Snowflake Contracts in Scotland

Snowflake
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Snowflake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snowflake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 103 159
Rank change year-on-year +8 +56 -10
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 21 26 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 1.17% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% 3.52% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 3
10th Percentile £408 £414 £505
25th Percentile £410 £426 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £488 £458 £606
90th Percentile - £462 £625
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Snowflake falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake in Scotland

Snowflake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Snowflake in Scotland

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in Scotland

Snowflake
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +17 16 £463 -3.90% 12
Glasgow -15 4 £408 -9.33% 4
Snowflake
UK

Snowflake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (14.29%) DB2
3 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) PowerCenter
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Front Office
5 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 2 (9.52%) Tech for Good
6 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Data Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) MongoDB Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Tableau Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
1 3 (14.29%) Spring
1 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
3 1 (4.76%) Great Expectations
3 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
1 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) ETL
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
4 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
5 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (9.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Informatica
1 4 (19.05%) Teradata
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
2 3 (14.29%) Sybase
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Pega
3 1 (4.76%) TSYS