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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 481 522
Rank change year-on-year -64 +41 +103
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 138 70 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.67% 1.17% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 50 34
10th Percentile £413 £361 £413
25th Percentile £463 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £600 £600
90th Percentile £745 £738 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £430 £425
% change year-on-year +27.91% +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 8,241 5,969 6,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.02% 18.26% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,502 3,997 4,627
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 86 89
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.21 £29.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.75 £71.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.89% +20.00% -45.45%

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 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 23 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 -67 109 £575 +9.52% 81
London -57 73 £550 - 51
Work from Home -38 53 £625 +31.58% 33
UK excluding London -77 48 £550 +27.91% 38
Scotland -8 15 £519 +15.28% 5
South West -29 10 £650 +42.47% 4
Midlands -40 10 £450 +9.09% 1
North West -47 9 £575 +48.58% 7
North of England -76 9 £575 +48.58% 9
West Midlands - 9 £450 - 1
East of England -31 3 £390 -29.09% 2
South East - 2 £638 - 15
East Midlands -19 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 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (1.45%) Confluence
3 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.62%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.72%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (53.62%) Snowflake
2 65 (47.10%) dbt
3 57 (41.30%) AWS
4 56 (40.58%) Azure
5 32 (23.19%) Power Platform
6 21 (15.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (13.04%) GCP
8 18 (13.04%) GitHub
9 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (7.97%) Serverless
11 10 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (5.07%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.07%) Dagster
13 5 (3.62%) Fivetran
13 5 (3.62%) SaaS
14 3 (2.17%) Alation
14 3 (2.17%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) DSL
1 2 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) Network Security
2 1 (0.72%) SSH
2 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (32.61%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (23.19%) Power BI
3 17 (12.32%) Data Vault
4 12 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.97%) Metadata
5 11 (7.97%) Semantic Layer
5 11 (7.97%) Star Schema
6 8 (5.80%) Delta Lake
6 8 (5.80%) Tableau
7 6 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.62%) Big Data
8 5 (3.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.90%) Looker
9 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.17%) Power Query
10 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (13.77%) Git
2 6 (4.35%) GitLab
2 6 (4.35%) JIRA
3 2 (1.45%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.45%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.72%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.72%) Snyk
4 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.72%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (42.75%) Finance
2 30 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.32%) Banking
5 13 (9.42%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.07%) Front Office
6 7 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.35%) Aviation
7 6 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.62%) Retail
9 3 (2.17%) Law
10 2 (1.45%) Marketing
10 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.72%) Automotive
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (43.48%) Data Engineer
2 37 (26.81%) Snowflake Engineer
3 27 (19.57%) Senior
3 27 (19.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 22 (15.94%) Architect
4 22 (15.94%) Senior Data Engineer
5 17 (12.32%) Data Architect
6 15 (10.87%) Data Modeller
7 9 (6.52%) Developer
7 9 (6.52%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Consultant
8 6 (4.35%) Power BI Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Data Consultant
9 5 (3.62%) Databricks Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Lead
9 5 (3.62%) Python Data Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.49%) Terraform
2 15 (10.87%) Kafka
3 10 (7.25%) PySpark
4 5 (3.62%) OAuth
4 5 (3.62%) React
4 5 (3.62%) YAML
5 4 (2.90%) .NET
5 4 (2.90%) OpenID
6 2 (1.45%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.45%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.45%) JSON
6 2 (1.45%) JWT
6 2 (1.45%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (1.45%) NumPy
6 2 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.45%) Pandas
6 2 (1.45%) pytest
6 2 (1.45%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.14%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.35%) Clustering
3 6 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.62%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (3.62%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.17%) IoT
5 3 (2.17%) Replication
5 3 (2.17%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.45%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.72%) Mashup
7 1 (0.72%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (76.81%) Data Modelling
2 75 (54.35%) Analytics
3 61 (44.20%) Data Engineering
4 56 (40.58%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (37.68%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (34.78%) ETL
7 41 (29.71%) CI/CD
8 35 (25.36%) Data Transformation
8 35 (25.36%) Dimensional Modelling
9 32 (23.19%) AI
10 27 (19.57%) Performance Optimisation
11 25 (18.12%) DevOps
12 24 (17.39%) Data Governance
13 23 (16.67%) Data Architecture
13 23 (16.67%) Migration
13 23 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (15.94%) Agile
15 18 (13.04%) Data Integration
15 18 (13.04%) Validation
16 17 (12.32%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 96 (69.57%) SQL
2 63 (45.65%) Python
3 7 (5.07%) Java
4 6 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.90%) C#
6 4 (2.90%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.45%) Bicep
7 2 (1.45%) Cypher
7 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.45%) R
7 2 (1.45%) SHACL
8 1 (0.72%) Bash
8 1 (0.72%) C
8 1 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.72%) LookML
8 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.80%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.62%) Degree
4 4 (2.90%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.90%) SnowPro
5 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (28.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.17%) GDPR
3 2 (1.45%) QA
4 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.35%) Grafana
2 2 (1.45%) Argo
2 2 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (16.67%) Databricks
2 15 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.35%) Informatica
4 4 (2.90%) Denodo
5 3 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.17%) SAP
5 3 (2.17%) Talend
6 2 (1.45%) FactSet
6 2 (1.45%) Google
6 2 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.45%) Oracle
6 2 (1.45%) Sparx
7 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.72%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.72%) Confluent
7 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Snow
7 1 (0.72%) Workday