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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 483 529
Rank change year-on-year -74 +46 +82
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 136 68 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.67% 1.14% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 48 32
10th Percentile £413 £357 £413
25th Percentile £463 £428 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £600 £603
90th Percentile £735 £700 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £430 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% +1.18% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £34.00 -
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 8,154 5,973 6,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.93% 18.32% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,442 4,000 4,616
10th Percentile £353 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 85 88
10th Percentile £16.63 £21.09 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.87 £29.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.50 £72.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -88 108 £569 +8.33% 68
London -60 72 £550 - 45
Work from Home -34 50 £625 +31.58% 33
UK excluding London -69 49 £538 +25.00% 29
Scotland -13 15 £519 +15.28% 7
South West -31 10 £650 +42.47% 1
Midlands -33 10 £450 +9.09% 1
North West -47 9 £575 +67.15% 4
North of England -71 9 £575 +67.15% 7
West Midlands - 9 £450 - 1
East of England -29 3 £390 -29.09% 1
South East - 3 £575 - 11
East Midlands -17 1 £400 -3.03%

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 24 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.94%) Apache
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.68%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.74%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 72 (52.94%) Snowflake
2 64 (47.06%) dbt
3 53 (38.97%) AWS
4 52 (38.24%) Azure
5 31 (22.79%) Power Platform
6 20 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (13.97%) GitHub
8 15 (11.03%) GCP
9 14 (10.29%) Amazon S3
10 11 (8.09%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (8.09%) Serverless
11 9 (6.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (5.15%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.15%) Dagster
13 6 (4.41%) Fivetran
14 5 (3.68%) SaaS
15 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (2.21%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) DSL
1 2 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) SSH
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (32.35%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (22.79%) Power BI
3 15 (11.03%) Data Vault
4 11 (8.09%) Data Lake
4 11 (8.09%) Semantic Layer
5 10 (7.35%) Metadata
5 10 (7.35%) Star Schema
6 9 (6.62%) Tableau
7 8 (5.88%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.68%) Big Data
8 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.94%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.94%) Looker
10 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.21%) Power Query
10 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (14.71%) Git
2 6 (4.41%) GitLab
2 6 (4.41%) JIRA
3 2 (1.47%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.47%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.74%) ERwin
4 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.74%) Snyk
4 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.74%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (42.65%) Finance
2 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 25 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.50%) Banking
5 13 (9.56%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.15%) Front Office
6 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.41%) Aviation
7 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.68%) Retail
9 3 (2.21%) Law
10 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.74%) Automotive
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (44.12%) Data Engineer
2 36 (26.47%) Snowflake Engineer
3 26 (19.12%) Senior
3 26 (19.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 21 (15.44%) Senior Data Engineer
5 20 (14.71%) Architect
6 16 (11.76%) Data Architect
7 14 (10.29%) Data Modeller
8 10 (7.35%) Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Consultant
10 6 (4.41%) Power BI Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.68%) Databricks Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Kafka Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Snowflake Architect
12 4 (2.94%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.97%) Terraform
2 13 (9.56%) Kafka
3 10 (7.35%) PySpark
4 5 (3.68%) React
4 5 (3.68%) YAML
5 4 (2.94%) .NET
5 4 (2.94%) OAuth
6 3 (2.21%) OpenID
7 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.47%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.47%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.47%) JSON
7 2 (1.47%) JWT
7 2 (1.47%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.47%) NumPy
7 2 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.47%) Pandas
7 2 (1.47%) pytest
7 2 (1.47%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.56%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.41%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.41%) Clustering
3 6 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.68%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (3.68%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.21%) IoT
5 3 (2.21%) Replication
5 3 (2.21%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.47%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.74%) Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (76.47%) Data Modelling
2 74 (54.41%) Analytics
3 61 (44.85%) Data Engineering
4 55 (40.44%) Business Intelligence
5 50 (36.76%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (32.35%) ETL
7 43 (31.62%) CI/CD
8 35 (25.74%) Data Transformation
9 34 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
10 30 (22.06%) AI
11 25 (18.38%) DevOps
12 24 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
13 23 (16.91%) Data Governance
14 22 (16.18%) Data Architecture
14 22 (16.18%) Migration
15 21 (15.44%) Agile
15 21 (15.44%) Performance Tuning
16 18 (13.24%) Validation
17 17 (12.50%) Data Integration
18 16 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 95 (69.85%) SQL
2 62 (45.59%) Python
3 6 (4.41%) Java
4 5 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.94%) C#
6 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.47%) Bicep
7 2 (1.47%) Cypher
7 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.47%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.47%) R
7 2 (1.47%) SHACL
8 1 (0.74%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) C
8 1 (0.74%) C++
8 1 (0.74%) LookML
Qualifications
1 11 (8.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.94%) Degree
3 4 (2.94%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (27.21%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Grafana
2 2 (1.47%) Argo
2 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (16.18%) Databricks
2 13 (9.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.68%) Informatica
4 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.21%) Denodo
5 3 (2.21%) SAP
6 2 (1.47%) FactSet
6 2 (1.47%) Google
6 2 (1.47%) IBM
6 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle
6 2 (1.47%) Talend
7 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.74%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.74%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.74%) SGI
7 1 (0.74%) Workday