Snowflake Contract Job Trends

Snowflake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Snowflake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 232 328
Rank change year-on-year +14 +96 +144
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 464 398 299
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.10% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.34% 3.07% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 276 238
10th Percentile £363 £383 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £578
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +12.46% +0.52%
75th Percentile £659 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,903 12,948 15,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.09% 35.84% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,469 8,560 11,316
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 184 295
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.66 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +18.20% +13.66%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £27.24 £21.05
% change year-on-year -15.56% +29.39% +9.27%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Snowflake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Snowflake job vacancy trend in the UK

Snowflake
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -11 383 £550 -15.38% 398
London +8 288 £575 -20.69% 71
Work from Home -15 167 £575 -28.13% 536
UK excluding London +3 123 £450 - 397
Scotland +33 40 £450 +38.46% 30
North of England -42 21 £400 -9.35% 81
South West +2 17 £475 +18.75% 42
South East +1 16 £500 +9.59% 113
North West -23 16 £375 -15.01% 52
East of England -7 15 £525 -4.55% 48
Midlands -38 15 £463 -7.50% 63
West Midlands -32 11 £425 -10.05% 32
East Midlands -17 4 £575 -7.93% 28
Yorkshire -27 4 £506 - 26
North East -5 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £575 - 10

Snowflake
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
1 113 (24.35%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (11.42%) Apache
3 34 (7.33%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.72%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.86%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.45%) Aladdin
2 15 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 253 (54.53%) AWS
2 220 (47.41%) Azure
3 129 (27.80%) dbt
4 106 (22.84%) Power Platform
5 91 (19.61%) GCP
6 54 (11.64%) Serverless
7 45 (9.70%) Amazon S3
8 39 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (6.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (4.74%) GitHub
11 21 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (4.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (4.09%) Matillion
14 18 (3.88%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (3.23%) Fivetran
16 14 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.80%) SaaS
18 11 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
19 9 (1.94%) Prefect
20 8 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (33.19%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (22.84%) Power BI
3 82 (17.67%) Data Lake
4 41 (8.84%) Snowflake Schema
4 41 (8.84%) Tableau
5 39 (8.41%) BigQuery
6 38 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (7.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (7.33%) Amazon Athena
9 32 (6.90%) Metadata
10 30 (6.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 28 (6.03%) Apache Arrow
11 28 (6.03%) Apache Ignite
11 28 (6.03%) Dremio
12 26 (5.60%) NoSQL
13 25 (5.39%) Big Data
14 24 (5.17%) Relational Database
15 23 (4.96%) SQL Server
16 22 (4.74%) Data Vault
17 17 (3.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (9.91%) Git
2 21 (4.53%) ERwin
3 18 (3.88%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.88%) JIRA
4 16 (3.45%) GitLab
5 11 (2.37%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (2.16%) DBeaver
7 8 (1.72%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.51%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.08%) MLflow
10 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.65%) Selenium
11 2 (0.43%) TestRail
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.22%) Deequ
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
12 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 143 (30.82%) Finance
2 125 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 69 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.78%) Banking
5 35 (7.54%) Front Office
5 35 (7.54%) Investment Banking
6 17 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.45%) Marketing
8 14 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.16%) Retail
10 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.65%) Law
15 2 (0.43%) iGaming
15 2 (0.43%) Portuguese Language
15 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (29.09%) Data Engineer
2 68 (14.66%) Senior
3 60 (12.93%) Architect
4 58 (12.50%) Analyst
5 54 (11.64%) Snowflake Engineer
6 47 (10.13%) Python Engineer
7 45 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (9.48%) Data Analyst
9 41 (8.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 33 (7.11%) Developer
11 31 (6.68%) Data Architect
11 31 (6.68%) Lead
12 30 (6.47%) Software Engineer
13 29 (6.25%) Java Engineer
14 28 (6.03%) AWS Software Engineer
14 28 (6.03%) Data Modeller
14 28 (6.03%) Java Software Engineer
14 28 (6.03%) Python Software Engineer
15 27 (5.82%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 27 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.13%) Pandas
2 37 (7.97%) NumPy
3 28 (6.03%) gRPC
3 28 (6.03%) Kafka
3 28 (6.03%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (6.03%) SciPy
4 16 (3.45%) PySpark
5 15 (3.23%) PyTorch
6 11 (2.37%) React
6 11 (2.37%) REST
6 11 (2.37%) TensorFlow
7 10 (2.16%) Playwright
8 8 (1.72%) JSON
8 8 (1.72%) Node.js
8 8 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 6 (1.29%) .NET
9 6 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (1.29%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.08%) RESTful
10 5 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.11%) Equities
2 33 (7.11%) Fixed Income
3 31 (6.68%) Derivative
3 31 (6.68%) Hedge funds
4 29 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 28 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 28 (6.03%) Pricing Data
6 18 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.59%) Replication
9 11 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.72%) Clustering
12 8 (1.72%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.29%) Reinsurance
15 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.51%) Linux
1 7 (1.51%) Unix
2 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (39.01%) Data Modelling
2 171 (36.85%) Analytics
3 163 (35.13%) ETL
4 131 (28.23%) Agile
5 120 (25.86%) Data Engineering
6 109 (23.49%) Business Intelligence
6 109 (23.49%) CI/CD
6 109 (23.49%) Data Governance
7 108 (23.28%) Data Pipeline
8 82 (17.67%) Migration
9 81 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (16.38%) AI
11 67 (14.44%) Asset Management
11 67 (14.44%) Machine Learning
12 66 (14.22%) Data Transformation
13 64 (13.79%) DevOps
14 61 (13.15%) Data Integration
15 58 (12.50%) Data Architecture
16 57 (12.28%) Software Engineering
17 54 (11.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 273 (58.84%) SQL
2 257 (55.39%) Python
3 56 (12.07%) Java
4 47 (10.13%) JavaScript
4 47 (10.13%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.59%) C#
6 10 (2.16%) Bash
7 9 (1.94%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.94%) Scala
8 8 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.72%) Korn
8 8 (1.72%) R
9 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Bicep
11 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (6.47%) Degree
2 21 (4.53%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.29%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (23.92%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.45%) GDPR
3 15 (3.23%) QA
4 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.43%) DICOM
6 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.22%) LOINC
7 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (10.78%) Terraform
2 24 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.23%) Ansible
4 6 (1.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (23.49%) Databricks
2 38 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.19%) Oracle
3 23 (4.96%) SAP
4 15 (3.23%) Informatica
5 14 (3.02%) Talend
6 13 (2.80%) Google
7 12 (2.59%) Greenplum
8 11 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.16%) Teradata
10 9 (1.94%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.72%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.51%) Sparx
13 6 (1.29%) Charles River
13 6 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
14 5 (1.08%) Foundry
14 5 (1.08%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.08%) StreamSets
14 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media