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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 491 545
Rank change year-on-year +4 +54 +150
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 142 44 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.15% 0.096%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 0.79% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 36 30
10th Percentile £368 £420 £424
25th Percentile £425 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -14.47%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £584
90th Percentile £728 £738 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% -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 7,251 5,589 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 19.08% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 3,854 5,175
10th Percentile £350 £352 £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 £595 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £485
% change year-on-year -2.71% +0.77% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 107 152
10th Percentile £18.00 £21.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.56% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.00 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +59.61% -9.60% -39.70%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -13 124 £500 -4.76% 23
London +1 85 £500 -7.41% 13
UK excluding London -56 43 £500 +6.67% 15
Work from Home -11 37 £650 +28.71% 10
North of England -58 15 £347 -29.82% 2
North West -22 14 £345 -34.24% 2
South West -19 9 £675 +68.75% 2
Scotland - 8 £500 -
Midlands -61 7 £495 +4.21% 1
West Midlands -54 5 £495 +4.21% 1
South East -52 3 £575 +8.24% 9
East Midlands - 2 £606 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East of England - 1 £400 - 1

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 30 (21.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (47.18%) Azure
2 58 (40.85%) Snowflake
3 48 (33.80%) dbt
4 47 (33.10%) AWS
5 44 (30.99%) Power Platform
6 27 (19.01%) GCP
7 26 (18.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (14.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (11.27%) Amazon S3
10 14 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (7.75%) GitHub
12 10 (7.04%) Prefect
12 10 (7.04%) Serverless
13 9 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (5.63%) Dagster
15 7 (4.93%) Matillion
16 6 (4.23%) Fivetran
16 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
18 4 (2.82%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (47.18%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (30.28%) Power BI
3 28 (19.72%) Data Vault
4 24 (16.90%) Metadata
5 18 (12.68%) Data Lake
6 17 (11.97%) Star Schema
6 17 (11.97%) Tableau
7 10 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (5.63%) Semantic Layer
9 6 (4.23%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.52%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.52%) OLAP
10 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.82%) Looker
11 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (12.68%) Git
2 5 (3.52%) ERwin
3 4 (2.82%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (2.11%) ER Studio
4 3 (2.11%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.70%) Snyk
6 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (29.58%) Finance
2 35 (24.65%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (23.94%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.86%) Banking
5 10 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.34%) Aviation
7 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.93%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.82%) Law
10 3 (2.11%) Retail
11 2 (1.41%) Front Office
11 2 (1.41%) Marketing
11 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.41%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (43.66%) Data Engineer
2 31 (21.83%) Snowflake Engineer
3 30 (21.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 22 (15.49%) Data Modeller
5 16 (11.27%) Architect
6 15 (10.56%) Senior
7 14 (9.86%) Lead
8 13 (9.15%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (7.04%) Analyst
10 9 (6.34%) Data Analyst
11 8 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Developer
11 8 (5.63%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.93%) Data Architect
13 6 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 6 (4.23%) Finance Modeller
14 5 (3.52%) Azure Data Engineer
15 4 (2.82%) Data Analytics Engineer
15 4 (2.82%) DBA
15 4 (2.82%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.68%) PySpark
2 11 (7.75%) Kafka
3 5 (3.52%) JSON
3 5 (3.52%) Middleware
3 5 (3.52%) YAML
4 4 (2.82%) OAuth
4 4 (2.82%) OpenID
5 3 (2.11%) Pandas
5 3 (2.11%) XML
6 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.41%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.41%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.41%) Node.js
6 2 (1.41%) React
7 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.70%) REST
7 1 (0.70%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.97%) Clustering
3 11 (7.75%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.93%) Replication
5 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.11%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.70%) Derivative
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Equities
7 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) IoT
7 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (82.39%) Data Modelling
2 88 (61.97%) Analytics
3 72 (50.70%) ETL
4 67 (47.18%) Data Engineering
5 64 (45.07%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (36.62%) CI/CD
6 52 (36.62%) Data Pipeline
7 46 (32.39%) Performance Tuning
8 39 (27.46%) Data Governance
9 38 (26.76%) Dimensional Modelling
10 36 (25.35%) Data Transformation
11 35 (24.65%) Data Architecture
12 30 (21.13%) Agile
12 30 (21.13%) Data Science
13 27 (19.01%) AI
14 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (17.61%) DevOps
16 21 (14.79%) Use Case
17 20 (14.08%) Performance Optimisation
18 19 (13.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 103 (72.54%) SQL
2 66 (46.48%) Python
3 13 (9.15%) T-SQL
4 11 (7.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (5.63%) PL/SQL
6 5 (3.52%) Java
7 3 (2.11%) Bash
8 2 (1.41%) IronPython
8 2 (1.41%) R
9 1 (0.70%) Bicep
9 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.70%) LookML
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.15%) Degree
3 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.82%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.82%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) ACCA
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) CIMA
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (40.85%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.52%) GDPR
3 4 (2.82%) QA
4 3 (2.11%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (14.08%) Terraform
2 6 (4.23%) Ansible
3 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.79%) Databricks
3 13 (9.15%) Informatica
4 9 (6.34%) Google
5 6 (4.23%) Talend
6 4 (2.82%) Denodo
6 4 (2.82%) Greenplum
6 4 (2.82%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.82%) Sparx
7 2 (1.41%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.41%) SAP
8 1 (0.70%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.70%) Charles River
8 1 (0.70%) IBM
8 1 (0.70%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.70%) Murex
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.70%) Teradata