Star Schema Contract Job Trends

Star Schema
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Star Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 494 517
Rank change year-on-year -67 +23 +81
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 113 51 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.38% 0.86% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 32 22
10th Percentile £400 £413 £378
25th Percentile £425 £456 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £669
90th Percentile £646 £738 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £475 £663
% change year-on-year -10.00% -28.30% +23.26%

All Database & BI 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 8,177 5,951 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,463 4,003 4,956
10th Percentile £358 £341 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 93 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.11 £27.11 £19.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.74%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Star Schema job vacancy trend in the UK

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Star Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Star Schema over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Star Schema in the UK

Star Schema
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Star Schema
Top 16 Contract Job 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 18 August 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
England -78 99 £500 -11.11% 24
London -34 70 £536 -17.54% 12
Work from Home -26 39 £540 +8.00% 12
UK excluding London -85 33 £428 -10.00% 17
North of England -72 14 £450 -5.26% 6
Midlands - 9 £380 - 3
Yorkshire -41 7 £435 -8.42% 2
North West -42 7 £600 +20.00% 4
East Midlands - 5 £370 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £400 - 1
Scotland -11 3 £425 -5.56%
South West -42 3 £500 +8.11%
Wales - 3 £425 - 1
North East -39 1 £537 +16.11% 1
South East -75 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 £400 -

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (7.08%) SAS
2 7 (6.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.77%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.54%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (67.26%) Power Platform
2 58 (51.33%) Azure
3 31 (27.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 28 (24.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (15.04%) dbt
6 15 (13.27%) AWS
7 13 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.96%) GCP
8 9 (7.96%) Serverless
8 9 (7.96%) Snowflake
9 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (6.19%) Power Automate
10 6 (5.31%) GitHub
11 5 (4.42%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (4.42%) PowerApps
11 5 (4.42%) SaaS
12 4 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.54%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Firewall
1 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (65.49%) Power BI
2 55 (48.67%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (19.47%) Power Query
3 22 (19.47%) Snowflake Schema
4 19 (16.81%) Data Lake
5 17 (15.04%) SQL Server
6 16 (14.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (14.16%) Semantic Layer
7 14 (12.39%) Tableau
8 11 (9.73%) Metadata
9 8 (7.08%) Data Vault
9 8 (7.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 8 (7.08%) Looker
9 8 (7.08%) PowerCenter
10 7 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (5.31%) Delta Lake
12 5 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (4.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Git
2 4 (3.54%) JIRA
3 2 (1.77%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.77%) GitLab
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) ERwin
4 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (22.12%) Finance
3 18 (15.93%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.19%) Retail
6 4 (3.54%) Publishing
7 3 (2.65%) Banking
7 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.65%) Marketing
7 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.77%) Front Office
8 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Law
8 2 (1.77%) Local Government
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (31.86%) Data Engineer
2 31 (27.43%) Developer
3 24 (21.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 22 (19.47%) Power BI Developer
4 22 (19.47%) Senior
5 18 (15.93%) Architect
6 14 (12.39%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (9.73%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Lead
8 7 (6.19%) Snowflake Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Architect
11 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 4 (3.54%) Data Modeller
11 4 (3.54%) Informatica Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Power BI Specialist
11 4 (3.54%) SQL Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.62%) PySpark
2 6 (5.31%) Kafka
3 4 (3.54%) REST
4 2 (1.77%) .NET
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.77%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.77%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.77%) Great Expectations
4 2 (1.77%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (0.88%) ADO
5 1 (0.88%) CSS
5 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.88%) HTML
5 1 (0.88%) Jinja
5 1 (0.88%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (0.88%) Web Services
5 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.42%) Clustering
4 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.65%) Replication
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.77%) PACS
6 2 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) IoT
7 1 (0.88%) Mashup
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.08%) Linux
1 8 (7.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (78.76%) Data Modelling
2 84 (74.34%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (53.98%) Analytics
4 52 (46.02%) ETL
5 51 (45.13%) Dimensional Modelling
6 40 (35.40%) Data Pipeline
7 37 (32.74%) Data Engineering
8 36 (31.86%) CI/CD
9 31 (27.43%) Data Governance
10 28 (24.78%) DevOps
11 26 (23.01%) Data Transformation
11 26 (23.01%) Migration
12 25 (22.12%) Decision-Making
12 25 (22.12%) Performance Optimisation
12 25 (22.12%) Performance Tuning
13 21 (18.58%) Data Architecture
14 20 (17.70%) Data Ingestion
15 19 (16.81%) AI
15 19 (16.81%) Validation
16 16 (14.16%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 83 (73.45%) SQL
2 42 (37.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 31 (27.43%) Python
4 8 (7.08%) Shell Script
4 8 (7.08%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.54%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.65%) LookML
7 2 (1.77%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.77%) R
7 2 (1.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 27 (23.89%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.96%) Degree
4 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.65%) SnowPro
7 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.77%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (36.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.77%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.77%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) NCSC
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.31%) Control-M
1 6 (5.31%) Terraform
2 4 (3.54%) HP ALM
3 3 (2.65%) Grafana
3 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (37.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.93%) Databricks
3 13 (11.50%) Informatica
4 10 (8.85%) Oracle
5 6 (5.31%) Google
6 4 (3.54%) HP
6 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.77%) Confluent
7 2 (1.77%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) Sparx
8 1 (0.88%) Talend
8 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media