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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 240 196
Rank change year-on-year +23 -44 +158
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 664 375 490
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.14% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.50% 3.04% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 283 404
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £456 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £530 £800
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% -33.75% +37.93%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +14.36% +4.44% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £43.58 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £72.00 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 18,989 12,346 13,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 37.40% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,599 8,215 8,949
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 308 205
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67.70 £54.06 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £20.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +46.34% -28.07% +5.56%

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 12 September 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 12 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 17 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 12 September 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 +1 580 £574 +4.32% 574
London +19 434 £574 -6.22% 443
Work from Home -23 205 £600 -2.04% 387
UK excluding London -42 178 £538 +14.36% 283
Scotland -6 42 £425 -8.11% 37
North of England -53 39 £500 +14.29% 54
South East -40 31 £616 +17.33% 66
Midlands -42 28 £525 +25.00% 23
North West -31 25 £513 +25.00% 33
West Midlands -39 24 £600 +29.73% 16
South West -47 16 £600 +26.32% 56
East of England -25 13 £380 -24.00% 11
Yorkshire -40 11 £450 -5.26% 7
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 33
East Midlands -18 4 £466 +10.83% 7
North East -45 3 - - 14
Wales -16 1 £650 - 5

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
1 141 (21.23%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (8.43%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.02%) Apache
4 15 (2.26%) Confluence
4 15 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.60%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.15%) JBoss
6 1 (0.15%) Luigi
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.26%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.75%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.30%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 339 (51.05%) AWS
2 285 (42.92%) Azure
3 183 (27.56%) dbt
3 183 (27.56%) Power Platform
4 150 (22.59%) GCP
5 84 (12.65%) GitHub
6 75 (11.30%) Amazon S3
7 67 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (8.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 53 (7.98%) Serverless
10 50 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 27 (4.07%) Fivetran
13 27 (4.07%) SaaS
14 22 (3.31%) Dagster
15 18 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (2.71%) Matillion
16 17 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (2.56%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) Broadband
1 3 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) DSL
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) Intranet
3 1 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (31.48%) Data Warehouse
2 181 (27.26%) Power BI
3 90 (13.55%) Data Lake
4 80 (12.05%) Tableau
5 79 (11.90%) BigQuery
6 75 (11.30%) Snowflake Schema
7 65 (9.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (7.23%) SQL Server
9 45 (6.78%) Big Data
10 43 (6.48%) Metadata
11 40 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
12 37 (5.57%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.37%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.77%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.16%) Looker
15 21 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (2.71%) Delta Lake
16 18 (2.71%) Semantic Layer
17 15 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (2.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 76 (11.45%) Git
2 29 (4.37%) JIRA
3 27 (4.07%) GitLab
4 24 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.05%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.75%) MLflow
6 5 (0.75%) Snyk
6 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.60%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) LSMW
9 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 220 (33.13%) Finance
2 195 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 108 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.80%) Banking
5 56 (8.43%) Retail
6 32 (4.82%) Marketing
7 26 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.31%) Financial Institution
9 18 (2.71%) Front Office
10 17 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 15 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.11%) Legal
13 10 (1.51%) Billing
13 10 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 231 (34.79%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.98%) Senior
3 117 (17.62%) Architect
4 107 (16.11%) Snowflake Engineer
5 79 (11.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 71 (10.69%) Data Architect
6 71 (10.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 70 (10.54%) Analyst
8 52 (7.83%) Lead
9 43 (6.48%) Data Analyst
10 38 (5.72%) Developer
11 32 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (3.61%) Python Engineer
14 22 (3.31%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.31%) Snowflake Architect
15 20 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.56%) Consultant
17 15 (2.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.76%) Terraform
2 73 (10.99%) Kafka
3 38 (5.72%) REST
4 35 (5.27%) PySpark
5 18 (2.71%) .NET
6 12 (1.81%) React
7 9 (1.36%) Spring
7 9 (1.36%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.20%) OAuth
8 8 (1.20%) YAML
9 7 (1.05%) JSON
9 7 (1.05%) LangGraph
9 7 (1.05%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.90%) FastAPI
10 6 (0.90%) LangChain
10 6 (0.90%) XML
11 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.75%) OpenID
11 5 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 40 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 29 (4.37%) AI Agents
5 20 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.41%) Life Science
6 16 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.11%) Reinsurance
8 13 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 11 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.66%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.51%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.20%) Replication
12 8 (1.20%) Taxonomies
13 7 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.11%) Linux
2 11 (1.66%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (44.73%) Analytics
2 259 (39.01%) Data Engineering
3 244 (36.75%) Data Modelling
4 239 (35.99%) CI/CD
5 235 (35.39%) Data Pipeline
6 234 (35.24%) ETL
7 216 (32.53%) AI
8 208 (31.33%) Business Intelligence
9 170 (25.60%) Agile
10 153 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 139 (20.93%) DevOps
12 128 (19.28%) Data Governance
13 122 (18.37%) Data Architecture
14 115 (17.32%) Migration
15 108 (16.27%) Validation
16 101 (15.21%) Data Transformation
17 92 (13.86%) Machine Learning
18 86 (12.95%) Decision-Making
19 84 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
20 82 (12.35%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 385 (57.98%) SQL
2 332 (50.00%) Python
3 56 (8.43%) Java
4 19 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 13 (1.96%) Bash
5 13 (1.96%) R
6 10 (1.51%) C#
6 10 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (1.51%) Scala
7 7 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.75%) Bicep
8 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.60%) C++
10 3 (0.45%) Cypher
10 3 (0.45%) Delphi
10 3 (0.45%) SHACL
10 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) LookML
11 2 (0.30%) SOQL
11 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (7.38%) Security Cleared
2 40 (6.02%) Degree
3 28 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.26%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.60%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.45%) CSPO
13 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.15%) CISSP
15 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (26.81%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.27%) QA
3 34 (5.12%) GDPR
4 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) GRC
6 4 (0.60%) MiFID
6 4 (0.60%) PMO
7 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.45%) EMIR
7 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.45%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (7.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (8.58%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.31%) Grafana
3 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.90%) Ansible
5 4 (0.60%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 207 (31.17%) Databricks
2 92 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.72%) Google
4 37 (5.57%) Informatica
5 36 (5.42%) Salesforce
6 30 (4.52%) Oracle
7 22 (3.31%) SAP
8 14 (2.11%) Talend
9 12 (1.81%) Foundry
9 12 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.81%) Teradata
10 10 (1.51%) MicroStrategy
11 9 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.20%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.20%) Workday
13 7 (1.05%) Denodo
14 6 (0.90%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.75%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.75%) Sage