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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 107 96
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 50 50 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.82% 1.60% 3.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.87% 9.58% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4 21 60
10th Percentile £49,750 £46,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £53,125 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £59,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year +38.66% -0.09% +8.28%
75th Percentile £109,375 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £112,750 £85,000 £84,150
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%

All Database and 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 265 522 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.65% 16.71% 23.11%
Number of salaries quoted 101 237 428
10th Percentile £25,750 £34,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,487 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +21 47 £107,500 +72.00% 4
Glasgow +2 2 £60,000 -5.51% 1
Fife +11 1 £50,000 +33.33%
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 (24.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 45 (90.00%) Azure
1 45 (90.00%) Snowflake
2 41 (82.00%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (62.00%) dbt
4 19 (38.00%) GitHub
4 19 (38.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (28.00%) Power Platform
6 9 (18.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 14 (28.00%) Power BI
3 12 (24.00%) Tableau
4 8 (16.00%) Metadata
5 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.00%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (2.00%) QlikView
7 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (62.00%) JIRA
General
1 46 (92.00%) Finance
2 29 (58.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (16.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Senior
2 12 (24.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Data Modeller
7 1 (2.00%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.00%) Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Principal Data Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Qlik Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (24.00%) Product Ownership
3 9 (18.00%) Onboarding
4 8 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (86.00%) Asset Management
1 43 (86.00%) Coaching
2 42 (84.00%) DevOps
3 38 (76.00%) Agile
4 37 (74.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (62.00%) AI
6 30 (60.00%) CI/CD
6 30 (60.00%) Data Modelling
7 27 (54.00%) Analytics
7 27 (54.00%) Sprint Planning
7 27 (54.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 24 (48.00%) ETL
9 19 (38.00%) Clean Code
9 19 (38.00%) Migration
9 19 (38.00%) Test Automation
10 17 (34.00%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (32.00%) Mentoring
12 12 (24.00%) Acceptance Criteria
12 12 (24.00%) User Stories
13 10 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) SQL
2 22 (44.00%) Python
3 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (36.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (2.00%) IBM