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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 515 629
Rank change year-on-year +20 +114 +165
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 73 44 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.11% 0.045%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 0.64% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 35 20
10th Percentile £370 £413 £458
25th Percentile £421 £438 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £582
90th Percentile £730 £645 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +1.18% -22.73% -6.38%
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 5,989 6,909 8,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.18% 17.94% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,018 4,767 5,759
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £797 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 87 155
10th Percentile £22.68 £17.50 £20.93
25th Percentile £29.27 £21.00 £32.31
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.78 £73.73
90th Percentile £80.75 £72.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.48 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +31.60% -45.45% +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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +44 68 £519 -5.68% 23
London +49 49 £538 -2.27% 13
Work from Home +39 27 £475 -5.00% 14
UK excluding London -8 17 £430 +1.18% 17
North of England -15 7 £387 -8.94% 6
North West -15 7 £387 -8.94% 6
East of England - 5 £550 -
South West +27 2 £456 -
Scotland - 2 £450 - 1
East Midlands -5 1 £413 -
Midlands -20 1 £413 -15.38% 1

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 20 (27.40%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (12.33%) Apache
3 6 (8.22%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.74%) Confluence
5 1 (1.37%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Aladdin
2 5 (6.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (56.16%) Snowflake
2 40 (54.79%) Azure
3 31 (42.47%) AWS
4 24 (32.88%) dbt
5 21 (28.77%) GCP
6 16 (21.92%) Power Platform
7 15 (20.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (15.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (10.96%) GitHub
9 8 (10.96%) Serverless
10 7 (9.59%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
11 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.48%) Azure Functions
13 3 (4.11%) Alation
13 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (4.11%) Prefect
14 2 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (42.47%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (21.92%) Power BI
3 15 (20.55%) Data Vault
4 11 (15.07%) BigQuery
4 11 (15.07%) Star Schema
5 9 (12.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (12.33%) Data Lake
6 7 (9.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (9.59%) Metadata
7 5 (6.85%) Big Data
7 5 (6.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (5.48%) Delta Lake
8 4 (5.48%) InfluxDB
8 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
9 3 (4.11%) Parquet
10 2 (2.74%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) ER Studio
2 9 (12.33%) JIRA
3 8 (10.96%) ERwin
4 7 (9.59%) Git
4 7 (9.59%) PowerDesigner
5 5 (6.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.18%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Local Government
4 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Retail
5 2 (2.74%) Banking
5 2 (2.74%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Data Engineer
2 13 (17.81%) Senior
3 12 (16.44%) Developer
4 11 (15.07%) Architect
5 10 (13.70%) Snowflake Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Analyst
6 8 (10.96%) Data Modeller
7 7 (9.59%) Data Analyst
7 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
8 6 (8.22%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Architect
10 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Lead
12 2 (2.74%) AWS Architect
12 2 (2.74%) AWS Data Architect
12 2 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
12 2 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) Kafka
2 2 (2.74%) Streamlit
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.37%) MDX
3 1 (1.37%) Pandas
3 1 (1.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Data Structures
2 9 (12.33%) Clustering
3 5 (6.85%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Replication
5 1 (1.37%) Smart City
5 1 (1.37%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (87.67%) Data Modelling
2 38 (52.05%) ETL
3 37 (50.68%) Analytics
4 30 (41.10%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (34.25%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (34.25%) Data Engineering
6 22 (30.14%) Data Governance
7 21 (28.77%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (27.40%) Agile
8 20 (27.40%) Data Transformation
9 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (21.92%) CI/CD
11 15 (20.55%) Dimensional Modelling
11 15 (20.55%) Translating Business Requirements
11 15 (20.55%) Visualisation
12 14 (19.18%) Decision-Making
13 13 (17.81%) Data Architecture
13 13 (17.81%) Data Integration
14 11 (15.07%) Actionable Insight
14 11 (15.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 59 (80.82%) SQL
2 29 (39.73%) Python
3 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.74%) Java
4 2 (2.74%) Scala
4 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.74%) Degree
1 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (46.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.59%) GDPR
3 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.11%) QA
5 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Google
2 8 (10.96%) Databricks
2 8 (10.96%) Informatica
3 6 (8.22%) Teradata
4 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.85%) MicroStrategy
4 5 (6.85%) Sparx
5 4 (5.48%) Talend
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 2 (2.74%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.37%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.37%) Workday