Star Schema Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Star Schema
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Star Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.097% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £307 - -
25th Percentile £309 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 - -
75th Percentile £320 - -
90th Percentile £321 - -
South East median daily rate £316 £525 -
% change year-on-year -39.81% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 320 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.69% 15.83% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 198 256
10th Percentile £325 £334 £338
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% +3.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £665 £681
South East median daily rate £462 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.70% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 13
10th Percentile - £34.67 £35.96
25th Percentile £23.50 £41.25 £56.16
Median hourly rate £24.00 £60.73 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.48% -2.84% +168.82%
75th Percentile £24.50 £64.73 £72.00
90th Percentile - £64.99 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £58.30 £51.06
% change year-on-year -31.39% +14.19% +128.64%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Star Schema job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Star Schema
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £316 -
Star Schema
South East

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality