Star Schema Contract Job Trends in Central London

Star Schema
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Star Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 128 131
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +54
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.31% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.76% 0.72% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £413 - £645
25th Percentile £441 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.51%
75th Percentile £584 - £775
90th Percentile £593 - -
London median daily rate £500 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -10.11% -3.26% +12.75%

All Database & BI Skills
Central London

Star Schema falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 398 419 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.54% 20.84% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 275 367
10th Percentile £342 £402 £406
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £700
90th Percentile £746 £738 £834
London median daily rate £525 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -5.15% +0.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £29.63 -
25th Percentile £55.81 £30.46 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.31% -34.31% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £33.27 £50.25
90th Percentile - £34.11 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% -6.38%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Star Schema relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Star Schema job vacancy trend in Central London

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Star Schema.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Star Schema

Star Schema
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Star Schema in Central London over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Star Schema in Central London

Star Schema
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Star Schema within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
City of London -12 7 £550 - 4
Star Schema
London

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) dbt
3 3 (42.86%) Prefect
3 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Fivetran
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
5 1 (14.29%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
3 3 (42.86%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Power Query
4 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Tableau
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) MySQL
5 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (14.29%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Finance Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (57.14%) AI
3 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Data Transformation
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) RBAC
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SnowPro
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Informatica
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft