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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 520 607
Rank change year-on-year +3 +87 +169
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 75 39 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.11% 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.20% 0.60% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 32 15
10th Percentile £345 £472 £463
25th Percentile £403 £508 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £581
90th Percentile £695 £613 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £481 £550
% change year-on-year -23.48% -12.50% -8.33%
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 6,275 6,460 7,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 17.66% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,298 4,261 5,404
10th Percentile £331 £341 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 89 146
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.00 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.40 £21.86
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +42.20% -34.69% +4.09%
75th Percentile £67.13 £53.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.70 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +90.26% -37.74% +13.38%

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 24 November 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 10 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 24 November 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 -3 69 £500 -8.26% 19
London +6 48 £531 -3.41% 7
Work from Home +28 24 £475 -7.77% 10
UK excluding London -22 16 £368 -23.48% 17
North of England -26 11 £345 - 3
North West - 11 £345 - 3
East of England - 3 - - 1
South West +7 1 £675 -
East Midlands -12 1 £413 - 1
Midlands -30 1 £413 -14.29% 3

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 16 (21.33%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.00%) Apache
2 6 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.67%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.33%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.67%) Snowflake
2 35 (46.67%) Azure
3 31 (41.33%) AWS
4 24 (32.00%) dbt
5 21 (28.00%) GCP
6 17 (22.67%) Power Platform
7 15 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (14.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (13.33%) Serverless
10 9 (12.00%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
11 7 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (8.00%) Prefect
13 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (5.33%) Azure Functions
14 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (2.67%) Cloud Functions
14 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.33%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (24.00%) Data Vault
3 17 (22.67%) Power BI
4 16 (21.33%) Metadata
5 9 (12.00%) Data Lake
6 8 (10.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (9.33%) Star Schema
8 6 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (8.00%) BigQuery
8 6 (8.00%) Tableau
9 5 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (4.00%) Big Data
10 3 (4.00%) Delta Lake
10 3 (4.00%) OLAP
10 3 (4.00%) Parquet
11 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
11 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
11 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.67%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) ERwin
1 12 (16.00%) Git
2 11 (14.67%) PowerDesigner
3 9 (12.00%) ER Studio
3 9 (12.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.33%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (21.33%) Finance
4 4 (5.33%) Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Aviation
5 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
6 2 (2.67%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Data Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Data Modeller
3 11 (14.67%) Architect
4 10 (13.33%) Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Analyst
6 7 (9.33%) Data Analyst
6 7 (9.33%) Lead
6 7 (9.33%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior
7 6 (8.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Snowflake Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.33%) AWS Architect
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Snowflake Architect
10 2 (2.67%) AWS Data Architect
10 2 (2.67%) AWS Solution Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 2 (2.67%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) PySpark
2 4 (5.33%) Kafka
3 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.67%) Node.js
3 2 (2.67%) Pandas
3 2 (2.67%) React
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.33%) FIXML
4 1 (1.33%) REST
4 1 (1.33%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Data Structures
2 9 (12.00%) Clustering
3 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.67%) Reinsurance
4 4 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.00%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.33%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Derivative
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (92.00%) Data Modelling
2 45 (60.00%) Analytics
3 38 (50.67%) ETL
4 28 (37.33%) Data Engineering
5 26 (34.67%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (34.67%) Data Transformation
6 24 (32.00%) Agile
7 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
8 22 (29.33%) Data Governance
9 21 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (25.33%) Dimensional Modelling
11 18 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (22.67%) Data Architecture
13 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (18.67%) Data Science
14 14 (18.67%) Scrum
15 13 (17.33%) Logical Data Model
15 13 (17.33%) Physical Data Model
16 12 (16.00%) Data Integration
16 12 (16.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (70.67%) SQL
2 27 (36.00%) Python
3 6 (8.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (8.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) IronPython
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) Scala
6 1 (1.33%) Bicep
6 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Degree
1 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (52.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.67%) GDPR
3 4 (5.33%) HIPAA
4 3 (4.00%) QA
4 3 (4.00%) Solvency II
5 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Ansible
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Databricks
2 8 (10.67%) Sparx
3 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.67%) Google
5 4 (5.33%) Informatica
6 3 (4.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) Avaloq
7 2 (2.67%) Qualtrics
7 2 (2.67%) Talend
7 2 (2.67%) Teradata
8 1 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.33%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.33%) Workday