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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 493 539
Rank change year-on-year -31 +46 +100
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 143 61 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.75% 1.03% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 44 34
10th Percentile £413 £407 £413
25th Percentile £462 £426 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £581 £597
90th Percentile £731 £668 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +19.44% +5.88% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
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 8,175 5,898 6,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.24% 18.01% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,437 3,953 4,879
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.77
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.94 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £79.63 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -42.86%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -60 115 £550 +15.79% 65
London -41 78 £550 +4.76% 56
Work from Home -22 52 £600 +26.32% 28
UK excluding London -59 49 £538 +19.44% 19
Scotland -6 16 £525 +16.67% 2
Midlands -44 11 £450 +9.09%
North West -49 10 £575 +33.72% 2
North of England -62 10 £575 +33.72% 2
West Midlands - 10 £450 -
South West -32 8 £650 +42.47% 1
East of England -22 3 £390 -29.09%
South East - 2 £638 - 14
East Midlands -14 1 £400 -3.03%

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 30 (20.98%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.50%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) Confluence
4 2 (1.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (4.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.70%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.05%) Snowflake
2 65 (45.45%) dbt
3 62 (43.36%) Azure
4 59 (41.26%) AWS
5 41 (28.67%) Power Platform
6 26 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (14.69%) GCP
8 19 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (12.59%) Amazon S3
10 15 (10.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (9.79%) GitHub
12 12 (8.39%) Serverless
13 9 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (5.59%) Dagster
15 7 (4.90%) Fivetran
16 5 (3.50%) Azure Databricks
16 5 (3.50%) SaaS
17 4 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
17 4 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) DSL
1 2 (1.40%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) SSH
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (37.06%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (28.67%) Power BI
3 20 (13.99%) Star Schema
4 19 (13.29%) Data Vault
5 17 (11.89%) Data Lake
6 13 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
7 12 (8.39%) Metadata
7 12 (8.39%) Tableau
8 9 (6.29%) Delta Lake
9 8 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.59%) SQL Server
10 7 (4.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.50%) Big Data
11 5 (3.50%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.80%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.80%) Looker
12 4 (2.80%) Power Query
12 4 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Git
2 6 (4.20%) GitLab
2 6 (4.20%) JIRA
3 2 (1.40%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.70%) ERwin
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.70%) Snyk
4 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.70%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (40.56%) Finance
2 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 29 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.89%) Banking
5 13 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.59%) Front Office
7 7 (4.90%) Aviation
7 7 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.80%) Law
10 4 (2.80%) Retail
11 2 (1.40%) Marketing
11 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.70%) Automotive
12 1 (0.70%) Local Government
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (42.66%) Data Engineer
2 39 (27.27%) Snowflake Engineer
3 29 (20.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 26 (18.18%) Senior
5 21 (14.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (13.99%) Architect
7 16 (11.19%) Data Architect
7 16 (11.19%) Data Modeller
8 10 (6.99%) Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Lead
10 6 (4.20%) Power BI Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Consultant
11 5 (3.50%) Databricks Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.50%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.29%) Kafka
2 18 (12.59%) Terraform
3 9 (6.29%) PySpark
4 6 (4.20%) OAuth
5 5 (3.50%) OpenID
5 5 (3.50%) YAML
6 3 (2.10%) React
7 2 (1.40%) .NET
7 2 (1.40%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.40%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.40%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.40%) JSON
7 2 (1.40%) JWT
7 2 (1.40%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.40%) NumPy
7 2 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.40%) Pandas
7 2 (1.40%) pytest
7 2 (1.40%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.40%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.79%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.29%) Clustering
4 8 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.20%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.50%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.80%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.10%) IoT
8 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.10%) Replication
9 2 (1.40%) Derivative
9 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.40%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.70%) Mashup
10 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (76.92%) Data Modelling
2 88 (61.54%) Analytics
3 67 (46.85%) Business Intelligence
4 65 (45.45%) Data Engineering
5 58 (40.56%) ETL
6 57 (39.86%) Data Pipeline
7 42 (29.37%) CI/CD
8 40 (27.97%) Dimensional Modelling
9 37 (25.87%) Data Transformation
10 36 (25.17%) AI
11 28 (19.58%) Data Governance
11 28 (19.58%) Performance Tuning
12 26 (18.18%) Data Architecture
13 25 (17.48%) DevOps
13 25 (17.48%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (16.78%) Agile
14 24 (16.78%) Migration
15 18 (12.59%) Data Integration
15 18 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (12.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (72.03%) SQL
2 68 (47.55%) Python
3 10 (6.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.59%) Java
5 6 (4.20%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.40%) Bicep
7 2 (1.40%) C#
7 2 (1.40%) Cypher
7 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.40%) R
7 2 (1.40%) SHACL
8 1 (0.70%) Bash
8 1 (0.70%) C
8 1 (0.70%) C++
8 1 (0.70%) LookML
8 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.29%) Degree
2 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.20%) SnowPro
4 4 (2.80%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.10%) GDPR
2 3 (2.10%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.90%) Grafana
2 2 (1.40%) Argo
2 2 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (17.48%) Databricks
2 19 (13.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.99%) Informatica
4 5 (3.50%) Denodo
4 5 (3.50%) Google
5 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.10%) SAP
5 3 (2.10%) Talend
6 2 (1.40%) FactSet
6 2 (1.40%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle
6 2 (1.40%) Sparx
7 1 (0.70%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.70%) Confluent
7 1 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.70%) Murex
7 1 (0.70%) Snow
7 1 (0.70%) Workday