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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 474 529
Rank change year-on-year -15 +55 +121
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 162 58 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.07% 1.04% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 42 44
10th Percentile £412 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% -0.50% -10.71%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £456 £450
% change year-on-year +15.07% +1.39% -12.20%

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 7,819 5,603 7,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.34% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 3,795 5,402
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 99 152
10th Percentile £14.94 £19.52 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.00 £20.93
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.08%
75th Percentile £63.81 £64.13 £53.84
90th Percentile £76.95 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.31 £31.64 £33.93
% change year-on-year +17.92% -6.75% -38.31%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -37 131 £550 +8.64% 22
London -18 88 £531 +1.19% 14
Work from Home -15 56 £600 +26.32% 11
UK excluding London -62 54 £525 +15.07% 17
Scotland +6 16 £500 +11.11%
North of England -59 14 £475 +6.44% 1
North West -32 13 £425 -1.16% 1
Midlands - 12 £495 - 3
West Midlands - 10 £495 - 3
South West -28 9 £650 +42.47% 3
East of England -26 2 £390 -29.09%
South East -60 2 £575 -4.17% 10
East Midlands - 2 £606 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -

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 36 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.47%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) Confluence
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.09%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.62%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 73 (45.06%) Snowflake
2 72 (44.44%) Azure
3 65 (40.12%) AWS
4 62 (38.27%) dbt
5 48 (29.63%) Power Platform
6 27 (16.67%) GCP
7 25 (15.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (12.96%) Amazon S3
8 21 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (11.11%) GitHub
10 14 (8.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (8.02%) Serverless
12 11 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.56%) Dagster
14 8 (4.94%) Matillion
15 6 (3.70%) Fivetran
16 5 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
16 5 (3.09%) Prefect
17 4 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) DSL
1 1 (0.62%) Firewall
1 1 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (37.65%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (29.01%) Power BI
3 30 (18.52%) Data Vault
4 21 (12.96%) Star Schema
5 20 (12.35%) Metadata
6 19 (11.73%) Data Lake
7 14 (8.64%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (8.02%) Tableau
9 11 (6.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (6.79%) Delta Lake
10 7 (4.32%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.70%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (3.09%) Big Data
12 5 (3.09%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.09%) Looker
13 4 (2.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.85%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 20 (12.35%) Git
2 5 (3.09%) GitLab
3 4 (2.47%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.85%) ERwin
4 3 (1.85%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.23%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.62%) JIRA
6 1 (0.62%) Snyk
6 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (38.27%) Finance
2 35 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 31 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.81%) Banking
5 17 (10.49%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.79%) Aviation
7 10 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.70%) Front Office
10 6 (3.70%) Retail
11 4 (2.47%) Law
12 2 (1.23%) Marketing
12 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.62%) Automotive
13 1 (0.62%) Local Government
13 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (45.06%) Data Engineer
2 43 (26.54%) Snowflake Engineer
3 35 (21.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 26 (16.05%) Data Modeller
4 26 (16.05%) Senior
5 20 (12.35%) Architect
5 20 (12.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Data Architect
7 11 (6.79%) Lead
8 10 (6.17%) Developer
8 10 (6.17%) Python Engineer
9 6 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.70%) Finance Modeller
9 6 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (3.70%) Power BI Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.09%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (3.09%) Python Data Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Snowflake Developer
11 4 (2.47%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.35%) Kafka
2 15 (9.26%) PySpark
3 5 (3.09%) OAuth
3 5 (3.09%) OpenID
4 4 (2.47%) JSON
4 4 (2.47%) YAML
5 3 (1.85%) Middleware
6 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.23%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.23%) Pandas
6 2 (1.23%) Snowpark
6 2 (1.23%) XML
7 1 (0.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (0.62%) JWT
7 1 (0.62%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.62%) pytest
7 1 (0.62%) React
7 1 (0.62%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.88%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.79%) Clustering
4 7 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.47%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.85%) Replication
8 2 (1.23%) Derivative
8 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.62%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.62%) IoT
9 1 (0.62%) Mashup
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (79.63%) Data Modelling
2 103 (63.58%) Analytics
3 74 (45.68%) Business Intelligence
4 72 (44.44%) Data Engineering
5 69 (42.59%) ETL
6 65 (40.12%) Data Pipeline
7 52 (32.10%) CI/CD
8 41 (25.31%) Data Transformation
9 40 (24.69%) Dimensional Modelling
10 39 (24.07%) Performance Tuning
11 38 (23.46%) AI
12 34 (20.99%) Data Governance
13 32 (19.75%) Data Architecture
14 30 (18.52%) DevOps
15 25 (15.43%) Agile
15 25 (15.43%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (14.81%) Migration
16 24 (14.81%) Use Case
17 22 (13.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 111 (68.52%) SQL
2 76 (46.91%) Python
3 10 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.56%) Java
5 7 (4.32%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.23%) Bash
7 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.23%) LookML
7 2 (1.23%) R
8 1 (0.62%) Bicep
8 1 (0.62%) C
8 1 (0.62%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) C++
8 1 (0.62%) Cypher
8 1 (0.62%) SHACL
8 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.64%) Degree
3 11 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.70%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.47%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) ACCA
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CIMA
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (31.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.09%) GDPR
3 3 (1.85%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (14.81%) Terraform
2 6 (3.70%) Grafana
3 2 (1.23%) Ansible
3 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 25 (15.43%) Databricks
2 24 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.17%) Informatica
4 6 (3.70%) Google
5 5 (3.09%) Denodo
5 5 (3.09%) SAP
6 4 (2.47%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.47%) Talend
7 3 (1.85%) Oracle
7 3 (1.85%) Sparx
8 2 (1.23%) Greenplum
9 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.62%) FactSet
9 1 (0.62%) IBM
9 1 (0.62%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.62%) Murex
9 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.62%) Workday