9 59 (6.75%) Lead
10 45 (5.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (5.03%) Business Analyst
12 39 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
13 36 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (3.89%) Snowflake Engineer
15 31 (3.55%) Data Business Analyst
15 31 (3.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 30 (3.43%) Data Manager
17 29 (3.32%) Data Modeller
18 28 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
19 26 (2.97%) Data Warehouse Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (9.15%) PySpark
2 57 (6.52%) Kafka
3 21 (2.40%) XML
4 20 (2.29%) REST
5 15 (1.72%) Middleware
6 14 (1.60%) YAML
7 13 (1.49%) Pandas
8 11 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.03%) JSON
10 7 (0.80%) Spring
10 7 (0.80%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.69%) ADO
11 6 (0.69%) RESTful
11 6 (0.69%) Web Services
12 5 (0.57%) Apache Beam
12 5 (0.57%) NumPy
12 5 (0.57%) SOAP
13 4 (0.46%) HTML
14 3 (0.34%) CSS
14 3 (0.34%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.32%) Data Structures
2 39 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.29%) NHS
4 19 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.37%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.26%) Clustering
10 11 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 10 (1.14%) IoT
12 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.80%) Data Fabric
14 7 (0.80%) Derivative
14 7 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.17%) Linux
2 18 (2.06%) Unix
3 13 (1.49%) Windows
4 6 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (54.00%) ETL
2 461 (52.75%) Data Modelling
3 436 (49.89%) Analytics
4 350 (40.05%) Business Intelligence
5 312 (35.70%) Data Pipeline
6 258 (29.52%) Agile
7 254 (29.06%) Data Engineering
8 232 (26.54%) Data Governance
9 186 (21.28%) CI/CD
10 178 (20.37%) Migration
11 157 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
12 155 (17.73%) Data Architecture
13 146 (16.70%) Data Integration
14 136 (15.56%) DevOps
15 130 (14.87%) Decision-Making
16 117 (13.39%) Validation
17 115 (13.16%) AI
18 106 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
19 99 (11.33%) Performance Tuning
19 99 (11.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 575 (65.79%) SQL
2 276 (31.58%) Python
3 47 (5.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 45 (5.15%) T-SQL
5 44 (5.03%) Java
6 35 (4.00%) PL/SQL
7 32 (3.66%) Scala
8 16 (1.83%) R
8 16 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.37%) C#
11 8 (0.92%) JavaScript
12 7 (0.80%) Bash
12 7 (0.80%) VBA
13 6 (0.69%) Bicep
14 3 (0.34%) C
14 3 (0.34%) LookML
14 3 (0.34%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.34%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 237 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 199 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.86%) Degree
4 26 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.83%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.80%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.69%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.69%) PMP
12 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.34%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (32.27%) Data Quality
2 63 (7.21%) QA
3 54 (6.18%) GDPR
4 9 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.80%) GRC
6 6 (0.69%) GAAP
6 6 (0.69%) IFRS
6 6 (0.69%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.46%) Basel III
7 4 (0.46%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.46%) MiFID
7 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.34%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 27 (3.09%) Docker
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (5.03%) Terraform
2 23 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.92%) Grafana
4 7 (0.80%) Ansible
5 5 (0.57%) Control-M
6 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 175 (20.02%) Microsoft
2 171 (19.57%) Databricks
3 137 (15.68%) Oracle
4 64 (7.32%) Informatica
5 42 (4.81%) SAP
6 33 (3.78%) Google
6 33 (3.78%) Talend
7 21 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.17%) Denodo
9 15 (1.72%) Workday
10 13 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.49%) Teradata
11 12 (1.37%) IBM
12 10 (1.14%) Sage
13 7 (0.80%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.80%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.69%) Ab Initio
15 4 (0.46%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.46%) Remedy
15 4 (0.46%) Thales