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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 505 571
Rank change year-on-year +14 +66 +160
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 99 27 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.087% 0.080%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.57% 0.47% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 23 24
10th Percentile £344 £464 £425
25th Percentile £400 £507 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +8.72% -18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £578
90th Percentile £690 £678 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £469 £525
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
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 & 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 6,321 5,740 7,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.45% 18.47% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,360 3,768 5,223
10th Percentile £335 £356 £350
25th Percentile £411 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 88 184
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.96 £15.68
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.94 £21.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.04% -27.79%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £61.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.33 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.56% -25.50% -28.48%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -10 87 £500 -6.32% 27
London +15 62 £525 -3.67% 14
UK excluding London -42 26 £413 -12.00% 18
Work from Home +2 25 £550 +7.06% 18
North of England -37 13 £344 - 1
North West - 13 £344 - 1
Scotland - 4 £500 - 1
Midlands -49 3 £613 +28.95% 2
South West - 3 £675 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £613 - 1
East of England - 2 - - 5
South East -25 1 - - 8
West Midlands -39 1 - - 1

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 19 (19.19%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.02%) Apache
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.02%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.01%) Misys Midas
3 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (53.54%) Azure
2 51 (51.52%) Snowflake
3 38 (38.38%) AWS
4 32 (32.32%) dbt
5 26 (26.26%) Power Platform
6 23 (23.23%) GCP
7 19 (19.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (14.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (9.09%) Prefect
10 8 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (7.07%) Serverless
12 6 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
13 5 (5.05%) Matillion
14 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (4.04%) GitHub
15 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (3.03%) Azure Functions
15 3 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
16 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (43.43%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (26.26%) Power BI
3 20 (20.20%) Data Vault
3 20 (20.20%) Metadata
4 12 (12.12%) Data Lake
5 11 (11.11%) Tableau
6 7 (7.07%) Star Schema
7 5 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.05%) Looker
7 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.04%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (3.03%) OLAP
9 3 (3.03%) Parquet
9 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.02%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (15.15%) Git
2 13 (13.13%) ERwin
3 11 (11.11%) PowerDesigner
4 10 (10.10%) ER Studio
5 9 (9.09%) JIRA
6 3 (3.03%) Terragrunt
7 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.20%) Finance
4 7 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.05%) Retail
6 4 (4.04%) Banking
6 4 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Aviation
8 2 (2.02%) Law
8 2 (2.02%) Legal
8 2 (2.02%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (34.34%) Data Engineer
2 16 (16.16%) Snowflake Engineer
3 15 (15.15%) Data Modeller
3 15 (15.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 14 (14.14%) Lead
5 13 (13.13%) Architect
6 12 (12.12%) Analyst
7 10 (10.10%) Data Analyst
7 10 (10.10%) Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Azure Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 4 (4.04%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.04%) DBA
10 4 (4.04%) Snowflake Developer
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
11 3 (3.03%) Data Consultant
11 3 (3.03%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) PySpark
2 4 (4.04%) JSON
2 4 (4.04%) Middleware
3 3 (3.03%) Pandas
3 3 (3.03%) XML
3 3 (3.03%) YAML
4 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.02%) Kafka
4 2 (2.02%) Node.js
4 2 (2.02%) React
4 2 (2.02%) REST
5 1 (1.01%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.01%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.01%) FIXML
5 1 (1.01%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.01%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Data Structures
2 14 (14.14%) Clustering
3 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.07%) Replication
4 5 (5.05%) Reinsurance
5 4 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.02%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.01%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.01%) Derivative
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (84.85%) Data Modelling
2 56 (56.57%) Analytics
3 49 (49.49%) ETL
4 48 (48.48%) Data Engineering
5 34 (34.34%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (32.32%) CI/CD
7 31 (31.31%) Data Governance
7 31 (31.31%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (30.30%) Agile
8 30 (30.30%) Performance Tuning
9 28 (28.28%) Data Transformation
10 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (21.21%) Dimensional Modelling
12 19 (19.19%) Data Science
13 18 (18.18%) Data Architecture
13 18 (18.18%) Use Case
14 15 (15.15%) Scrum
15 14 (14.14%) AI
15 14 (14.14%) Logical Data Model
15 14 (14.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 70 (70.71%) SQL
2 41 (41.41%) Python
3 11 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.02%) Bash
6 2 (2.02%) IronPython
6 2 (2.02%) R
7 1 (1.01%) Bicep
7 1 (1.01%) Java
7 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.01%) LookML
7 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) Degree
3 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.03%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.02%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.01%) ACCA
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) CIMA
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (49.49%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.11%) GDPR
3 4 (4.04%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.04%) QA
4 3 (3.03%) Solvency II
5 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Terraform
2 6 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (16.16%) Databricks
2 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.09%) Informatica
3 9 (9.09%) Sparx
4 6 (6.06%) Talend
5 5 (5.05%) Google
6 4 (4.04%) Greenplum
7 3 (3.03%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (2.02%) Avaloq
8 2 (2.02%) Oracle
9 1 (1.01%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.01%) SAP
9 1 (1.01%) StreamSets
9 1 (1.01%) Workday