Snowflake Schema Contracts

Snowflake Schema
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Snowflake Schema skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Snowflake Schema over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 653 761
Rank change year-on-year +143 +108 -110
Contract jobs citing Snowflake Schema 59 42 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.074% 0.081%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.81% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 47
10th Percentile £413 £425 £428
25th Percentile £425 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -8.80% +42.86%
75th Percentile £581 £775 £700
90th Percentile £650 £800 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.28% -25.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Snowflake Schema is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,278 10,040 17,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.08% 17.77% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 7,127 12,383
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.32 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £73.25 £82.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.40% +62.71% +45.83%

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 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Schema in the UK

Snowflake Schema
Top 15 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 24 May 2024. 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 +116 49 £500 -14.53% 15
Work from Home +138 33 £500 -24.53% 10
UK excluding London +65 33 £450 -10.00% 8
North of England - 15 £550 - 1
North West - 15 £550 -
London +79 12 £550 -18.52% 10
South West +23 9 £450 -18.18%
South East +14 6 £425 -5.56% 5
Midlands +35 5 - - 2
East Midlands - 4 - -
Scotland +28 2 £550 +10.00%
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
West Midlands +16 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £450 -

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 2 (3.39%) Apache
1 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (47.46%) Azure
2 18 (30.51%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Snowflake
3 16 (27.12%) Azure Stack
4 13 (22.03%) Microsoft Purview
5 12 (20.34%) dbt
5 12 (20.34%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub
7 5 (8.47%) Fivetran
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.39%) Alation
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.39%) Matillion
9 2 (3.39%) Serverless
10 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (64.41%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (23.73%) Star Schema
3 12 (20.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (20.34%) Data Lake
3 12 (20.34%) Power BI
4 7 (11.86%) Tableau
5 6 (10.17%) Big Data
5 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.08%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (5.08%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 3 (5.08%) Tableau Server
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.69%) Impala
8 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) ERwin
2 2 (3.39%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
General
1 16 (27.12%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Architect
2 17 (28.81%) Data Architect
3 16 (27.12%) Data Engineer
4 13 (22.03%) Data Modeller
5 9 (15.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Data Analytics Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Principal Security Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Report Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.12%) JSON
1 16 (27.12%) REST
1 16 (27.12%) XML
2 5 (8.47%) PySpark
3 3 (5.08%) Snowpark
4 2 (3.39%) pytest
5 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Data Structures
2 13 (22.03%) Reference Data
3 11 (18.64%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (88.14%) Data Modelling
2 26 (44.07%) Analytics
3 20 (33.90%) Data Governance
4 18 (30.51%) Data Protection
5 16 (27.12%) Data Strategy
5 16 (27.12%) Event-Driven
5 16 (27.12%) Microservices
6 15 (25.42%) Agile
7 13 (22.03%) Change Management
7 13 (22.03%) GAP Analysis
7 13 (22.03%) Value Proposition
8 12 (20.34%) Data Architecture
8 12 (20.34%) Data Mapping
8 12 (20.34%) ETL
9 11 (18.64%) Data Lineage
9 11 (18.64%) Data Management
10 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (11.86%) Kimball Methodology
13 6 (10.17%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.81%) SQL
2 11 (18.64%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.69%) C++
4 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) PHP
4 1 (1.69%) R
4 1 (1.69%) Scala
4 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (32.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (3.39%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Databricks
2 5 (8.47%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.08%) SAP
4 2 (3.39%) Teradata
5 1 (1.69%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle