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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 84 168
Rank change year-on-year -21 +84 -49
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 40 45 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.30% 2.13% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.33% 12.30% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 55
10th Percentile £79,875 £42,500 £37,200
25th Percentile £92,813 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +78.26% -8.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £109,375 £63,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £83,250 £91,038
UK median annual salary £70,716 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.79% +8.33% -11.11%

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 261 366 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.50% 17.34% 28.72%
Number of salaries quoted 83 200 481
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £68,114 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%

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 15 March 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 15 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
Edinburgh +20 40 £102,500 +64.00% 5
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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 35 (87.50%) Azure
2 34 (85.00%) Snowflake
3 32 (80.00%) dbt
4 28 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (35.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (35.00%) GitHub
5 14 (35.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 8 (20.00%) Metadata
3 5 (12.50%) Power BI
4 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Tableau
5 2 (5.00%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (42.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 35 (87.50%) Finance
2 18 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 4 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Principal Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) YAML
2 1 (2.50%) JSON
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) Asset Management
1 34 (85.00%) Coaching
2 32 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 32 (80.00%) DevOps
3 29 (72.50%) Agile
3 29 (72.50%) CI/CD
4 25 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (60.00%) ETL
6 20 (50.00%) Analytics
7 17 (42.50%) AI
8 14 (35.00%) Clean Code
8 14 (35.00%) Migration
8 14 (35.00%) Sprint Planning
8 14 (35.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
9 11 (27.50%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (22.50%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
11 8 (20.00%) Data Transformation
11 8 (20.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 16 (40.00%) Python
3 15 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Ab Initio
2 4 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle