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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 113 101
Rank change year-on-year -11 -12 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Warehouse 787 1,265 2,267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 2.26% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.78% 12.78% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 935 1,648
10th Percentile £400 £381 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 20
10th Percentile - £33.00 £20.92
25th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £32.38
Median hourly rate £49.50 £64.00 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.66% +63.23% +50.80%
75th Percentile £52.25 £79.19 £61.00
90th Percentile £54.09 £81.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.49 £49.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year -50.81% +42.24% +52.91%

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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -19 698 £550 - 431
London -3 453 £550 -4.35% 210
Work from Home +4 323 £525 -4.55% 223
UK excluding London -40 247 £500 -4.76% 229
North of England +23 92 £500 -3.38% 88
North West +23 68 £500 - 58
South East -36 53 £500 -8.05% 43
Midlands -34 38 £525 -1.18% 36
South West -3 27 £550 +10.00% 25
West Midlands -20 27 £525 -2.33% 25
Scotland +24 25 £475 -5.00% 16
Yorkshire +14 21 £475 -13.64% 23
East of England -10 16 £500 +11.11% 18
East Midlands -2 11 £550 +37.50% 11
North East +16 7 £650 +8.33% 7
Wales +14 3 £325 -35.00% 5

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 63 (8.01%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (4.19%) Apache
4 11 (1.40%) SAS
5 8 (1.02%) Confluence
5 8 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 18 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.64%) MIS ActiveH
3 5 (0.64%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.38%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 279 (35.45%) Azure
2 220 (27.95%) Power Platform
3 171 (21.73%) AWS
4 92 (11.69%) GCP
4 92 (11.69%) Snowflake
5 76 (9.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 54 (6.86%) Serverless
7 52 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 47 (5.97%) dbt
9 46 (5.84%) Amazon S3
10 38 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (4.70%) GitHub
12 31 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (3.18%) Amazon EMR
14 23 (2.92%) Azure Stack
15 22 (2.80%) PowerApps
16 19 (2.41%) Power Automate
17 17 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
19 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.76%) Internet
2 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (26.56%) Power BI
2 158 (20.08%) Data Lake
3 143 (18.17%) SQL Server
4 108 (13.72%) Big Data
5 79 (10.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 64 (8.13%) Tableau
7 63 (8.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 56 (7.12%) Relational Database
9 52 (6.61%) Metadata
10 49 (6.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 44 (5.59%) BigQuery
12 40 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
13 38 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
14 37 (4.70%) NoSQL
15 32 (4.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 30 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (3.81%) Hadoop
17 25 (3.18%) MySQL
17 25 (3.18%) Star Schema
18 21 (2.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 34 (4.32%) JIRA
2 32 (4.07%) Git
3 28 (3.56%) ERwin
4 13 (1.65%) ER Studio
5 12 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.27%) GitLab
7 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.76%) Selenium
8 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (0.64%) kappa
10 4 (0.51%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.38%) Appium
11 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.38%) Deequ
11 3 (0.38%) Postman
11 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.25%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.25%) TestRail
12 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 177 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 139 (17.66%) Finance
3 103 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 38 (4.83%) Banking
6 19 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.41%) Retail
7 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (1.40%) Marketing
9 8 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.76%) Back Office
11 6 (0.76%) Legal
12 5 (0.64%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.51%) Law
13 4 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 203 (25.79%) Data Engineer
2 158 (20.08%) Architect
3 130 (16.52%) Data Architect
4 126 (16.01%) Developer
5 91 (11.56%) Analyst
6 68 (8.64%) Senior
7 51 (6.48%) Data Analyst
8 38 (4.83%) Data Modeller
9 35 (4.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 32 (4.07%) Lead
10 32 (4.07%) Project Manager
11 31 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
12 28 (3.56%) Business Analyst
13 27 (3.43%) Azure Data Engineer
14 25 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 20 (2.54%) Consultant
18 18 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.86%) PySpark
2 42 (5.34%) JSON
3 38 (4.83%) XML
4 35 (4.45%) Kafka
5 24 (3.05%) REST
6 22 (2.80%) .NET
7 14 (1.78%) Apache Avro
8 12 (1.52%) Web Services
9 9 (1.14%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.14%) YAML
10 7 (0.89%) Middleware
10 7 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.76%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.76%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.76%) JSON Schema
11 6 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (0.64%) ASP.NET
12 5 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.64%) Node.js
12 5 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.70%) Data Structures
2 31 (3.94%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.67%) NHS
5 18 (2.29%) Reference Data
5 18 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (1.27%) Hedge funds
8 9 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
8 9 (1.14%) Freedom of Information Act
8 9 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.14%) Reinsurance
9 7 (0.89%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.76%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.65%) Linux
2 7 (0.89%) Unix
3 6 (0.76%) CentOS
3 6 (0.76%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (48.16%) Data Modelling
2 354 (44.98%) ETL
3 257 (32.66%) Business Intelligence
4 246 (31.26%) Analytics
5 169 (21.47%) Agile
6 144 (18.30%) Data Pipeline
7 143 (18.17%) Migration
8 125 (15.88%) Data Integration
9 124 (15.76%) Data Governance
10 121 (15.37%) Data Engineering
10 121 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (13.85%) DevOps
12 100 (12.71%) Visualisation
13 94 (11.94%) Data Migration
14 92 (11.69%) Data Analysis
15 85 (10.80%) Data Management
16 84 (10.67%) Data Architecture
17 79 (10.04%) Data Science
18 78 (9.91%) CI/CD
19 64 (8.13%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 426 (54.13%) SQL
2 217 (27.57%) Python
3 64 (8.13%) Java
4 54 (6.86%) T-SQL
5 41 (5.21%) C#
6 36 (4.57%) Scala
7 29 (3.68%) PL/SQL
8 20 (2.54%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (1.65%) R
11 11 (1.40%) JavaScript
12 10 (1.27%) Go
13 9 (1.14%) Bash
13 9 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.14%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.89%) XPath
14 7 (0.89%) XQuery
15 6 (0.76%) VB
16 4 (0.51%) PHP
16 4 (0.51%) X++
Qualifications
1 69 (8.77%) Degree
1 69 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.38%) MCITP
9 3 (0.38%) MCTS
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.25%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.25%) PhD
10 2 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (20.84%) Data Quality
2 15 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.65%) GDPR
4 10 (1.27%) QA
5 8 (1.02%) SLA
6 5 (0.64%) IFRS
6 5 (0.64%) IFRS 17
6 5 (0.64%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.25%) GxP
9 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.13%) CDISC
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) PMO
9 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (2.80%) Docker
2 6 (0.76%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (5.21%) Terraform
2 19 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.14%) Ansible
4 7 (0.89%) 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 (0.13%) Ganglia
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 151 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 93 (11.82%) Databricks
3 85 (10.80%) Oracle
4 42 (5.34%) Google
5 34 (4.32%) SAP
6 24 (3.05%) Informatica
7 21 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.65%) AVEVA
9 12 (1.52%) Foundry
9 12 (1.52%) Palantir
10 9 (1.14%) Sparx
11 8 (1.02%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.02%) Remedy
12 7 (0.89%) Nexthink
13 6 (0.76%) Talend
14 5 (0.64%) Autodesk
14 5 (0.64%) NEC
14 5 (0.64%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.64%) Snow
15 4 (0.51%) Embarcadero