Data Warehouse Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Warehousing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 105 103
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 266 328 601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.69% 2.14% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.68% 11.27% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 252 453
10th Percentile £306 £363 £370
25th Percentile £411 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £48.09 £31.95
25th Percentile £34.63 £50.11 £41.63
Median hourly rate £34.65 £55.43 £53.82
Median % change year-on-year -37.49% +3.00% +53.76%
75th Percentile £34.68 £60.96 £70.13
90th Percentile - £63.10 £84.75
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £50.50 £49.79
% change year-on-year -23.08% +1.44% +10.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Data Warehouse
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Warehouse trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Warehouse.

Data Warehouse daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Warehouse daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Warehouse.

Data Warehouse hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (5.26%) Confluence
2 13 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.38%) SAS
5 8 (3.01%) Apache
6 7 (2.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.75%) Trello
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.75%) Actimize
3 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Maximo
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.45%) Azure
2 74 (27.82%) AWS
3 63 (23.68%) Power Platform
4 46 (17.29%) Snowflake
5 41 (15.41%) GCP
6 27 (10.15%) dbt
7 20 (7.52%) Amazon S3
8 19 (7.14%) GitHub
9 16 (6.02%) Serverless
10 15 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (3.76%) Adobe Analytics
13 8 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.63%) SaaS
15 6 (2.26%) WhatsApp
16 5 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (1.88%) OCI
17 4 (1.50%) AWS CodePipeline
17 4 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) DNS
1 4 (1.50%) Firewall
1 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.50%) VPN
2 2 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (23.68%) Power BI
2 49 (18.42%) Data Lake
3 28 (10.53%) Big Data
4 22 (8.27%) Tableau
5 21 (7.89%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 18 (6.77%) Relational Database
7 17 (6.39%) BigQuery
7 17 (6.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (6.02%) Metadata
9 14 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (4.89%) Hadoop
10 13 (4.89%) Looker
10 13 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (3.01%) Data Mining
15 7 (2.63%) RDBMS
15 7 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (6.39%) JIRA
2 12 (4.51%) ERwin
3 8 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.63%) ER Studio
5 5 (1.88%) GitLab
6 4 (1.50%) Git
7 2 (0.75%) MLflow
7 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.38%) Hudson
8 1 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.55%) Finance
3 43 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.15%) Banking
6 15 (5.64%) Marketing
7 12 (4.51%) Retail
8 8 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.88%) Legal
9 5 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.50%) Polish Language
11 3 (1.13%) Law
11 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 62 (23.31%) Data Engineer
2 51 (19.17%) Analyst
3 43 (16.17%) Architect
4 33 (12.41%) Data Analyst
4 33 (12.41%) Data Architect
5 25 (9.40%) Senior
6 20 (7.52%) Developer
7 16 (6.02%) Data Manager
7 16 (6.02%) Lead
8 15 (5.64%) Data Modeller
8 15 (5.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (5.26%) Consultant
10 11 (4.14%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.38%) Snowflake Engineer
12 8 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 7 (2.63%) Analytics Manager
13 7 (2.63%) Junior
13 7 (2.63%) Oracle Analyst
13 7 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.63%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.02%) Kafka
2 10 (3.76%) PySpark
3 9 (3.38%) REST
4 7 (2.63%) Jinja
5 5 (1.88%) Pandas
6 4 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.50%) SOAP
6 4 (1.50%) XML
7 3 (1.13%) .NET
7 3 (1.13%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.13%) JSON
7 3 (1.13%) Web Services
8 2 (0.75%) OAuth
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.75%) PostGIS
8 2 (0.75%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.75%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.75%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.38%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.76%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.63%) NHS
4 6 (2.26%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.26%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.88%) Data Fabric
5 5 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.50%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.50%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.13%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.13%) iPad
7 3 (1.13%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.13%) Replication
8 2 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.38%) Linux
2 5 (1.88%) Unix
3 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (46.24%) ETL
2 93 (34.96%) Analytics
3 88 (33.08%) Data Modelling
4 87 (32.71%) Business Intelligence
5 59 (22.18%) Data Governance
6 52 (19.55%) Migration
6 52 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
8 45 (16.92%) Data Integration
9 44 (16.54%) CI/CD
10 41 (15.41%) Visualisation
11 40 (15.04%) Data Strategy
12 37 (13.91%) Data Architecture
13 36 (13.53%) Data Engineering
14 35 (13.16%) Agile
15 34 (12.78%) DevOps
16 31 (11.65%) Data Management
17 30 (11.28%) Data Visualisation
18 29 (10.90%) Data Analysis
18 29 (10.90%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 159 (59.77%) SQL
2 70 (26.32%) Python
3 10 (3.76%) Java
3 10 (3.76%) R
4 9 (3.38%) Scala
4 9 (3.38%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.50%) C#
5 4 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.13%) Jython
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.38%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.77%) Degree
4 8 (3.01%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.01%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.38%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) ISEB
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.38%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (22.93%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.01%) GDPR
3 7 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.63%) QA
4 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (6.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (8.65%) Terraform
2 20 (7.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.88%) Grafana
4 4 (1.50%) Ansible
5 3 (1.13%) Argo
6 2 (0.75%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 32 (12.03%) Databricks
2 28 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.89%) Google
3 21 (7.89%) Oracle
4 15 (5.64%) SAP
5 10 (3.76%) Adobe
5 10 (3.76%) Teradata
6 5 (1.88%) Informatica
7 4 (1.50%) Sparx
8 3 (1.13%) IBM
8 3 (1.13%) VMware
9 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.75%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.75%) New Relic
9 2 (0.75%) Splunk
9 2 (0.75%) Talend
9 2 (0.75%) TikTok
9 2 (0.75%) Workday
10 1 (0.38%) dotdigital