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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 458 526
Rank change year-on-year -35 +68 +115
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 149 59 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 1.07% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 45 46
10th Percentile £407 £413 £413
25th Percentile £459 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £597
90th Percentile £734 £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 7,464 5,507 7,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 18.84% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,998 3,746 5,288
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -1.71% -4.28%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £761 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 102 152
10th Percentile £14.09 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.80 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.75 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.04% -14.53% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.34 £55.63
90th Percentile £82.05 £77.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 7 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 7 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 -48 120 £540 +5.37% 30
London -32 84 £525 - 22
Work from Home -16 53 £613 +28.95% 13
UK excluding London -60 48 £525 +13.51% 18
Scotland +8 16 £500 +11.11% 2
North of England -66 12 £425 -4.76% 3
North West -36 11 £413 -4.01% 3
South West -18 10 £663 +45.21% 2
Midlands - 7 £495 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £495 - 1
South East -55 3 £575 +8.24% 9
East Midlands - 2 £606 -
East of England -23 1 £400 -27.27% 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 35 (23.49%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (46.98%) Snowflake
2 68 (45.64%) Azure
3 59 (39.60%) AWS
4 53 (35.57%) dbt
5 42 (28.19%) Power Platform
6 26 (17.45%) GCP
7 23 (15.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (14.09%) Amazon S3
9 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (10.74%) GitHub
11 14 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (8.05%) Serverless
13 11 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (6.04%) Dagster
15 7 (4.70%) Matillion
16 6 (4.03%) Fivetran
16 6 (4.03%) Prefect
17 5 (3.36%) Amazon Kinesis
18 4 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (39.60%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (27.52%) Power BI
3 30 (20.13%) Data Vault
4 21 (14.09%) Metadata
5 18 (12.08%) Star Schema
6 17 (11.41%) Data Lake
7 13 (8.72%) Tableau
8 10 (6.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (6.71%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (4.70%) Delta Lake
10 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (3.36%) Big Data
11 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.68%) BigQuery
12 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.01%) Redshift Spectrum
13 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Git
2 4 (2.68%) GitLab
3 3 (2.01%) ER Studio
3 3 (2.01%) ERwin
3 3 (2.01%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.34%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.67%) Snyk
5 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (36.24%) Finance
2 33 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (15.44%) Banking
5 17 (11.41%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.38%) Aviation
7 10 (6.71%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.70%) Public Sector
10 6 (4.03%) Retail
11 4 (2.68%) Front Office
11 4 (2.68%) Law
12 2 (1.34%) Marketing
12 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.67%) Automotive
13 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (48.99%) Data Engineer
2 43 (28.86%) Snowflake Engineer
3 35 (23.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 26 (17.45%) Data Modeller
5 23 (15.44%) Senior
6 20 (13.42%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (10.07%) Architect
8 12 (8.05%) Lead
9 9 (6.04%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.37%) Lead Data Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Finance Modeller
12 5 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 5 (3.36%) Power BI Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) AWS Data Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Data Integration Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.42%) Kafka
2 14 (9.40%) PySpark
3 5 (3.36%) OAuth
3 5 (3.36%) OpenID
4 4 (2.68%) JSON
4 4 (2.68%) Middleware
5 3 (2.01%) YAML
6 2 (1.34%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.34%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.34%) Pandas
6 2 (1.34%) XML
7 1 (0.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.67%) NumPy
7 1 (0.67%) REST
7 1 (0.67%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.67%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.67%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.07%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.05%) Clustering
4 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.01%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.01%) Replication
7 2 (1.34%) Derivative
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Equities
8 1 (0.67%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.67%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (75.17%) Data Modelling
2 92 (61.74%) Analytics
3 73 (48.99%) Data Engineering
4 66 (44.30%) ETL
5 64 (42.95%) Business Intelligence
6 61 (40.94%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (32.89%) CI/CD
8 38 (25.50%) Performance Tuning
9 37 (24.83%) Dimensional Modelling
10 34 (22.82%) Data Governance
11 32 (21.48%) AI
12 31 (20.81%) Data Transformation
13 29 (19.46%) DevOps
14 27 (18.12%) Data Architecture
15 24 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (16.11%) Use Case
16 22 (14.77%) Performance Optimisation
17 21 (14.09%) Agile
17 21 (14.09%) Data Science
18 20 (13.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 101 (67.79%) SQL
2 69 (46.31%) Python
3 9 (6.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.37%) Java
5 7 (4.70%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.36%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.34%) Bash
7 2 (1.34%) R
8 1 (0.67%) C
8 1 (0.67%) C++
8 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.67%) LookML
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.72%) Degree
3 9 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) DBS Check
4 5 (3.36%) SnowPro
5 3 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) ACCA
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) CIMA
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (33.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.36%) GDPR
3 3 (2.01%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (15.44%) Terraform
2 5 (3.36%) Grafana
3 2 (1.34%) Ansible
3 2 (1.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.09%) Databricks
3 11 (7.38%) Informatica
4 6 (4.03%) Google
5 5 (3.36%) Denodo
6 4 (2.68%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.68%) Talend
7 3 (2.01%) Sparx
8 2 (1.34%) Greenplum
8 2 (1.34%) Oracle
8 2 (1.34%) SAP
9 1 (0.67%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.67%) Charles River
9 1 (0.67%) IBM
9 1 (0.67%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.67%) Murex
9 1 (0.67%) Teradata