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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 496 561
Rank change year-on-year +6 +65 +185
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 92 33 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.10% 0.063%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.45% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 31 16
10th Percentile £344 £463 £450
25th Percentile £400 £510 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £628
90th Percentile £688 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -14.67% -14.77% +2.33%
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 & BI 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 6,330 5,859 7,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 18.17% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,380 3,869 4,988
10th Percentile £328 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 78 140
10th Percentile £21.31 £19.59 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate £52.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -24.21% -16.04%
75th Percentile £75.26 £64.73 £64.51
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.95 £77.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.31 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +109.76% -37.74% -7.64%

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 January 2026.

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 12 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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 81 £500 -7.41% 12
London +9 56 £531 -3.41% 4
Work from Home +13 25 £523 +1.46% 6
UK excluding London -37 25 £400 -14.67% 10
North of England -36 14 £344 - 1
North West - 14 £344 - 1
Scotland - 4 £500 -
East of England - 3 - - 4
South West - 2 £675 - 1
South East -21 1 - - 4
Midlands -40 1 £413 -13.16%
East Midlands - 1 £413 -

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 18 (19.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.35%) Apache
2 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.17%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.09%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.26%) Azure
2 47 (51.09%) Snowflake
3 36 (39.13%) AWS
4 28 (30.43%) dbt
5 23 (25.00%) GCP
6 22 (23.91%) Power Platform
7 19 (20.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (16.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (9.78%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (9.78%) Prefect
9 9 (9.78%) Serverless
10 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (6.52%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.35%) Azure Functions
13 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (3.26%) Cloud Functions
14 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (2.17%) GitHub
14 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (43.48%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (23.91%) Power BI
3 18 (19.57%) Data Vault
4 17 (18.48%) Metadata
5 12 (13.04%) Data Lake
6 9 (9.78%) Tableau
7 7 (7.61%) Star Schema
8 6 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (4.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (3.26%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.26%) Looker
11 3 (3.26%) OLAP
11 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
11 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (2.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) Git
2 12 (13.04%) ERwin
3 11 (11.96%) PowerDesigner
4 9 (9.78%) ER Studio
4 9 (9.78%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.17%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.17%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (20.65%) Finance
4 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.35%) Banking
6 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Retail
7 3 (3.26%) Aviation
8 2 (2.17%) Law
8 2 (2.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (30.43%) Data Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Data Modeller
3 13 (14.13%) Architect
4 12 (13.04%) Snowflake Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) Analyst
5 11 (11.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Data Analyst
6 10 (10.87%) Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Lead
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.35%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) DBA
8 4 (4.35%) Senior
8 4 (4.35%) Snowflake Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) PySpark
2 3 (3.26%) JSON
2 3 (3.26%) Middleware
2 3 (3.26%) Pandas
2 3 (3.26%) XML
3 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.17%) Kafka
3 2 (2.17%) Node.js
3 2 (2.17%) React
3 2 (2.17%) YAML
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.09%) FIXML
4 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 12 (13.04%) Clustering
3 7 (7.61%) Replication
4 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.43%) Reinsurance
5 4 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.09%) Derivative
8 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (85.87%) Data Modelling
2 52 (56.52%) Analytics
3 46 (50.00%) ETL
4 41 (44.57%) Data Engineering
5 31 (33.70%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (32.61%) Agile
7 29 (31.52%) CI/CD
8 28 (30.43%) Data Governance
8 28 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (29.35%) Performance Tuning
10 26 (28.26%) Data Transformation
11 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (20.65%) Data Science
12 19 (20.65%) Dimensional Modelling
13 18 (19.57%) Data Architecture
14 15 (16.30%) Use Case
15 14 (15.22%) Logical Data Model
15 14 (15.22%) Migration
15 14 (15.22%) Physical Data Model
15 14 (15.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 66 (71.74%) SQL
2 38 (41.30%) Python
3 10 (10.87%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.78%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.17%) Bash
6 2 (2.17%) IronPython
6 2 (2.17%) R
7 1 (1.09%) Bicep
7 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.52%) Degree
3 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (48.91%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.87%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.35%) QA
4 3 (3.26%) Solvency II
5 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.70%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) Ansible
3 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Databricks
2 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.78%) Informatica
4 8 (8.70%) Sparx
5 7 (7.61%) Google
6 5 (5.43%) Talend
7 4 (4.35%) Greenplum
8 2 (2.17%) Avaloq
8 2 (2.17%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle
9 1 (1.09%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.09%) Qualtrics
9 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.09%) StreamSets
9 1 (1.09%) Teradata
9 1 (1.09%) Workday