The first table below looks at the demand for Star Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 8 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.857% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.448% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £330 - -
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
232 290 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.87% 22.45% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 164 117
Average daily rate £300 £290 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £405 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 19
Average hourly rate £40.50 £33.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% +46.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £190.00 £43.50 £34.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Star Schema
North West

Star Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Star Schema Daily Rate Trend

Star Schema
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
1 7 (77.78%) OLAP
1 7 (77.78%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2008
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 7 (77.78%) Kimball Methodology
2 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
3 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 4 (44.44%) Migration
4 4 (44.44%) Replication
4 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
4 4 (44.44%) DTS
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Sage
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (44.44%) Data Transformation
4 4 (44.44%) ERD
4 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
5 3 (33.33%) MDX
5 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) ETL
6 2 (22.22%) NHS
6 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
7 1 (11.11%) Degree

Star Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (33.33%) MDX
2 1 (11.11%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
1 7 (77.78%) OLAP
1 7 (77.78%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server 2008
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 4 (44.44%) DTS
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (11.11%) QlikView
4 1 (11.11%) PerformancePoint
4 1 (11.11%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Migration Specialist
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
3 1 (11.11%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Replication
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
3 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Kimball Methodology
2 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Data Transformation
3 4 (44.44%) ERD
3 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
6 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Business Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) UML
6 1 (11.11%) Information Management
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) Sage
2 1 (11.11%) IBM