Star Schema Contract Job Trends in London

Star Schema
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Star Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 330 364
Rank change year-on-year -65 +34 +23
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 59 39 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.66% 1.37% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 24 14
10th Percentile £363 £452 £404
25th Percentile £450 £519 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £525
90th Percentile £713 £734 £674
England median daily rate £494 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.23% +10.00% -2.44%

All Database & BI Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,564 2,840 3,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.61% 21.19% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,462 1,963 2,585
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £430 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £510 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -0.44% -6.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 22
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -12.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £87.50 £78.38
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Star Schema job vacancy trend in London

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Star Schema
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Star Schema in London

Star Schema
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Star Schema

Star Schema
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Central London -24 13 £500 - 6
West London - 1 £650 -
Star Schema
England

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (13.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.78%) SAS
3 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (76.27%) Power Platform
2 33 (55.93%) Azure
3 16 (27.12%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (27.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (16.95%) dbt
6 7 (11.86%) AWS
7 6 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (8.47%) GitHub
8 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (8.47%) Power Automate
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Stack
9 4 (6.78%) PowerApps
9 4 (6.78%) SaaS
9 4 (6.78%) Serverless
9 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
10 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (76.27%) Power BI
2 30 (50.85%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (35.59%) Power Query
4 14 (23.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (18.64%) Data Lake
6 10 (16.95%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
8 8 (13.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (11.86%) Data Vault
9 7 (11.86%) Metadata
10 6 (10.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (6.78%) Data Hub
11 4 (6.78%) Delta Lake
11 4 (6.78%) PowerCenter
11 4 (6.78%) Spark SQL
12 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (5.08%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (5.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) GitLab
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.69%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.69%) Liquibase
3 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (32.20%) Finance
2 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (11.86%) Retail
6 5 (8.47%) Publishing
7 3 (5.08%) Banking
8 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.39%) Front Office
9 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Local Government
9 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.69%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Developer
2 21 (35.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 20 (33.90%) Power BI Developer
4 16 (27.12%) Data Engineer
5 13 (22.03%) Architect
6 12 (20.34%) Senior
7 8 (13.56%) Data Architect
7 8 (13.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 4 (6.78%) Lead
9 4 (6.78%) Power BI Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Analyst
10 3 (5.08%) Data Modeller
10 3 (5.08%) Informatica Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 2 (3.39%) Lead Architect
11 2 (3.39%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) PySpark
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Apache Avro
3 2 (3.39%) Great Expectations
3 2 (3.39%) Kafka
3 2 (3.39%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (1.69%) .NET
4 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.69%) Jinja
4 1 (1.69%) REST
4 1 (1.69%) Web Services
4 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Data Structures
1 4 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.39%) PACS
2 2 (3.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) EPoS
3 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.69%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
1 4 (6.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (84.75%) Data Modelling
2 49 (83.05%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (50.85%) Analytics
4 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
5 22 (37.29%) Data Governance
6 21 (35.59%) Dimensional Modelling
6 21 (35.59%) ETL
7 19 (32.20%) DevOps
8 17 (28.81%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (28.81%) Decision-Making
9 16 (27.12%) Lakehouse
10 15 (25.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (23.73%) Data Engineering
12 13 (22.03%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (20.34%) Data Ingestion
14 11 (18.64%) Data Transformation
14 11 (18.64%) Migration
15 9 (15.25%) Data Architecture
15 9 (15.25%) Performance Tuning
15 9 (15.25%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 52 (88.14%) SQL
2 33 (55.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 22 (37.29%) Python
4 6 (10.17%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.39%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) LookML
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (37.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.69%) PMO
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Control-M
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.69%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 30 (50.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.34%) Databricks
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle
4 4 (6.78%) Informatica
5 2 (3.39%) Confluent
6 1 (1.69%) Braze
6 1 (1.69%) HP
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Sybase