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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 228 331
Rank change year-on-year +4 +103 +128
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 461 406 317
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.11% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.34% 3.13% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 284 252
10th Percentile £363 £390 £413
25th Percentile £449 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £578
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +12.40% +0.57%
75th Percentile £663 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £469 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -14.77% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.25 - -

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 13,810 12,971 16,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.31% 35.58% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,372 8,543 11,601
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 189 302
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.02 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £52.33 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £21.82
% change year-on-year -18.18% +26.03% +14.36%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -8 382 £550 -15.38% 141
London +10 286 £600 -18.26% 68
Work from Home -21 169 £575 -28.13% 104
UK excluding London +15 123 £450 -4.00% 124
Scotland +30 38 £450 - 15
North of England -40 23 £400 -9.35% 26
South West +16 17 £475 -2.56% 8
South East +13 16 £500 +9.59% 54
North West -28 16 £375 -15.01% 20
East of England -6 15 £525 -4.55% 7
Midlands -43 15 £463 -6.33% 11
West Midlands -31 11 £425 -12.82% 6
Yorkshire -23 6 £469 - 2
East Midlands -16 4 £575 -7.93% 5
North East -6 1 - - 4
Wales - 1 £575 -

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
1 117 (25.38%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (12.36%) Apache
3 36 (7.81%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.74%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.87%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Maple
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.47%) Aladdin
2 15 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 250 (54.23%) AWS
2 213 (46.20%) Azure
3 130 (28.20%) dbt
4 106 (22.99%) Power Platform
5 92 (19.96%) GCP
6 52 (11.28%) Serverless
7 44 (9.54%) Amazon S3
8 39 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (4.56%) GitHub
11 20 (4.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
12 18 (3.90%) Matillion
13 15 (3.25%) Fivetran
14 14 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (2.82%) SaaS
16 10 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (1.74%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (33.62%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (22.99%) Power BI
3 82 (17.79%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.33%) BigQuery
5 42 (9.11%) Tableau
6 38 (8.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 38 (8.24%) Snowflake Schema
7 36 (7.81%) Amazon Athena
8 33 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (6.94%) Apache Iceberg
9 32 (6.94%) Metadata
10 30 (6.51%) Apache Arrow
10 30 (6.51%) Apache Ignite
10 30 (6.51%) Dremio
11 28 (6.07%) NoSQL
12 26 (5.64%) Big Data
13 24 (5.21%) Relational Database
14 22 (4.77%) Data Vault
14 22 (4.77%) SQL Server
15 17 (3.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (10.20%) Git
2 21 (4.56%) ERwin
3 18 (3.90%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.90%) JIRA
4 15 (3.25%) GitLab
5 11 (2.39%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (2.17%) DBeaver
7 9 (1.95%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.52%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.08%) MLflow
10 4 (0.87%) Selenium
11 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
12 2 (0.43%) TestRail
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.22%) Deequ
13 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 144 (31.24%) Finance
2 129 (27.98%) Social Skills
3 68 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.28%) Banking
5 37 (8.03%) Front Office
5 37 (8.03%) Investment Banking
6 16 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (3.47%) Marketing
7 15 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.17%) Retail
10 9 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.43%) Law
13 2 (0.43%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (28.85%) Data Engineer
2 72 (15.62%) Senior
3 60 (13.02%) Architect
4 57 (12.36%) Analyst
5 52 (11.28%) Snowflake Engineer
6 49 (10.63%) Python Engineer
7 46 (9.98%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (9.33%) Data Analyst
9 41 (8.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 35 (7.59%) Lead
11 32 (6.94%) Software Engineer
12 31 (6.72%) Data Architect
12 31 (6.72%) Developer
12 31 (6.72%) Java Engineer
13 30 (6.51%) AWS Software Engineer
13 30 (6.51%) Java Software Engineer
13 30 (6.51%) Python Software Engineer
14 29 (6.29%) Senior Java Engineer
14 29 (6.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 29 (6.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.63%) Pandas
2 39 (8.46%) NumPy
3 30 (6.51%) gRPC
3 30 (6.51%) Protocol Buffers
3 30 (6.51%) SciPy
4 28 (6.07%) Kafka
5 16 (3.47%) PySpark
6 15 (3.25%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.39%) React
7 11 (2.39%) TensorFlow
8 10 (2.17%) Playwright
8 10 (2.17%) REST
9 8 (1.74%) Node.js
9 8 (1.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 7 (1.52%) .NET
10 7 (1.52%) JSON
11 6 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.30%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.08%) RESTful
12 5 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.59%) Equities
2 35 (7.59%) Fixed Income
3 33 (7.16%) Derivative
4 32 (6.94%) Hedge funds
5 30 (6.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (6.51%) Pricing Data
6 28 (6.07%) Data Structures
7 19 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.17%) Replication
10 9 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.74%) Clustering
12 7 (1.52%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.30%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.52%) Linux
1 7 (1.52%) Unix
2 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (38.61%) Data Modelling
2 171 (37.09%) Analytics
3 160 (34.71%) ETL
4 136 (29.50%) Agile
5 118 (25.60%) Data Engineering
6 110 (23.86%) Data Governance
7 109 (23.64%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (23.64%) CI/CD
8 107 (23.21%) Data Pipeline
9 82 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (17.57%) Migration
11 74 (16.05%) AI
12 69 (14.97%) Asset Management
13 66 (14.32%) Data Transformation
13 66 (14.32%) Machine Learning
14 63 (13.67%) DevOps
15 60 (13.02%) Data Integration
15 60 (13.02%) Software Engineering
16 58 (12.58%) Data Architecture
17 51 (11.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 271 (58.79%) SQL
2 254 (55.10%) Python
3 59 (12.80%) Java
4 49 (10.63%) JavaScript
4 49 (10.63%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.82%) C#
6 10 (2.17%) Scala
7 9 (1.95%) Bash
7 9 (1.95%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.74%) Korn
8 8 (1.74%) R
9 7 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.43%) 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 (6.72%) Degree
2 18 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.47%) AWS Certification
4 13 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.60%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.30%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (24.30%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.90%) QA
3 17 (3.69%) GDPR
4 7 (1.52%) 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 33 (7.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (9.76%) Terraform
2 25 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.17%) Ansible
4 6 (1.30%) Grafana
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 107 (23.21%) Databricks
2 38 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.81%) Oracle
4 23 (4.99%) SAP
5 13 (2.82%) Informatica
6 12 (2.60%) Teradata
7 11 (2.39%) Google
7 11 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.39%) Talend
8 9 (1.95%) Cloudera
9 8 (1.74%) Greenplum
9 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.52%) Sparx
11 6 (1.30%) Charles River
11 6 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.08%) Foundry
12 5 (1.08%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.87%) MuleSoft