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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 231 336
Rank change year-on-year +15 +105 +129
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 465 391 300
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.09% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 3.05% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 268 239
10th Percentile £363 £384 £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 £663 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £746
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 13,800 12,832 15,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.04% 35.93% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,381 8,507 11,432
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 179 296
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.44 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%
75th Percentile £51.38 £46.84 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.80 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.05
% change year-on-year -17.05% +28.86% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -7 381 £550 -15.38% 330
London +8 286 £575 -17.86% 67
Work from Home -16 167 £575 -28.13% 231
UK excluding London +10 124 £450 - 308
Scotland +34 41 £450 +38.46% 14
North of England -40 21 £400 -9.35% 71
South West -3 17 £475 +18.75% 26
South East -4 16 £500 +9.59% 81
North West -18 16 £375 -15.01% 45
East of England -4 15 £525 -4.55% 45
Midlands -41 15 £463 -7.50% 57
West Midlands -31 11 £425 -15.00% 28
East Midlands -21 4 £575 -7.93% 27
Yorkshire -37 4 £506 - 21
North East -3 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 £575 - 7

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
1 111 (23.87%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (11.61%) Apache
3 35 (7.53%) 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 (3.44%) 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
1 250 (53.76%) AWS
2 222 (47.74%) Azure
3 127 (27.31%) dbt
4 107 (23.01%) Power Platform
5 91 (19.57%) GCP
6 54 (11.61%) Serverless
7 45 (9.68%) Amazon S3
8 39 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (6.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (4.73%) GitHub
11 21 (4.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.09%) Matillion
13 18 (3.87%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (3.23%) Fivetran
15 13 (2.80%) SaaS
16 12 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (1.94%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (32.90%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (23.01%) Power BI
3 82 (17.63%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.03%) Snowflake Schema
5 41 (8.82%) Tableau
6 39 (8.39%) BigQuery
7 38 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (7.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 34 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
10 31 (6.67%) Metadata
11 30 (6.45%) Apache Iceberg
12 28 (6.02%) Apache Arrow
12 28 (6.02%) Apache Ignite
12 28 (6.02%) Dremio
13 26 (5.59%) Big Data
13 26 (5.59%) NoSQL
14 24 (5.16%) Relational Database
15 23 (4.95%) SQL Server
16 22 (4.73%) Data Vault
17 17 (3.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (10.54%) Git
2 21 (4.52%) ERwin
3 18 (3.87%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.87%) JIRA
4 16 (3.44%) GitLab
5 11 (2.37%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (2.15%) 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
1 145 (31.18%) Finance
2 127 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 70 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.75%) Banking
5 35 (7.53%) Front Office
5 35 (7.53%) Investment Banking
6 17 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (3.44%) Marketing
8 14 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.15%) Retail
10 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.65%) Law
14 2 (0.43%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.43%) Portuguese Language
14 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (28.82%) Data Engineer
2 65 (13.98%) Senior
3 60 (12.90%) Architect
4 58 (12.47%) Analyst
5 54 (11.61%) Snowflake Engineer
6 47 (10.11%) Python Engineer
7 45 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (9.46%) Data Analyst
9 41 (8.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 33 (7.10%) Developer
11 31 (6.67%) Data Architect
11 31 (6.67%) Lead
12 30 (6.45%) Software Engineer
13 29 (6.24%) Java Engineer
14 28 (6.02%) AWS Software Engineer
14 28 (6.02%) Data Modeller
14 28 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
14 28 (6.02%) Python Software Engineer
15 27 (5.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 27 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.11%) Pandas
2 37 (7.96%) NumPy
3 28 (6.02%) gRPC
3 28 (6.02%) Kafka
3 28 (6.02%) Protocol Buffers
3 28 (6.02%) SciPy
4 17 (3.66%) PyTorch
5 16 (3.44%) PySpark
6 13 (2.80%) TensorFlow
7 12 (2.58%) REST
8 11 (2.37%) React
9 10 (2.15%) Playwright
10 8 (1.72%) JSON
10 8 (1.72%) Node.js
10 8 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (1.29%) .NET
11 6 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.08%) LangChain
12 5 (1.08%) RESTful
12 5 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.10%) Equities
2 33 (7.10%) Fixed Income
3 31 (6.67%) Derivative
3 31 (6.67%) Hedge funds
4 29 (6.24%) Data Structures
5 28 (6.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 28 (6.02%) Pricing Data
6 18 (3.87%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.80%) Replication
8 11 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.72%) Clustering
11 8 (1.72%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.29%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.72%) Linux
2 7 (1.51%) Unix
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (38.92%) Data Modelling
2 170 (36.56%) Analytics
3 161 (34.62%) ETL
4 130 (27.96%) Agile
5 121 (26.02%) Data Engineering
6 111 (23.87%) Data Governance
7 110 (23.66%) Business Intelligence
8 109 (23.44%) CI/CD
9 107 (23.01%) Data Pipeline
10 82 (17.63%) Migration
10 82 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (16.34%) AI
12 67 (14.41%) Asset Management
12 67 (14.41%) Machine Learning
13 65 (13.98%) Data Transformation
14 63 (13.55%) DevOps
15 62 (13.33%) Data Integration
16 58 (12.47%) Data Architecture
17 57 (12.26%) Software Engineering
18 54 (11.61%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 271 (58.28%) SQL
2 255 (54.84%) Python
3 56 (12.04%) Java
4 47 (10.11%) JavaScript
4 47 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.58%) C#
6 10 (2.15%) 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 31 (6.67%) Degree
2 21 (4.52%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.44%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.01%) 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%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (23.23%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.44%) 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 35 (7.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (10.54%) Terraform
2 24 (5.16%) 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
1 113 (24.30%) Databricks
2 38 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.17%) Oracle
3 23 (4.95%) SAP
4 14 (3.01%) Talend
5 13 (2.80%) Google
5 13 (2.80%) Informatica
6 12 (2.58%) Greenplum
7 11 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.94%) Cloudera
9 8 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.51%) Sparx
10 7 (1.51%) Teradata
11 6 (1.29%) Charles River
12 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.08%) Foundry
12 5 (1.08%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.08%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media