Data Warehouse Job Trends in the North West

Data Warehousing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 132 90
Rank change year-on-year -36 -42 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 32 56 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.41% 1.34% 2.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.20% 8.10% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26 33 163
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +17.02% -7.84%
75th Percentile £77,424 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,500 £72,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

Data Warehouse falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 516 691 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.54% 16.57% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 380 378 1,120
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,775 £87,250 £81,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Warehouse relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Warehouse
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Warehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in the North West over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Warehouse in the North West

Data Warehouse
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Warehouse within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -7 23 £62,500 +13.64% 33
Lancashire -21 5 £70,932 +46.25% 19
Cheshire -27 2 £55,000 +29.41% 3
Merseyside -14 1 - - 3
Data Warehouse
England

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (9.38%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (21.88%) SaaS
4 6 (18.75%) AWS
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
5 4 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (9.38%) Serverless
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.13%) Boomi
8 1 (3.13%) Collibra
8 1 (3.13%) dbt
8 1 (3.13%) iPaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Data Lake
2 8 (25.00%) Power BI
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.38%) Metadata
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Tableau
6 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.13%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.13%) QlikView
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Law
3 2 (6.25%) Marketing
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Advertising
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Data Engineer
2 12 (37.50%) Senior
3 8 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Analytics Developer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Senior TM1 Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) TM1 Developer
7 1 (3.13%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Principal Data Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
1 3 (9.38%) Taxonomies
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
1 14 (43.75%) Data Engineering
1 14 (43.75%) ETL
2 13 (40.63%) Analytics
2 13 (40.63%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (40.63%) Mentoring
3 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
3 11 (34.38%) Data Science
4 10 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (28.13%) SDLC
6 8 (25.00%) Coaching
6 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 8 (25.00%) Data Integration
7 6 (18.75%) Clean Code
7 6 (18.75%) Data Management
7 6 (18.75%) Logical Data Model
7 6 (18.75%) Physical Data Model
8 5 (15.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 5 (15.63%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (12.50%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.13%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.25%) HND
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
1 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Databricks
3 2 (6.25%) Cognos
3 2 (6.25%) Dell
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.13%) Pega
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.13%) VMware