Data Warehouse Contracts

Data Warehousing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 126 108
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 675 796 1,371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.30% 1.83% 2.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.16% 10.88% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 593 1,002
10th Percentile £352 £400 £371
25th Percentile £416 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% - -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 20
10th Percentile £27.91 £31.25 £34.13
25th Percentile £33.84 £31.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.85 £50.50 £49.79
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +1.44% +14.67%
75th Percentile £41.00 £54.03 £79.19
90th Percentile £41.83 £63.70 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.20 £31.75 £39.75
% change year-on-year -17.48% -20.13% +13.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,553 7,314 10,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 16.86% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,835 5,221 7,562
10th Percentile £357 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.74%
75th Percentile £643 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 144 188
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £34.35
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -31.73% +37.86%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.81 £72.80
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.50 £80.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 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
England -1 577 £525 -4.55% 735
London -15 338 £555 -3.48% 457
Work from Home +11 262 £512 -2.48% 348
UK excluding London +57 239 £471 -5.90% 385
South East +55 59 £478 -4.50% 142
North of England -8 56 £475 -5.00% 97
Midlands +8 43 £465 -11.43% 56
North West -6 41 £525 +5.00% 54
Scotland +26 36 £438 -7.89% 25
South West +48 35 £455 -9.00% 52
West Midlands +14 34 £475 -9.52% 35
East of England +37 17 £580 +22.11% 13
Yorkshire +6 12 £145 -70.26% 36
East Midlands +8 9 £461 -10.10% 16
Wales +7 3 £200 -38.46% 5
North East -5 3 £450 -30.77% 8

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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (6.22%) Apache Spark
3 36 (5.33%) Apache
4 23 (3.41%) Confluence
5 15 (2.22%) SAS
6 9 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Luigi
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 25 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.81%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.63%) Oracle Smart View
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.44%) Maximo
3 3 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Actimize
4 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 217 (32.15%) AWS
2 213 (31.56%) Azure
3 173 (25.63%) Power Platform
4 143 (21.19%) Snowflake
5 106 (15.70%) GCP
6 64 (9.48%) dbt
7 59 (8.74%) Amazon S3
8 44 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 42 (6.22%) GitHub
10 39 (5.78%) Serverless
11 34 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (2.67%) IaaS
15 18 (2.67%) PaaS
16 17 (2.52%) OCI
17 12 (1.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.89%) Firewall
1 6 (0.89%) TCP/IP
1 6 (0.89%) VPN
2 5 (0.74%) DNS
3 2 (0.30%) Network Security
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) LAN
4 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (25.48%) Power BI
2 120 (17.78%) Data Lake
3 88 (13.04%) Tableau
4 66 (9.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 66 (9.78%) Big Data
5 62 (9.19%) SQL Server
6 58 (8.59%) Metadata
7 48 (7.11%) BigQuery
8 46 (6.81%) NoSQL
8 46 (6.81%) Relational Database
9 45 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 35 (5.19%) Hadoop
11 32 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 25 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 23 (3.41%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (2.96%) Oracle ODI
17 19 (2.81%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (4.74%) JIRA
2 28 (4.15%) ERwin
3 20 (2.96%) Git
4 14 (2.07%) GitLab
4 14 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.48%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.44%) Selenium
8 3 (0.44%) Subversion
8 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.30%) MLflow
9 2 (0.30%) SOAtest
10 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 205 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 145 (21.48%) Finance
3 113 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.41%) Banking
6 31 (4.59%) Marketing
7 23 (3.41%) Retail
8 20 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.07%) Legal
10 14 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.48%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.48%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.74%) Automotive
14 5 (0.74%) Billing
14 5 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (25.33%) Data Engineer
2 115 (17.04%) Architect
3 112 (16.59%) Analyst
4 83 (12.30%) Data Architect
5 70 (10.37%) Senior
6 64 (9.48%) Data Analyst
7 54 (8.00%) Developer
8 50 (7.41%) Lead
9 37 (5.48%) Senior Data Engineer
10 34 (5.04%) Data Modeller
11 29 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (4.30%) Business Analyst
12 28 (4.15%) Consultant
13 25 (3.70%) Data Manager
13 25 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
14 21 (3.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 20 (2.96%) Power BI Developer
16 18 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 18 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
17 14 (2.07%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (7.26%) Kafka
2 40 (5.93%) PySpark
3 14 (2.07%) REST
4 12 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (1.33%) AWS CDK
5 9 (1.33%) OAuth
6 8 (1.19%) Jinja
6 8 (1.19%) Pandas
6 8 (1.19%) XML
7 7 (1.04%) JSON
8 5 (0.74%) .NET
8 5 (0.74%) SOAP
8 5 (0.74%) Web Services
9 4 (0.59%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.59%) OpenID
9 4 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (0.59%) SAML
10 3 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.44%) FHIR
10 3 (0.44%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 24 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.93%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.78%) NHS
7 11 (1.63%) Reference Data
8 10 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.19%) Life Science
9 8 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.19%) Replication
10 7 (1.04%) Data Fabric
10 7 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (0.74%) Derivative
12 5 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.37%) Linux
1 16 (2.37%) Unix
2 8 (1.19%) Windows
3 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (45.04%) ETL
2 268 (39.70%) Data Modelling
3 234 (34.67%) Analytics
4 226 (33.48%) Business Intelligence
5 165 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (23.56%) Data Governance
6 159 (23.56%) Data Pipeline
7 126 (18.67%) Visualisation
8 117 (17.33%) Migration
9 114 (16.89%) Data Integration
10 111 (16.44%) Data Engineering
11 104 (15.41%) Agile
12 97 (14.37%) Data Architecture
13 92 (13.63%) CI/CD
14 86 (12.74%) Data Management
15 80 (11.85%) Data Visualisation
16 77 (11.41%) Data Science
16 77 (11.41%) Data Strategy
16 77 (11.41%) DevOps
17 71 (10.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 402 (59.56%) SQL
2 217 (32.15%) Python
3 30 (4.44%) Java
4 26 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 22 (3.26%) PL/SQL
6 20 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (2.81%) R
8 18 (2.67%) Scala
9 13 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.19%) C#
11 7 (1.04%) Bash
12 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
13 3 (0.44%) Jython
13 3 (0.44%) PROC SQL
13 3 (0.44%) SAS Macro
14 2 (0.30%) COBOL
14 2 (0.30%) JCL
14 2 (0.30%) REXX
14 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.11%) Degree
4 34 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.59%) PMP
10 4 (0.59%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.15%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (24.89%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.00%) GDPR
2 27 (4.00%) QA
3 14 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.48%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.89%) PMO
6 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.15%) Basel III
7 1 (0.15%) GxP
7 1 (0.15%) HL7
7 1 (0.15%) IFRS
7 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (4.89%) Docker
2 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) HDFS
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 73 (10.81%) Terraform
2 39 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.89%) Grafana
4 4 (0.59%) Ansible
5 3 (0.44%) Argo
5 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 75 (11.11%) Databricks
3 62 (9.19%) Oracle
4 46 (6.81%) Google
5 44 (6.52%) SAP
6 30 (4.44%) Informatica
7 16 (2.37%) Teradata
8 14 (2.07%) IBM
9 12 (1.78%) Adobe
10 9 (1.33%) Ariba
10 9 (1.33%) Sparx
11 8 (1.19%) Talend
12 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.74%) Confluent
13 5 (0.74%) Splunk
14 4 (0.59%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.59%) Vertica
14 4 (0.59%) VMware
15 3 (0.44%) Anaplan