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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 220 208
Rank change year-on-year -13 -12 +199
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 596 391 489
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.20% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.19% 3.21% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 300 405
10th Percentile £400 £408 £421
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £656 £775 £875
90th Percentile £750 £853 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% -19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £47.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.13 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 - £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 18,702 12,186 14,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.35% 37.44% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,395 8,167 9,848
10th Percentile £329 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 313 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -24.47%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -21 516 £568 -1.30% 146
London +12 370 £575 -8.00% 95
Work from Home -38 186 £575 -11.54% 78
UK excluding London -63 185 £525 +10.53% 76
Scotland +15 48 £430 -7.03% 6
North of England -62 41 £538 +7.50% 20
Midlands -43 35 £525 +7.69% 6
West Midlands -44 33 £550 +10.00% 4
North West -37 27 £525 -5.41% 13
South East -49 26 £575 +15.00% 32
South West -49 18 £574 +11.95% 9
East of England -26 10 £390 -32.76% 5
Yorkshire -40 10 £550 +15.79% 6
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 -
North East -32 4 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -15 2 £423 +0.60% 2
Wales -13 1 £250 -61.54%

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
1 105 (17.62%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (7.38%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.87%) Apache
4 16 (2.68%) Confluence
5 10 (1.68%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.01%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (3.86%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.84%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.84%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 290 (48.66%) AWS
2 221 (37.08%) Azure
3 174 (29.19%) Power Platform
4 145 (24.33%) dbt
5 129 (21.64%) GCP
6 85 (14.26%) Amazon S3
7 55 (9.23%) GitHub
8 49 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (8.22%) Serverless
9 48 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 45 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (5.37%) Matillion
13 26 (4.36%) Fivetran
14 23 (3.86%) Dagster
15 19 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (3.02%) SaaS
17 17 (2.85%) Collibra
18 16 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
1 3 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (28.52%) Data Warehouse
2 169 (28.36%) Power BI
3 83 (13.93%) Tableau
4 73 (12.25%) BigQuery
5 72 (12.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 68 (11.41%) Data Lake
7 49 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.55%) Big Data
9 44 (7.38%) SQL Server
10 35 (5.87%) Relational Database
11 34 (5.70%) Metadata
12 33 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
13 26 (4.36%) NoSQL
14 24 (4.03%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (3.36%) Looker
17 14 (2.35%) Semantic Layer
18 13 (2.18%) MySQL
19 12 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
19 12 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 61 (10.23%) Git
2 33 (5.54%) JIRA
3 27 (4.53%) GitLab
4 18 (3.02%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.01%) MLflow
6 5 (0.84%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.50%) Snyk
9 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.34%) Toad
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) ERwin
10 1 (0.17%) GCC
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 204 (34.23%) Finance
2 166 (27.85%) Social Skills
3 83 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (13.26%) Banking
5 51 (8.56%) Retail
6 27 (4.53%) Marketing
7 23 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.69%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.36%) Financial Institution
9 20 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.68%) Front Office
11 13 (2.18%) Legal
12 12 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.51%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.34%) Back Office
15 8 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (34.73%) Data Engineer
2 108 (18.12%) Snowflake Engineer
3 107 (17.95%) Architect
4 94 (15.77%) Senior
5 81 (13.59%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 67 (11.24%) Analyst
7 60 (10.07%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.05%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (6.88%) Lead
10 40 (6.71%) Data Analyst
11 37 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Developer
13 29 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (4.03%) AWS Data Engineer
15 23 (3.86%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.19%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Snowflake Architect
17 17 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
17 17 (2.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.07%) Kafka
2 24 (4.03%) REST
3 18 (3.02%) PySpark
4 11 (1.85%) Spring
4 11 (1.85%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.68%) .NET
5 10 (1.68%) React
6 9 (1.51%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.17%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.17%) OAuth
7 7 (1.17%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.17%) Vue
8 6 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.01%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.01%) JSON
8 6 (1.01%) XML
8 6 (1.01%) YAML
9 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.84%) Playwright
9 5 (0.84%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.75%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.20%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.35%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.01%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.68%) Equities
11 9 (1.51%) Clustering
11 9 (1.51%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.17%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.17%) Replication
13 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.01%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.84%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.51%) Unix
2 8 (1.34%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (45.64%) Analytics
2 232 (38.93%) Data Engineering
3 213 (35.74%) Data Modelling
4 212 (35.57%) Data Pipeline
5 201 (33.72%) ETL
6 200 (33.56%) Business Intelligence
7 194 (32.55%) CI/CD
8 167 (28.02%) AI
9 135 (22.65%) Agile
10 116 (19.46%) Data Governance
11 109 (18.29%) Migration
12 106 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 105 (17.62%) DevOps
14 98 (16.44%) Data Architecture
15 96 (16.11%) Validation
16 81 (13.59%) Machine Learning
17 75 (12.58%) Data Transformation
18 69 (11.58%) Decision-Making
18 69 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
19 67 (11.24%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 330 (55.37%) SQL
2 295 (49.50%) Python
3 56 (9.40%) Java
4 15 (2.52%) R
5 13 (2.18%) Bash
6 10 (1.68%) C#
6 10 (1.68%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.34%) Scala
8 7 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.17%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.67%) Bicep
11 3 (0.50%) Cypher
11 3 (0.50%) Delphi
11 3 (0.50%) SHACL
12 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.34%) SOQL
12 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.88%) Degree
3 29 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.35%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.34%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.67%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.50%) CSPO
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (25.34%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.71%) GDPR
3 29 (4.87%) QA
4 12 (2.01%) SLA
5 7 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.50%) EMIR
7 3 (0.50%) MiFID
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) PMO
8 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) FATCA
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 38 (6.38%) Docker
2 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (13.42%) Terraform
2 38 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.19%) Grafana
4 12 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.84%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 170 (28.52%) Databricks
2 67 (11.24%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.54%) Informatica
4 31 (5.20%) Google
5 29 (4.87%) Oracle
6 28 (4.70%) Salesforce
7 21 (3.52%) SAP
8 11 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.85%) Talend
9 10 (1.68%) Charles River
10 9 (1.51%) Denodo
10 9 (1.51%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.51%) Teradata
11 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.34%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.17%) FactSet
12 7 (1.17%) Splunk
12 7 (1.17%) Workday
13 6 (1.01%) Foundry
13 6 (1.01%) Murex