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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 88 187
Rank change year-on-year -21 +99 -64
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 31 36 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.95% 1.87% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.36% 12.12% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 53
10th Percentile £79,875 £44,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £92,813 £53,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% - +6.84%
75th Percentile £109,375 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £78,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £71,028 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +9.27% +7.44% -10.37%

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 273 297 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.41% 15.43% 29.32%
Number of salaries quoted 80 178 502
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +21 31 £102,500 +64.00% 1
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 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 26 (83.87%) Azure
1 26 (83.87%) dbt
2 25 (80.65%) Snowflake
3 19 (61.29%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (45.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (35.48%) GitHub
5 11 (35.48%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (25.81%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (6.45%) AWS
7 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (16.13%) Metadata
3 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Data Vault
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 26 (83.87%) Finance
2 15 (48.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Applications Support
3 4 (12.90%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Data Modeller
5 1 (3.23%) Lead
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Data Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) YAML
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Data Modelling
2 25 (80.65%) Asset Management
2 25 (80.65%) Coaching
3 23 (74.19%) Agile
3 23 (74.19%) CI/CD
3 23 (74.19%) DevOps
4 21 (67.74%) ETL
5 19 (61.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (54.84%) Analytics
7 11 (35.48%) AI
7 11 (35.48%) Clean Code
7 11 (35.48%) Migration
7 11 (35.48%) Sprint Planning
7 11 (35.48%) Sprint Retrospective
7 11 (35.48%) Test Automation
8 9 (29.03%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (25.81%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (25.81%) RBAC
9 8 (25.81%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) SQL
2 12 (38.71%) PowerShell
3 10 (32.26%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Ab Initio
2 4 (12.90%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle