Star Schema Contracts in the UK excluding London

Star Schema
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Star Schema skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Star Schema over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 361 415
Rank change year-on-year +32 +54 +74
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 9 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.083% 0.092%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.44% 0.66% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 18
10th Percentile £439 £415 £388
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -12.20% +10.22%
75th Percentile £494 £650 £550
90th Percentile £558 £680 £635
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +6.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,042 2,568 3,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.92% 12.61% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,826 2,465
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £577 £598
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 102 108
10th Percentile £18.62 £13.52 £21.73
25th Percentile £22.92 £17.50 £32.15
Median hourly rate £31.64 £39.25 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -19.39% -29.53% +59.14%
75th Percentile £65.71 £60.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -15.49% -31.09% +28.99%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Star Schema as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Star Schema in the UK excluding London

Star Schema
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Star Schema in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Star Schema in the UK excluding London

Star Schema
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Star Schema in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Star Schema in the UK excluding London

Star Schema
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Star Schema in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Star Schema in the UK excluding London

Star Schema
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
Scotland -1 4 £450 -20.00% 8
North of England +12 3 £475 -26.92% 6
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 4
South East +45 1 £550 +46.67% 7
South West +38 1 £425 -5.56% 5
North East - 1 £463 - 2
Star Schema
UK

Star Schema
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Collibra
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (44.44%) Power BI
3 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (22.22%) Big Data
4 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 1 (11.11%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (11.11%) Metadata
5 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (11.11%) OLAP
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) ER Studio
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Data Modeller
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Power BI Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Finance Modeller
5 1 (11.11%) GCP Architect
5 1 (11.11%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Logical Data Model
3 4 (44.44%) Physical Data Model
4 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Data Collection
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 1 (11.11%) Inmon Methodology
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) IDERA