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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 218 280
Rank change year-on-year -35 +62 +166
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 465 355 340
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.20% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.76% 3.19% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 263 265
10th Percentile £364 £408 £417
25th Percentile £440 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £601 £750 £850
90th Percentile £738 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +7.37% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 16,867 11,134 14,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.17% 37.72% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,484 7,745 10,000
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 £631
90th Percentile £704 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 252 349
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.01% -27.13%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -52 392 £525 -12.50% 125
London -2 289 £525 -19.23% 71
Work from Home -27 144 £525 -19.23% 125
UK excluding London -61 135 £510 +7.37% 89
Scotland +32 46 £450 -0.11% 7
Midlands -52 25 £550 +12.82% 14
North of England -69 23 £550 +12.82% 16
West Midlands -51 21 £510 -7.27% 11
South East -67 17 £575 +49.84% 34
North West -39 16 £525 +1.94% 13
South West -46 16 £488 -7.14% 8
East of England -41 7 £400 -31.03% 6
Yorkshire -57 6 £550 +15.79% 1
East Midlands -33 4 £575 +36.90% 3
North East -20 1 £575 +6.98% 2
Wales - 1 £250 - 1

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 91 (19.57%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.17%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.09%) Apache
4 8 (1.72%) Confluence
5 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.72%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (4.95%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.08%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.65%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 236 (50.75%) AWS
2 198 (42.58%) Azure
3 124 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 104 (22.37%) dbt
5 90 (19.35%) GCP
6 68 (14.62%) Amazon S3
7 48 (10.32%) Serverless
8 42 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (6.67%) Matillion
12 28 (6.02%) GitHub
13 24 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (4.95%) Dagster
15 22 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (3.87%) Prefect
17 16 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
18 12 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) Firewall
1 1 (0.22%) Internet
1 1 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (27.31%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (24.95%) Power BI
3 58 (12.47%) Snowflake Schema
4 57 (12.26%) Tableau
5 41 (8.82%) Data Lake
6 38 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (7.96%) BigQuery
8 32 (6.88%) Big Data
9 30 (6.45%) SQL Server
10 25 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (5.16%) Data Vault
11 24 (5.16%) Metadata
12 19 (4.09%) NoSQL
12 19 (4.09%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (2.80%) Looker
15 8 (1.72%) DynamoDB
15 8 (1.72%) MySQL
15 8 (1.72%) Star Schema
16 7 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 43 (9.25%) Git
2 22 (4.73%) JIRA
3 19 (4.09%) GitLab
4 14 (3.01%) SpecFlow
5 8 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.51%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.51%) ERwin
7 6 (1.29%) MLflow
8 3 (0.65%) Selenium
8 3 (0.65%) Snyk
8 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.65%) Toad
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.22%) GCC
10 1 (0.22%) LSMW
10 1 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 147 (31.61%) Finance
2 123 (26.45%) Social Skills
3 62 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.60%) Banking
5 27 (5.81%) Retail
6 24 (5.16%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.66%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.80%) Marketing
9 11 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.72%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Front Office
13 5 (1.08%) Legal
14 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (36.77%) Data Engineer
2 84 (18.06%) Snowflake Engineer
3 75 (16.13%) Architect
4 69 (14.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 65 (13.98%) Senior
6 52 (11.18%) Analyst
7 43 (9.25%) Lead
8 41 (8.82%) Data Architect
9 35 (7.53%) Senior Data Engineer
10 34 (7.31%) Data Analyst
11 33 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (4.95%) Developer
13 22 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (4.30%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
16 18 (3.87%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.87%) Lead Data Engineer
17 17 (3.66%) Snowflake Architect
18 15 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
19 12 (2.58%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.32%) Kafka
2 17 (3.66%) PySpark
3 15 (3.23%) Playwright
4 14 (3.01%) PyTorch
5 12 (2.58%) TensorFlow
6 11 (2.37%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.15%) Spring
8 9 (1.94%) React
9 7 (1.51%) .NET
9 7 (1.51%) Pandas
9 7 (1.51%) REST
9 7 (1.51%) Vue
10 6 (1.29%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.29%) OAuth
11 5 (1.08%) NumPy
11 5 (1.08%) OpenID
11 5 (1.08%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.86%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.86%) JSON
13 3 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.47%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.52%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (4.09%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.15%) Clustering
5 10 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.15%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.94%) Equities
6 9 (1.94%) Replication
7 8 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.72%) Unix
2 7 (1.51%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (45.16%) Analytics
2 171 (36.77%) Data Modelling
3 167 (35.91%) Data Engineering
4 155 (33.33%) ETL
5 149 (32.04%) Data Pipeline
6 140 (30.11%) CI/CD
7 139 (29.89%) Business Intelligence
8 108 (23.23%) AI
9 105 (22.58%) Agile
10 92 (19.78%) Data Governance
11 84 (18.06%) DevOps
12 78 (16.77%) Migration
13 75 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (15.05%) Machine Learning
15 65 (13.98%) Data Architecture
16 64 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 58 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (11.83%) Decision-Making
18 55 (11.83%) Performance Tuning
19 53 (11.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 259 (55.70%) SQL
2 237 (50.97%) Python
3 44 (9.46%) Java
4 19 (4.09%) C#
5 17 (3.66%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.58%) Bash
8 8 (1.72%) R
9 7 (1.51%) Scala
10 6 (1.29%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.86%) Bicep
12 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) Korn
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.22%) C
14 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (8.17%) Security Cleared
2 35 (7.53%) Degree
3 20 (4.30%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.94%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.65%) PhD
8 3 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) ACCA
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.22%) CSPO
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (23.23%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.02%) GDPR
3 21 (4.52%) QA
4 9 (1.94%) SLA
5 4 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) EMIR
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) FATCA
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (7.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (14.41%) Terraform
2 27 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.80%) Grafana
4 9 (1.94%) Ansible
5 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.86%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 142 (30.54%) Databricks
2 49 (10.54%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.16%) Informatica
4 22 (4.73%) Oracle
5 18 (3.87%) Google
6 16 (3.44%) SAP
7 15 (3.23%) Talend
8 13 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.94%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.72%) Denodo
10 8 (1.72%) Greenplum
10 8 (1.72%) Teradata
11 7 (1.51%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.51%) Charles River
11 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.29%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.08%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.08%) Splunk
13 5 (1.08%) Workday