Snowflake Schema Contract Job Trends

Snowflake Schema
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Snowflake Schema skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 510 592
Rank change year-on-year +9 +82 +181
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 81 33 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.092% 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.28% 0.51% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 28 15
10th Percentile £344 £493 £463
25th Percentile £403 £511 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £581
90th Percentile £690 £653 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -16.84% -13.64% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Snowflake 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 requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,318 6,430 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.41% 18.01% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 4,251 5,359
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £21.57
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%
75th Percentile £67.13 £55.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +79.49% -40.45% +2.99%

Snowflake Schema
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Snowflake Schema job vacancy trend in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake Schema.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake Schema

Snowflake Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Schema over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake Schema.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake Schema

Snowflake Schema
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake Schema within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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 +4 72 £495 -9.17% 64
London +18 50 £525 -4.55% 12
Work from Home +12 25 £475 -7.77% 10
UK excluding London -23 19 £395 -16.84% 64
North of England -29 12 £345 - 15
North West - 12 £345 - 10
East of England - 3 - - 10
Scotland - 2 £475 - 6
South West -12 1 £675 - 4
Midlands -32 1 £413 -13.16% 10
East Midlands - 1 £413 - 4

Snowflake 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 17 (20.99%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.41%) Apache
2 6 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.47%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.23%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 43 (53.09%) Azure
2 42 (51.85%) Snowflake
3 34 (41.98%) AWS
4 25 (30.86%) dbt
5 24 (29.63%) GCP
6 20 (24.69%) Power Platform
7 19 (23.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (18.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (12.35%) Serverless
10 9 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
11 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (8.64%) Prefect
12 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.94%) Azure Functions
14 3 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
15 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 2 (2.47%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 2 (2.47%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (24.69%) Power BI
3 18 (22.22%) Data Vault
4 17 (20.99%) Metadata
5 11 (13.58%) Data Lake
6 8 (9.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (8.64%) BigQuery
7 7 (8.64%) Star Schema
7 7 (8.64%) Tableau
8 6 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (6.17%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.70%) Big Data
11 3 (3.70%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.70%) Looker
11 3 (3.70%) OLAP
11 3 (3.70%) Parquet
12 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (2.47%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Git
2 12 (14.81%) ERwin
3 11 (13.58%) PowerDesigner
4 9 (11.11%) ER Studio
4 9 (11.11%) JIRA
5 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (20.99%) Finance
4 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.94%) Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Aviation
6 3 (3.70%) Retail
7 2 (2.47%) Law
7 2 (2.47%) Legal
7 2 (2.47%) Private Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Data Engineer
2 14 (17.28%) Data Modeller
3 11 (13.58%) Architect
4 9 (11.11%) Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Data Analyst
6 7 (8.64%) Lead
6 7 (8.64%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Senior
7 6 (7.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Azure Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.94%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Snowflake Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Snowflake Architect
11 2 (2.47%) AWS Data Architect
11 2 (2.47%) AWS Solution Architect
11 2 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) PySpark
2 4 (4.94%) Kafka
3 3 (3.70%) Pandas
4 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.47%) Node.js
4 2 (2.47%) React
4 2 (2.47%) YAML
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.23%) FIXML
5 1 (1.23%) JSON
5 1 (1.23%) Middleware
5 1 (1.23%) REST
5 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Data Structures
2 10 (12.35%) Clustering
3 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.17%) Reinsurance
4 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.94%) Replication
5 3 (3.70%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.23%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.23%) Derivative
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (91.36%) Data Modelling
2 49 (60.49%) Analytics
3 44 (54.32%) ETL
4 32 (39.51%) Data Engineering
5 29 (35.80%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (33.33%) Agile
7 26 (32.10%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (32.10%) Data Transformation
8 25 (30.86%) CI/CD
8 25 (30.86%) Data Governance
9 23 (28.40%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (24.69%) Dimensional Modelling
11 17 (20.99%) Data Architecture
11 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (19.75%) Data Science
13 15 (18.52%) Scrum
14 13 (16.05%) Logical Data Model
14 13 (16.05%) Physical Data Model
15 12 (14.81%) Data Integration
15 12 (14.81%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 59 (72.84%) SQL
2 33 (40.74%) Python
3 9 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.41%) PL/SQL
5 5 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.47%) Bash
6 2 (2.47%) IronPython
6 2 (2.47%) Java
6 2 (2.47%) Scala
7 1 (1.23%) Bicep
7 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.94%) Degree
3 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (53.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.88%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.70%) QA
4 3 (3.70%) Solvency II
5 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Terraform
2 4 (4.94%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Databricks
2 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.88%) Sparx
4 7 (8.64%) Google
5 6 (7.41%) Informatica
6 4 (4.94%) Talend
7 3 (3.70%) Oracle
8 2 (2.47%) Avaloq
8 2 (2.47%) Greenplum
8 2 (2.47%) Qualtrics
8 2 (2.47%) Teradata
9 1 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.23%) StreamSets
9 1 (1.23%) Workday