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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 626 782
Rank change year-on-year +97 +156 -156
Contract jobs citing Star Schema 40 69 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.12% 0.057%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.55% 0.69% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 42
10th Percentile £390 £388 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £531
90th Percentile £690 £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 7,278 10,040 17,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.08% 17.77% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 7,127 12,383
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.32 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £73.25 £82.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.40% +62.71% +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 24 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 12 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 24 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 +66 32 £475 -5.00% 20
UK excluding London +45 19 £450 -12.20% 12
Work from Home +107 17 £625 +25.00% 15
London +62 16 £475 -5.00% 14
Scotland +35 6 £563 -2.17% 1
South West +16 5 £450 -20.00% 1
Midlands - 5 - - 3
North of England +37 4 £650 +33.33%
North West +33 4 £650 +33.33%
East Midlands - 4 - -
South East +9 1 £375 -16.67% 6
West Midlands - 1 - - 3

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 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 7 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (12.50%) dbt
4 5 (12.50%) GitHub
4 5 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.00%) Fivetran
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (35.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 11 (27.50%) Power BI
4 10 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (17.50%) Big Data
5 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
7 4 (10.00%) Data Vault
7 4 (10.00%) Tableau
8 3 (7.50%) Delta Lake
8 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (5.00%) GIS
9 2 (5.00%) Metadata
9 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
9 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (5.00%) PowerCenter
10 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.50%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) ERwin
2 3 (7.50%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Publishing
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Data Modeller
2 11 (27.50%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
4 6 (15.00%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Data Analytics Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Data Analytics Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Data Integration Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Data Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Finance Modeller
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) PySpark
2 3 (7.50%) XML
3 2 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) JSON Schema
4 1 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (2.50%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.00%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (10.00%) Freedom of Information Act
2 4 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 16 (40.00%) ETL
2 16 (40.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 14 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (32.50%) Agile
4 13 (32.50%) Analytics
5 10 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
6 8 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
6 8 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
7 6 (15.00%) Data Engineering
7 6 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (15.00%) Inmon Methodology
8 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.50%) Data Mapping
8 5 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (10.00%) Change Data Capture
9 4 (10.00%) Conceptual Models
9 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
9 4 (10.00%) Master Data Management
9 4 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.50%) Gremlin
5 1 (2.50%) PHP
5 1 (2.50%) R
5 1 (2.50%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Control-M
2 1 (2.50%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Databricks
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.50%) IDERA
4 3 (7.50%) Informatica
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.50%) Adobe
6 1 (2.50%) BMC