Data Warehouse Job Trends in Scotland

Data Warehousing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 105 124
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 54 46 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.95% 1.77% 2.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.61% 9.18% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 59
10th Percentile £68,500 £45,750 £37,400
25th Percentile £88,750 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +78.26% -8.00% +17.37%
75th Percentile £109,375 £65,531 £64,375
90th Percentile £112,750 £87,500 £84,245
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 262 501 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.46% 19.23% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 95 220 412
10th Percentile £26,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,840 £42,709
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,274 £74,230 £88,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Warehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Warehouse in Scotland

Data Warehouse
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Warehouse within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Edinburgh +24 52 £105,000 +68.00% 3
Glasgow +3 2 £60,000 +0.84% 2
Data Warehouse
UK

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 50 (92.59%) Azure
1 50 (92.59%) Snowflake
2 43 (79.63%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (68.52%) dbt
4 19 (35.19%) GitHub
4 19 (35.19%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (25.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (25.93%) Power Platform
6 8 (14.81%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.63%) Snowflake Schema
2 14 (25.93%) Power BI
3 12 (22.22%) Tableau
4 9 (16.67%) Metadata
5 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.70%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.85%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.85%) QlikView
8 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (57.41%) JIRA
General
1 50 (92.59%) Finance
2 31 (57.41%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Senior
2 12 (22.22%) Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Applications Support
5 4 (7.41%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Data Modeller
6 2 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (1.85%) Principal Data Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Qlik Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (42.59%) Cloud Native
2 12 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 9 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 8 (14.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (90.74%) Asset Management
1 49 (90.74%) Coaching
2 47 (87.04%) DevOps
3 44 (81.48%) Agile
4 39 (72.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (68.52%) Data Modelling
6 35 (64.81%) CI/CD
7 31 (57.41%) AI
8 27 (50.00%) ETL
8 27 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
8 27 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
9 25 (46.30%) Analytics
10 19 (35.19%) Clean Code
10 19 (35.19%) Migration
10 19 (35.19%) Test Automation
11 15 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (25.93%) Mentoring
13 12 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
13 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) SQL
2 24 (44.44%) Python
3 16 (29.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.85%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Ab Initio
2 4 (7.41%) IBM