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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 195 165
Rank change year-on-year -88 -30 -45
Permanent jobs citing Data Warehouse 720 844 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.70% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.04% 11.12% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 513 450 873
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £81,450
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 8,956 7,590 13,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.45% 15.24% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,020 4,827 8,596
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Top 17 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 12 August 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 -78 676 £65,000 -3.70% 729
UK excluding London -118 364 £57,500 -4.17% 339
London -57 317 £82,500 +10.00% 468
Work from Home -109 196 £72,500 +11.54% 328
North of England +5 157 £57,500 -4.17% 97
Yorkshire -1 68 £62,500 +4.17% 29
North West -7 64 £56,100 -6.50% 62
South East -98 64 £67,500 +3.85% 88
Midlands -56 51 £51,356 -20.99% 53
South West -82 42 £58,750 -20.34% 36
West Midlands -48 35 £51,356 -14.41% 40
East of England -24 33 £62,500 +25.00% 22
North East -35 25 £48,000 +1.05% 7
East Midlands -31 16 £38,050 -43.63% 13
Scotland -5 14 £73,750 +73.53% 22
Northern Ireland -68 2 - - 11
Wales -55 1 - - 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 76 (10.56%) Apache Spark
2 70 (9.72%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (6.25%) Apache
4 12 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.53%) SAS
6 9 (1.25%) Confluence
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Luigi
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 31 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.69%) Carpe Diem
2 5 (0.69%) Elite 3E
2 5 (0.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.28%) Misys Opics
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 370 (51.39%) Azure
2 247 (34.31%) Power Platform
3 219 (30.42%) AWS
4 151 (20.97%) Snowflake
5 133 (18.47%) GCP
6 105 (14.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 94 (13.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 88 (12.22%) dbt
9 55 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
10 53 (7.36%) Amazon S3
11 45 (6.25%) Serverless
12 30 (4.17%) SaaS
13 25 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (3.47%) GitHub
13 25 (3.47%) PowerApps
14 24 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 23 (3.19%) Power Automate
16 22 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) Broadband
2 4 (0.56%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.56%) NAS
3 2 (0.28%) 4G
3 2 (0.28%) 5G
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) Internet
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (32.50%) Power BI
2 195 (27.08%) Data Lake
3 107 (14.86%) SQL Server
4 97 (13.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 80 (11.11%) Tableau
6 78 (10.83%) Metadata
7 75 (10.42%) BigQuery
8 56 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (6.94%) Star Schema
10 48 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 44 (6.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 43 (5.97%) Big Data
13 40 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 39 (5.42%) Looker
15 36 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (3.75%) Power Query
17 26 (3.61%) MySQL
18 24 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 24 (3.33%) Delta Lake
18 24 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 51 (7.08%) Git
2 29 (4.03%) JIRA
3 28 (3.89%) MLflow
4 16 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.39%) GitLab
6 9 (1.25%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.97%) Selenium
8 6 (0.83%) Postman
9 5 (0.69%) NUnit
10 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.42%) JMeter
11 3 (0.42%) JUnit
11 3 (0.42%) Snyk
11 3 (0.42%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 195 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
2 185 (25.69%) Social Skills
3 181 (25.14%) Finance
4 40 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.31%) Banking
6 22 (3.06%) Marketing
7 20 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.78%) Retail
8 19 (2.64%) Law
9 16 (2.22%) Legal
9 16 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.81%) Advertising
11 12 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.39%) Local Government
14 9 (1.25%) Military
15 7 (0.97%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.97%) Fire and Rescue
15 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 256 (35.56%) Data Engineer
2 147 (20.42%) Senior
3 97 (13.47%) Lead
4 92 (12.78%) Architect
5 77 (10.69%) Developer
6 76 (10.56%) Data Architect
7 68 (9.44%) Analyst
8 53 (7.36%) Senior Data Engineer
9 37 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
9 37 (5.14%) Data Analyst
10 31 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 31 (4.31%) Lead Data Engineer
11 24 (3.33%) Data Management Specialist
11 24 (3.33%) Product Specialist
12 23 (3.19%) Senior Developer
12 23 (3.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 23 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
13 22 (3.06%) Consultant
14 21 (2.92%) Azure Data Engineer
15 20 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.75%) Kafka
2 55 (7.64%) PySpark
3 30 (4.17%) scikit-learn
4 25 (3.47%) TensorFlow
5 24 (3.33%) LangChain
5 24 (3.33%) PyTorch
5 24 (3.33%) REST
6 23 (3.19%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (3.19%) pgvector
7 18 (2.50%) JSON
7 18 (2.50%) Pandas
8 16 (2.22%) .NET
9 11 (1.53%) Node.js
9 11 (1.53%) React
10 9 (1.25%) ARM Templates
10 9 (1.25%) XML
11 8 (1.11%) NumPy
11 8 (1.11%) RESTful
12 7 (0.97%) ASP.NET
12 7 (0.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.89%) Onboarding
2 28 (3.89%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 26 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (3.61%) Clustering
5 25 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
7 19 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.94%) Replication
10 13 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.53%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.11%) Data Fabric
14 7 (0.97%) Reference Data
15 6 (0.83%) Blog
15 6 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.53%) Linux
2 8 (1.11%) Windows
3 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (62.50%) Analytics
2 360 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 337 (46.81%) Business Intelligence
4 326 (45.28%) ETL
5 292 (40.56%) Data Engineering
6 267 (37.08%) Data Pipeline
7 258 (35.83%) AI
8 223 (30.97%) Data Governance
9 210 (29.17%) Decision-Making
10 153 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
11 149 (20.69%) Data Architecture
12 147 (20.42%) Agile
13 143 (19.86%) CI/CD
14 142 (19.72%) Data Science
15 139 (19.31%) Machine Learning
16 113 (15.69%) Data Management
17 108 (15.00%) Use Case
18 107 (14.86%) DevOps
19 104 (14.44%) Data Integration
20 99 (13.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 500 (69.44%) SQL
2 353 (49.03%) Python
3 40 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (4.17%) C#
5 29 (4.03%) R
6 25 (3.47%) Scala
7 24 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.19%) Java
9 18 (2.50%) T-SQL
10 17 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.83%) Julia
12 6 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.69%) Bash
13 5 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) Bicep
14 4 (0.56%) Go
15 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.28%) VBScript
16 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 116 (16.11%) Degree
2 72 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 47 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.69%) Tableau Certification
12 4 (0.56%) ACCA
12 4 (0.56%) CIMA
12 4 (0.56%) OCP
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.42%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.42%) ISEB
13 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (34.58%) Data Quality
2 88 (12.22%) GDPR
3 25 (3.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 17 (2.36%) QA
5 16 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.83%) SLA
7 5 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.69%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 3 (0.42%) IFRS
9 3 (0.42%) PMO
9 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.14%) PERC
System Software
1 38 (5.28%) Docker
2 8 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (6.39%) Terraform
2 30 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.25%) Ansible
4 4 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.42%) Control-M
5 3 (0.42%) Grafana
Vendors
1 228 (31.67%) Databricks
2 187 (25.97%) Microsoft
3 48 (6.67%) Dell
4 44 (6.11%) Informatica
5 39 (5.42%) Google
6 32 (4.44%) Oracle
7 28 (3.89%) SAP
8 26 (3.61%) Teradata
9 25 (3.47%) Denodo
10 23 (3.19%) Cloudera
11 14 (1.94%) Talend
12 12 (1.67%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.11%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.83%) Cognos
15 5 (0.69%) IBM
15 5 (0.69%) Netezza
16 4 (0.56%) Red Hat
16 4 (0.56%) Remedy
16 4 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 4 (0.56%) Workday