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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 115 124
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +46
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.23% 0.091%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.26% 1.02% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.52%
75th Percentile £575 - £775
90th Percentile £589 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +58.73%

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 396 391 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.23% 22.25% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 250 328
10th Percentile £338 £405 £403
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £702
90th Percentile £749 £763 £791
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.37% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £93.47 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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 2 May 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 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) dbt
4 2 (40.00%) Fivetran
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) Prefect
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
5 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Power Query
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) Tableau
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) RBAC
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SnowPro
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft