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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 511 589
Rank change year-on-year +3 +78 +164
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 84 32 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.095% 0.041%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.32% 0.53% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 30 15
10th Percentile £344 £502 £463
25th Percentile £406 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £606
90th Percentile £688 £696 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,379 6,088 7,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 18.03% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,400 4,016 5,149
10th Percentile £325 £341 £350
25th Percentile £409 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £701 £769 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 84 139
10th Percentile £20.75 £18.74 £16.51
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.43 £24.21
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% -36.00% -8.21%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £66.00 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +120.28% -41.02% -5.76%

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 23 December 2025.

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 12 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 23 December 2025. 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 +10 75 £495 -9.17% 21
London +20 51 £525 -4.55% 10
Work from Home +14 26 £498 -3.40% 11
UK excluding London -25 21 £400 -15.79% 18
North of England -33 12 £345 - 3
North West - 12 £345 - 3
East of England - 3 - - 5
Scotland - 2 £475 - 4
South West - 2 £675 - 1
Midlands -39 1 £413 -13.16%
East Midlands - 1 £413 -
South East - 1 - - 5

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 16 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.95%) Apache
3 4 (4.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.19%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 44 (52.38%) Azure
1 44 (52.38%) Snowflake
2 32 (38.10%) AWS
3 25 (29.76%) dbt
4 22 (26.19%) GCP
5 20 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (23.81%) Power Platform
6 16 (19.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (11.90%) Serverless
8 9 (10.71%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (8.33%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (8.33%) Prefect
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
12 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.38%) Azure Storage
12 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (23.81%) Power BI
3 17 (20.24%) Data Vault
3 17 (20.24%) Metadata
4 11 (13.10%) Data Lake
5 7 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (8.33%) Star Schema
5 7 (8.33%) Tableau
6 6 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.95%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.57%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.57%) Looker
8 3 (3.57%) OLAP
8 3 (3.57%) Parquet
8 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.38%) Big Data
9 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (2.38%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) ERwin
3 11 (13.10%) PowerDesigner
4 9 (10.71%) ER Studio
4 9 (10.71%) JIRA
5 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.19%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.81%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.76%) Banking
5 4 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Aviation
6 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.57%) Retail
7 2 (2.38%) Law
7 2 (2.38%) Legal
7 2 (2.38%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Data Engineer
2 14 (16.67%) Data Modeller
3 11 (13.10%) Architect
4 10 (11.90%) Developer
5 9 (10.71%) Analyst
6 8 (9.52%) Data Analyst
6 8 (9.52%) Lead
6 8 (9.52%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Senior
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.76%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Snowflake Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Consultant
11 3 (3.57%) Snowflake Architect
12 2 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 2 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) PySpark
2 3 (3.57%) Pandas
3 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.38%) Kafka
3 2 (2.38%) Node.js
3 2 (2.38%) React
3 2 (2.38%) YAML
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.19%) FIXML
4 1 (1.19%) JSON
4 1 (1.19%) Middleware
4 1 (1.19%) REST
4 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 10 (11.90%) Clustering
3 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.95%) Reinsurance
3 5 (5.95%) Replication
4 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.19%) Derivative
6 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (88.10%) Data Modelling
2 51 (60.71%) Analytics
3 44 (52.38%) ETL
4 35 (41.67%) Data Engineering
5 29 (34.52%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (33.33%) Agile
6 28 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 28 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (30.95%) Data Governance
7 26 (30.95%) Data Transformation
8 24 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (23.81%) Dimensional Modelling
10 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (21.43%) Data Architecture
12 16 (19.05%) Data Science
13 14 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
13 14 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
13 14 (16.67%) Scrum
14 13 (15.48%) DevOps
14 13 (15.48%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 61 (72.62%) SQL
2 34 (40.48%) Python
3 10 (11.90%) T-SQL
4 7 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.38%) Bash
6 2 (2.38%) IronPython
7 1 (1.19%) Bicep
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.76%) Degree
3 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.52%) GDPR
3 4 (4.76%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.57%) QA
4 3 (3.57%) Solvency II
5 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.33%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Databricks
2 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.52%) Sparx
4 6 (7.14%) Google
4 6 (7.14%) Informatica
5 3 (3.57%) Talend
6 2 (2.38%) Avaloq
6 2 (2.38%) Greenplum
6 2 (2.38%) Oracle
6 2 (2.38%) Qualtrics
6 2 (2.38%) Teradata
7 1 (1.19%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.19%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.19%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.19%) Workday