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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 224 282
Rank change year-on-year -28 +58 +163
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 470 349 341
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.19% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 3.13% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 255 263
10th Percentile £363 £403 £425
25th Percentile £435 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £763 £788
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50

All Cloud Computing 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 16,779 11,161 14,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.33% 37.93% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,434 7,775 10,031
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 248 340
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.63 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +47.09% +31.67% -33.17%
75th Percentile £67.58 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £75.15 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.59%

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 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 2026. 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 -43 395 £525 -12.50% 195
London +3 290 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -42 138 £525 -19.23% 79
UK excluding London -71 137 £500 +5.26% 136
Scotland +27 46 £449 -0.22% 10
North of England -71 26 £525 +10.53% 29
Midlands -60 24 £550 +15.79% 25
West Midlands -54 21 £510 -7.27% 17
North West -41 18 £525 +1.94% 20
South East -50 17 £575 +56.46% 36
South West -30 16 £488 -7.14% 16
East of England -33 7 £400 -31.03% 14
Yorkshire -52 7 £525 +10.53% 5
East Midlands -31 3 £575 +36.90% 8
North East -17 1 £575 +6.98% 4
Wales - 1 £250 - 4

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 92 (19.57%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.04%) Apache
4 8 (1.70%) Confluence
5 4 (0.85%) SAS
6 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.13%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 26 (5.53%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.06%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 235 (50.00%) AWS
2 198 (42.13%) Azure
3 119 (25.32%) Power Platform
4 109 (23.19%) dbt
5 88 (18.72%) GCP
6 71 (15.11%) Amazon S3
7 50 (10.64%) Serverless
8 44 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (6.60%) Matillion
12 26 (5.53%) GitHub
13 23 (4.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (4.89%) Dagster
14 20 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (4.26%) Prefect
15 14 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 11 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (28.51%) Data Warehouse
2 112 (23.83%) Power BI
3 60 (12.77%) Snowflake Schema
3 60 (12.77%) Tableau
4 40 (8.51%) BigQuery
5 38 (8.09%) Data Lake
6 35 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (6.60%) Metadata
8 30 (6.38%) SQL Server
9 25 (5.32%) Big Data
9 25 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (4.89%) Data Vault
11 20 (4.26%) NoSQL
12 19 (4.04%) Relational Database
13 14 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (2.77%) Looker
15 8 (1.70%) DynamoDB
15 8 (1.70%) MySQL
15 8 (1.70%) Star Schema
16 7 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 44 (9.36%) Git
2 20 (4.26%) JIRA
3 19 (4.04%) GitLab
4 17 (3.62%) SpecFlow
5 8 (1.70%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.49%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.49%) ERwin
7 6 (1.28%) MLflow
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 3 (0.64%) Snyk
8 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.64%) Toad
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.21%) GCC
10 1 (0.21%) LSMW
10 1 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 143 (30.43%) Finance
2 126 (26.81%) Social Skills
3 66 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.02%) Banking
5 26 (5.53%) Retail
6 24 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.77%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.77%) Marketing
8 11 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.49%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.06%) Front Office
13 5 (1.06%) Legal
14 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 172 (36.60%) Data Engineer
2 86 (18.30%) Snowflake Engineer
3 72 (15.32%) Architect
4 71 (15.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 64 (13.62%) Senior
6 58 (12.34%) Analyst
7 43 (9.15%) Lead
8 42 (8.94%) Data Analyst
9 41 (8.72%) Data Architect
10 34 (7.23%) Senior Data Engineer
11 32 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (5.11%) Developer
13 22 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
16 19 (4.04%) AWS Data Engineer
17 17 (3.62%) Business Analyst
17 17 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
17 17 (3.62%) Snowflake Architect
18 14 (2.98%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.15%) Kafka
2 18 (3.83%) Playwright
2 18 (3.83%) PySpark
3 16 (3.40%) PyTorch
4 14 (2.98%) TensorFlow
5 10 (2.13%) React
6 9 (1.91%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.70%) Spring
8 7 (1.49%) OAuth
8 7 (1.49%) Pandas
9 6 (1.28%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.28%) REST
9 6 (1.28%) Vue
10 5 (1.06%) .NET
10 5 (1.06%) NumPy
10 5 (1.06%) OpenID
10 5 (1.06%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.85%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.85%) JSON
11 4 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.83%) Data Structures
4 14 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.55%) Clustering
7 11 (2.34%) Fixed Income
8 10 (2.13%) Equities
8 10 (2.13%) Replication
9 9 (1.91%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.70%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.70%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.55%) Unix
2 9 (1.91%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (43.40%) Analytics
2 180 (38.30%) Data Modelling
3 163 (34.68%) Data Engineering
4 154 (32.77%) ETL
5 141 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 141 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 137 (29.15%) CI/CD
7 107 (22.77%) AI
8 106 (22.55%) Agile
9 98 (20.85%) Data Governance
10 78 (16.60%) DevOps
10 78 (16.60%) Migration
11 75 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (14.68%) Machine Learning
13 65 (13.83%) Data Architecture
14 61 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 57 (12.13%) Performance Tuning
16 55 (11.70%) Decision-Making
16 55 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
17 50 (10.64%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 268 (57.02%) SQL
2 237 (50.43%) Python
3 39 (8.30%) Java
4 21 (4.47%) C#
5 20 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.62%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.77%) Bash
8 8 (1.70%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.49%) R
9 7 (1.49%) Scala
10 5 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.85%) Bicep
11 4 (0.85%) Korn
11 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (8.30%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.09%) Degree
3 22 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.91%) SnowPro
7 8 (1.70%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) PhD
9 3 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.21%) ACCA
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (24.26%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.53%) GDPR
3 19 (4.04%) QA
4 9 (1.91%) SLA
5 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (14.04%) Terraform
2 22 (4.68%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.13%) Grafana
4 9 (1.91%) Ansible
5 8 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.85%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 143 (30.43%) Databricks
2 53 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.74%) Oracle
4 24 (5.11%) Informatica
5 18 (3.83%) Google
6 16 (3.40%) SAP
7 15 (3.19%) Talend
8 13 (2.77%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.77%) Teradata
9 9 (1.91%) Charles River
9 9 (1.91%) Denodo
9 9 (1.91%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.70%) Greenplum
11 7 (1.49%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (1.06%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.06%) Splunk
13 5 (1.06%) Workday