Star Schema Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Star Schema
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 296 333 444
Rank change year-on-year +37 +111 +158
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 8 12 33
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.078% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.38% 0.41% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 24
10th Percentile £430 £480 £393
25th Percentile £453 £538 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £738 - £547
90th Percentile - £690 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -8.70% +10.58% +9.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Star Schema
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Star Schema as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Star Schema trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Star Schema
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Star Schema.

Star Schema daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Star Schema
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Star Schema daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Star Schema
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (12.50%) Parquet
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ER Studio
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Snowflake Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (37.50%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (62.50%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
4 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Data Security
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
5 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) ERD
6 1 (12.50%) Logistics
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft