The first table below looks at the demand for Star Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Star Schema over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Star Schema
Rank 194 213 234
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +21
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 9 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.141% 0.064% 0.112%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.655% 0.348% 0.606%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 9
Average daily rate £475 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £425 £465
10% offered a daily rate of more than £578 £425 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1374 1437 1816
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.54% 18.27% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1030 1034 1360
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 14
Average hourly rate £36.04 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.79% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.75 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Star Schema
London

Star Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Star Schema across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London Star Schema Jobs Demand Trend

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Star Schema across the City of London region.

City of London Star Schema Daily Rate Trend

Star Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Star Schema across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Star Schema Daily Rate Histogram

Star Schema
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Star Schema also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Star Schema.

1 16 (84.21%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (68.42%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (68.42%) Data Modelling
2 13 (68.42%) Oracle
3 10 (52.63%) SQL
4 9 (47.37%) Oracle 10g
5 8 (42.11%) Kimball Methodology
6 7 (36.84%) ETL
7 6 (31.58%) Informatica
7 6 (31.58%) Business Objects
7 6 (31.58%) Oracle BI EE
8 5 (26.32%) BusinessObjects XI
8 5 (26.32%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 5 (26.32%) Data Mart
8 5 (26.32%) PL/SQL
8 5 (26.32%) CRM
9 4 (21.05%) OLAP
9 4 (21.05%) Teradata
9 4 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
10 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (15.79%) QA
10 3 (15.79%) Oracle OLAP
10 3 (15.79%) QlikView
10 3 (15.79%) Essbase
10 3 (15.79%) Siebel
10 3 (15.79%) HTTP
10 3 (15.79%) CSS
10 3 (15.79%) HTML
10 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
11 2 (10.53%) MS Office

Star Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Star Schema also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Star Schema. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.79%) CSS
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) ASP
3 1 (5.263%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (47.37%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (31.58%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (26.32%) BusinessObjects XI
4 5 (26.32%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 5 (26.32%) Data Mart
5 4 (21.05%) OLAP
5 4 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (15.79%) Oracle OLAP
6 3 (15.79%) QlikView
6 3 (15.79%) Essbase
7 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
7 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (10.53%) Big Data
8 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (5.263%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (5.263%) Oracle OWB
8 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) ERwin
General
1 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
1 2 (10.53%) Banking
1 2 (10.53%) Music
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Business Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Business Objects Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle BI Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Hadoop Developer
6 1 (5.263%) OBIEE Developer
6 1 (5.263%) OBIEE Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Data Modeller
6 1 (5.263%) ETL Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Streaming Music
1 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
2 1 (5.263%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (68.42%) Data Modelling
3 8 (42.11%) Kimball Methodology
4 7 (36.84%) ETL
5 5 (26.32%) CRM
6 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (10.53%) Information Management
7 2 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Data Architecture
7 2 (10.53%) Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Data Transformation
8 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
8 1 (5.263%) Migration
8 1 (5.263%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.263%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Informatica
2 6 (31.58%) Business Objects
3 4 (21.05%) Teradata
4 3 (15.79%) Siebel
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.53%) Hyperion
5 2 (10.53%) Tableau
6 1 (5.263%) Cognos