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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 491 568
Rank change year-on-year -4 +77 +134
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 124 35 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.12% 0.087%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.82% 0.62% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 29 27
10th Percentile £367 £461 £425
25th Percentile £430 £480 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £581
90th Percentile £688 £705 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -2.44%

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 6,825 5,626 7,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.04% 19.09% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,695 3,869 5,146
10th Percentile £347 £350 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £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 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 96 178
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.04 £24.06 £20.78
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.56 £62.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -29.08%

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 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 11 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 -18 110 £520 -1.89% 28
London +12 78 £500 -6.54% 13
UK excluding London -53 35 £500 +6.67% 18
Work from Home -6 29 £650 +26.83% 14
North of England -54 14 £347 -25.08% 2
North West - 13 £345 - 2
South West - 8 £675 - 3
Scotland - 7 £500 - 1
Midlands -63 4 £550 +15.79%
West Midlands -55 3 £545 +14.74%
South East -43 2 - - 11
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 23 (18.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.61%) Apache
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.61%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.81%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.97%) Azure
2 49 (39.52%) Snowflake
3 39 (31.45%) AWS
4 37 (29.84%) dbt
5 36 (29.03%) Power Platform
6 23 (18.55%) GCP
7 22 (17.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (13.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.26%) GitHub
11 8 (6.45%) Serverless
12 7 (5.65%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.65%) Prefect
13 6 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.84%) Matillion
14 3 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (2.42%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (45.97%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (28.23%) Power BI
3 25 (20.16%) Data Vault
3 25 (20.16%) Metadata
4 17 (13.71%) Data Lake
5 14 (11.29%) Tableau
6 13 (10.48%) Star Schema
7 7 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.03%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.03%) Looker
8 5 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.42%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.42%) OLAP
10 3 (2.42%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Git
2 9 (7.26%) ERwin
3 7 (5.65%) PowerDesigner
4 6 (4.84%) ER Studio
5 4 (3.23%) JIRA
6 3 (2.42%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.61%) Finance
3 30 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.48%) Banking
5 8 (6.45%) Aviation
5 8 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.84%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.03%) Retail
8 3 (2.42%) Law
9 2 (1.61%) Marketing
9 2 (1.61%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Front Office
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (39.52%) Data Engineer
2 22 (17.74%) Data Modeller
2 22 (17.74%) Snowflake Engineer
3 21 (16.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) Lead
5 12 (9.68%) Architect
6 11 (8.87%) Analyst
7 10 (8.06%) Developer
8 9 (7.26%) Data Analyst
9 8 (6.45%) Lead Data Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Senior
10 6 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Finance Modeller
11 5 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 5 (4.03%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.03%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Consultant
12 4 (3.23%) DBA
12 4 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.90%) PySpark
2 5 (4.03%) Kafka
2 5 (4.03%) Middleware
3 4 (3.23%) JSON
4 3 (2.42%) Pandas
4 3 (2.42%) XML
4 3 (2.42%) YAML
5 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.61%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.61%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.61%) Node.js
5 2 (1.61%) React
5 2 (1.61%) REST
6 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.81%) FIXML
6 1 (0.81%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.81%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 14 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.29%) Clustering
3 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.65%) Replication
4 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.42%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.61%) Derivative
5 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Equities
6 1 (0.81%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (82.26%) Data Modelling
2 75 (60.48%) Analytics
3 62 (50.00%) ETL
4 61 (49.19%) Data Engineering
5 47 (37.90%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (35.48%) CI/CD
7 39 (31.45%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (29.03%) Data Governance
8 36 (29.03%) Performance Tuning
9 32 (25.81%) Data Transformation
10 31 (25.00%) Agile
11 29 (23.39%) Data Architecture
12 28 (22.58%) Dimensional Modelling
13 27 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (20.16%) Data Science
15 22 (17.74%) Use Case
16 20 (16.13%) DevOps
17 19 (15.32%) AI
18 17 (13.71%) Logical Data Model
18 17 (13.71%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 87 (70.16%) SQL
2 57 (45.97%) Python
3 10 (8.06%) T-SQL
4 8 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (6.45%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.42%) Bash
6 2 (1.61%) IronPython
6 2 (1.61%) R
7 1 (0.81%) Bicep
7 1 (0.81%) Java
7 1 (0.81%) LookML
7 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.87%) Degree
3 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.42%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.61%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.81%) ACCA
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) CIMA
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (41.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.26%) GDPR
3 4 (3.23%) QA
4 3 (2.42%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (4.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.29%) Terraform
2 6 (4.84%) Ansible
3 2 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (15.32%) Databricks
1 19 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.06%) Informatica
3 7 (5.65%) Google
4 6 (4.84%) Talend
5 5 (4.03%) Sparx
6 4 (3.23%) Greenplum
7 3 (2.42%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.61%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.61%) Oracle
8 2 (1.61%) SAP
9 1 (0.81%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.81%) Charles River
9 1 (0.81%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.81%) Murex
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce