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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 124 134
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +56
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 11 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.14% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 0.68% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - - £489
25th Percentile £563 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -14.89% +15.20%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £788
90th Percentile - £565 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +15.00% -14.89% +15.20%

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 361 438 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.37% 20.91% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 307 368
10th Percentile £384 £413 £377
25th Percentile £434 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.96%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £711
90th Percentile £778 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +4.35%
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 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) dbt
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) ChatGPT
3 1 (9.09%) Collibra
3 1 (9.09%) Dagster
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (9.09%) Prefect
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ER Studio
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 7 (63.64%) Influencing Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Organisational Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
2 7 (63.64%) Business Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Finance Business Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Senior
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
5 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Architect
6 1 (9.09%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Business Finance Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 1 (9.09%) Data Modeller
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Modeller
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) Data Analysis
4 7 (63.64%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (63.64%) Backlog Management
4 7 (63.64%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 7 (63.64%) Backlog Refinement
4 7 (63.64%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (63.64%) Data Reconciliation
4 7 (63.64%) Epics
4 7 (63.64%) Financial Modelling
4 7 (63.64%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (63.64%) Product Backlog
4 7 (63.64%) Project Governance
4 7 (63.64%) Scrum
4 7 (63.64%) Sprint Review
4 7 (63.64%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (63.64%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Hyperion
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Tagetik
2 1 (9.09%) Google