Star Schema Job Trends

Star Schema
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Star Schema skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 702 632
Rank change year-on-year +69 -70 +221
Permanent jobs citing Star Schema 18 10 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.019% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 0.11% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 77
10th Percentile £62,500 £40,350 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £41,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% +26.67% -37.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - £72,250 £82,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £45,125 £35,000
% change year-on-year +55.12% +28.93% -42.15%

All Database & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,481 9,481 11,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.86% 17.77% 20.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,129 5,290 8,968
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Star Schema
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Star Schema job vacancy trend in the UK

Star Schema
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Star Schema

Star Schema
Top 7 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +83 18 £70,000 +27.27% 21
UK excluding London +70 10 £70,000 +55.12% 17
London +61 8 £70,000 - 6
East of England - 3 £75,000 - 5
South East - 3 £77,500 - 3
Midlands +27 2 £65,000 +18.18% 4
South West +10 2 £65,000 +52.94%

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 2 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Power Platform
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 7 (38.89%) Matillion
4 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) AWS
6 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (22.22%) Fivetran
7 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
7 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Boomi
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (11.11%) Serverless
8 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (72.22%) Power BI
3 6 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 3 (16.67%) Pentaho
5 3 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
6 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (11.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) DBeaver
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Law
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Analytics
1 15 (83.33%) ETL
2 13 (72.22%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (72.22%) Data Modelling
3 12 (66.67%) Data Engineering
4 10 (55.56%) Decision-Making
5 9 (50.00%) Data Analytics
6 8 (44.44%) Agile
7 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
7 7 (38.89%) Data Governance
7 7 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (38.89%) Migration
7 7 (38.89%) Use Case
8 6 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
8 6 (33.33%) DevOps
8 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
8 6 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (27.78%) Coaching
9 5 (27.78%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 16 (88.89%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (77.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 3 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Informatica
2 3 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 3 (16.67%) Talend
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle