The first table below looks at the demand for Star Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 - - 96
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - 0.109%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - 0.446%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £425
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
508 521 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 27.34% 23.32% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 315 208
Average daily rate £300 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 17
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £12.60 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.60 £32.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Star Schema
England

Star Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) T-SQL
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (71.43%) Statistics
2 5 (71.43%) MDX
2 5 (71.43%) LINQ
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (71.43%) PowerPivot
2 5 (71.43%) Kimball Methodology
3 4 (57.14%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (57.14%) PerformancePoint
3 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
4 2 (28.57%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) QA
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE

Star Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 5 (71.43%) MDX
1 5 (71.43%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint 2010
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) PowerPivot
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) PerformancePoint
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (14.29%) ROLAP
4 1 (14.29%) MOLAP
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) ETL Designer
3 1 (14.29%) ETL Architect
3 1 (14.29%) OBIEE Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Statistics
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Kimball Methodology
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
1 5 (71.43%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle