Snowflake Contracts in the UK excluding London

Snowflake
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 277 386
Rank change year-on-year +55 +109 +4
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 109 120 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.59% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.68% 2.28% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 75 31
10th Percentile £359 £396 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -17.39% -
75th Percentile £580 £550 £644
90th Percentile £650 £595 £738
UK median daily rate £585 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,073 5,271 7,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.86% 26.03% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,856 3,742 5,594
10th Percentile £235 £213 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 260 219
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.38
Median hourly rate £21.28 £17.72 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.09% -29.12% +29.89%
75th Percentile £34.50 £29.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.51 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.39% -38.94% +59.09%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Snowflake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake in the UK excluding London

Snowflake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake in the UK excluding London

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK excluding London

Snowflake
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South West +54 22 £525 -12.50% 209
Scotland +6 22 £463 +2.10% 90
North of England -2 22 £500 +5.26% 426
Midlands +29 19 £488 -13.33% 309
South East +26 18 £463 -3.90% 526
West Midlands +23 14 £550 -2.22% 166
North West -6 14 £555 +11.00% 171
East of England +33 13 £580 +28.89% 249
Yorkshire +7 4 £475 +7.04% 201
North East +3 4 £425 -19.51% 54
East Midlands - 4 £420 - 122
Wales 0 1 £650 +18.18% 44
Snowflake
UK

Snowflake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (11.01%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.67%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.92%) Luigi
5 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (57.80%) AWS
2 32 (29.36%) Azure
3 29 (26.61%) Power Platform
4 23 (21.10%) GCP
5 12 (11.01%) Matillion
6 10 (9.17%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.17%) dbt
7 6 (5.50%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (4.59%) Serverless
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.83%) SaaS
11 1 (0.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 1 (0.92%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (47.71%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (26.61%) Power BI
3 14 (12.84%) Data Lake
4 11 (10.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (8.26%) Relational Database
5 9 (8.26%) Tableau
6 8 (7.34%) BigQuery
7 7 (6.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (5.50%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.59%) Big Data
9 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.59%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.67%) DB2
10 4 (3.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Git
1 4 (3.67%) GitLab
1 4 (3.67%) JUnit
2 3 (2.75%) ERwin
2 3 (2.75%) JIRA
3 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) Ant
4 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.92%) Gradle
4 1 (0.92%) Maven
4 1 (0.92%) Mockito
4 1 (0.92%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (30.28%) Finance
2 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.09%) Banking
5 9 (8.26%) Marketing
6 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
7 4 (3.67%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Front Office
9 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (47.71%) Data Engineer
2 25 (22.94%) Snowflake Engineer
3 24 (22.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) Senior
5 10 (9.17%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
7 7 (6.42%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Architect
8 6 (5.50%) Consultant
8 6 (5.50%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Data Manager
9 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Architect
10 4 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Data Analytics Specialist
10 4 (3.67%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Java Developer
11 3 (2.75%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.09%) Kafka
2 4 (3.67%) Spring
3 3 (2.75%) PySpark
3 3 (2.75%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.83%) REST
5 1 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.92%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.92%) J2EE
5 1 (0.92%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.92%) Pandas
5 1 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.26%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.67%) Life Science
5 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.75%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.83%) FMCG
6 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.67%) Linux
1 4 (3.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.53%) Analytics
2 40 (36.70%) ETL
3 37 (33.94%) Data Modelling
4 32 (29.36%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (24.77%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (21.10%) Data Engineering
8 20 (18.35%) CI/CD
9 17 (15.60%) Data Governance
10 16 (14.68%) Migration
11 14 (12.84%) Agile
11 14 (12.84%) Data Strategy
12 12 (11.01%) Data Migration
12 12 (11.01%) Decision-Making
12 12 (11.01%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (10.09%) Data Management
13 11 (10.09%) Data Science
14 10 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (9.17%) Data Integration
14 10 (9.17%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 60 (55.05%) SQL
2 42 (38.53%) Python
3 9 (8.26%) Java
4 6 (5.50%) Bash
5 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.83%) R
6 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.92%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (0.92%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Degree
2 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.50%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.75%) PMP
4 3 (2.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) SnowPro
5 2 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.92%) CSPO
6 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.51%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.34%) GDPR
3 6 (5.50%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.75%) PMO
5 2 (1.83%) QA
6 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Databricks
2 8 (7.34%) Google
2 8 (7.34%) SAP
3 7 (6.42%) Oracle
4 6 (5.50%) Teradata
5 5 (4.59%) IBM
5 5 (4.59%) Virgin Media
6 4 (3.67%) Ariba
6 4 (3.67%) Informatica
6 4 (3.67%) StreamSets
6 4 (3.67%) Sybase
7 3 (2.75%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.83%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.83%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.83%) Sparx
8 2 (1.83%) Talend
8 2 (1.83%) Workday
9 1 (0.92%) New Relic
9 1 (0.92%) Spotify