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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 150 118
Rank change year-on-year -51 -32 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 708 1,050 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.92% 2.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.73% 10.79% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 400 548 1,086
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 £60,866
Median % change year-on-year - +10.90% -6.36%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £59,125 £54,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +9.49% -1.82%

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 6,598 9,735 10,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.14% 17.78% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,195 5,473 8,538
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,625 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 £53,400 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -1.11% -1.82%

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 3 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 3 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 -58 622 £67,500 -0.74% 173
UK excluding London -35 348 £62,500 +5.71% 125
London -1 324 £83,000 +3.75% 88
Work from Home -4 295 £64,350 -8.07% 98
South East -74 93 £63,500 +5.83% 48
North of England -8 80 £60,000 +20.00% 23
Midlands -3 69 £65,000 - 23
West Midlands +17 55 £63,500 +1.60% 18
Scotland +13 55 £102,500 +78.26% 5
North West +15 45 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Yorkshire -18 31 £60,000 +33.33% 8
East of England +28 28 £50,000 - 11
South West -9 20 £64,350 -6.40% 10
East Midlands -18 14 £67,500 +3.85% 5
North East +5 4 £67,500 +3.45% 3
Wales -3 3 £37,500 -38.90% 5

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 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.95%) Apache
3 27 (3.81%) 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 21 (2.97%) 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 20 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.13%) Markit EDM
3 8 (1.13%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 427 (60.31%) Azure
2 200 (28.25%) Power Platform
3 194 (27.40%) AWS
4 168 (23.73%) Snowflake
5 110 (15.54%) GCP
6 97 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 94 (13.28%) dbt
8 80 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (10.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 55 (7.77%) SaaS
11 45 (6.36%) Serverless
12 44 (6.21%) GitHub
13 42 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (5.51%) Amazon S3
15 24 (3.39%) Fivetran
16 19 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
17 18 (2.54%) Amazon EMR
17 18 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
18 16 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) Broadband
1 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (26.55%) Power BI
2 147 (20.76%) Data Lake
3 98 (13.84%) SQL Server
4 68 (9.60%) Metadata
4 68 (9.60%) Tableau
5 64 (9.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 53 (7.49%) Big Data
7 46 (6.50%) NoSQL
8 45 (6.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 44 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (5.79%) Relational Database
11 39 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
12 37 (5.23%) MySQL
13 36 (5.08%) Hadoop
14 35 (4.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 34 (4.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 32 (4.52%) Snowflake Schema
17 28 (3.95%) Data Mining
17 28 (3.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 27 (3.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 49 (6.92%) JIRA
2 42 (5.93%) Git
3 9 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.13%) MLflow
5 7 (0.99%) ERwin
5 7 (0.99%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.71%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.71%) git-flow
8 4 (0.56%) GitLab
9 3 (0.42%) JMeter
9 3 (0.42%) Selenium
10 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.28%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.28%) Subversion
10 2 (0.28%) TestRail
11 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 247 (34.89%) Social Skills
2 231 (32.63%) Finance
3 171 (24.15%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.86%) Law
5 61 (8.62%) Retail
6 58 (8.19%) Marketing
7 33 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 30 (4.24%) Banking
9 28 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (3.25%) Legal
11 22 (3.11%) Games
12 17 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.84%) Local Government
14 12 (1.69%) Automotive
14 12 (1.69%) Front Office
15 11 (1.55%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.85%) Advertising
17 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (32.63%) Data Engineer
2 209 (29.52%) Senior
3 139 (19.63%) Architect
4 120 (16.95%) Data Architect
5 104 (14.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 67 (9.46%) Developer
7 64 (9.04%) Lead
8 59 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 56 (7.91%) Analyst
10 50 (7.06%) Azure Data Engineer
11 40 (5.65%) Consultant
12 38 (5.37%) Senior Architect
13 28 (3.95%) Senior Data Architect
14 25 (3.53%) Azure Architect
15 23 (3.25%) Data Consultant
16 22 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (3.11%) Azure Data Architect
17 20 (2.82%) Data Warehouse Developer
17 20 (2.82%) Senior Consultant
18 19 (2.68%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.91%) Kafka
2 39 (5.51%) PySpark
3 13 (1.84%) Middleware
3 13 (1.84%) Pandas
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 54 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 53 (7.49%) Management Information System
3 47 (6.64%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (3.25%) 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 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.98%) NHS
11 12 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.55%) Hedge funds
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%) PMI
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
1 418 (59.04%) Data Modelling
2 364 (51.41%) ETL
3 318 (44.92%) Analytics
4 286 (40.40%) Data Engineering
5 269 (37.99%) Business Intelligence
6 226 (31.92%) Data Pipeline
7 203 (28.67%) Data Governance
8 202 (28.53%) Agile
9 176 (24.86%) CI/CD
10 167 (23.59%) AI
10 167 (23.59%) Data Integration
11 159 (22.46%) DevOps
12 154 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
13 152 (21.47%) Data Architecture
14 147 (20.76%) Mentoring
15 129 (18.22%) Data Science
16 122 (17.23%) Data Management
17 116 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 114 (16.10%) Decision-Making
19 100 (14.12%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 443 (62.57%) SQL
2 315 (44.49%) Python
3 64 (9.04%) Java
4 38 (5.37%) Scala
5 33 (4.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (4.52%) 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 (9.18%) Degree
2 35 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (2.54%) Azure Certification
4 18 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 12 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 11 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.55%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.13%) SnowPro
9 5 (0.71%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.42%) CITP
11 3 (0.42%) MCSE
11 3 (0.42%) PMP
12 2 (0.28%) HNC
12 2 (0.28%) HND
12 2 (0.28%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (22.46%) Data Quality
2 70 (9.89%) Accessibility
3 53 (7.49%) GDPR
4 32 (4.52%) QA
5 13 (1.84%) 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%) CDISC
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) GAAP
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) IASME
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PERC
9 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (4.52%) 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 (4.38%) 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 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 155 (21.89%) Databricks
3 47 (6.64%) Oracle
4 37 (5.23%) Informatica
5 31 (4.38%) SAP
6 30 (4.24%) Talend
7 27 (3.81%) Google
8 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.41%) Dataiku
9 10 (1.41%) IBM
10 9 (1.27%) Ariba
10 9 (1.27%) Foundry
10 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.27%) Palantir
11 8 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.13%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.85%) Dell
12 6 (0.85%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.71%) Netezza