Star Schema Contracts

Star Schema
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Star Schema skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Star Schema over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 625 817
Rank change year-on-year +82 +192 -192
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 36 69 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.12% 0.052%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.49% 0.68% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 43
10th Percentile £413 £388 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% +2.76%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £524
90th Percentile £730 £650 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £513 £465
% change year-on-year -12.20% +10.22% +6.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Star Schema is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,287 10,222 17,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 17.85% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,225 7,278 12,532
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 175 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.38 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +45.83%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 2024. 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 +75 28 £475 -5.00% 11
London +75 18 £495 -1.00% 6
Work from Home +95 13 £625 +25.00% 8
UK excluding London +43 13 £450 -12.20% 8
Scotland +46 6 £563 -2.17% 1
South West +7 5 £450 -20.00% 1
North of England +31 3 - - 1
North West +17 3 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

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 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 7 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.78%) dbt
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (63.89%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 8 (22.22%) Power BI
2 8 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 8 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (16.67%) Big Data
3 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (13.89%) RDBMS
5 4 (11.11%) Data Vault
6 3 (8.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
6 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.56%) Data Mart
7 2 (5.56%) GIS
7 2 (5.56%) Metadata
7 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.56%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.78%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) ERwin
2 3 (8.33%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Marketing
4 3 (8.33%) Publishing
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Data Modeller
2 8 (22.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Data Analytics Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analytics Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Data Integration Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) PySpark
2 3 (8.33%) XML
3 2 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.78%) JSON
4 1 (2.78%) JSON Schema
4 1 (2.78%) pytest
4 1 (2.78%) SOAP
4 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (13.89%) Data Structures
3 4 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (11.11%) Freedom of Information Act
3 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.56%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (86.11%) Data Modelling
2 17 (47.22%) ETL
3 15 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (41.67%) Kimball Methodology
4 14 (38.89%) Agile
4 14 (38.89%) Analytics
5 10 (27.78%) Physical Data Model
6 8 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
6 8 (22.22%) Logical Data Model
7 6 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 6 (16.67%) Inmon Methodology
8 5 (13.89%) Data Mapping
8 5 (13.89%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 4 (11.11%) Conceptual Models
9 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
9 4 (11.11%) Data Integration
9 4 (11.11%) Master Data Management
9 4 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) Gremlin
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Scala
5 1 (2.78%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Control-M
1 1 (2.78%) Ganglia
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Databricks
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Informatica
4 3 (8.33%) IDERA
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) BMC
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce