Star Schema Contracts

Star Schema
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 543 647
Rank change year-on-year +52 +104 +151
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 29 39 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.090% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.52% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 53
10th Percentile £413 £413 £388
25th Percentile £475 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.58% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £588
90th Percentile £738 £775 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +7.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Star Schema as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Star Schema in the UK

Star Schema
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Star Schema.

Daily rate trend for Star Schema in the UK

Star Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Star Schema over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Star Schema in the UK

Star Schema
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Star Schema.

Hourly rate trend for Star Schema in the UK

Star Schema
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +52 26 £531 +7.32% 24
London +39 22 £575 - 5
Work from Home +37 8 £525 -19.23% 14
UK excluding London +55 5 £475 +5.56% 23
North of England +19 3 £475 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 6
South West +42 1 £425 -5.56% 5
Scotland +8 1 £575 +2.22% 4
North East - 1 £463 -

Star Schema
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (13.79%) Apache
1 4 (13.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
1 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.79%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) dbt
5 1 (3.45%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) OCI
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (41.38%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (31.03%) Power BI
4 5 (17.24%) Big Data
4 5 (17.24%) Data Lake
5 4 (13.79%) Data Vault
5 4 (13.79%) Tableau
6 3 (10.34%) Delta Lake
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (6.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (6.90%) Data Mart
7 2 (6.90%) Metadata
7 2 (6.90%) Parquet
7 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
8 1 (3.45%) GIS
8 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) ERwin
2 4 (13.79%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) ER Studio
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Data Modeller
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Snowflake Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Power BI Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Kafka
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) PySpark
3 2 (6.90%) Plotly
4 1 (3.45%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Data Modelling
2 20 (68.97%) ETL
3 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (31.03%) Agile
5 9 (31.03%) Analytics
5 9 (31.03%) Dimensional Modelling
6 8 (27.59%) Data Governance
6 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (27.59%) Visualisation
7 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
7 6 (20.69%) Data Integration
7 6 (20.69%) Logical Data Model
7 6 (20.69%) Physical Data Model
7 6 (20.69%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (17.24%) Data Security
8 5 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
9 4 (13.79%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (82.76%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Sparx
3 2 (6.90%) Teradata
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) IDERA
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft