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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 481 530
Rank change year-on-year -19 +49 +100
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 158 63 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.94% 1.06% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 46 35
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £435 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £540
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £456 £425
% change year-on-year +16.71% +7.35% -22.73%

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 8,139 5,969 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 18.19% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,404 4,040 5,090
10th Percentile £356 £342 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 90 104
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.20 £14.48
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.83 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -47 128 £550 +12.24% 16
London -30 83 £531 +5.72% 6
Work from Home -19 56 £625 +31.58% 10
UK excluding London -50 56 £533 +16.71% 11
Scotland +1 16 £525 +16.67%
North of England -62 13 £525 +17.65% 1
North West -43 12 £500 +16.28% 1
Midlands - 12 £450 - 1
South West -27 11 £675 +47.95% 8
West Midlands - 11 £495 - 1
East of England -15 3 £390 -29.09%
South East -67 2 £575 -4.17% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £400 -

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 32 (20.25%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.16%) Apache
3 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.90%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (5.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.80%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.63%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (43.67%) Snowflake
2 64 (40.51%) Azure
2 64 (40.51%) dbt
3 59 (37.34%) AWS
4 41 (25.95%) Power Platform
5 27 (17.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (15.19%) GCP
7 21 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (12.66%) Amazon S3
9 15 (9.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (9.49%) GitHub
10 14 (8.86%) Serverless
11 12 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.70%) Dagster
14 5 (3.16%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (3.16%) Fivetran
15 4 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (2.53%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) DSL
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (36.08%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (25.32%) Power BI
3 28 (17.72%) Data Vault
4 21 (13.29%) Star Schema
5 20 (12.66%) Data Lake
6 19 (12.03%) Metadata
7 13 (8.23%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (6.33%) Delta Lake
8 10 (6.33%) Tableau
9 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.16%) Big Data
10 5 (3.16%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.90%) Looker
12 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (12.03%) Git
2 6 (3.80%) GitLab
3 3 (1.90%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.90%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) ERwin
4 2 (1.27%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.63%) Snyk
5 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (41.77%) Finance
2 27 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (17.09%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.82%) Banking
4 18 (11.39%) Investment Banking
5 12 (7.59%) Aviation
6 10 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.43%) Front Office
9 6 (3.80%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.53%) Law
10 4 (2.53%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Marketing
11 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.63%) Automotive
12 1 (0.63%) Local Government
12 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (42.41%) Data Engineer
2 41 (25.95%) Snowflake Engineer
3 32 (20.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 26 (16.46%) Data Modeller
5 25 (15.82%) Senior
6 19 (12.03%) Architect
6 19 (12.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (9.49%) Data Architect
8 12 (7.59%) Python Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) Developer
10 8 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Lead
11 7 (4.43%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Finance Modeller
12 6 (3.80%) Power BI Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Power BI Developer
13 5 (3.16%) Snowflake Developer
14 4 (2.53%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.03%) Kafka
2 13 (8.23%) PySpark
3 5 (3.16%) OAuth
3 5 (3.16%) OpenID
3 5 (3.16%) YAML
4 3 (1.90%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.27%) Bootstrap
5 2 (1.27%) JSON
5 2 (1.27%) JWT
5 2 (1.27%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (1.27%) NumPy
5 2 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.27%) Pandas
5 2 (1.27%) pytest
5 2 (1.27%) React
5 2 (1.27%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.27%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.63%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.49%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.33%) Clustering
4 8 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.53%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.53%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.90%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.27%) Derivative
8 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 2 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.63%) Equities
9 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (78.48%) Data Modelling
2 103 (65.19%) Analytics
3 69 (43.67%) Business Intelligence
4 66 (41.77%) Data Engineering
4 66 (41.77%) ETL
5 61 (38.61%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (31.01%) CI/CD
7 41 (25.95%) Data Transformation
7 41 (25.95%) Dimensional Modelling
8 34 (21.52%) Performance Tuning
9 33 (20.89%) AI
9 33 (20.89%) Data Architecture
9 33 (20.89%) Data Governance
10 29 (18.35%) DevOps
11 24 (15.19%) Migration
12 23 (14.56%) Agile
12 23 (14.56%) Performance Optimisation
13 22 (13.92%) Physical Data Model
14 21 (13.29%) Decision-Making
14 21 (13.29%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 107 (67.72%) SQL
2 73 (46.20%) Python
3 10 (6.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.06%) Java
5 6 (3.80%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.27%) Bash
6 2 (1.27%) Bicep
6 2 (1.27%) Cypher
6 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.27%) R
6 2 (1.27%) SHACL
6 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.63%) C
7 1 (0.63%) C#
7 1 (0.63%) C++
7 1 (0.63%) LookML
Qualifications
1 14 (8.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.59%) Degree
3 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.16%) SnowPro
6 4 (2.53%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (29.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.53%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (13.92%) Terraform
2 7 (4.43%) Grafana
3 2 (1.27%) Argo
3 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (17.09%) Databricks
2 22 (13.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.06%) Informatica
4 5 (3.16%) Denodo
4 5 (3.16%) Google
5 4 (2.53%) SAP
6 3 (1.90%) Oracle
7 2 (1.27%) FactSet
7 2 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.27%) Sparx
7 2 (1.27%) Talend
8 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.63%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.63%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.63%) Murex
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) Workday