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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 151 117
Rank change year-on-year -49 -34 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 709 1,038 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.91% 2.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.81% 10.74% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 404 537 1,073
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £46,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.66% -6.15%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,348 £81,250
90th Percentile £106,825 £106,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £59,125 £54,575
% change year-on-year +5.71% +8.34% -0.77%

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 6,560 9,661 10,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.04% 17.82% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,176 5,413 8,479
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +1.87% -2.73%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -53 623 £67,500 - 316
UK excluding London -48 350 £62,500 +5.71% 271
London -9 323 £83,500 +4.38% 96
Work from Home -13 296 £64,350 -8.07% 110
South East -71 93 £63,500 +5.83% 91
North of England -13 80 £60,000 +20.00% 55
Midlands +1 71 £65,000 - 46
West Midlands +15 57 £63,500 +1.60% 22
Scotland +6 55 £102,500 +78.26% 8
North West +3 45 £60,000 +20.00% 26
Yorkshire -25 31 £60,000 +33.33% 22
East of England +35 28 £50,000 - 30
South West -10 20 £64,350 -4.67% 31
East Midlands -7 14 £67,500 +3.85% 24
North East +1 4 £67,500 +3.45% 7
Wales 0 3 £37,500 -38.90% 11

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 68 (9.59%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.23%) Apache
3 28 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.54%) Confluence
5 10 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.42%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 44 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.82%) Maya
3 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.13%) Markit EDM
4 7 (0.99%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.14%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 428 (60.37%) Azure
2 201 (28.35%) Power Platform
3 194 (27.36%) AWS
4 169 (23.84%) Snowflake
5 108 (15.23%) GCP
6 98 (13.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 94 (13.26%) dbt
8 80 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (10.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 55 (7.76%) SaaS
11 46 (6.49%) Serverless
12 44 (6.21%) GitHub
13 43 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (5.64%) Amazon S3
15 24 (3.39%) Fivetran
16 19 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
17 18 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
19 16 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 16 (2.26%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) Broadband
1 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (26.66%) Power BI
2 149 (21.02%) Data Lake
3 98 (13.82%) SQL Server
4 69 (9.73%) Metadata
5 68 (9.59%) Tableau
6 65 (9.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 52 (7.33%) Big Data
8 45 (6.35%) NoSQL
8 45 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 44 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 40 (5.64%) Relational Database
11 38 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
12 36 (5.08%) MySQL
13 35 (4.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 35 (4.94%) Hadoop
14 34 (4.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 33 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
16 28 (3.95%) Data Mining
16 28 (3.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 27 (3.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 49 (6.91%) JIRA
2 43 (6.06%) Git
3 9 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.13%) ERwin
4 8 (1.13%) MLflow
4 8 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
5 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.71%) git-flow
7 4 (0.56%) GitLab
8 3 (0.42%) JMeter
8 3 (0.42%) Selenium
9 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.28%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.28%) Subversion
9 2 (0.28%) TestRail
10 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 247 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 231 (32.58%) Finance
3 169 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.57%) Law
5 61 (8.60%) Retail
6 57 (8.04%) Marketing
7 34 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 30 (4.23%) Banking
9 29 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (3.24%) Legal
11 21 (2.96%) Games
12 16 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.83%) Local Government
14 12 (1.69%) Front Office
15 11 (1.55%) Automotive
15 11 (1.55%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.85%) Advertising
17 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 234 (33.00%) Data Engineer
2 209 (29.48%) Senior
3 137 (19.32%) Architect
4 120 (16.93%) Data Architect
5 105 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 67 (9.45%) Developer
7 64 (9.03%) Lead
8 61 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
9 56 (7.90%) Analyst
10 52 (7.33%) Azure Data Engineer
11 39 (5.50%) Consultant
12 37 (5.22%) Senior Architect
13 28 (3.95%) Senior Data Architect
14 25 (3.53%) Azure Architect
15 23 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (3.10%) Azure Data Architect
16 22 (3.10%) Data Consultant
17 20 (2.82%) AWS Data Engineer
17 20 (2.82%) Data Warehouse Developer
18 19 (2.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.04%) Kafka
2 39 (5.50%) PySpark
3 13 (1.83%) Pandas
4 12 (1.69%) Middleware
4 12 (1.69%) XML
5 11 (1.55%) REST
5 11 (1.55%) Spring
6 10 (1.41%) .NET
6 10 (1.41%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.41%) CSS
6 10 (1.41%) GraphQL
6 10 (1.41%) JSON
7 9 (1.27%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.27%) React
8 8 (1.13%) boto
8 8 (1.13%) scikit-learn
8 8 (1.13%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (1.13%) TensorFlow
8 8 (1.13%) YAML
9 7 (0.99%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 53 (7.48%) Management Information System
3 47 (6.63%) Cloud Native
4 30 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (3.39%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (2.26%) Reinsurance
9 15 (2.12%) Reference Data
10 14 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.97%) NHS
11 12 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.55%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.41%) FMCG
14 9 (1.27%) e-Learning
15 8 (1.13%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.56%) Windows
2 3 (0.42%) Android
2 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.42%) Linux
2 3 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (59.24%) Data Modelling
2 367 (51.76%) ETL
3 317 (44.71%) Analytics
4 287 (40.48%) Data Engineering
5 270 (38.08%) Business Intelligence
6 228 (32.16%) Data Pipeline
7 204 (28.77%) Data Governance
8 201 (28.35%) Agile
9 177 (24.96%) CI/CD
10 167 (23.55%) AI
10 167 (23.55%) Data Integration
11 160 (22.57%) DevOps
12 155 (21.86%) Data Architecture
13 154 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
14 147 (20.73%) Mentoring
15 129 (18.19%) Data Science
16 123 (17.35%) Data Management
17 115 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 114 (16.08%) Decision-Making
19 100 (14.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 445 (62.76%) SQL
2 316 (44.57%) Python
3 63 (8.89%) Java
4 38 (5.36%) Scala
5 33 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (4.51%) PowerShell
7 24 (3.39%) C#
8 20 (2.82%) T-SQL
9 15 (2.12%) R
10 7 (0.99%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.85%) VBA
12 4 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
12 4 (0.56%) Bash
12 4 (0.56%) Fortran
12 4 (0.56%) Go
13 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.42%) Swift
14 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 65 (9.17%) Degree
2 35 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (2.54%) Azure Certification
4 18 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 13 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.69%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.13%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.71%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.56%) CITP
13 3 (0.42%) MCSE
13 3 (0.42%) PMP
14 2 (0.28%) HNC
14 2 (0.28%) HND
14 2 (0.28%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (22.85%) Data Quality
2 70 (9.87%) Accessibility
3 53 (7.48%) GDPR
4 32 (4.51%) QA
5 13 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.56%) NIST
7 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.56%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) GAAP
9 1 (0.14%) IASME
9 1 (0.14%) IFRS
9 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PERC
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (4.51%) Docker
2 9 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.27%) HDFS
3 2 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (4.37%) Terraform
2 19 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.28%) Control-M
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 178 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 155 (21.86%) Databricks
3 46 (6.49%) Oracle
4 36 (5.08%) Informatica
5 29 (4.09%) SAP
5 29 (4.09%) Talend
6 27 (3.81%) Google
7 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.41%) Dataiku
8 10 (1.41%) IBM
9 9 (1.27%) Foundry
9 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.27%) Palantir
10 8 (1.13%) Ariba
10 8 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (1.13%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.13%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.85%) Dell
11 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.71%) Netezza