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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 551 635
Rank change year-on-year +59 +84 +160
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 31 39 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.56% 0.54% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 52
10th Percentile £413 £413 £388
25th Percentile £461 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £578
90th Percentile £733 £775 £646
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 5,575 7,289 10,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.93% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,839 5,212 7,411
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 144 186
10th Percentile £20.60 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -33.13% +39.80%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £73.74
90th Percentile £76.50 £74.25 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -20.90% -29.76% +62.71%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +65 27 £531 +7.32% 102
London +48 22 £575 - 20
Work from Home +37 10 £494 -24.04% 30
UK excluding London +51 6 £475 +5.56% 97
North of England +18 3 £475 - 21
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 12
South West +36 1 £425 -5.56% 17
Scotland +8 1 £575 +2.22% 9
North East - 1 £463 - 2
South East - 1 £550 - 21

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 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) dbt
6 1 (3.23%) Fivetran
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) OCI
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (45.16%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (35.48%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (29.03%) Power BI
4 6 (19.35%) Big Data
5 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
6 3 (9.68%) Data Vault
6 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 3 (9.68%) Tableau
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (6.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
7 2 (6.45%) Metadata
7 2 (6.45%) Parquet
7 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
8 1 (3.23%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) ERwin
2 4 (12.90%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) ER Studio
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 15 (48.39%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Military
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Data Modeller
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Business Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Data Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Snowflake Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Performance Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.23%) Finance Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) .NET
1 3 (9.68%) Kafka
1 3 (9.68%) PySpark
2 2 (6.45%) Plotly
3 1 (3.23%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.68%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) Data Modelling
2 21 (67.74%) ETL
3 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 10 (32.26%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (29.03%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (29.03%) Dimensional Modelling
5 8 (25.81%) Analytics
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (22.58%) Data Governance
6 7 (22.58%) Visualisation
7 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
7 6 (19.35%) Data Integration
7 6 (19.35%) Logical Data Model
7 6 (19.35%) Physical Data Model
7 6 (19.35%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (16.13%) Data Security
8 5 (16.13%) DevOps
8 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (80.65%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) Sparx
3 2 (6.45%) Teradata
4 1 (3.23%) IDERA
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft