Data Warehouse Contracts

Data Warehousing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Warehouse skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 108 93
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 804 1,389 2,392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 2.33% 2.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.01% 12.91% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 1,012 1,771
10th Percentile £400 £375 £381
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% +0.20% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 13
10th Percentile £31.25 £34.13 £21.90
25th Percentile £31.56 £35.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £49.79 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +10.63% +66.67%
75th Percentile £54.03 £79.19 £64.75
90th Percentile £63.70 £80.25 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.75 £39.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.13% +13.57% +34.62%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Warehouse is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,303 10,763 17,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 18.03% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,193 7,663 12,744
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.78% +9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 183 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%
75th Percentile £58.55 £70.88 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse.

Daily rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Warehouse.

Hourly rate trend for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Warehouse in the UK

Data Warehouse
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Warehouse within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -17 711 £550 - 383
London -7 471 £575 - 217
Work from Home -9 328 £525 -4.55% 186
UK excluding London -41 239 £500 -0.20% 168
North of England +23 81 £500 -4.76% 45
North West +23 61 £500 - 29
Midlands -20 49 £525 -2.33% 36
South East -35 46 £500 -4.76% 34
West Midlands -1 36 £525 -2.33% 25
South West -6 29 £450 -11.11% 18
Scotland +15 23 £475 -4.04% 6
Yorkshire +17 17 £488 -11.36% 13
East of England -12 15 £475 +53.23% 20
East Midlands +10 13 £513 +28.13% 11
North East +24 7 £650 +8.33% 4
Wales +6 3 £325 -31.58% 10

Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (5.72%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.24%) Apache
4 10 (1.24%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.12%) SAS
6 8 (1.00%) Confluence
7 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.12%) CMS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Luigi
8 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.50%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.25%) HFM
6 2 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.12%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
7 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 287 (35.70%) Azure
2 229 (28.48%) Power Platform
3 173 (21.52%) AWS
4 101 (12.56%) GCP
5 91 (11.32%) Snowflake
6 83 (10.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 56 (6.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 54 (6.72%) Serverless
9 37 (4.60%) Amazon S3
10 36 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (3.98%) GitHub
13 31 (3.86%) dbt
14 23 (2.86%) Azure Stack
14 23 (2.86%) Power Automate
14 23 (2.86%) PowerApps
15 20 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
16 18 (2.24%) Amazon EMR
16 18 (2.24%) OCI
17 14 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.87%) Internet
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.12%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (26.99%) Power BI
2 163 (20.27%) Data Lake
3 139 (17.29%) SQL Server
4 101 (12.56%) Big Data
5 83 (10.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 66 (8.21%) Tableau
7 61 (7.59%) Relational Database
8 54 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (5.85%) BigQuery
10 43 (5.35%) Metadata
11 42 (5.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 39 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (4.48%) NoSQL
14 31 (3.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 31 (3.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 29 (3.61%) Hadoop
16 28 (3.48%) Star Schema
17 24 (2.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 24 (2.99%) MySQL
18 23 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 33 (4.10%) ERwin
2 31 (3.86%) JIRA
3 26 (3.23%) Git
4 18 (2.24%) ER Studio
5 11 (1.37%) GitLab
6 8 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (0.87%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.75%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (0.62%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.62%) kappa
9 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.37%) Deequ
11 3 (0.37%) Selenium
12 2 (0.25%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.12%) Bugzilla
13 1 (0.12%) JMeter
General
1 194 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 137 (17.04%) Finance
3 103 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 37 (4.60%) Banking
6 24 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (1.99%) Retail
8 13 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.37%) Marketing
11 9 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.87%) Legal
13 6 (0.75%) Back Office
13 6 (0.75%) Publishing
14 5 (0.62%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.50%) Automotive
15 4 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 213 (26.49%) Data Engineer
2 172 (21.39%) Architect
3 133 (16.54%) Data Architect
4 115 (14.30%) Developer
5 89 (11.07%) Analyst
6 66 (8.21%) Senior
7 42 (5.22%) Data Analyst
8 37 (4.60%) Business Analyst
8 37 (4.60%) Project Manager
9 36 (4.48%) Data Modeller
10 35 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 32 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 31 (3.86%) Lead
13 30 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (3.36%) Azure Data Engineer
14 27 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 23 (2.86%) Consultant
17 22 (2.74%) AWS Data Engineer
18 19 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.09%) PySpark
2 46 (5.72%) JSON
3 38 (4.73%) XML
4 29 (3.61%) Kafka
5 24 (2.99%) REST
6 23 (2.86%) .NET
7 12 (1.49%) Apache Avro
8 10 (1.24%) Web Services
9 9 (1.12%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.00%) Middleware
10 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.87%) ODBC
12 6 (0.75%) AWS CDK
12 6 (0.75%) JSON Schema
13 5 (0.62%) .NET Framework
14 4 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
14 4 (0.50%) Node.js
14 4 (0.50%) OpenID
14 4 (0.50%) PostGIS
14 4 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.48%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.61%) NHS
5 18 (2.24%) Reference Data
6 17 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (1.12%) Freedom of Information
9 9 (1.12%) Freedom of Information Act
10 8 (1.00%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.87%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.62%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.62%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.62%) Replication
13 5 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.37%) Linux
2 6 (0.75%) Unix
3 5 (0.62%) CentOS
3 5 (0.62%) Windows
4 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (49.88%) Data Modelling
2 363 (45.15%) ETL
3 286 (35.57%) Business Intelligence
4 245 (30.47%) Analytics
5 179 (22.26%) Agile
6 146 (18.16%) Migration
7 142 (17.66%) Data Integration
8 135 (16.79%) Data Governance
9 127 (15.80%) Data Pipeline
10 126 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (13.93%) Data Engineering
12 106 (13.18%) DevOps
13 102 (12.69%) Visualisation
14 97 (12.06%) Data Migration
15 89 (11.07%) Data Analysis
16 82 (10.20%) Data Architecture
17 81 (10.07%) Data Management
18 74 (9.20%) Data Science
19 73 (9.08%) Scrum
20 71 (8.83%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 433 (53.86%) SQL
2 208 (25.87%) Python
3 65 (8.08%) Java
4 56 (6.97%) T-SQL
5 41 (5.10%) C#
6 31 (3.86%) PL/SQL
6 31 (3.86%) Scala
7 20 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.49%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.37%) R
11 9 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.87%) XPath
12 7 (0.87%) XQuery
13 6 (0.75%) Bash
13 6 (0.75%) VB
14 5 (0.62%) Go
14 5 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.62%) X++
15 4 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 64 (7.96%) Degree
3 54 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.37%) MCITP
9 3 (0.37%) MCTS
10 2 (0.25%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.12%) PhD
11 1 (0.12%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (20.40%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.62%) GDPR
4 10 (1.24%) QA
4 10 (1.24%) SLA
5 8 (1.00%) IFRS
6 7 (0.87%) IFRS 17
7 5 (0.62%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.25%) GxP
9 2 (0.25%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.25%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) CDISC
10 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (2.49%) Docker
2 6 (0.75%) HDFS
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (4.10%) Terraform
2 16 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.87%) Ansible
4 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.25%) Ambari
5 2 (0.25%) Control-M
5 2 (0.25%) Grafana
5 2 (0.25%) Oozie
6 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 155 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.31%) Oracle
3 98 (12.19%) Databricks
4 46 (5.72%) Google
5 36 (4.48%) Informatica
6 35 (4.35%) SAP
7 14 (1.74%) Sparx
8 13 (1.62%) AVEVA
8 13 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.49%) Foundry
9 12 (1.49%) Palantir
10 10 (1.24%) Talend
11 7 (0.87%) Remedy
12 5 (0.62%) Autodesk
12 5 (0.62%) Brio
13 4 (0.50%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.50%) Embarcadero
13 4 (0.50%) NEC
13 4 (0.50%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.37%) Cognos