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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 260 317
Rank change year-on-year +22 +57 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 464 306 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.00% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.02% 2.64% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 195 217
10th Percentile £336 £374 £413
25th Percentile £414 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £675
90th Percentile £733 £875 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £74.44 - £53.75
90th Percentile £83.78 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 - £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 15,377 11,583 14,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.71% 37.68% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 7,810 10,586
10th Percentile £311 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 179 331
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.65 £14.13
25th Percentile £20.28 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.84 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £19.95
% change year-on-year +76.53% +21.20% -5.00%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +4 380 £525 -12.50% 141
London +34 289 £525 -19.23% 78
Work from Home +7 146 £525 -19.23% 82
UK excluding London -35 125 £463 -2.63% 102
Scotland +33 45 £450 -5.26% 11
North of England -58 21 £400 -11.11% 24
North West -22 18 £347 -20.80% 17
South West -20 17 £475 -20.83% 7
South East -23 17 £525 +37.70% 41
Midlands -59 14 £550 +10.00% 16
West Midlands -68 11 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -18 9 £550 - 3
East Midlands -28 3 £575 +33.72% 2
Yorkshire -60 2 £488 +5.41% 5
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -21 1 £575 -11.54% 2

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 88 (18.97%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.76%) Apache Spark
3 26 (5.60%) Apache
4 5 (1.08%) Confluence
5 4 (0.86%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.86%) SAS
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (5.17%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.65%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 245 (52.80%) AWS
2 227 (48.92%) Azure
3 111 (23.92%) Power Platform
4 103 (22.20%) dbt
5 86 (18.53%) GCP
6 55 (11.85%) Serverless
7 52 (11.21%) Amazon S3
8 40 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (6.25%) Matillion
12 27 (5.82%) GitHub
13 23 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.45%) SaaS
15 15 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (3.02%) Fivetran
17 13 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (2.16%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (22.41%) Power BI
3 57 (12.28%) Snowflake Schema
4 54 (11.64%) Data Lake
5 43 (9.27%) Tableau
6 42 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (7.11%) BigQuery
8 32 (6.90%) Metadata
9 27 (5.82%) Big Data
10 26 (5.60%) Data Vault
10 26 (5.60%) NoSQL
10 26 (5.60%) Relational Database
11 25 (5.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (5.39%) SQL Server
12 16 (3.45%) RDBMS
13 11 (2.37%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (2.16%) Looker
15 8 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.72%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 44 (9.48%) Git
2 22 (4.74%) GitLab
3 17 (3.66%) JIRA
4 16 (3.45%) ERwin
5 14 (3.02%) ER Studio
5 14 (3.02%) SpecFlow
6 9 (1.94%) MLflow
7 8 (1.72%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (1.29%) DBeaver
8 6 (1.29%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.65%) Selenium
9 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.65%) Toad
10 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.22%) Deequ
General
1 127 (27.37%) Finance
2 119 (25.65%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.90%) Banking
5 22 (4.74%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.31%) Retail
7 15 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.59%) Marketing
9 11 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.16%) Front Office
10 10 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.65%) Back Office
15 3 (0.65%) Law
16 2 (0.43%) iGaming
16 2 (0.43%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 154 (33.19%) Data Engineer
2 79 (17.03%) Snowflake Engineer
3 61 (13.15%) Analyst
3 61 (13.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 60 (12.93%) Architect
5 47 (10.13%) Data Analyst
6 44 (9.48%) Senior
7 38 (8.19%) Lead
8 35 (7.54%) Developer
9 34 (7.33%) Data Architect
10 29 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (4.96%) Python Engineer
13 22 (4.74%) Data Modeller
13 22 (4.74%) Snowflake Architect
14 18 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) Lead Data Engineer
16 16 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.03%) Kafka
2 21 (4.53%) PySpark
3 20 (4.31%) Pandas
3 20 (4.31%) PyTorch
4 17 (3.66%) Playwright
5 14 (3.02%) NumPy
5 14 (3.02%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.16%) React
6 10 (2.16%) REST
7 9 (1.94%) JSON
7 9 (1.94%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.72%) Spring
9 6 (1.29%) Node.js
9 6 (1.29%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.08%) gRPC
10 5 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.08%) Protocol Buffers
10 5 (1.08%) SciPy
11 4 (0.86%) .NET
11 4 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.60%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.80%) Clustering
5 13 (2.80%) Equities
5 13 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 13 (2.80%) Replication
6 12 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.94%) Derivative
9 7 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.51%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.51%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.72%) Unix
2 6 (1.29%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (42.89%) Analytics
2 187 (40.30%) Data Modelling
3 157 (33.84%) ETL
4 144 (31.03%) Data Engineering
5 130 (28.02%) CI/CD
6 124 (26.72%) Business Intelligence
7 120 (25.86%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (23.06%) Agile
9 100 (21.55%) AI
10 98 (21.12%) Data Governance
11 92 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (15.73%) DevOps
12 73 (15.73%) Machine Learning
13 72 (15.52%) Migration
14 63 (13.58%) Data Architecture
15 59 (12.72%) Data Transformation
16 58 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
17 55 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 53 (11.42%) Data Science
19 46 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 283 (60.99%) SQL
2 247 (53.23%) Python
3 40 (8.62%) Java
4 26 (5.60%) JavaScript
4 26 (5.60%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.09%) C#
6 15 (3.23%) Bash
7 13 (2.80%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.94%) R
9 7 (1.51%) Korn
9 7 (1.51%) Scala
10 4 (0.86%) Bicep
10 4 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.33%) Degree
2 29 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.88%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.37%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.51%) SnowPro
7 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.65%) PhD
9 2 (0.43%) ACCA
9 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 1 (0.22%) CSPO
10 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (24.78%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.66%) QA
3 14 (3.02%) GDPR
4 6 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) FATCA
7 1 (0.22%) GAAP
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.22%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (8.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (14.01%) Terraform
2 33 (7.11%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.66%) Ansible
4 5 (1.08%) Grafana
4 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 124 (26.72%) Databricks
2 48 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.68%) Oracle
4 20 (4.31%) Talend
5 16 (3.45%) SAP
6 15 (3.23%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.23%) Informatica
7 11 (2.37%) Google
7 11 (2.37%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.16%) Teradata
9 9 (1.94%) Charles River
10 8 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.51%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.29%) Cloudera
13 5 (1.08%) Ab Initio
13 5 (1.08%) Murex
13 5 (1.08%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.08%) Sparx
13 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media