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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 482 550
Rank change year-on-year -14 +68 +135
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 135 40 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.14% 0.093%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 0.73% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 34 29
10th Percentile £367 £427 £423
25th Percentile £425 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +11.05% -20.83%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £735 £738 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% -12.20%

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 7,146 5,501 7,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.96% 18.93% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,917 3,815 5,152
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 101 157
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.85 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.88 £24.25 £20.82
Median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -20.90% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £84.20 £76.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £29.80 £39.25
% change year-on-year +67.79% -24.08% -28.64%

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 2 April 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 13 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 2 April 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 -31 119 £500 -5.66% 25
London -9 82 £500 -8.26% 13
UK excluding London -65 40 £513 +7.89% 16
Work from Home -4 37 £550 +6.80% 12
North of England -54 16 £368 -25.42% 2
North West -20 15 £347 -34.00% 2
South West - 10 £675 - 2
Scotland - 8 £500 - 1
Midlands -60 4 £550 +15.79%
West Midlands -60 3 £545 +14.74%
South East -54 2 - - 8
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £813 -

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 28 (20.74%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) Apache
2 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.74%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (45.93%) Azure
2 54 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 45 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 44 (32.59%) AWS
5 43 (31.85%) dbt
6 26 (19.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (17.78%) GCP
8 22 (16.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (9.63%) Amazon S3
10 11 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.67%) GitHub
11 9 (6.67%) Prefect
11 9 (6.67%) Serverless
12 7 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (4.44%) Dagster
13 6 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.44%) Matillion
14 5 (3.70%) Fivetran
14 5 (3.70%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (49.63%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (32.59%) Power BI
3 28 (20.74%) Data Vault
4 22 (16.30%) Metadata
5 18 (13.33%) Data Lake
6 17 (12.59%) Tableau
7 15 (11.11%) Star Schema
8 10 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (5.19%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.70%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.70%) Looker
11 5 (3.70%) OLAP
11 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
13 3 (2.22%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (3.70%) ERwin
3 3 (2.22%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (2.22%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.48%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (28.89%) Finance
2 35 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 34 (25.19%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.37%) Banking
5 9 (6.67%) Aviation
6 8 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.19%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.70%) Law
9 3 (2.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Marketing
10 2 (1.48%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Front Office
11 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (40.74%) Data Engineer
2 26 (19.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 26 (19.26%) Snowflake Engineer
3 21 (15.56%) Data Modeller
4 15 (11.11%) Architect
4 15 (11.11%) Lead
5 11 (8.15%) Analyst
5 11 (8.15%) Senior
6 10 (7.41%) Developer
7 9 (6.67%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.93%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 6 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Finance Modeller
11 4 (2.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (2.96%) Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Data Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.85%) PySpark
2 11 (8.15%) Kafka
3 5 (3.70%) Middleware
4 4 (2.96%) JSON
5 3 (2.22%) OAuth
5 3 (2.22%) OpenID
5 3 (2.22%) Pandas
5 3 (2.22%) XML
5 3 (2.22%) YAML
6 2 (1.48%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.48%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.48%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.48%) Node.js
6 2 (1.48%) React
6 2 (1.48%) REST
7 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.74%) FIXML
7 1 (0.74%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.85%) Cloud Native
1 16 (11.85%) Clustering
2 14 (10.37%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.19%) Replication
4 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.22%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.48%) Derivative
5 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Equities
6 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.74%) IoT
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (82.22%) Data Modelling
2 83 (61.48%) Analytics
3 72 (53.33%) ETL
4 65 (48.15%) Data Engineering
5 59 (43.70%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 45 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (32.59%) Performance Tuning
8 34 (25.19%) Data Governance
9 33 (24.44%) Data Architecture
9 33 (24.44%) Dimensional Modelling
10 32 (23.70%) Data Transformation
11 31 (22.96%) Agile
12 28 (20.74%) Data Science
12 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (18.52%) AI
14 21 (15.56%) DevOps
15 20 (14.81%) Use Case
16 19 (14.07%) Performance Optimisation
17 18 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 98 (72.59%) SQL
2 65 (48.15%) Python
3 14 (10.37%) T-SQL
4 11 (8.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (5.93%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.96%) Java
7 3 (2.22%) Bash
8 2 (1.48%) IronPython
8 2 (1.48%) R
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) LookML
9 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.63%) Degree
3 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.96%) SnowPro
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) ACCA
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) CIMA
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (40.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.19%) GDPR
3 4 (2.96%) QA
4 3 (2.22%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.85%) Terraform
2 6 (4.44%) Ansible
3 2 (1.48%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.59%) Databricks
3 14 (10.37%) Informatica
4 9 (6.67%) Google
5 7 (5.19%) Talend
6 5 (3.70%) Sparx
7 4 (2.96%) Greenplum
7 4 (2.96%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (2.22%) Denodo
9 2 (1.48%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.48%) Oracle
9 2 (1.48%) SAP
10 1 (0.74%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.74%) Charles River
10 1 (0.74%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.74%) Murex
10 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.74%) Teradata