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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 463 510
Rank change year-on-year -28 +47 +135
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 154 59 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.07% 1.07% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 45 45
10th Percentile £404 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.28%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £588
90th Percentile £729 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% -10.00%

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 7,428 5,510 7,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 18.93% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,979 3,773 5,228
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £762 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 102 149
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.96 £23.13 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.55% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £69.96 £65.34 £61.50
90th Percentile £81.23 £77.38 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £30.82 £36.75
% change year-on-year +28.16% -16.14% -37.28%

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 31 May 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 14 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 31 May 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 -49 123 £540 +5.37% 16
London -28 87 £525 - 11
Work from Home -14 51 £625 +31.58% 6
UK excluding London -60 50 £525 +13.51% 10
Scotland +13 18 £500 +11.11%
North of England -69 12 £463 +3.70% 3
North West -35 11 £401 -6.86% 3
South West -23 10 £663 +45.21% 1
Midlands - 7 £495 -
West Midlands - 5 £495 -
South East -56 3 £575 +8.24% 6
East Midlands - 2 £606 -
East of England -32 1 £400 -27.27%
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -

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 35 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.60%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (48.70%) Azure
2 73 (47.40%) Snowflake
3 61 (39.61%) AWS
4 53 (34.42%) dbt
5 44 (28.57%) Power Platform
6 28 (18.18%) GCP
7 27 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (13.64%) Amazon S3
8 21 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (11.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (10.39%) GitHub
11 12 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (7.79%) Serverless
12 11 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.84%) Dagster
14 7 (4.55%) Matillion
15 6 (3.90%) Fivetran
15 6 (3.90%) Prefect
16 5 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
17 4 (2.60%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (39.61%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (27.92%) Power BI
3 30 (19.48%) Data Vault
4 22 (14.29%) Metadata
5 19 (12.34%) Data Lake
6 18 (11.69%) Star Schema
7 13 (8.44%) Tableau
8 10 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (5.84%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (4.55%) Delta Lake
11 6 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (3.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.25%) Big Data
12 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.95%) OLAP
14 3 (1.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (11.04%) Git
2 4 (2.60%) GitLab
3 3 (1.95%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.95%) ERwin
3 3 (1.95%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.30%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.65%) Snyk
5 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (34.42%) Finance
2 32 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 30 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.94%) Banking
5 17 (11.04%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.14%) Aviation
7 10 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.19%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.90%) Retail
10 5 (3.25%) Law
11 4 (2.60%) Front Office
12 2 (1.30%) Marketing
12 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.65%) Automotive
13 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (48.05%) Data Engineer
2 42 (27.27%) Snowflake Engineer
3 34 (22.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 26 (16.88%) Data Modeller
5 23 (14.94%) Senior
6 20 (12.99%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (10.39%) Architect
8 12 (7.79%) Lead
9 9 (5.84%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Developer
11 7 (4.55%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 6 (3.90%) Finance Modeller
13 5 (3.25%) Azure Data Engineer
13 5 (3.25%) Power BI Engineer
14 4 (2.60%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 4 (2.60%) Data Integration Engineer
14 4 (2.60%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.34%) Kafka
2 16 (10.39%) PySpark
3 5 (3.25%) JSON
3 5 (3.25%) Middleware
3 5 (3.25%) OAuth
3 5 (3.25%) OpenID
4 4 (2.60%) YAML
5 3 (1.95%) Pandas
5 3 (1.95%) XML
6 2 (1.30%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.30%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.65%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.65%) NumPy
7 1 (0.65%) REST
7 1 (0.65%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.65%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.74%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.79%) Clustering
4 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.90%) Replication
6 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.95%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.30%) Derivative
7 2 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.65%) Equities
8 1 (0.65%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (74.68%) Data Modelling
2 95 (61.69%) Analytics
3 76 (49.35%) Data Engineering
4 71 (46.10%) ETL
5 66 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
6 64 (41.56%) Data Pipeline
7 52 (33.77%) CI/CD
8 42 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (24.68%) Dimensional Modelling
10 36 (23.38%) Data Governance
11 34 (22.08%) AI
12 31 (20.13%) DevOps
13 30 (19.48%) Data Transformation
14 27 (17.53%) Data Architecture
15 26 (16.88%) Use Case
16 24 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (14.94%) Agile
17 23 (14.94%) Data Science
17 23 (14.94%) Performance Optimisation
18 20 (12.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 106 (68.83%) SQL
2 71 (46.10%) Python
3 10 (6.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 10 (6.49%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.19%) Java
5 5 (3.25%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.30%) Bash
6 2 (1.30%) R
7 1 (0.65%) C
7 1 (0.65%) C++
7 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) LookML
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (11.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.44%) Degree
3 9 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.90%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.25%) SnowPro
6 3 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) ACCA
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) CIMA
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (33.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.25%) GDPR
3 3 (1.95%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (14.94%) Terraform
2 5 (3.25%) Grafana
3 4 (2.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.58%) Databricks
3 13 (8.44%) Informatica
4 7 (4.55%) Google
5 6 (3.90%) Talend
6 5 (3.25%) Denodo
7 4 (2.60%) Greenplum
7 4 (2.60%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.95%) Sparx
9 2 (1.30%) Oracle
9 2 (1.30%) SAP
10 1 (0.65%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.65%) Charles River
10 1 (0.65%) IBM
10 1 (0.65%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.65%) Murex
10 1 (0.65%) Teradata