Star Schema Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Star Schema
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Star Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.054% - 0.073%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.29% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £370 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £375
75th Percentile £410 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £531 £498
% change year-on-year -10.59% +6.78% -2.45%

All Database & BI Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 678 326 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.18% 16.39% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 212 284
10th Percentile £350 £356 £291
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +8.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £563 £569 £586
90th Percentile £645 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £16.14 £13.26
25th Percentile £13.24 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.10 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.55% +29.29% -47.13%
75th Percentile £58.75 £19.00 £23.23
90th Percentile £83.25 £21.00 £33.98
England median hourly rate £50.00 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +30.53% -9.87% -25.26%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Star Schema job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Star Schema

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Star Schema

Star Schema
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 March 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
West Midlands - 2 £390 - 2
Star Schema
England

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx
1 1 (50.00%) Virgin Media