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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 468 537
Rank change year-on-year -27 +69 +140
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 135 56 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.86% 1.01% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 44 33
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £588
90th Percentile £738 £738 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -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 7,273 5,550 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.39% 18.97% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,956 3,833 5,210
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £480
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.88% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 104 143
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.56 £24.06 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.15 £58.62
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -31.09%

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 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 1 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 -37 117 £525 - 25
London -17 80 £508 -3.33% 16
UK excluding London -60 42 £525 +12.00% 14
Work from Home -13 39 £650 +36.84% 10
North of England -55 13 £438 -11.39% 2
North West -30 12 £419 -20.19% 1
South West -22 9 £675 +68.75% 1
Scotland - 9 £500 - 2
Midlands -70 7 £495 +4.21% 3
West Midlands -58 5 £495 +4.21% 2
South East -55 3 £575 +8.24% 5
East Midlands - 2 £606 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 1
East of England - 1 £400 - 1

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 26 (19.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.22%) Apache
3 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (48.89%) Azure
2 56 (41.48%) Snowflake
3 46 (34.07%) AWS
4 43 (31.85%) dbt
5 42 (31.11%) Power Platform
6 28 (20.74%) GCP
7 26 (19.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (15.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (12.59%) Amazon S3
10 16 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (8.89%) GitHub
12 9 (6.67%) Dagster
13 8 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (5.93%) Serverless
14 7 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (5.19%) Matillion
14 7 (5.19%) Prefect
15 6 (4.44%) Fivetran
16 5 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
17 4 (2.96%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (42.22%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (30.37%) Power BI
3 27 (20.00%) Data Vault
4 22 (16.30%) Metadata
5 18 (13.33%) Data Lake
6 17 (12.59%) Star Schema
7 15 (11.11%) Tableau
8 10 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.93%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (4.44%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.70%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.96%) Looker
12 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
13 3 (2.22%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 15 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (2.96%) ERwin
3 3 (2.22%) ER Studio
3 3 (2.22%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.48%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.74%) Snyk
5 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (31.11%) Finance
2 30 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.63%) Banking
5 10 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (6.67%) Aviation
7 8 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.93%) Investment Banking
8 7 (5.19%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.96%) Law
10 3 (2.22%) Retail
11 2 (1.48%) Front Office
11 2 (1.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (45.19%) Data Engineer
2 33 (24.44%) Snowflake Engineer
3 31 (22.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 23 (17.04%) Data Modeller
5 18 (13.33%) Senior
6 16 (11.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (10.37%) Architect
8 12 (8.89%) Lead
9 8 (5.93%) Analyst
9 8 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Data Analyst
10 7 (5.19%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 6 (4.44%) Finance Modeller
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Developer
13 4 (2.96%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) DBA
13 4 (2.96%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.59%) PySpark
2 13 (9.63%) Kafka
3 5 (3.70%) JSON
3 5 (3.70%) Middleware
3 5 (3.70%) OAuth
3 5 (3.70%) OpenID
3 5 (3.70%) YAML
4 3 (2.22%) Pandas
4 3 (2.22%) XML
5 2 (1.48%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.48%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.74%) REST
6 1 (0.74%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.74%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.37%) Clustering
3 11 (8.15%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.19%) Replication
5 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.74%) Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Equities
7 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) IoT
7 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 82 (60.74%) Analytics
3 66 (48.89%) ETL
4 64 (47.41%) Data Engineering
5 59 (43.70%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (38.52%) Data Pipeline
7 48 (35.56%) CI/CD
8 41 (30.37%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (28.15%) Data Governance
10 35 (25.93%) Dimensional Modelling
11 30 (22.22%) Data Architecture
12 27 (20.00%) Agile
12 27 (20.00%) AI
12 27 (20.00%) Data Transformation
13 26 (19.26%) DevOps
14 22 (16.30%) Data Science
14 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (15.56%) Use Case
16 20 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
17 17 (12.59%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 96 (71.11%) SQL
2 61 (45.19%) Python
3 12 (8.89%) T-SQL
4 11 (8.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (4.44%) Java
6 5 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.48%) R
8 1 (0.74%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.74%) LookML
8 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.89%) Degree
3 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.96%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.96%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) ACCA
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) CIMA
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (38.52%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.22%) QA
3 3 (2.22%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (14.81%) Terraform
2 4 (2.96%) Ansible
3 2 (1.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.30%) Databricks
3 13 (9.63%) Informatica
4 9 (6.67%) Google
5 6 (4.44%) Talend
6 5 (3.70%) Denodo
7 4 (2.96%) Greenplum
8 3 (2.22%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (2.22%) Sparx
9 2 (1.48%) SAP
10 1 (0.74%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.74%) Charles River
10 1 (0.74%) IBM
10 1 (0.74%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.74%) Murex
10 1 (0.74%) Oracle
10 1 (0.74%) Teradata