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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 507 522
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 +116
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 154 59 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 0.99% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 42 36
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £430 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -12.84% -0.91%
75th Percentile £650 £570 £588
90th Percentile £738 £671 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £456 £425
% change year-on-year +16.71% +7.35% -22.73%

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 8,158 5,984 7,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.17% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,435 4,045 4,978
10th Percentile £356 £344 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 91 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £20.75 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.88 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.70 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -38.77%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -48 124 £550 +12.82% 23
London -44 82 £544 +3.57% 14
UK excluding London -55 54 £533 +16.71% 10
Work from Home -27 53 £625 +31.58% 9
Scotland +2 16 £525 +16.67%
North of England -68 12 £525 +17.65%
Midlands - 12 £450 - 1
North West -31 11 £500 +16.28%
West Midlands - 11 £495 - 1
South West -28 10 £675 +47.95% 4
East of England -20 3 £390 -29.09% 1
South East -72 2 £638 +6.25% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £400 -

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 35 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.90%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.95%) Confluence
4 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.90%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.65%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (45.45%) Snowflake
2 64 (41.56%) Azure
3 63 (40.91%) dbt
4 59 (38.31%) AWS
5 39 (25.32%) Power Platform
6 27 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (16.23%) GCP
8 20 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (12.34%) Amazon S3
10 15 (9.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (9.09%) GitHub
11 14 (9.09%) Serverless
12 11 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (6.49%) Dagster
13 10 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (4.55%) Fivetran
15 5 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (2.60%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) DSL
1 2 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) SSH
2 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (37.66%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (24.68%) Power BI
3 26 (16.88%) Data Vault
4 21 (13.64%) Star Schema
5 19 (12.34%) Data Lake
6 18 (11.69%) Metadata
7 15 (9.74%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (7.79%) Tableau
9 10 (6.49%) Delta Lake
10 9 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.19%) SQL Server
12 7 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (3.90%) BigQuery
14 5 (3.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 5 (3.25%) Big Data
14 5 (3.25%) Relational Database
14 5 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.95%) Looker
16 3 (1.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (12.99%) Git
2 6 (3.90%) GitLab
3 4 (2.60%) JIRA
4 3 (1.95%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.30%) ERwin
5 2 (1.30%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.65%) Snyk
6 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.65%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (38.96%) Finance
2 30 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 29 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.29%) Banking
5 16 (10.39%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.49%) Aviation
7 8 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.55%) Front Office
9 6 (3.90%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.60%) Law
10 4 (2.60%) Retail
11 2 (1.30%) Marketing
11 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.65%) Automotive
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 39 (25.32%) Snowflake Engineer
3 29 (18.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 24 (15.58%) Data Modeller
4 24 (15.58%) Senior
5 19 (12.34%) Architect
6 18 (11.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) Data Architect
8 11 (7.14%) Developer
9 10 (6.49%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Lead
11 6 (3.90%) Power BI Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) Snowflake Developer
12 5 (3.25%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.25%) Finance Modeller
12 5 (3.25%) Power BI Developer
13 4 (2.60%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.99%) Kafka
2 11 (7.14%) PySpark
3 6 (3.90%) OAuth
4 5 (3.25%) OpenID
4 5 (3.25%) YAML
5 3 (1.95%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.30%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.30%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.30%) JSON
6 2 (1.30%) JWT
6 2 (1.30%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.30%) NumPy
6 2 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.30%) Pandas
6 2 (1.30%) pytest
6 2 (1.30%) React
6 2 (1.30%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.30%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.74%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.49%) Clustering
4 9 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.25%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.60%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.60%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.95%) Replication
7 3 (1.95%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.30%) Derivative
8 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Equities
9 1 (0.65%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (77.92%) Data Modelling
2 98 (63.64%) Analytics
3 68 (44.16%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (41.56%) Data Engineering
4 64 (41.56%) ETL
5 63 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (31.82%) CI/CD
7 41 (26.62%) Dimensional Modelling
8 40 (25.97%) Data Transformation
9 34 (22.08%) AI
10 33 (21.43%) Data Governance
11 32 (20.78%) Data Architecture
11 32 (20.78%) Performance Tuning
12 28 (18.18%) DevOps
13 26 (16.88%) Migration
14 25 (16.23%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (15.58%) Agile
16 21 (13.64%) Physical Data Model
17 20 (12.99%) Logical Data Model
18 19 (12.34%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 104 (67.53%) SQL
2 69 (44.81%) Python
3 9 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.19%) Java
5 6 (3.90%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.30%) Bash
6 2 (1.30%) Bicep
6 2 (1.30%) Cypher
6 2 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.30%) R
6 2 (1.30%) SHACL
6 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.65%) C
7 1 (0.65%) C#
7 1 (0.65%) C++
7 1 (0.65%) LookML
Qualifications
1 14 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.49%) Degree
3 8 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.90%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.60%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (31.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.60%) QA
3 3 (1.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (14.29%) Terraform
2 7 (4.55%) Grafana
3 2 (1.30%) Argo
3 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (17.53%) Databricks
2 22 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.49%) Informatica
4 6 (3.90%) Google
5 5 (3.25%) Denodo
6 4 (2.60%) SAP
7 3 (1.95%) Oracle
7 3 (1.95%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.95%) Talend
8 2 (1.30%) FactSet
8 2 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.30%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.30%) Sparx
9 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.65%) Confluent
9 1 (0.65%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.65%) Murex
9 1 (0.65%) Snow
9 1 (0.65%) Workday