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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 121 126
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +29
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 9 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.37% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.23% 1.60% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.03%
75th Percentile £575 - £550
90th Percentile £775 - £565
Central London median daily rate £500 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -23.81%

All Database & BI 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 403 437 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.94% 23.23% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 292 330
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £455 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £665 £690 £723
90th Percentile £763 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £553 £564 £584
% change year-on-year -1.98% -3.44% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Star Schema in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Star Schema in the City of London

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
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (77.78%) Azure Data Factory
2 7 (77.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Azure Stack
4 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 2 (22.22%) AWS
5 2 (22.22%) dbt
5 2 (22.22%) Fivetran
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
5 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
5 2 (22.22%) Prefect
5 2 (22.22%) SaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (88.89%) Power BI
3 6 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
5 4 (44.44%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (33.33%) Power Query
6 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (22.22%) Data Hub
7 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
7 2 (22.22%) Metadata
7 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (22.22%) Tableau
8 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (11.11%) OLAP
8 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Analytics
1 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) ETL
4 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (55.56%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (44.44%) AI
5 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
5 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 3 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
6 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (33.33%) RBAC
6 3 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (44.44%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SnowPro
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Informatica
3 2 (22.22%) Databricks
3 2 (22.22%) Google