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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 474 532
Rank change year-on-year -16 +58 +118
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 155 59 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% 1.06% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 43 45
10th Percentile £405 £413 £413
25th Percentile £453 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -1.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £588
90th Percentile £738 £738 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% -12.20%

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 7,657 5,544 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.22% 18.68% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,775 5,324
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 101 153
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £34.98 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.24% -12.55% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.72 £66.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £78.58 £78.70 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.68% -9.60% -38.54%

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 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 17 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 -51 125 £550 +10.00% 43
London -18 88 £531 +1.19% 22
Work from Home -15 52 £625 +31.58% 26
UK excluding London -61 50 £525 +13.51% 33
Scotland +4 17 £500 +11.11% 1
North of England -58 13 £425 -4.76% 6
North West -29 12 £413 -4.01% 4
South West -19 10 £663 +45.21% 4
Midlands - 7 £495 - 3
West Midlands - 5 £495 - 3
East of England -27 2 £390 -29.09% 3
South East -57 2 £575 +8.24% 12
East Midlands - 2 £606 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 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 36 (23.23%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.58%) Apache
3 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 72 (46.45%) Snowflake
2 71 (45.81%) Azure
3 64 (41.29%) AWS
4 54 (34.84%) dbt
5 45 (29.03%) Power Platform
6 28 (18.06%) GCP
7 22 (14.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (13.55%) Amazon S3
9 20 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (11.61%) GitHub
11 14 (9.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (8.39%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (8.39%) Serverless
13 11 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (5.81%) Dagster
15 8 (5.16%) Matillion
16 6 (3.87%) Fivetran
16 6 (3.87%) Prefect
17 5 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
18 4 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) DSL
1 1 (0.65%) Firewall
1 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (39.35%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (28.39%) Power BI
3 30 (19.35%) Data Vault
4 20 (12.90%) Data Lake
4 20 (12.90%) Metadata
4 20 (12.90%) Star Schema
5 13 (8.39%) Tableau
6 11 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.10%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (5.81%) Delta Lake
8 6 (3.87%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.23%) Big Data
9 5 (3.23%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.94%) OLAP
11 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (10.97%) Git
2 5 (3.23%) GitLab
3 4 (2.58%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.94%) ERwin
4 3 (1.94%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.29%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
6 1 (0.65%) Snyk
6 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (35.48%) Finance
2 33 (21.29%) Social Skills
3 30 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.84%) Banking
5 17 (10.97%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.10%) Aviation
7 10 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.16%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.87%) Retail
11 4 (2.58%) Front Office
11 4 (2.58%) Law
12 2 (1.29%) Marketing
12 2 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.65%) Automotive
13 1 (0.65%) Local Government
13 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (47.10%) Data Engineer
2 44 (28.39%) Snowflake Engineer
3 36 (23.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 26 (16.77%) Data Modeller
5 24 (15.48%) Senior
6 20 (12.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 19 (12.26%) Architect
8 13 (8.39%) Lead
9 12 (7.74%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.16%) Lead Data Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Developer
11 6 (3.87%) Finance Modeller
12 5 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 5 (3.23%) Power BI Engineer
13 4 (2.58%) AWS Data Engineer
13 4 (2.58%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 4 (2.58%) Data Consultant
13 4 (2.58%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.90%) Kafka
2 15 (9.68%) PySpark
3 5 (3.23%) JSON
3 5 (3.23%) OAuth
3 5 (3.23%) OpenID
4 4 (2.58%) Middleware
4 4 (2.58%) YAML
5 3 (1.94%) XML
6 2 (1.29%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.29%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.29%) Pandas
6 2 (1.29%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.65%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.65%) pytest
7 1 (0.65%) React
7 1 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.65%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.19%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.97%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.74%) Clustering
4 6 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.58%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.58%) Replication
7 3 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.29%) Derivative
8 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.29%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.65%) IoT
9 1 (0.65%) Mashup
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (76.13%) Data Modelling
2 94 (60.65%) Analytics
3 75 (48.39%) Data Engineering
4 70 (45.16%) ETL
5 68 (43.87%) Business Intelligence
6 63 (40.65%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (31.61%) CI/CD
8 40 (25.81%) Performance Tuning
9 39 (25.16%) Dimensional Modelling
10 36 (23.23%) AI
11 34 (21.94%) Data Governance
11 34 (21.94%) Data Transformation
12 30 (19.35%) Data Architecture
13 29 (18.71%) DevOps
14 24 (15.48%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (15.48%) Use Case
15 22 (14.19%) Agile
15 22 (14.19%) Data Science
15 22 (14.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 105 (67.74%) SQL
2 72 (46.45%) Python
3 10 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.81%) Java
5 6 (3.87%) T-SQL
6 4 (2.58%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.94%) R
8 2 (1.29%) Bash
9 1 (0.65%) Bicep
9 1 (0.65%) C
9 1 (0.65%) C++
9 1 (0.65%) Cypher
9 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.65%) LookML
9 1 (0.65%) SHACL
9 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.03%) Degree
3 11 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.87%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.58%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) ACCA
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CIMA
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (32.90%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.87%) GDPR
3 3 (1.94%) QA
4 2 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (15.48%) Terraform
2 6 (3.87%) Grafana
3 3 (1.94%) Ansible
4 2 (1.29%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.84%) Databricks
3 11 (7.10%) Informatica
4 7 (4.52%) Google
5 5 (3.23%) Denodo
5 5 (3.23%) Talend
6 4 (2.58%) MicroStrategy
6 4 (2.58%) SAP
7 3 (1.94%) Greenplum
7 3 (1.94%) Oracle
7 3 (1.94%) Sparx
8 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.65%) Charles River
8 1 (0.65%) FactSet
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.65%) Murex
8 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.65%) Teradata