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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 501 577
Rank change year-on-year -1 +76 +183
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 88 33 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.099% 0.053%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.38% 0.55% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 31 16
10th Percentile £344 £463 £456
25th Percentile £403 £510 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £597
90th Percentile £688 £688 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -14.67% -14.77% +2.33%
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 & 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 6,369 6,030 7,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.22% 18.11% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,401 3,985 5,096
10th Percentile £325 £345 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 83 144
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.66 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.60 £23.08
Median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%
75th Percentile £72.57 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.00 £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -7.64%

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 30 December 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 12 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 30 December 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 +1 78 £490 -9.26% 24
London +9 53 £525 -4.55% 14
Work from Home +10 26 £498 -3.40% 14
UK excluding London -35 23 £400 -14.67% 19
North of England -42 13 £344 - 2
North West - 13 £344 - 2
Scotland - 3 £500 - 6
East of England - 3 - - 5
South West - 2 £675 - 1
South East -12 1 - - 5
Midlands -42 1 £413 -13.16%
East Midlands - 1 £413 -

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 17 (19.32%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.68%) Apache
3 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.14%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 47 (53.41%) Azure
2 45 (51.14%) Snowflake
3 33 (37.50%) AWS
4 26 (29.55%) dbt
5 23 (26.14%) GCP
6 21 (23.86%) Power Platform
7 20 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (10.23%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (10.23%) Serverless
10 8 (9.09%) Prefect
11 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
12 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (4.55%) Azure Functions
14 3 (3.41%) Cloud Functions
15 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
15 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
15 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
15 2 (2.27%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (43.18%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (23.86%) Power BI
3 17 (19.32%) Data Vault
3 17 (19.32%) Metadata
4 12 (13.64%) Data Lake
5 8 (9.09%) Tableau
6 7 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (7.95%) Star Schema
7 6 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (5.68%) BigQuery
9 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.41%) Delta Lake
10 3 (3.41%) Looker
10 3 (3.41%) OLAP
11 2 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (2.27%) Power Query
11 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Git
2 12 (13.64%) ERwin
3 11 (12.50%) PowerDesigner
4 9 (10.23%) ER Studio
4 9 (10.23%) JIRA
5 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.14%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (21.59%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.55%) Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Aviation
6 3 (3.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Law
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
7 2 (2.27%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Data Engineer
2 14 (15.91%) Data Modeller
3 12 (13.64%) Architect
4 10 (11.36%) Analyst
4 10 (11.36%) Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Snowflake Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Data Analyst
5 9 (10.23%) Lead
5 9 (10.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Azure Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Senior
7 4 (4.55%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Snowflake Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) DBA
8 3 (3.41%) Snowflake Architect
9 2 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) PySpark
2 3 (3.41%) Pandas
3 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.27%) JSON
3 2 (2.27%) Kafka
3 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 2 (2.27%) Node.js
3 2 (2.27%) React
3 2 (2.27%) XML
3 2 (2.27%) YAML
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.14%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.14%) FIXML
4 1 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Data Structures
2 11 (12.50%) Clustering
3 6 (6.82%) Replication
4 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.68%) Reinsurance
5 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.27%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Derivative
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 52 (59.09%) Analytics
3 46 (52.27%) ETL
4 38 (43.18%) Data Engineering
5 30 (34.09%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (32.95%) Agile
6 29 (32.95%) CI/CD
7 27 (30.68%) Data Governance
7 27 (30.68%) Data Pipeline
8 26 (29.55%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (28.41%) Data Transformation
10 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (21.59%) Dimensional Modelling
12 17 (19.32%) Data Architecture
12 17 (19.32%) Data Science
13 14 (15.91%) Logical Data Model
13 14 (15.91%) Migration
13 14 (15.91%) Physical Data Model
13 14 (15.91%) Scrum
13 14 (15.91%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 64 (72.73%) SQL
2 36 (40.91%) Python
3 10 (11.36%) T-SQL
4 8 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.27%) Bash
6 2 (2.27%) IronPython
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) Degree
3 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.41%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (48.86%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.23%) GDPR
3 4 (4.55%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.41%) QA
4 3 (3.41%) Solvency II
5 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) Terraform
2 5 (5.68%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (21.59%) Databricks
2 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.09%) Informatica
3 8 (9.09%) Sparx
4 7 (7.95%) Google
5 4 (4.55%) Talend
6 3 (3.41%) Greenplum
7 2 (2.27%) Avaloq
7 2 (2.27%) Oracle
7 2 (2.27%) Qualtrics
7 2 (2.27%) Teradata
8 1 (1.14%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.14%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.14%) Workday