The first table below looks at the demand for Star Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Star Schema over the 3 months to 22 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 Edinburgh 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Star Schema
Rank 53 57 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.242% 0.091% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.379% 0.709% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
145 141 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.55% 12.77% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 66 71
Average daily rate £375 £338 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% +0.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £228 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £506 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% +175.86%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
Star Schema
Scotland

Star Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Star Schema Daily Rate Trend

Star Schema
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) SAS
4 2 (33.33%) Informatica
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (33.33%) Teradata
5 1 (16.67%) ERwin
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (16.67%) IBM
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) XSD
5 1 (16.67%) UML
5 1 (16.67%) QlikView
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Solvency II
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management

Star Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (16.67%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) QlikView
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) MI Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Teradata
2 1 (16.67%) IBM