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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 467 519
Rank change year-on-year -22 +52 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 156 58 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 44 45
10th Percentile £405 £413 £413
25th Percentile £453 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% -0.50% -14.53%
75th Percentile £650 £606 £588
90th Percentile £738 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% -10.00%

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 7,607 5,524 7,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.19% 18.68% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,082 3,751 5,338
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% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 102 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.00 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.18% -12.53% -31.09%
75th Percentile £69.22 £65.90 £53.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £34.47
% change year-on-year +20.89% -8.20% -38.12%

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 14 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 14 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 -38 126 £550 +8.64% 25
London -34 88 £531 +1.19% 14
Work from Home -8 53 £625 +31.58% 7
UK excluding London -73 51 £525 +13.51% 18
Scotland -3 17 £500 +11.11%
North of England -56 13 £425 -4.76% 3
North West -31 12 £413 -4.01% 3
South West -16 10 £663 +45.21% 1
Midlands - 7 £495 - 5
West Midlands - 5 £495 - 4
South East -62 3 £575 +8.24% 7
East of England -28 2 £390 -29.09% 1
East Midlands - 2 £606 - 1
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 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.56%) Apache
3 3 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 73 (46.79%) Snowflake
2 72 (46.15%) Azure
3 64 (41.03%) AWS
4 54 (34.62%) dbt
5 45 (28.85%) Power Platform
6 28 (17.95%) GCP
7 23 (14.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (13.46%) Amazon S3
8 21 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (11.54%) GitHub
10 15 (9.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (8.33%) Serverless
12 11 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.77%) Dagster
14 8 (5.13%) Matillion
15 6 (3.85%) Fivetran
15 6 (3.85%) Prefect
16 5 (3.21%) Amazon Kinesis
17 4 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) DSL
1 1 (0.64%) Firewall
1 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (39.10%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (28.21%) Power BI
3 30 (19.23%) Data Vault
4 21 (13.46%) Data Lake
4 21 (13.46%) Metadata
5 20 (12.82%) Star Schema
6 13 (8.33%) Tableau
7 11 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (7.05%) Semantic Layer
8 9 (5.77%) Delta Lake
9 6 (3.85%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.21%) Big Data
10 5 (3.21%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.92%) Power Query
12 3 (1.92%) Redshift Spectrum
12 3 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (10.90%) Git
2 5 (3.21%) GitLab
3 4 (2.56%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.92%) ERwin
4 3 (1.92%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.28%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.64%) JIRA
6 1 (0.64%) Snyk
6 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (35.26%) Finance
2 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 31 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.74%) Banking
5 17 (10.90%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.05%) Aviation
7 10 (6.41%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.77%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.85%) Retail
10 4 (2.56%) Front Office
10 4 (2.56%) Law
11 2 (1.28%) Marketing
11 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.64%) Automotive
12 1 (0.64%) Local Government
12 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (46.79%) Data Engineer
2 44 (28.21%) Snowflake Engineer
3 36 (23.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 26 (16.67%) Data Modeller
5 24 (15.38%) Senior
6 20 (12.82%) Architect
6 20 (12.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (8.33%) Data Architect
7 13 (8.33%) Lead
8 8 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (5.13%) Python Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Developer
9 6 (3.85%) Finance Modeller
10 5 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 5 (3.21%) Power BI Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Kafka Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.82%) Kafka
2 16 (10.26%) PySpark
3 5 (3.21%) JSON
3 5 (3.21%) OAuth
3 5 (3.21%) OpenID
4 4 (2.56%) Middleware
4 4 (2.56%) YAML
5 3 (1.92%) XML
6 2 (1.28%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.28%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.28%) Pandas
6 2 (1.28%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.64%) JWT
7 1 (0.64%) Model Context Protocol
7 1 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.64%) pytest
7 1 (0.64%) React
7 1 (0.64%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.90%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.69%) Clustering
4 6 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.56%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.56%) Replication
7 3 (1.92%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.28%) Derivative
8 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.28%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.64%) IoT
9 1 (0.64%) Mashup
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (76.28%) Data Modelling
2 95 (60.90%) Analytics
3 75 (48.08%) Data Engineering
4 71 (45.51%) ETL
5 68 (43.59%) Business Intelligence
6 64 (41.03%) Data Pipeline
7 50 (32.05%) CI/CD
8 40 (25.64%) Performance Tuning
9 39 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
10 36 (23.08%) AI
11 35 (22.44%) Data Governance
12 34 (21.79%) Data Transformation
13 31 (19.87%) Data Architecture
14 30 (19.23%) DevOps
15 25 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
16 24 (15.38%) Use Case
17 23 (14.74%) Migration
18 22 (14.10%) Agile
18 22 (14.10%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 106 (67.95%) SQL
2 73 (46.79%) Python
3 10 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.77%) Java
5 7 (4.49%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.21%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.92%) R
8 2 (1.28%) Bash
9 1 (0.64%) Bicep
9 1 (0.64%) C
9 1 (0.64%) C++
9 1 (0.64%) Cypher
9 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.64%) LookML
9 1 (0.64%) SHACL
9 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.97%) Degree
3 11 (7.05%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.85%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.64%) ACCA
8 1 (0.64%) CIMA
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (32.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.85%) GDPR
3 3 (1.92%) QA
4 2 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (15.38%) Terraform
2 6 (3.85%) Grafana
3 3 (1.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 25 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.38%) Databricks
3 12 (7.69%) Informatica
4 7 (4.49%) Google
5 5 (3.21%) Denodo
5 5 (3.21%) Talend
6 4 (2.56%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.56%) SAP
7 3 (1.92%) Greenplum
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle
7 3 (1.92%) Sparx
8 1 (0.64%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.64%) Charles River
8 1 (0.64%) FactSet
8 1 (0.64%) IBM
8 1 (0.64%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.64%) Murex
8 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.64%) Salesforce