Data Warehouse Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Warehousing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 176 161
Rank change year-on-year -107 -15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 289 461 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.55% 1.64% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.01% 9.64% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 171 252 830
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £36,975
25th Percentile £50,625 £50,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,350 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,125 £76,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £81,375
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% +8.33% -11.11%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,124 4,781 10,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.89% 16.98% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,410 2,916 7,987
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,289 £83,125 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Warehouse
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Warehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Data Warehouse
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Warehouse within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East -51 91 £71,050 +1.50% 78
North of England -76 58 £62,500 +8.70% 71
Midlands -52 49 £62,000 +5.53% 52
Scotland -21 40 £102,500 +78.26% 10
West Midlands -29 40 £62,000 +3.33% 38
North West -27 33 £62,500 +13.64% 31
East of England +15 32 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Yorkshire -67 24 £61,250 +6.52% 29
South West -55 18 £64,675 +17.59% 26
East Midlands -48 9 £53,750 -6.52% 14
Wales -10 3 £37,500 -53.13% 6
North East -21 1 - - 12
Data Warehouse
UK

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.77%) Apache
3 7 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.73%) Confluence
5 4 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (1.38%) SAS
6 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.35%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 179 (61.94%) Azure
2 99 (34.26%) Snowflake
3 79 (27.34%) Power Platform
4 55 (19.03%) AWS
5 51 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (16.26%) dbt
7 40 (13.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 33 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (10.03%) GCP
10 21 (7.27%) GitHub
10 21 (7.27%) SaaS
11 15 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.19%) Serverless
12 14 (4.84%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.84%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (2.77%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.42%) Boomi
14 7 (2.42%) Matillion
14 7 (2.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (26.30%) Power BI
2 63 (21.80%) Data Lake
3 32 (11.07%) Metadata
4 26 (9.00%) SQL Server
5 24 (8.30%) Tableau
6 22 (7.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (7.27%) Snowflake Schema
8 17 (5.88%) NoSQL
9 16 (5.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.54%) BigQuery
9 16 (5.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (5.19%) Relational Database
11 14 (4.84%) Data Mining
11 14 (4.84%) Star Schema
12 12 (4.15%) MySQL
12 12 (4.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (3.11%) Delta Lake
13 9 (3.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 8 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (7.27%) JIRA
2 8 (2.77%) Git
3 5 (1.73%) git-flow
4 3 (1.04%) ERwin
4 3 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.69%) DBeaver
5 2 (0.69%) MLflow
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (29.76%) Finance
2 84 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 70 (24.22%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.15%) Law
6 7 (2.42%) Marketing
7 4 (1.38%) Banking
8 3 (1.04%) Billing
8 3 (1.04%) Legal
8 3 (1.04%) Publishing
8 3 (1.04%) Retail
9 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.69%) Social Housing
9 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 88 (30.45%) Data Engineer
2 69 (23.88%) Architect
3 66 (22.84%) Senior
4 64 (22.15%) Data Architect
5 28 (9.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (8.65%) Developer
7 21 (7.27%) Analyst
8 20 (6.92%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (6.23%) Azure Architect
9 18 (6.23%) Data Manager
10 17 (5.88%) Azure Data Architect
11 14 (4.84%) Lead
12 11 (3.81%) Azure Data Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 10 (3.46%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 7 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 7 (2.42%) Data Analyst
16 6 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
16 6 (2.08%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.92%) PySpark
2 9 (3.11%) Kafka
3 8 (2.77%) YAML
4 7 (2.42%) JSON
5 6 (2.08%) .NET
5 6 (2.08%) XML
6 5 (1.73%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.73%) CSS
6 5 (1.73%) EDI
6 5 (1.73%) Material-UI
6 5 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (1.73%) React
7 4 (1.38%) HTML
8 2 (0.69%) LangChain
8 2 (0.69%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (0.69%) Pandas
8 2 (0.69%) pgvector
8 2 (0.69%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.69%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.46%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.08%) Replication
7 5 (1.73%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.04%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.69%) Clustering
9 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.35%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.35%) EPoS
10 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.35%) Android
2 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (59.86%) Data Modelling
2 164 (56.75%) ETL
3 140 (48.44%) Analytics
4 114 (39.45%) Data Engineering
5 102 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
6 93 (32.18%) Agile
7 84 (29.07%) Data Integration
8 82 (28.37%) Data Governance
9 78 (26.99%) Data Management
10 75 (25.95%) Data Architecture
11 64 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (20.42%) CI/CD
12 59 (20.42%) Mentoring
13 56 (19.38%) Coaching
13 56 (19.38%) Data Pipeline
14 55 (19.03%) DevOps
15 46 (15.92%) Decision-Making
16 43 (14.88%) Data Science
17 42 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 41 (14.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 175 (60.55%) SQL
2 106 (36.68%) Python
3 15 (5.19%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.11%) C#
4 9 (3.11%) R
5 6 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.73%) Java
6 5 (1.73%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Julia
7 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (6.92%) Degree
2 10 (3.46%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.08%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.73%) CITP
6 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.04%) PMP
7 3 (1.04%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.69%) HND
9 1 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (25.61%) Data Quality
2 50 (17.30%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.23%) GDPR
4 8 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.77%) QA
5 6 (2.08%) NIST
6 5 (1.73%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.69%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.35%) NCSC
9 1 (0.35%) PERC
System Software
1 6 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.04%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 106 (36.68%) Microsoft
2 66 (22.84%) Databricks
3 20 (6.92%) Informatica
4 15 (5.19%) Oracle
5 13 (4.50%) Google
6 7 (2.42%) Dell
6 7 (2.42%) IBM
6 7 (2.42%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.42%) Talend
7 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.08%) SAP
8 5 (1.73%) Netezza
8 5 (1.73%) Planon
8 5 (1.73%) Teradata
9 4 (1.38%) Ab Initio
10 3 (1.04%) Cognos
10 3 (1.04%) Denodo
11 2 (0.69%) Civica
11 2 (0.69%) Northgate
11 2 (0.69%) Orchard