Snowflake Architect Contract Job Trends

Snowflake Architect
UK

The median Snowflake Architect daily rate in the UK is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 546 591
Rank change year-on-year -18 +45 +208
Contract jobs requiring a Snowflake Architect 22 7 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.020% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.022% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 16
10th Percentile - £545 £550
25th Percentile £425 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £578
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +12.46% -20.28%
75th Percentile £775 £684 £588
90th Percentile £950 £711 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,152 31,803 41,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,996 19,553 27,898
10th Percentile £290 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £724 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,961 1,029 1,466
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.49 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.14
Median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.90 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Snowflake Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Snowflake Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Snowflake Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Snowflake Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Snowflake Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Snowflake Architect job vacancies in the UK

Snowflake Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake Architect over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake Architect in the UK

Snowflake Architect
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -22 17 £735 +13.08% 5
London -15 11 £735 +13.08% 5
UK excluding London - 11 £450 - 1
East of England - 6 £450 -
Scotland - 5 £450 -
Work from Home +7 3 £700 +7.69%

Snowflake Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Snowflake Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Snowflake Architect in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 18 (81.82%) AWS
3 16 (72.73%) Migration
4 15 (68.18%) Data Modelling
5 14 (63.64%) Python
6 12 (54.55%) Serverless
7 11 (50.00%) ETL
8 10 (45.45%) Azure
8 10 (45.45%) Data Architecture
8 10 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (45.45%) SQL
9 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
9 9 (40.91%) Data Migration
9 9 (40.91%) dbt
10 8 (36.36%) Data Engineering
10 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
11 7 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (31.82%) Data Security
11 7 (31.82%) Design Patterns
11 7 (31.82%) DevOps
11 7 (31.82%) High Availability
11 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
12 6 (27.27%) AI
13 5 (22.73%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (22.73%) Ansible
13 5 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (22.73%) Cost Management
13 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
13 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery

Snowflake Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 18 (81.82%) AWS
3 12 (54.55%) Serverless
4 10 (45.45%) Azure
5 9 (40.91%) dbt
6 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
6 7 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (22.73%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (9.09%) GCP
10 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
10 1 (4.55%) Fivetran
10 1 (4.55%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
2 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle Database
4 3 (13.64%) Power BI
4 3 (13.64%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.55%) Big Data
6 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Back Office
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
1 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Migration
2 15 (68.18%) Data Modelling
3 11 (50.00%) ETL
4 10 (45.45%) Data Architecture
5 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
5 9 (40.91%) Data Migration
6 8 (36.36%) Data Engineering
6 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (31.82%) Data Security
7 7 (31.82%) Design Patterns
7 7 (31.82%) DevOps
7 7 (31.82%) High Availability
7 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
8 6 (27.27%) AI
9 5 (22.73%) Cost Management
9 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
9 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (22.73%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (13.64%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
1 3 (13.64%) SnowPro
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Ansible
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Greenplum
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
1 5 (22.73%) StreamSets
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Talend