Star Schema Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Star Schema
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Star Schema skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 560 488
Rank change year-on-year +61 -72 +212
Permanent jobs citing Star Schema 10 6 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.017% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.27% 0.11% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 59
10th Percentile £62,500 £38,813 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £41,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,125 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.12% +28.93% -42.15%
75th Percentile £77,500 £53,031 £48,125
90th Percentile £78,625 £55,563 £56,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +47.37% +26.67% -37.50%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Star Schema falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,750 5,630 6,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.84% 15.67% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 2,923 5,243
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Star Schema relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Star Schema job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Star Schema
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Star Schema.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Star Schema

Star Schema
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Star Schema within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 3 £77,500 - 4
East of England - 3 £75,000 - 5
Midlands +23 2 £65,000 +18.18% 2
South West +12 2 £65,000 +52.94%
Star Schema
UK

Star Schema
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Boomi
3 3 (30.00%) Matillion
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (60.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) Pentaho
3 3 (30.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Power Query
5 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) DBeaver
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Law
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Use Case
6 3 (30.00%) Data Extraction
6 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (30.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (30.00%) RBAC
7 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 3 (30.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Informatica
2 3 (30.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (30.00%) Talend
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks