Snowflake Schema Contracts

Snowflake Schema
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Snowflake Schema skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snowflake Schema over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 529 649
Rank change year-on-year +59 +120 +153
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 60 58 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.066%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.06% 0.77% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 44 26
10th Percentile £413 £413 £420
25th Percentile £445 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -10.71% -8.94%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £725
90th Percentile £738 £650 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +1.39% -12.20% -6.39%

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 5,676 7,581 9,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.30% 17.47% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 5,413 6,755
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £758 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 150 170
10th Percentile £19.59 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.82 £32.32
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -29.76% +45.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

Snowflake Schema
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Snowflake Schema as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake Schema.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Schema over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Top 11 Contract 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 2 July 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 +67 58 £498 -0.50% 110
London +64 44 £503 -8.64% 71
Work from Home +32 19 £475 -5.00% 59
UK excluding London +27 11 £456 +1.39% 50
North of England +2 4 £446 -18.86% 12
North West +2 3 £430 -21.82% 3
South West +32 2 £456 +1.39% 5
Scotland +4 2 £450 -18.18% 9
East of England - 2 £550 - 7
South East +48 1 £600 +41.18% 15
North East -1 1 £463 -

Snowflake 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 13 (21.67%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.00%) Apache
3 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.33%) Confluence
5 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 33 (55.00%) Azure
2 28 (46.67%) Snowflake
3 22 (36.67%) AWS
4 17 (28.33%) Power Platform
5 16 (26.67%) dbt
6 14 (23.33%) GCP
7 10 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (15.00%) GitHub
9 8 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (5.00%) Alation
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.33%) Serverless
12 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.67%) Collibra
12 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (28.33%) Power BI
3 12 (20.00%) Star Schema
4 11 (18.33%) Data Vault
5 9 (15.00%) BigQuery
6 8 (13.33%) Data Lake
7 6 (10.00%) Big Data
7 6 (10.00%) Tableau
8 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
8 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
8 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
8 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (6.67%) InfluxDB
9 4 (6.67%) Metadata
10 2 (3.33%) Metabase
10 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.33%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Terragrunt
2 4 (6.67%) ERwin
2 4 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (5.00%) ER Studio
4 2 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) GitLab
General
1 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Retail
5 3 (5.00%) Local Government
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) Senior
3 14 (23.33%) Developer
4 11 (18.33%) Snowflake Developer
5 9 (15.00%) Architect
6 8 (13.33%) Analyst
6 8 (13.33%) Data Architect
7 7 (11.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Data Analyst
9 5 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 3 (5.00%) Data Modeller
11 3 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
12 2 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (3.33%) Consultant
12 2 (3.33%) DBA
12 2 (3.33%) Senior Architect
12 2 (3.33%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.67%) JDBC
2 1 (1.67%) MDX
2 1 (1.67%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (8.33%) Clustering
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.33%) Replication
3 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) IoT
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 26 (43.33%) ETL
3 24 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (38.33%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (31.67%) Analytics
6 18 (30.00%) Data Engineering
7 17 (28.33%) Visualisation
8 15 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (23.33%) Data Governance
10 13 (21.67%) Data Architecture
10 13 (21.67%) Decision-Making
11 12 (20.00%) Agile
11 12 (20.00%) Data Transformation
11 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
13 9 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
13 9 (15.00%) Data Integration
13 9 (15.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 50 (83.33%) SQL
2 25 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.33%) Java
4 2 (3.33%) Scala
5 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (3.33%) SnowPro
1 2 (3.33%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (38.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Google
2 7 (11.67%) Informatica
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.33%) Databricks
4 5 (8.33%) MicroStrategy
4 5 (8.33%) Teradata
5 4 (6.67%) Talend
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) Sparx
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media