Snowflake Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Snowflake
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Snowflake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 106 133
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 23 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.44% 0.69% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.95% 2.12% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 11
10th Percentile £392 £432 £500
25th Percentile £411 £447 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -27.52% +19.05%
75th Percentile £516 £460 £638
90th Percentile £525 £491 £775
UK median daily rate £534 £800 £585
% change year-on-year -33.31% +36.75% +1.74%

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 583 614 848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.51% 32.82% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 405 600
10th Percentile £350 £218 £300
25th Percentile £425 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £608 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £30.73 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.64% -12.19% +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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Snowflake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 September 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 14 September 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
Glasgow -9 13 £458 +0.99%
Edinburgh +9 10 £463 -3.90% 11
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 9 (39.13%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (34.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (26.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) OCI
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (30.43%) Big Data
3 6 (26.09%) Relational Database
4 5 (21.74%) Hadoop
4 5 (21.74%) Power BI
5 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
5 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
6 3 (13.04%) DB2
6 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
6 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (4.35%) Data Mart
8 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
8 1 (4.35%) Metadata
8 1 (4.35%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) JUnit
3 2 (8.70%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.35%) ERwin
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Banking
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Front Office
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Data Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Python Data Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Python Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Release Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Kafka
1 5 (21.74%) PySpark
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) RESTful
3 3 (13.04%) Pandas
4 2 (8.70%) NumPy
4 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) .NET
5 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.35%) Great Expectations
5 1 (4.35%) Streamlit
5 1 (4.35%) WireMock
5 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.70%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) ETL
3 10 (43.48%) Data Modelling
4 9 (39.13%) Data Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Analytics
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
6 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (26.09%) Data Integration
7 6 (26.09%) Visualisation
8 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
9 4 (17.39%) DevOps
9 4 (17.39%) Migration
9 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (17.39%) Use Case
9 4 (17.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
2 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.04%) Teradata
4 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
4 2 (8.70%) Greenplum
4 2 (8.70%) StreamSets
4 2 (8.70%) Sybase
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) Informatica
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) TSYS