Senior Data Warehouse Specialist Contracts

Senior Data Warehousing Specialist (Senior DWH Specialist)
UK

The median Senior Data Warehousing Specialist (Senior DWH Specialist) daily rate in the UK is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 523 648
Rank change year-on-year +75 +125 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Warehouse Specialist 72 59 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 27 33
10th Percentile £346 £435 £280
25th Percentile £463 £488 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -7.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £750
90th Percentile £750 £790 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £533 £509
% change year-on-year -1.92% +4.72% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - £71.76
25th Percentile £60.75 - £72.60
Median hourly rate £61.50 £70.39 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% -4.88% +331.24%
75th Percentile £62.24 - £74.40
90th Percentile - - £74.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £70.39 £74.00
% change year-on-year -12.64% -4.88% +339.95%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Warehouse Specialist over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Warehouse Specialist in the UK

Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Warehouse Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +70 66 £513 -3.85% 80
UK excluding London +77 50 £523 -1.92% 36
South East +42 21 £540 +1.31% 12
Work from Home +43 20 £521 -2.35% 60
London +39 20 £475 -22.89% 52
North of England +24 12 £475 +21.79% 10
Yorkshire +18 12 £475 -
Midlands +30 9 £495 -5.76% 3
West Midlands +18 5 £469 -10.67% 3
Scotland +15 5 £535 -9.02% 1
South West - 4 £525 - 4
East Midlands - 4 £750 -
East of England - 4 £477 - 2
North West +13 1 - - 10
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Warehouse Specialist in the job title.

1 30 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.94%) Risk Management
2 23 (31.94%) Agile
3 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (25.00%) CISM
5 17 (23.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (23.61%) Finance
6 16 (22.22%) SC Cleared
7 14 (19.44%) Analytics
7 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
8 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
8 13 (18.06%) DV Cleared
8 13 (18.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 12 (16.67%) Project Management
10 11 (15.28%) Network Security
10 11 (15.28%) Decision-Making
11 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (13.89%) Information Security
12 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
12 9 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (12.50%) Degree
12 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
12 9 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
12 9 (12.50%) Power BI
12 9 (12.50%) ServiceNow
12 9 (12.50%) Azure
13 8 (11.11%) Python
13 8 (11.11%) ITIL
13 8 (11.11%) Military

Senior 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 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.50%) Azure
1 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.56%) SaaS
3 3 (4.17%) AWS
3 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 3 (4.17%) IaaS
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.78%) PaaS
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) dbt
5 1 (1.39%) Fivetran
5 1 (1.39%) GCP
5 1 (1.39%) GitHub
5 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) Network Security
2 5 (6.94%) Internet
3 2 (2.78%) BGP
3 2 (2.78%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.78%) Firewall
3 2 (2.78%) IGMP
3 2 (2.78%) MPLS
3 2 (2.78%) Multicast
3 2 (2.78%) OSPF
3 2 (2.78%) VPLS
3 2 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.39%) Big Data
2 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) ScriptRunner
General
1 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Finance
3 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
5 8 (11.11%) Military
5 8 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Law
8 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Pandas
1 1 (1.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.94%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (2.78%) PKI
4 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) AIX
1 2 (2.78%) Unix
1 2 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) Agile
1 23 (31.94%) Risk Management
2 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (19.44%) Analytics
4 13 (18.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 12 (16.67%) Project Management
6 11 (15.28%) Decision-Making
7 10 (13.89%) Information Security
7 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
9 8 (11.11%) ITIL
10 7 (9.72%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (9.72%) Risk Assessment
11 6 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
11 6 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (8.33%) Information Assurance
11 6 (8.33%) Security Architecture
11 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) Python
2 7 (9.72%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.78%) Bash
4 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.39%) Groovy
5 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.00%) CISM
3 16 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 13 (18.06%) DV Cleared
5 9 (12.50%) Degree
6 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.17%) CISSP
6 3 (4.17%) EnCE
7 2 (2.78%) CCIE
7 2 (2.78%) CCNP
7 2 (2.78%) SAP Certification
8 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.39%) CCSP
8 1 (1.39%) CEH
8 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.39%) CRISC
8 1 (1.39%) GCFA
8 1 (1.39%) GCIH
8 1 (1.39%) OSCP
8 1 (1.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 5 (6.94%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.56%) NCSC
3 4 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) NIST
4 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) EnCase
1 3 (4.17%) FTK
2 2 (2.78%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.17%) Cellebrite
3 3 (4.17%) Databricks
3 3 (4.17%) Nuix
4 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.39%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.39%) Juniper
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
90 Senior Data Warehouse Specialist jobs Nationwide