Star Schema Contract Job Trends in Wales

Star Schema
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Star Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.39% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +5.77%

All Database & BI Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 62 54 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 11.97% 15.08% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 43 74
10th Percentile £289 £200 £208
25th Percentile £363 £240 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £519 £539 £538
90th Percentile £725 £550 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £30.38 £25.23 -
25th Percentile £30.94 £25.44 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £25.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.69% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £26.19 -
90th Percentile £86.75 £26.38 -
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +52.14% -17.65% -22.73%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Star Schema job vacancy trend in Wales

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Star Schema

Star Schema
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
South Wales - 2 £450 - 2
Star Schema
UK

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks