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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 501 552
Rank change year-on-year +15 +51 +160
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 115 28 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.091% 0.086%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 0.49% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 25 25
10th Percentile £344 £465 £425
25th Percentile £404 £506 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £588
90th Percentile £689 £775 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,653 5,702 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,563 3,816 5,100
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 90 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -24.01%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.10 £70.38 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £30.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +82.83% -25.47% -28.04%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +1 103 £500 -5.66% 15
London +1 72 £525 -0.94% 8
UK excluding London -25 33 £438 -7.89% 12
Work from Home -3 28 £600 +16.79% 12
North of England - 16 £344 -
North West - 15 £344 -
South West - 5 £675 - 3
Scotland - 5 £500 -
Midlands -63 3 £613 +28.95% 1
South East -28 2 - - 5
East of England - 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 2 £613 -
West Midlands -58 1 - - 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 21 (18.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.87%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.87%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (49.57%) Azure
1 57 (49.57%) Snowflake
2 41 (35.65%) AWS
3 38 (33.04%) dbt
4 28 (24.35%) Power Platform
5 24 (20.87%) GCP
6 19 (16.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (11.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.83%) Prefect
9 9 (7.83%) Serverless
10 8 (6.96%) GitHub
11 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.22%) Matillion
12 5 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.48%) Azure Functions
14 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (46.09%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (24.35%) Power BI
3 23 (20.00%) Data Vault
4 22 (19.13%) Metadata
5 14 (12.17%) Data Lake
6 12 (10.43%) Tableau
7 7 (6.09%) Star Schema
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.35%) Looker
9 5 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.35%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.48%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.61%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.61%) OLAP
11 3 (2.61%) Redshift Spectrum
11 3 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.74%) Parquet
12 2 (1.74%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Git
2 13 (11.30%) ERwin
3 11 (9.57%) PowerDesigner
4 10 (8.70%) ER Studio
5 8 (6.96%) JIRA
6 3 (2.61%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 30 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (22.61%) Finance
4 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.09%) Banking
5 7 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Aviation
7 5 (4.35%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Law
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (36.52%) Data Engineer
2 20 (17.39%) Snowflake Engineer
3 19 (16.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 18 (15.65%) Data Modeller
5 16 (13.91%) Lead
6 14 (12.17%) Architect
7 12 (10.43%) Analyst
8 11 (9.57%) Developer
9 10 (8.70%) Data Analyst
10 7 (6.09%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Azure Developer
11 5 (4.35%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Senior
11 5 (4.35%) Snowflake Developer
12 4 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (3.48%) Consultant
12 4 (3.48%) Data Consultant
12 4 (3.48%) DBA
12 4 (3.48%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.43%) PySpark
2 5 (4.35%) Middleware
3 4 (3.48%) JSON
4 3 (2.61%) Pandas
4 3 (2.61%) XML
4 3 (2.61%) YAML
5 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.74%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.74%) Kafka
5 2 (1.74%) Node.js
5 2 (1.74%) React
5 2 (1.74%) REST
6 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.87%) FIXML
6 1 (0.87%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.87%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Data Structures
2 16 (13.91%) Clustering
3 9 (7.83%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.09%) Replication
5 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.48%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.74%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.87%) Derivative
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (84.35%) Data Modelling
2 67 (58.26%) Analytics
3 56 (48.70%) Data Engineering
3 56 (48.70%) ETL
4 39 (33.91%) CI/CD
5 38 (33.04%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (30.43%) Data Governance
7 34 (29.57%) Performance Tuning
8 33 (28.70%) Agile
8 33 (28.70%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (27.83%) Data Transformation
10 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (20.87%) Dimensional Modelling
12 23 (20.00%) Data Architecture
13 22 (19.13%) Data Science
13 22 (19.13%) Use Case
14 16 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (13.91%) DevOps
14 16 (13.91%) Logical Data Model
14 16 (13.91%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 82 (71.30%) SQL
2 51 (44.35%) Python
3 11 (9.57%) PL/SQL
3 11 (9.57%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.61%) Bash
6 2 (1.74%) IronPython
6 2 (1.74%) R
7 1 (0.87%) Bicep
7 1 (0.87%) Java
7 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.87%) LookML
7 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.83%) Degree
3 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.61%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.74%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.87%) ACCA
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.87%) CIMA
7 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (47.83%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.57%) GDPR
3 4 (3.48%) QA
4 3 (2.61%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.61%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.17%) Terraform
2 6 (5.22%) Ansible
3 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Databricks
2 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.83%) Informatica
4 8 (6.96%) Sparx
5 6 (5.22%) Talend
6 5 (4.35%) Google
7 4 (3.48%) Greenplum
8 3 (2.61%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (1.74%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle
10 1 (0.87%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.87%) SAP
10 1 (0.87%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.87%) Workday