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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 487 511
Rank change year-on-year -67 +24 +102
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 134 69 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.63% 1.14% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 51 35
10th Percentile £413 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £430 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £663 £600 £594
90th Percentile £725 £700 £645
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 8,204 6,032 6,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.84% 18.18% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,455 4,050 4,499
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £737 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 82 89
10th Percentile £17.03 £20.78 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.63 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £39.48 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +16.36% -33.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -40.63%

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 14 October 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 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 14 October 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 -85 101 £575 +9.52% 60
London -80 67 £550 - 41
UK excluding London -71 50 £538 +25.00% 28
Work from Home -43 47 £625 +31.58% 30
Scotland -7 18 £494 +9.72% 7
South West -25 10 £650 +26.83% 3
Midlands -44 8 £450 +9.09% 2
North West -49 8 £575 +56.68% 6
North of England -70 8 £575 +56.68% 7
West Midlands - 8 £450 - 2
South East - 4 £575 - 6
East of England -30 3 £390 -29.09%

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 23 (17.16%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.99%) Apache
3 2 (1.49%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.73%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.75%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (52.99%) Snowflake
2 59 (44.03%) dbt
3 54 (40.30%) AWS
4 47 (35.07%) Azure
5 29 (21.64%) Power Platform
6 17 (12.69%) GitHub
7 16 (11.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (11.94%) GCP
8 11 (8.21%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (7.46%) Serverless
10 6 (4.48%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.48%) Fivetran
10 6 (4.48%) SaaS
11 5 (3.73%) Dagster
12 3 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) DSL
1 2 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) SSH
2 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (31.34%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (21.64%) Power BI
3 13 (9.70%) Data Vault
4 12 (8.96%) Data Lake
4 12 (8.96%) Metadata
4 12 (8.96%) Semantic Layer
5 9 (6.72%) Star Schema
5 9 (6.72%) Tableau
6 7 (5.22%) Delta Lake
7 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.73%) Big Data
8 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.99%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.99%) Looker
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (14.93%) Git
2 7 (5.22%) JIRA
3 6 (4.48%) GitLab
4 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.49%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.49%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.75%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (44.03%) Finance
2 31 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.67%) Banking
5 14 (10.45%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.22%) Aviation
7 6 (4.48%) Front Office
7 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.73%) Retail
9 2 (1.49%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.49%) Marketing
9 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (41.79%) Data Engineer
2 34 (25.37%) Snowflake Engineer
3 23 (17.16%) Senior
3 23 (17.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 21 (15.67%) Architect
5 18 (13.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 17 (12.69%) Data Architect
7 13 (9.70%) Data Modeller
8 11 (8.21%) Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Consultant
11 5 (3.73%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.73%) Lead
11 5 (3.73%) Power BI Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Snowflake Architect
12 4 (2.99%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Databricks Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Kafka Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.19%) Terraform
2 12 (8.96%) Kafka
3 9 (6.72%) PySpark
4 5 (3.73%) React
5 4 (2.99%) .NET
6 3 (2.24%) YAML
7 2 (1.49%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.49%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.49%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.49%) JSON
7 2 (1.49%) JWT
7 2 (1.49%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (1.49%) NumPy
7 2 (1.49%) OAuth
7 2 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.49%) Pandas
7 2 (1.49%) pytest
7 2 (1.49%) REST
7 2 (1.49%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.49%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.94%) Data Structures
2 14 (10.45%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.46%) AI Agents
4 7 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.73%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.73%) Reinsurance
5 5 (3.73%) Replication
5 5 (3.73%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.99%) Clustering
6 4 (2.99%) IoT
7 2 (1.49%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.49%) Derivative
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.75%) AS400
8 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
1 1 (0.75%) Unix
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (76.87%) Data Modelling
2 71 (52.99%) Analytics
3 62 (46.27%) Data Engineering
4 50 (37.31%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (35.82%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (30.60%) ETL
7 39 (29.10%) CI/CD
8 35 (26.12%) AI
9 34 (25.37%) Data Transformation
10 33 (24.63%) Dimensional Modelling
11 25 (18.66%) Performance Optimisation
12 23 (17.16%) Agile
12 23 (17.16%) Data Governance
12 23 (17.16%) Migration
13 21 (15.67%) DevOps
14 20 (14.93%) Data Architecture
15 19 (14.18%) Performance Tuning
15 19 (14.18%) Validation
16 18 (13.43%) Data Ingestion
16 18 (13.43%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 90 (67.16%) SQL
2 65 (48.51%) Python
3 6 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.73%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.99%) C#
5 4 (2.99%) Java
6 3 (2.24%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.49%) Bicep
7 2 (1.49%) Cypher
7 2 (1.49%) LookML
7 2 (1.49%) R
7 2 (1.49%) SHACL
7 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.75%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) C
8 1 (0.75%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.99%) Degree
3 4 (2.99%) SnowPro
4 3 (2.24%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.24%) GDPR
3 2 (1.49%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.48%) Grafana
2 3 (2.24%) Ansible
3 2 (1.49%) Argo
3 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) Control-M
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (13.43%) Databricks
2 11 (8.21%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.97%) Informatica
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle
4 5 (3.73%) Talend
5 4 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.24%) Google
6 3 (2.24%) Greenplum
6 3 (2.24%) SAP
6 3 (2.24%) Sybase
7 2 (1.49%) FactSet
7 2 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.75%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.75%) Confluent
8 1 (0.75%) Denodo
8 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) Snow
8 1 (0.75%) Sparx