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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 253 319
Rank change year-on-year +18 +66 +141
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 463 311 306
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.01% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 2.70% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 201 229
10th Percentile £337 £380 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.19% +2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £675
90th Percentile £737 £888 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £494 £510
% change year-on-year -6.33% -3.19% -2.39%
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 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 14,804 11,512 14,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.90% 37.21% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,180 7,657 10,686
10th Percentile £306 £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 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 173 323
10th Percentile £14.36 £16.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.90 £21.46 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £80.40 £68.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £24.83 £20.99
% change year-on-year +47.00% +18.32% +5.72%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 0 374 £520 -13.33% 183
London +17 284 £525 -19.23% 111
Work from Home +15 155 £525 -20.45% 124
UK excluding London -8 124 £463 -6.33% 123
Scotland +45 46 £450 -5.26% 14
North of England -55 20 £375 -15.49% 26
South East -16 19 £500 +25.00% 52
South West -10 17 £475 -17.39% 9
North West -23 17 £347 -20.80% 17
Midlands -62 14 £550 - 14
West Midlands -50 10 £500 -9.09% 14
East of England -20 9 £550 +4.76% 6
East Midlands -29 4 £575 -7.93%
North East -13 2 £575 -11.54% 3
Yorkshire -51 1 £488 +8.33% 6
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 89 (19.22%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.56%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.83%) Apache
4 6 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.86%) SAS
6 3 (0.65%) Confluence
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.75%) Aladdin
2 11 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 238 (51.40%) AWS
2 223 (48.16%) Azure
3 113 (24.41%) Power Platform
4 103 (22.25%) dbt
5 87 (18.79%) GCP
6 51 (11.02%) Serverless
7 46 (9.94%) Amazon S3
8 37 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (6.26%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (6.05%) Matillion
12 23 (4.97%) GitHub
13 21 (4.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.46%) SaaS
15 15 (3.24%) Fivetran
16 14 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (2.16%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (31.53%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (23.11%) Power BI
3 56 (12.10%) Data Lake
4 51 (11.02%) Snowflake Schema
5 45 (9.72%) Tableau
6 43 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (7.13%) BigQuery
8 31 (6.70%) Metadata
9 27 (5.83%) Big Data
10 26 (5.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (5.40%) Data Vault
11 25 (5.40%) NoSQL
11 25 (5.40%) Relational Database
12 20 (4.32%) SQL Server
13 16 (3.46%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (2.59%) Star Schema
16 10 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
17 8 (1.73%) Apache Arrow
17 8 (1.73%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 47 (10.15%) Git
2 22 (4.75%) GitLab
3 19 (4.10%) JIRA
4 17 (3.67%) ERwin
5 15 (3.24%) ER Studio
6 13 (2.81%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.94%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (1.73%) DBeaver
9 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
10 5 (1.08%) MLflow
11 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.65%) Selenium
11 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.43%) TestRail
12 2 (0.43%) Toad
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.22%) Deequ
General
1 126 (27.21%) Finance
2 120 (25.92%) Social Skills
3 69 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.56%) Banking
5 20 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.89%) Investment Banking
6 18 (3.89%) Retail
7 15 (3.24%) Front Office
8 14 (3.02%) Marketing
9 13 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.65%) Law
17 2 (0.43%) iGaming
17 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (32.83%) Data Engineer
2 76 (16.41%) Snowflake Engineer
3 63 (13.61%) Analyst
4 59 (12.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 57 (12.31%) Architect
6 50 (10.80%) Data Analyst
7 44 (9.50%) Senior
8 35 (7.56%) Developer
8 35 (7.56%) Lead
9 30 (6.48%) Data Architect
10 26 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (5.40%) Python Engineer
12 23 (4.97%) Data Modeller
13 21 (4.54%) Snowflake Architect
14 20 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.67%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.62%) Kafka
2 23 (4.97%) Pandas
3 21 (4.54%) PySpark
4 18 (3.89%) PyTorch
5 17 (3.67%) NumPy
6 16 (3.46%) Playwright
7 14 (3.02%) TensorFlow
8 12 (2.59%) React
9 11 (2.38%) REST
10 10 (2.16%) JSON
11 8 (1.73%) gRPC
11 8 (1.73%) Node.js
11 8 (1.73%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (1.73%) SciPy
11 8 (1.73%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.51%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (1.51%) Spring
13 6 (1.30%) .NET
14 5 (1.08%) LangChain
14 5 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.05%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (3.24%) Equities
4 15 (3.24%) Fixed Income
4 15 (3.24%) Replication
5 13 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.59%) Clustering
6 12 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.38%) Derivative
8 10 (2.16%) Hedge funds
8 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.73%) Pricing Data
9 8 (1.73%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.30%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.73%) Unix
2 7 (1.51%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (41.68%) Analytics
2 179 (38.66%) Data Modelling
3 161 (34.77%) ETL
4 135 (29.16%) Data Engineering
5 124 (26.78%) CI/CD
6 123 (26.57%) Business Intelligence
7 115 (24.84%) Agile
8 111 (23.97%) Data Pipeline
9 101 (21.81%) Data Governance
10 94 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (19.65%) AI
12 71 (15.33%) Migration
13 69 (14.90%) DevOps
13 69 (14.90%) Machine Learning
14 60 (12.96%) Data Architecture
15 59 (12.74%) Data Transformation
16 57 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
17 51 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (10.80%) Data Science
19 49 (10.58%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 282 (60.91%) SQL
2 242 (52.27%) Python
3 44 (9.50%) Java
4 32 (6.91%) TypeScript
5 30 (6.48%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.67%) C#
7 13 (2.81%) PL/SQL
8 11 (2.38%) Bash
9 8 (1.73%) R
9 8 (1.73%) Scala
10 7 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.51%) Korn
11 4 (0.86%) Bicep
11 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.34%) Degree
2 24 (5.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.24%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.51%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.65%) PhD
10 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.43%) ACCA
11 2 (0.43%) CIMA
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.22%) CSPO
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (23.76%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.10%) QA
3 15 (3.24%) GDPR
4 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) FATCA
6 1 (0.22%) GAAP
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (7.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (12.74%) Terraform
2 31 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.67%) Ansible
4 5 (1.08%) Grafana
4 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 120 (25.92%) Databricks
2 46 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.91%) Oracle
4 20 (4.32%) Talend
5 18 (3.89%) SAP
6 15 (3.24%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.24%) Informatica
7 12 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.38%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.94%) Google
9 9 (1.94%) Teradata
10 8 (1.73%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.51%) Charles River
11 7 (1.51%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.30%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.30%) Sparx
13 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.86%) Ab Initio
14 4 (0.86%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.86%) SimCorp