Snowflake Schema Contracts

Snowflake Schema
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Snowflake Schema skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snowflake Schema over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 541 653
Rank change year-on-year +65 +112 +145
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 53 46 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.11% 0.070%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.96% 0.63% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 34 30
10th Percentile £413 £413 £424
25th Percentile £456 £425 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £585
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -16.67% -4.88%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £775
90th Percentile £738 £650 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +16.28%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,530 7,298 10,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.99% 16.92% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,800 5,213 7,485
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £422 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 144 186
10th Percentile £20.89 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -32.54% +36.70%
75th Percentile £65.46 £59.44 £73.41
90th Percentile £75.88 £72.50 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.19% +59.14%

Snowflake Schema
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Snowflake Schema as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake Schema.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Schema over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Top 11 Contract 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 8 May 2025. 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 +87 52 £519 +9.21% 45
London +82 40 £525 - 29
Work from Home +33 17 £475 - 28
UK excluding London +36 7 £475 +5.56% 21
South East +41 2 £531 +25.00% 6
South West +32 2 £456 +1.39% 6
North of England +8 2 £494 -10.23% 6
Midlands +19 1 £475 -
West Midlands +13 1 £475 -
North West 0 1 £525 -4.55% 2
North East -4 1 £463 -

Snowflake Schema
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (20.75%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.32%) Apache
3 4 (7.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (60.38%) Azure
2 25 (47.17%) Snowflake
3 19 (35.85%) Power Platform
4 18 (33.96%) AWS
5 13 (24.53%) dbt
6 10 (18.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (15.09%) GCP
8 6 (11.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (11.32%) GitHub
9 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.66%) Alation
11 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.77%) SaaS
12 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.89%) Collibra
12 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.89%) IaaS
12 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.89%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (50.94%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (35.85%) Power BI
3 11 (20.75%) Star Schema
4 10 (18.87%) Data Lake
5 9 (16.98%) Data Vault
6 7 (13.21%) Big Data
7 6 (11.32%) Tableau
8 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
9 4 (7.55%) InfluxDB
9 4 (7.55%) Metadata
9 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
9 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
10 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (5.66%) BigQuery
11 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (3.77%) Looker
11 2 (3.77%) Metabase
11 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (3.77%) Tableau Server
12 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) ERwin
1 4 (7.55%) Git
1 4 (7.55%) Terragrunt
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Finance
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.55%) Retail
5 3 (5.66%) Local Government
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Data Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Senior
3 11 (20.75%) Architect
3 11 (20.75%) Data Architect
3 11 (20.75%) Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Snowflake Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Data Analyst
6 5 (9.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Snowflake Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) .NET
1 3 (5.66%) Kafka
2 1 (1.89%) JDBC
2 1 (1.89%) JSON
2 1 (1.89%) MDX
2 1 (1.89%) NumPy
2 1 (1.89%) ODBC
2 1 (1.89%) Pandas
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Data Structures
2 6 (11.32%) Clustering
3 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.77%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
4 1 (1.89%) Smart City
4 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (86.79%) Data Modelling
2 27 (50.94%) ETL
3 24 (45.28%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (45.28%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (37.74%) Data Engineering
5 19 (35.85%) Analytics
6 17 (32.08%) Visualisation
7 13 (24.53%) Data Governance
8 12 (22.64%) Decision-Making
8 12 (22.64%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
9 11 (20.75%) Data Architecture
9 11 (20.75%) Data Transformation
9 11 (20.75%) Translating Business Requirements
10 8 (15.09%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (15.09%) Data Integration
11 7 (13.21%) DevOps
11 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
11 7 (13.21%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 46 (86.79%) SQL
2 22 (41.51%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.89%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.89%) R
4 1 (1.89%) Scala
4 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) SnowPro
2 2 (3.77%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (41.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Databricks
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Informatica
3 4 (7.55%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (5.66%) Google
4 3 (5.66%) Talend
4 3 (5.66%) Teradata
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) Sparx
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.89%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.89%) Workday