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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 495 550
Rank change year-on-year +16 +55 +153
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 127 36 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.12% 0.085%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.83% 0.65% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 30 26
10th Percentile £364 £456 £425
25th Percentile £427 £480 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +8.21% -18.75%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £584
90th Percentile £699 £696 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +9.33% -1.32% -7.32%

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 6,937 5,562 7,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.03% 18.97% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,760 3,831 5,173
10th Percentile £350 £351 £340
25th Percentile £413 £422 £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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £488
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.33% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 99 172
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.59 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.21 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.51% -24.94% -29.32%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.50 £58.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.73% -28.05% -27.27%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -25 112 £508 -4.25% 25
London +11 79 £500 -5.66% 13
UK excluding London -50 37 £513 +9.33% 17
Work from Home -10 32 £600 +17.07% 11
North of England -48 14 £347 -25.08% 2
North West - 13 £345 - 2
South West - 9 £675 - 2
Scotland - 8 £500 - 1
Midlands -56 4 £550 +15.79%
West Midlands -53 3 £545 +14.74%
South East -49 2 - - 10
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £813 -

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 25 (19.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.57%) Apache
2 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.79%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (44.09%) Azure
2 49 (38.58%) Snowflake
3 39 (30.71%) AWS
3 39 (30.71%) Power Platform
4 38 (29.92%) dbt
5 22 (17.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (17.32%) GCP
6 18 (14.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.09%) Amazon S3
8 9 (7.09%) GitHub
9 8 (6.30%) Prefect
9 8 (6.30%) Serverless
10 6 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.72%) Matillion
11 4 (3.15%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.15%) Dagster
11 4 (3.15%) Fivetran
12 3 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (46.46%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (29.92%) Power BI
3 26 (20.47%) Data Vault
4 24 (18.90%) Metadata
5 17 (13.39%) Data Lake
6 16 (12.60%) Tableau
7 14 (11.02%) Star Schema
8 7 (5.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.94%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.94%) Looker
9 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.94%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.15%) OLAP
10 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.36%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.36%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Git
2 7 (5.51%) ERwin
3 5 (3.94%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (3.15%) ER Studio
5 3 (2.36%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.57%) JIRA
7 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (29.13%) Finance
2 34 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 31 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.02%) Banking
5 9 (7.09%) Aviation
6 8 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.51%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.15%) Retail
9 3 (2.36%) Law
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing
10 2 (1.57%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Front Office
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (40.16%) Data Engineer
2 23 (18.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 23 (18.11%) Snowflake Engineer
3 22 (17.32%) Data Modeller
4 15 (11.81%) Lead
5 12 (9.45%) Architect
6 11 (8.66%) Analyst
7 10 (7.87%) Developer
8 9 (7.09%) Data Analyst
8 9 (7.09%) Senior
9 8 (6.30%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Finance Modeller
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 5 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) Data Architect
12 4 (3.15%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) Consultant
12 4 (3.15%) DBA
12 4 (3.15%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.60%) PySpark
2 7 (5.51%) Kafka
3 5 (3.94%) Middleware
4 4 (3.15%) JSON
5 3 (2.36%) Pandas
5 3 (2.36%) XML
5 3 (2.36%) YAML
6 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.57%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.57%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.57%) Node.js
6 2 (1.57%) React
6 2 (1.57%) REST
7 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.79%) FIXML
7 1 (0.79%) OAuth
7 1 (0.79%) OpenID
7 1 (0.79%) Snowpark
7 1 (0.79%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) Cloud Native
1 15 (11.81%) Data Structures
2 14 (11.02%) Clustering
3 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.51%) Replication
4 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.36%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.57%) Derivative
5 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Equities
6 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.79%) IoT
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (81.89%) Data Modelling
2 78 (61.42%) Analytics
3 63 (49.61%) ETL
4 61 (48.03%) Data Engineering
5 52 (40.94%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (34.65%) CI/CD
7 40 (31.50%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (29.13%) Performance Tuning
9 34 (26.77%) Data Governance
10 31 (24.41%) Data Transformation
10 31 (24.41%) Dimensional Modelling
11 30 (23.62%) Agile
11 30 (23.62%) Data Architecture
12 26 (20.47%) Data Science
12 26 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (16.54%) AI
13 21 (16.54%) Use Case
14 20 (15.75%) DevOps
15 17 (13.39%) Migration
16 16 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 90 (70.87%) SQL
2 60 (47.24%) Python
3 11 (8.66%) T-SQL
4 9 (7.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (6.30%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.36%) Bash
7 2 (1.57%) IronPython
7 2 (1.57%) Java
7 2 (1.57%) R
8 1 (0.79%) Bicep
8 1 (0.79%) LookML
8 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (12.60%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.66%) Degree
3 8 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.36%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.36%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) ACCA
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) CIMA
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (40.16%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.30%) GDPR
3 4 (3.15%) QA
4 3 (2.36%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.02%) Terraform
2 6 (4.72%) Ansible
3 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.17%) Databricks
3 11 (8.66%) Informatica
4 8 (6.30%) Google
5 6 (4.72%) Talend
6 4 (3.15%) Greenplum
6 4 (3.15%) Sparx
7 3 (2.36%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.57%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.57%) Oracle
8 2 (1.57%) SAP
9 1 (0.79%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.79%) Charles River
9 1 (0.79%) Denodo
9 1 (0.79%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.79%) Murex
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce