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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 233 232
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +188
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 545 345 440
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.16% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 3.07% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 267 356
10th Percentile £371 £409 £417
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile £639 £725 £850
90th Percentile £745 £853 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +9.47% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £43.58 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £85.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 - £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 17,839 11,244 14,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.88% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 7,595 9,937
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 280 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £19.95
% change year-on-year +98.05% -5.09% -26.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -21 469 £550 -4.35% 376
London +14 344 £550 -11.11% 110
Work from Home -39 166 £563 -10.00% 355
UK excluding London -48 166 £520 +9.47% 376
Scotland +16 49 £440 -4.86% 34
Midlands -40 34 £550 +12.82% 46
West Midlands -34 32 £550 - 19
North of England -57 31 £550 +15.79% 79
North West -27 23 £525 -5.41% 38
South East -56 20 £575 +26.03% 96
South West -34 18 £535 +1.90% 30
East of England -32 9 £390 -32.76% 44
Yorkshire -56 6 £550 +18.92% 27
Northern Ireland - 5 £334 - 33
East Midlands -22 2 £654 +55.65% 27
North East -33 2 £575 +35.29% 14
Wales -11 1 £250 -61.54% 20

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 96 (17.61%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.67%) Apache
4 10 (1.83%) Confluence
5 6 (1.10%) SAS
5 6 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.18%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.85%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.92%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.73%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.55%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.55%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.37%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 277 (50.83%) AWS
2 206 (37.80%) Azure
3 154 (28.26%) Power Platform
4 123 (22.57%) dbt
5 110 (20.18%) GCP
6 80 (14.68%) Amazon S3
7 48 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (8.62%) GitHub
9 44 (8.07%) Serverless
10 42 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 35 (6.42%) Matillion
13 27 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (4.04%) Dagster
15 21 (3.85%) Fivetran
16 18 (3.30%) SaaS
17 17 (3.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (2.94%) Prefect
19 15 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) DNS
2 1 (0.18%) DSL
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Intranet
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (26.79%) Power BI
2 141 (25.87%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (14.50%) Tableau
4 72 (13.21%) Snowflake Schema
5 54 (9.91%) BigQuery
6 51 (9.36%) Data Lake
7 42 (7.71%) Big Data
8 38 (6.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (6.61%) SQL Server
10 34 (6.24%) Relational Database
11 29 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.77%) Data Vault
12 26 (4.77%) Metadata
13 22 (4.04%) NoSQL
14 18 (3.30%) Looker
15 17 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (2.20%) MySQL
17 10 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
17 10 (1.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (9.91%) Git
2 29 (5.32%) GitLab
3 25 (4.59%) JIRA
4 14 (2.57%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.47%) SpecFlow
6 7 (1.28%) MLflow
7 3 (0.55%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.55%) Snyk
7 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.55%) Toad
8 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) ERwin
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 182 (33.39%) Finance
2 134 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 67 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.56%) Banking
5 44 (8.07%) Retail
6 26 (4.77%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.40%) Marketing
8 23 (4.22%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.83%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.65%) Front Office
13 9 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.47%) Back Office
14 8 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
15 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 193 (35.41%) Data Engineer
2 101 (18.53%) Snowflake Engineer
3 91 (16.70%) Architect
4 90 (16.51%) Senior
5 78 (14.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 61 (11.19%) Analyst
7 50 (9.17%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
9 43 (7.89%) Lead
10 40 (7.34%) Data Analyst
11 38 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (5.14%) Developer
13 25 (4.59%) AWS Data Engineer
13 25 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.49%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.49%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.30%) Snowflake Architect
16 15 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.36%) Kafka
2 17 (3.12%) PySpark
2 17 (3.12%) REST
3 11 (2.02%) Spring
3 11 (2.02%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.83%) .NET
5 9 (1.65%) React
6 8 (1.47%) Playwright
6 8 (1.47%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.28%) Vue
8 6 (1.10%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.10%) OAuth
8 6 (1.10%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.92%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.92%) JSON
9 5 (0.92%) OpenID
9 5 (0.92%) Snowpark
9 5 (0.92%) XML
9 5 (0.92%) YAML
10 4 (0.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.32%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.02%) Clustering
7 11 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.83%) Equities
8 10 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.47%) Replication
10 6 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.92%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.73%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.83%) Unix
2 8 (1.47%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (45.69%) Analytics
2 206 (37.80%) Data Engineering
3 189 (34.68%) Data Modelling
4 185 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
5 178 (32.66%) Business Intelligence
6 177 (32.48%) ETL
7 171 (31.38%) CI/CD
8 153 (28.07%) AI
9 116 (21.28%) Agile
10 104 (19.08%) Migration
11 99 (18.17%) DevOps
12 96 (17.61%) Data Governance
13 87 (15.96%) Validation
14 86 (15.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 78 (14.31%) Data Architecture
16 73 (13.39%) Machine Learning
17 70 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 70 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
18 63 (11.56%) Data Transformation
19 62 (11.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 293 (53.76%) SQL
2 266 (48.81%) Python
3 58 (10.64%) Java
4 14 (2.57%) R
5 13 (2.39%) Bash
5 13 (2.39%) C#
6 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.10%) Scala
10 5 (0.92%) Bicep
11 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) Korn
13 2 (0.37%) SOQL
13 2 (0.37%) VBScript
14 1 (0.18%) Cypher
14 1 (0.18%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 47 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 37 (6.79%) Degree
3 25 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.39%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.73%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) CSPO
12 1 (0.18%) ACCA
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) CFA
12 1 (0.18%) CIMA
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (24.04%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.24%) GDPR
3 29 (5.32%) QA
4 9 (1.65%) SLA
5 7 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.55%) EMIR
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
7 3 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) CDISC
9 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (6.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (13.94%) Terraform
2 35 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.67%) Grafana
4 8 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.10%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 153 (28.07%) Databricks
2 62 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.32%) Oracle
4 27 (4.95%) Informatica
5 25 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 23 (4.22%) Google
7 19 (3.49%) SAP
8 13 (2.39%) Talend
9 9 (1.65%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.65%) Teradata
10 8 (1.47%) Denodo
10 8 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.28%) Charles River
11 7 (1.28%) FactSet
11 7 (1.28%) Splunk
12 6 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.10%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.92%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.92%) Greenplum
13 5 (0.92%) Workday