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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 471 547
Rank change year-on-year -6 +76 +128
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 142 53 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 0.94% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 42 32
10th Percentile £369 £413 £414
25th Percentile £425 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.69% -16.67%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £591
90th Percentile £738 £738 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% -10.00%

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 7,252 5,614 7,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.72% 19.08% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,966 3,872 5,181
10th Percentile £350 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.28%
75th Percentile £594 £639 £650
90th Percentile £695 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £483
% change year-on-year -2.56% +0.93% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 109 148
10th Percentile £17.15 £20.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.44 £24.25 £20.94
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -32.54%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.84
90th Percentile £83.65 £73.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £39.25
% change year-on-year +58.03% -19.39% -31.74%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -32 124 £508 -3.33% 20
London 0 85 £500 -4.76% 12
UK excluding London -57 43 £500 +6.67% 13
Work from Home -19 36 £650 +36.84% 11
North of England -55 15 £347 -29.82% 2
North West -33 14 £345 -34.24% 2
South West -19 9 £675 +68.75% 2
Scotland - 8 £500 -
Midlands -60 7 £495 +4.21% 1
West Midlands -60 5 £495 +4.21% 1
South East -42 3 £575 +8.24% 7
East Midlands - 2 £606 -
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -
East of England - 1 £400 - 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 30 (21.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (47.89%) Azure
2 60 (42.25%) Snowflake
3 48 (33.80%) dbt
4 47 (33.10%) AWS
5 45 (31.69%) Power Platform
6 27 (19.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (19.01%) GCP
7 22 (15.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (11.97%) Amazon S3
9 15 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (7.75%) GitHub
11 10 (7.04%) Prefect
12 9 (6.34%) Dagster
13 8 (5.63%) Serverless
14 7 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.93%) Matillion
15 6 (4.23%) Fivetran
15 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
17 4 (2.82%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (46.48%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (30.99%) Power BI
3 29 (20.42%) Data Vault
4 24 (16.90%) Metadata
5 19 (13.38%) Data Lake
6 18 (12.68%) Star Schema
7 15 (10.56%) Tableau
8 10 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.63%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (4.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (4.23%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.52%) Delta Lake
12 5 (3.52%) OLAP
12 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.82%) Looker
13 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (2.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (11.97%) Git
2 5 (3.52%) ERwin
3 4 (2.82%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (2.11%) ER Studio
4 3 (2.11%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.70%) Snyk
5 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (28.87%) Finance
2 34 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (22.54%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.45%) Banking
5 10 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (6.34%) Aviation
6 9 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.93%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.82%) Law
8 4 (2.82%) Retail
9 2 (1.41%) Front Office
9 2 (1.41%) Marketing
9 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (45.07%) Data Engineer
2 33 (23.24%) Snowflake Engineer
3 32 (22.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 22 (15.49%) Data Modeller
5 17 (11.97%) Senior
6 15 (10.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (9.86%) Architect
7 14 (9.86%) Lead
8 10 (7.04%) Analyst
9 9 (6.34%) Data Analyst
10 8 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Developer
10 8 (5.63%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Data Architect
12 6 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 6 (4.23%) Finance Modeller
13 5 (3.52%) Azure Data Engineer
14 4 (2.82%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 4 (2.82%) Snowflake Developer
14 4 (2.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.68%) PySpark
2 12 (8.45%) Kafka
3 5 (3.52%) JSON
3 5 (3.52%) Middleware
3 5 (3.52%) OAuth
3 5 (3.52%) OpenID
3 5 (3.52%) YAML
4 3 (2.11%) Pandas
4 3 (2.11%) XML
5 2 (1.41%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.41%) Great Expectations
5 2 (1.41%) React
6 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.70%) REST
6 1 (0.70%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.97%) Clustering
3 11 (7.75%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.93%) Replication
5 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.11%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.70%) Derivative
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Equities
7 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.70%) IoT
7 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (83.10%) Data Modelling
2 87 (61.27%) Analytics
3 72 (50.70%) ETL
4 67 (47.18%) Data Engineering
5 65 (45.77%) Business Intelligence
6 53 (37.32%) Data Pipeline
7 50 (35.21%) CI/CD
8 45 (31.69%) Performance Tuning
9 39 (27.46%) Data Governance
9 39 (27.46%) Dimensional Modelling
10 36 (25.35%) Data Architecture
11 35 (24.65%) Data Transformation
12 30 (21.13%) Agile
13 29 (20.42%) Data Science
14 27 (19.01%) AI
15 25 (17.61%) DevOps
16 24 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (15.49%) Use Case
18 20 (14.08%) Decision-Making
18 20 (14.08%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (73.94%) SQL
2 65 (45.77%) Python
3 13 (9.15%) T-SQL
4 12 (8.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (5.63%) PL/SQL
6 6 (4.23%) Java
7 2 (1.41%) IronPython
7 2 (1.41%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Bash
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.70%) LookML
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.15%) Degree
3 10 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.82%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.82%) SnowPro
6 2 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.70%) ACCA
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) CIMA
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (40.85%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.52%) GDPR
3 4 (2.82%) QA
4 3 (2.11%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (13.38%) Terraform
2 4 (2.82%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.79%) Databricks
3 13 (9.15%) Informatica
4 9 (6.34%) Google
5 6 (4.23%) Talend
6 5 (3.52%) Denodo
7 4 (2.82%) Greenplum
7 4 (2.82%) MicroStrategy
7 4 (2.82%) Sparx
8 2 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (0.70%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.70%) Charles River
9 1 (0.70%) IBM
9 1 (0.70%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.70%) Murex
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Teradata