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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 482 549
Rank change year-on-year -16 +67 +134
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 132 43 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.15% 0.093%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.86% 0.78% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 37 29
10th Percentile £367 £428 £423
25th Percentile £425 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £721 £738 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -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 7,097 5,538 7,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.93% 18.91% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,872 3,849 5,153
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £757 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £488
% change year-on-year -2.81% +0.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 102 163
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.07
25th Percentile £30.52 £24.38 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £55.63
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.11 £38.50
% change year-on-year +66.09% -21.81% -30.00%

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 March 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 13 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 March 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 -29 116 £508 -3.33% 25
London -10 81 £500 -5.66% 13
UK excluding London -64 38 £525 +10.53% 16
Work from Home +5 36 £550 +7.32% 12
North of England -52 14 £347 -29.82% 2
North West -29 13 £345 -34.24% 2
South West - 10 £675 - 2
Scotland - 8 £500 - 1
Midlands -63 4 £550 +15.79%
West Midlands -53 3 £545 +14.74%
South East -45 2 - - 8
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £813 -

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 27 (20.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.52%) Apache
2 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.76%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.21%) Azure
2 53 (40.15%) Snowflake
3 43 (32.58%) AWS
3 43 (32.58%) Power Platform
4 41 (31.06%) dbt
5 25 (18.94%) GCP
6 24 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (15.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.82%) GitHub
9 9 (6.82%) Prefect
10 8 (6.06%) Serverless
11 6 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.55%) Matillion
12 5 (3.79%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.79%) Dagster
12 5 (3.79%) Fivetran
13 4 (3.03%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (48.48%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (31.82%) Power BI
3 27 (20.45%) Data Vault
4 23 (17.42%) Metadata
5 18 (13.64%) Data Lake
6 17 (12.88%) Tableau
7 16 (12.12%) Star Schema
8 9 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (5.30%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.79%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.79%) Looker
10 5 (3.79%) OLAP
10 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.79%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.03%) SQL Server
12 3 (2.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) Git
2 6 (4.55%) ERwin
3 4 (3.03%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (2.27%) ER Studio
4 3 (2.27%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.76%) JIRA
6 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (28.79%) Finance
2 35 (26.52%) Social Skills
3 33 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.61%) Banking
5 9 (6.82%) Aviation
6 8 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.30%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.27%) Law
8 3 (2.27%) Retail
9 2 (1.52%) Marketing
9 2 (1.52%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Front Office
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (40.15%) Data Engineer
2 25 (18.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 25 (18.94%) Snowflake Engineer
3 22 (16.67%) Data Modeller
4 15 (11.36%) Lead
5 14 (10.61%) Architect
6 11 (8.33%) Analyst
7 10 (7.58%) Developer
7 10 (7.58%) Senior
8 9 (6.82%) Data Analyst
9 8 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Finance Modeller
12 5 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
13 4 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (3.03%) Consultant
13 4 (3.03%) Data Consultant
13 4 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.12%) PySpark
2 10 (7.58%) Kafka
3 5 (3.79%) Middleware
4 4 (3.03%) JSON
5 3 (2.27%) Pandas
5 3 (2.27%) XML
5 3 (2.27%) YAML
6 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.52%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.52%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.52%) Node.js
6 2 (1.52%) OAuth
6 2 (1.52%) OpenID
6 2 (1.52%) React
6 2 (1.52%) REST
7 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.76%) FIXML
7 1 (0.76%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) Cloud Native
1 15 (11.36%) Clustering
1 15 (11.36%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.30%) Replication
3 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.27%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.52%) Derivative
4 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Equities
5 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.76%) IoT
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (81.82%) Data Modelling
2 82 (62.12%) Analytics
3 68 (51.52%) ETL
4 64 (48.48%) Data Engineering
5 57 (43.18%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (34.09%) CI/CD
6 45 (34.09%) Data Pipeline
7 41 (31.06%) Performance Tuning
8 34 (25.76%) Data Governance
9 33 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
10 32 (24.24%) Data Architecture
10 32 (24.24%) Data Transformation
11 31 (23.48%) Agile
12 28 (21.21%) Data Science
13 26 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (18.94%) AI
15 21 (15.91%) DevOps
15 21 (15.91%) Use Case
16 18 (13.64%) Migration
16 18 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 95 (71.97%) SQL
2 63 (47.73%) Python
3 12 (9.09%) T-SQL
4 11 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (6.06%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.27%) Bash
6 3 (2.27%) Java
7 2 (1.52%) IronPython
7 2 (1.52%) R
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) LookML
8 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.85%) Degree
3 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.03%) SnowPro
6 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.27%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) ACCA
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) CIMA
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (40.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.30%) GDPR
3 4 (3.03%) QA
4 3 (2.27%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.36%) Terraform
2 6 (4.55%) Ansible
3 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.64%) Databricks
3 14 (10.61%) Informatica
4 9 (6.82%) Google
5 7 (5.30%) Talend
6 5 (3.79%) Sparx
7 4 (3.03%) Greenplum
7 4 (3.03%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.52%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.52%) Denodo
8 2 (1.52%) Oracle
8 2 (1.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.76%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.76%) Charles River
9 1 (0.76%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.76%) Murex
9 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Teradata