Star Schema Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Star Schema
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Star Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 122 132
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +63
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 9 3 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 0.14% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 0.68% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £563 - £492
25th Percentile £563 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £500 £619
Median % change year-on-year +15.75% -19.19% +21.32%
75th Percentile £596 £550 £784
90th Percentile £598 £565 £788
Central London median daily rate £579 £500 £619
% change year-on-year +15.75% -19.19% +21.32%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 363 441 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.87% 20.96% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 307 359
10th Percentile £363 £410 £375
25th Percentile £424 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -6.62% -1.83% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Star Schema job vacancy trend in the City of London

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Star Schema.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Star Schema

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) Dagster
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Prefect
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Power Query
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (55.56%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (55.56%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (55.56%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Finance Business Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Business Finance Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Data Analysis
3 5 (55.56%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (55.56%) Backlog Management
3 5 (55.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (55.56%) Backlog Refinement
3 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (55.56%) Data Reconciliation
3 5 (55.56%) Epics
3 5 (55.56%) Financial Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) Impact Assessments
3 5 (55.56%) Product Backlog
3 5 (55.56%) Project Governance
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Sprint Review
3 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (55.56%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Hyperion
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Tagetik