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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 490 515
Rank change year-on-year -70 +25 +96
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 131 68 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.62% 1.13% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 48 35
10th Percentile £413 £357 £413
25th Percentile £463 £419 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £673 £600 £594
90th Percentile £731 £700 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £421 £425
% change year-on-year +30.56% -0.88% -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 8,110 6,002 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.87% 18.16% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,395 4,007 4,601
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 82 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.58 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.88 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -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 8 October 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 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 8 October 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 -58 103 £575 +9.52% 60
London -59 70 £550 - 46
UK excluding London -74 47 £550 +30.56% 26
Work from Home -49 46 £625 +31.58% 34
Scotland -3 16 £519 +15.28% 9
South West -30 10 £650 +42.47% 4
Midlands -42 8 £450 +9.09% 1
West Midlands - 8 £450 - 1
North West -43 7 £588 +60.08% 2
North of England -59 7 £588 +60.08% 3
South East - 4 £575 - 6
East of England -36 3 £390 -29.09%

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 24 (18.32%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.82%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.76%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 72 (54.96%) Snowflake
2 62 (47.33%) dbt
3 52 (39.69%) AWS
4 47 (35.88%) Azure
5 29 (22.14%) Power Platform
6 19 (14.50%) GitHub
7 18 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (12.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (11.45%) GCP
10 12 (9.16%) Amazon S3
11 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (7.63%) Serverless
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (4.58%) Dagster
13 6 (4.58%) Fivetran
13 6 (4.58%) SaaS
14 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) DSL
1 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) SSH
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.30%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (22.14%) Power BI
3 14 (10.69%) Data Vault
4 12 (9.16%) Semantic Layer
5 10 (7.63%) Data Lake
5 10 (7.63%) Metadata
6 9 (6.87%) Star Schema
6 9 (6.87%) Tableau
7 7 (5.34%) Delta Lake
8 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.82%) Big Data
9 5 (3.82%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.05%) Looker
11 3 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (15.27%) Git
2 7 (5.34%) JIRA
3 6 (4.58%) GitLab
4 2 (1.53%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.53%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) ERwin
5 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.76%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.76%) Snyk
5 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.76%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (45.04%) Finance
2 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.74%) Banking
5 13 (9.92%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Aviation
6 7 (5.34%) Front Office
6 7 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Retail
9 2 (1.53%) Marketing
9 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.76%) Automotive
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (42.75%) Data Engineer
2 35 (26.72%) Snowflake Engineer
3 25 (19.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 24 (18.32%) Senior
5 19 (14.50%) Architect
6 18 (13.74%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (11.45%) Data Architect
8 13 (9.92%) Data Modeller
9 11 (8.40%) Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Consultant
11 6 (4.58%) Power BI Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Data Consultant
12 5 (3.82%) Databricks Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Python Data Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Kafka Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.98%) Terraform
2 13 (9.92%) Kafka
3 9 (6.87%) PySpark
4 5 (3.82%) React
4 5 (3.82%) YAML
5 4 (3.05%) .NET
6 3 (2.29%) OAuth
7 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.53%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.53%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.53%) JSON
7 2 (1.53%) JWT
7 2 (1.53%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.53%) NumPy
7 2 (1.53%) OpenID
7 2 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.53%) Pandas
7 2 (1.53%) pytest
7 2 (1.53%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.53%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
1 15 (11.45%) Data Structures
2 8 (6.11%) AI Agents
3 7 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.82%) Clustering
5 5 (3.82%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.82%) Reinsurance
6 4 (3.05%) IoT
7 3 (2.29%) Replication
7 3 (2.29%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.53%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.53%) Derivative
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.53%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.76%) AS400
9 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
1 1 (0.76%) Unix
1 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (76.34%) Data Modelling
2 70 (53.44%) Analytics
3 62 (47.33%) Data Engineering
4 50 (38.17%) Business Intelligence
5 49 (37.40%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (31.30%) CI/CD
7 40 (30.53%) ETL
8 34 (25.95%) Data Transformation
9 33 (25.19%) AI
9 33 (25.19%) Dimensional Modelling
10 24 (18.32%) DevOps
10 24 (18.32%) Performance Optimisation
11 22 (16.79%) Data Governance
11 22 (16.79%) Migration
12 21 (16.03%) Agile
13 19 (14.50%) Data Architecture
13 19 (14.50%) Validation
14 18 (13.74%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (12.98%) Data Integration
16 16 (12.21%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 90 (68.70%) SQL
2 63 (48.09%) Python
3 5 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (3.82%) Java
3 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.05%) C#
5 3 (2.29%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.53%) Bicep
6 2 (1.53%) Cypher
6 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.53%) LookML
6 2 (1.53%) R
6 2 (1.53%) SHACL
6 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.76%) Bash
7 1 (0.76%) C
7 1 (0.76%) C++
7 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.05%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.05%) Degree
3 4 (3.05%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.29%) GDPR
3 2 (1.53%) QA
4 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.58%) Grafana
2 2 (1.53%) Argo
2 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Control-M
3 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Databricks
2 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.58%) Informatica
4 4 (3.05%) Oracle
4 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.29%) SAP
5 3 (2.29%) Talend
6 2 (1.53%) Denodo
6 2 (1.53%) FactSet
6 2 (1.53%) Google
6 2 (1.53%) IBM
6 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.53%) Sybase
7 1 (0.76%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.76%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.76%) SGI
7 1 (0.76%) Workday