Data Warehouse Job Trends

Data Warehousing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Warehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 170 141
Rank change year-on-year -64 -29 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 665 805 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.85% 2.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.43% 9.86% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 381 455 1,400
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,410 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.06% +22.50% -9.09%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,054 8,163 15,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 18.72% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,258 5,159 12,177
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.49%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Warehouse
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England -63 574 £70,000 +7.69% 341
London +17 308 £82,500 +8.55% 135
UK excluding London -86 295 £64,350 +5.06% 263
Work from Home -36 254 £65,000 -7.14% 159
South East -45 91 £75,000 +7.14% 90
North of England -85 60 £62,500 +8.70% 70
Midlands -55 51 £62,000 +7.83% 50
West Midlands -18 42 £62,000 +3.33% 36
Scotland -14 40 £102,500 +78.26% 10
East of England +25 34 £60,000 -14.29% 15
North West -27 33 £62,500 +13.64% 31
Yorkshire -66 26 £62,500 +8.70% 27
South West -66 18 £64,675 +17.59% 27
East Midlands -45 9 £47,500 -5.00% 14
Wales -9 3 £37,500 -53.13% 6
North East -24 1 - - 13

Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 67 (10.08%) Apache Spark
2 58 (8.72%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (4.66%) Apache
4 10 (1.50%) Confluence
4 10 (1.50%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.05%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.90%) SAS
8 3 (0.45%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.50%) Maya
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.50%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.45%) Misys Opics
3 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.15%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 380 (57.14%) Azure
2 217 (32.63%) Power Platform
3 189 (28.42%) Snowflake
4 159 (23.91%) AWS
5 107 (16.09%) dbt
6 106 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (13.68%) GCP
8 86 (12.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 59 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (6.17%) SaaS
11 39 (5.86%) Serverless
12 36 (5.41%) GitHub
13 35 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (4.51%) Amazon S3
15 29 (4.36%) Power Automate
16 21 (3.16%) Fivetran
16 21 (3.16%) Matillion
17 18 (2.71%) PowerApps
18 17 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
19 15 (2.26%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.15%) 4G
2 1 (0.15%) 5G
2 1 (0.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (30.53%) Power BI
2 164 (24.66%) Data Lake
3 90 (13.53%) SQL Server
4 76 (11.43%) Tableau
5 66 (9.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 59 (8.87%) Metadata
7 53 (7.97%) BigQuery
8 47 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 41 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 41 (6.17%) Snowflake Schema
10 34 (5.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 34 (5.11%) MySQL
11 33 (4.96%) NoSQL
11 33 (4.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 32 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (4.66%) Relational Database
14 28 (4.21%) Looker
15 27 (4.06%) Big Data
16 26 (3.91%) Delta Lake
17 25 (3.76%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 42 (6.32%) Git
2 28 (4.21%) JIRA
3 24 (3.61%) MLflow
4 16 (2.41%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.20%) ERwin
5 8 (1.20%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (0.90%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.75%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.75%) git-flow
8 4 (0.60%) GitLab
9 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.30%) DBeaver
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.15%) JMeter
11 1 (0.15%) Selenium
11 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
General
1 219 (32.93%) Finance
2 212 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 165 (24.81%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.81%) Law
6 26 (3.91%) Banking
7 24 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.46%) Retail
9 16 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.41%) Marketing
10 12 (1.80%) Legal
11 10 (1.50%) Games
11 10 (1.50%) Local Government
12 9 (1.35%) Front Office
13 8 (1.20%) Billing
13 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.05%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.90%) Advertising
16 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (29.47%) Data Engineer
2 150 (22.56%) Senior
3 123 (18.50%) Architect
4 105 (15.79%) Data Architect
5 58 (8.72%) Developer
5 58 (8.72%) Senior Data Engineer
6 56 (8.42%) Lead
7 47 (7.07%) Analyst
8 45 (6.77%) Consultant
9 33 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (4.66%) Azure Architect
11 25 (3.76%) Azure Data Architect
11 25 (3.76%) Data Manager
12 24 (3.61%) Azure Data Engineer
12 24 (3.61%) Data Consultant
13 21 (3.16%) Data Analyst
13 21 (3.16%) Senior Consultant
14 20 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 17 (2.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.82%) Kafka
2 44 (6.62%) PySpark
3 22 (3.31%) PyTorch
3 22 (3.31%) TensorFlow
4 14 (2.11%) REST
5 13 (1.95%) LangChain
5 13 (1.95%) scikit-learn
6 10 (1.50%) .NET
6 10 (1.50%) CSS
6 10 (1.50%) Pandas
7 9 (1.35%) Faiss
7 9 (1.35%) LlamaIndex
7 9 (1.35%) OpenID
7 9 (1.35%) pgvector
7 9 (1.35%) React
7 9 (1.35%) SAML
7 9 (1.35%) vLLM
8 8 (1.20%) JSON
8 8 (1.20%) YAML
9 7 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 27 (4.06%) Data Structures
5 21 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.11%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.65%) NHS
11 11 (1.65%) Reference Data
12 9 (1.35%) Clustering
12 9 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.35%) Replication
13 8 (1.20%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.20%) Reinsurance
14 6 (0.90%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.60%) Windows
2 3 (0.45%) Android
2 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.30%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (58.20%) Data Modelling
2 348 (52.33%) Analytics
3 337 (50.68%) ETL
4 291 (43.76%) Business Intelligence
5 276 (41.50%) Data Engineering
6 204 (30.68%) Data Governance
7 203 (30.53%) Data Pipeline
8 165 (24.81%) Agile
8 165 (24.81%) AI
9 156 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
10 154 (23.16%) CI/CD
11 148 (22.26%) Data Integration
12 141 (21.20%) Data Management
13 140 (21.05%) Data Architecture
14 139 (20.90%) Decision-Making
15 126 (18.95%) Data Science
16 119 (17.89%) Mentoring
17 118 (17.74%) DevOps
18 96 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 83 (12.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 419 (63.01%) SQL
2 293 (44.06%) Python
3 51 (7.67%) Java
4 28 (4.21%) PowerShell
5 26 (3.91%) Scala
6 24 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (3.16%) C#
7 21 (3.16%) R
8 14 (2.11%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.50%) Bash
10 9 (1.35%) Go
11 7 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.90%) JavaScript
12 6 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.90%) VBA
13 4 (0.60%) ANSI SQL
14 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.45%) Swift
15 2 (0.30%) Bicep
15 2 (0.30%) Julia
Qualifications
1 88 (13.23%) Degree
2 35 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (4.21%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.71%) SC Cleared
7 15 (2.26%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.75%) CITP
12 5 (0.75%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.60%) SAP Certification
14 3 (0.45%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.45%) HND
14 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.45%) PMP
15 2 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (27.22%) Data Quality
2 63 (9.47%) Accessibility
3 48 (7.22%) GDPR
4 19 (2.86%) QA
5 14 (2.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.50%) SLA
8 6 (0.90%) NIST
9 5 (0.75%) GRC
9 5 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.45%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PERC
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (4.66%) Docker
2 8 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.45%) HDFS
4 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (5.41%) Terraform
2 21 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.60%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) Control-M
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 191 (28.72%) Microsoft
2 175 (26.32%) Databricks
3 57 (8.57%) Informatica
4 42 (6.32%) Oracle
5 29 (4.36%) Google
6 26 (3.91%) Dell
6 26 (3.91%) Talend
7 21 (3.16%) Palantir
8 17 (2.56%) Foundry
9 16 (2.41%) SAP
10 14 (2.11%) Teradata
11 12 (1.80%) Denodo
12 11 (1.65%) IBM
13 9 (1.35%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.35%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.20%) Dataiku
14 8 (1.20%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.20%) Palo Alto