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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 484 561
Rank change year-on-year +22 +77 +158
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 125 33 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.11% 0.088%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.83% 0.58% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 29 27
10th Percentile £346 £461 £425
25th Percentile £419 £480 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £581
90th Percentile £710 £775 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -2.44%

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 6,818 5,672 7,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 18.88% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,707 3,863 5,064
10th Percentile £344 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £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 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 93 166
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.13 £15.95
25th Percentile £29.13 £24.25 £20.98
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.81 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.01% -22.80% -23.70%
75th Percentile £74.84 £64.73 £62.85
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% -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 4 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 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 4 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 -5 111 £510 -3.77% 32
London +7 77 £520 -2.80% 23
UK excluding London -53 38 £500 +6.67% 18
Work from Home +9 32 £650 +26.83% 18
North of England -45 16 £344 -25.62% 2
North West - 15 £344 - 1
South West - 8 £675 - 3
Scotland - 7 £500 - 1
Midlands -59 3 £676 +42.37%
South East -30 2 - - 10
West Midlands -54 2 £540 +13.68%
East of England - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 1
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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.80%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.60%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.80%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.60%) Azure
1 57 (45.60%) Snowflake
2 41 (32.80%) AWS
3 39 (31.20%) dbt
4 32 (25.60%) Power Platform
5 27 (21.60%) GCP
6 19 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (8.00%) Serverless
10 9 (7.20%) Prefect
11 8 (6.40%) GitHub
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.80%) Matillion
13 5 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (3.20%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (3.20%) Azure Functions
15 3 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (46.40%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (24.80%) Power BI
3 28 (22.40%) Data Vault
4 26 (20.80%) Metadata
5 15 (12.00%) Data Lake
6 13 (10.40%) Tableau
7 10 (8.00%) Star Schema
8 6 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.00%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.00%) Looker
9 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.20%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.40%) OLAP
11 3 (2.40%) Redshift Spectrum
12 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (14.40%) Git
2 12 (9.60%) ERwin
3 10 (8.00%) PowerDesigner
4 9 (7.20%) ER Studio
5 7 (5.60%) JIRA
6 3 (2.40%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.20%) Finance
3 29 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.40%) Banking
5 8 (6.40%) Aviation
5 8 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.00%) Retail
7 2 (1.60%) Law
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.60%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (37.60%) Data Engineer
2 24 (19.20%) Data Modeller
3 22 (17.60%) Snowflake Engineer
4 21 (16.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 15 (12.00%) Lead
6 14 (11.20%) Architect
7 12 (9.60%) Analyst
8 11 (8.80%) Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Data Analyst
10 8 (6.40%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Finance Modeller
11 6 (4.80%) Senior
12 5 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 5 (4.00%) Azure Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Data Architect
12 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Developer
13 4 (3.20%) Consultant
13 4 (3.20%) Data Consultant
13 4 (3.20%) DBA
13 4 (3.20%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) PySpark
2 5 (4.00%) Middleware
3 4 (3.20%) JSON
4 3 (2.40%) Kafka
4 3 (2.40%) Pandas
4 3 (2.40%) XML
4 3 (2.40%) YAML
5 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.60%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.60%) Node.js
5 2 (1.60%) React
5 2 (1.60%) REST
6 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.80%) FIXML
6 1 (0.80%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.80%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Data Structures
2 17 (13.60%) Clustering
3 12 (9.60%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.60%) Replication
5 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.40%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.40%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.80%) Derivative
9 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (84.00%) Data Modelling
2 77 (61.60%) Analytics
3 60 (48.00%) ETL
4 59 (47.20%) Data Engineering
5 44 (35.20%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (34.40%) CI/CD
7 38 (30.40%) Data Governance
8 37 (29.60%) Data Pipeline
9 35 (28.00%) Data Transformation
9 35 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (25.60%) Agile
11 29 (23.20%) Dimensional Modelling
12 28 (22.40%) Data Architecture
13 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (20.80%) Data Science
15 23 (18.40%) Use Case
16 19 (15.20%) Logical Data Model
16 19 (15.20%) Physical Data Model
17 18 (14.40%) DevOps
18 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 86 (68.80%) SQL
2 54 (43.20%) Python
3 11 (8.80%) PL/SQL
3 11 (8.80%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.40%) Bash
6 2 (1.60%) IronPython
6 2 (1.60%) R
7 1 (0.80%) Bicep
7 1 (0.80%) Java
7 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.80%) LookML
7 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (11.20%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.00%) Degree
3 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.40%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.60%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.80%) ACCA
6 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.80%) CIMA
6 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (44.80%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.00%) GDPR
3 3 (2.40%) QA
3 3 (2.40%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.20%) Terraform
2 6 (4.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) Databricks
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.20%) Informatica
3 7 (5.60%) Sparx
4 6 (4.80%) Google
4 6 (4.80%) Talend
5 4 (3.20%) Greenplum
6 3 (2.40%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (2.40%) Oracle
7 2 (1.60%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.60%) SAP
8 1 (0.80%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.80%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.80%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.80%) Workday