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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 491 518
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +118
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 152 60 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.86% 1.00% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 43 36
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £429 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £565 £591
90th Percentile £738 £666 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.88% -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 8,180 5,988 7,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.09% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,457 4,031 4,956
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
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 257 93 100
10th Percentile £15.86 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.00 £27.11 £19.90
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.48%

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 17 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 17 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 -48 121 £550 +15.79% 30
London -36 79 £550 +4.76% 24
Work from Home -31 55 £625 +31.58% 9
UK excluding London -58 55 £540 +20.00% 8
Scotland +5 17 £525 +16.67%
Midlands - 12 £450 -
South West -33 11 £663 +45.21% 1
North of England -63 11 £550 +23.25% 2
West Midlands - 11 £495 -
North West -33 10 £575 +33.72% 2
East of England -20 3 £390 -29.09%
South East - 2 £638 - 5
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 (23.03%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.97%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.95%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.66%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.39%) Snowflake
2 64 (42.11%) dbt
3 63 (41.45%) Azure
4 59 (38.82%) AWS
5 39 (25.66%) Power Platform
6 27 (17.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (16.45%) GCP
8 20 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (11.84%) Amazon S3
10 16 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (9.21%) GitHub
12 13 (8.55%) Serverless
13 10 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (5.92%) Dagster
15 7 (4.61%) Fivetran
16 5 (3.29%) Amazon Kinesis
17 4 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
17 4 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
17 4 (2.63%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) DSL
1 2 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) Network Security
2 1 (0.66%) SSH
2 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (25.00%) Power BI
3 26 (17.11%) Data Vault
4 22 (14.47%) Star Schema
5 18 (11.84%) Data Lake
5 18 (11.84%) Metadata
6 15 (9.87%) Semantic Layer
7 12 (7.89%) Tableau
8 10 (6.58%) Delta Lake
9 9 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.26%) SQL Server
11 7 (4.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (3.95%) BigQuery
13 5 (3.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (3.29%) Big Data
13 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
13 5 (3.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (1.97%) Looker
15 3 (1.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (12.50%) Git
2 6 (3.95%) GitLab
3 4 (2.63%) JIRA
4 3 (1.97%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.32%) ERwin
5 2 (1.32%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.66%) Snyk
6 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.66%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (40.79%) Finance
2 29 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 23 (15.13%) Banking
4 16 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 10 (6.58%) Aviation
6 8 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Front Office
6 8 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.29%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.63%) Law
8 4 (2.63%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.66%) Automotive
10 1 (0.66%) Local Government
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (40.79%) Data Engineer
2 40 (26.32%) Snowflake Engineer
3 30 (19.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 25 (16.45%) Senior
5 24 (15.79%) Data Modeller
6 19 (12.50%) Architect
6 19 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (9.87%) Data Architect
8 10 (6.58%) Developer
8 10 (6.58%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Lead
11 6 (3.95%) Power BI Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Python Data Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.29%) Finance Modeller
12 5 (3.29%) Power BI Developer
12 5 (3.29%) Snowflake Developer
13 4 (2.63%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.16%) Kafka
2 11 (7.24%) PySpark
3 6 (3.95%) OAuth
4 5 (3.29%) OpenID
4 5 (3.29%) YAML
5 3 (1.97%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.32%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.32%) JSON
6 2 (1.32%) JWT
6 2 (1.32%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.32%) NumPy
6 2 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.32%) Pandas
6 2 (1.32%) pytest
6 2 (1.32%) React
6 2 (1.32%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.32%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.66%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.21%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.92%) Clustering
3 9 (5.92%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.29%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.63%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.97%) Replication
6 3 (1.97%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.32%) Derivative
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (77.63%) Data Modelling
2 96 (63.16%) Analytics
3 68 (44.74%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (42.11%) Data Engineering
5 62 (40.79%) Data Pipeline
6 61 (40.13%) ETL
7 45 (29.61%) CI/CD
8 41 (26.97%) Data Transformation
8 41 (26.97%) Dimensional Modelling
9 34 (22.37%) AI
10 33 (21.71%) Data Governance
11 31 (20.39%) Data Architecture
12 30 (19.74%) Performance Tuning
13 28 (18.42%) Migration
14 27 (17.76%) DevOps
15 24 (15.79%) Agile
15 24 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (13.82%) Physical Data Model
17 20 (13.16%) Logical Data Model
18 18 (11.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 104 (68.42%) SQL
2 67 (44.08%) Python
3 9 (5.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.26%) Java
5 6 (3.95%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.32%) Bash
6 2 (1.32%) Bicep
6 2 (1.32%) Cypher
6 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.32%) R
6 2 (1.32%) SHACL
6 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.66%) C
7 1 (0.66%) C#
7 1 (0.66%) C++
7 1 (0.66%) LookML
7 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.58%) Degree
3 8 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.95%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.63%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (29.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.63%) QA
3 3 (1.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (13.16%) Terraform
2 7 (4.61%) Grafana
3 2 (1.32%) Argo
3 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.66%) Ansible
4 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (17.76%) Databricks
2 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.58%) Informatica
4 6 (3.95%) Google
5 5 (3.29%) Denodo
6 4 (2.63%) SAP
7 3 (1.97%) Oracle
7 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.97%) Talend
8 2 (1.32%) FactSet
8 2 (1.32%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.32%) Sparx
9 1 (0.66%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.66%) Confluent
9 1 (0.66%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.66%) Murex
9 1 (0.66%) Snow
9 1 (0.66%) Workday