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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 216 205
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +199
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 586 390 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.20% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 3.21% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 299 406
10th Percentile £400 £407 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £872
90th Percentile £738 £855 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +7.37% - -17.39%
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 18,581 12,147 14,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.39% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,328 8,132 9,923
10th Percentile £328 £313 £310
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £726 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 315 350
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.31 £48.11
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -20 508 £550 -1.35% 182
London +9 366 £575 -8.00% 93
Work from Home -49 181 £575 -8.00% 126
UK excluding London -56 181 £510 +7.37% 129
Scotland +14 48 £430 -7.03% 11
North of England -64 41 £538 +7.50% 30
Midlands -49 35 £525 +7.69% 13
West Midlands -41 33 £550 +10.00% 7
North West -36 27 £525 -5.41% 19
South East -54 25 £550 +15.79% 43
South West -41 16 £561 +9.51% 15
Yorkshire -50 10 £550 +15.79% 10
East of England -29 9 £390 -32.76% 9
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 7
North East -37 4 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -14 2 £423 +0.60% 6
Wales -8 1 £250 -61.54% 3

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
1 103 (17.58%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (7.34%) Apache Spark
3 28 (4.78%) Apache
4 16 (2.73%) Confluence
5 10 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.02%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.75%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.85%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.85%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.51%) 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
1 287 (48.98%) AWS
2 212 (36.18%) Azure
3 169 (28.84%) Power Platform
4 141 (24.06%) dbt
5 126 (21.50%) GCP
6 85 (14.51%) Amazon S3
7 52 (8.87%) GitHub
8 48 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (8.19%) Serverless
9 45 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 33 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (5.63%) Matillion
12 26 (4.44%) Fivetran
13 22 (3.75%) Dagster
14 19 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (3.07%) SaaS
16 16 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.73%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Broadband
1 3 (0.51%) 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
1 167 (28.50%) Data Warehouse
2 164 (27.99%) Power BI
3 82 (13.99%) Tableau
4 73 (12.46%) BigQuery
5 72 (12.29%) Snowflake Schema
6 66 (11.26%) Data Lake
7 49 (8.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.68%) Big Data
9 44 (7.51%) SQL Server
10 35 (5.97%) Relational Database
11 33 (5.63%) Metadata
12 31 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.10%) Data Vault
14 22 (3.75%) NoSQL
15 21 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (3.41%) Looker
17 13 (2.22%) MySQL
17 13 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
18 12 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
18 12 (2.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (9.90%) Git
2 31 (5.29%) JIRA
3 29 (4.95%) GitLab
4 17 (2.90%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.02%) MLflow
6 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.51%) 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
10 1 (0.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 199 (33.96%) Finance
2 158 (26.96%) Social Skills
3 79 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (13.14%) Banking
5 51 (8.70%) Retail
6 27 (4.61%) Marketing
7 23 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.75%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.41%) Financial Institution
9 20 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.39%) Front Office
11 12 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.88%) Legal
13 10 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.54%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.37%) Back Office
16 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (35.49%) Data Engineer
2 110 (18.77%) Snowflake Engineer
3 103 (17.58%) Architect
4 94 (16.04%) Senior
5 83 (14.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 65 (11.09%) Analyst
7 57 (9.73%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (7.00%) Lead
10 38 (6.48%) Data Analyst
11 37 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.95%) Developer
13 28 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (4.10%) AWS Data Engineer
15 23 (3.92%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.24%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (3.07%) Snowflake Architect
18 17 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
19 16 (2.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (9.90%) Kafka
2 23 (3.92%) REST
3 18 (3.07%) PySpark
4 11 (1.88%) Spring
4 11 (1.88%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.71%) .NET
5 10 (1.71%) React
6 9 (1.54%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.19%) OAuth
7 7 (1.19%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.19%) Vue
8 6 (1.02%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.02%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.02%) XML
8 6 (1.02%) YAML
9 5 (0.85%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.85%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.85%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.80%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.29%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.05%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.05%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.71%) Equities
9 9 (1.54%) Clustering
9 9 (1.54%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.19%) Replication
11 6 (1.02%) Data Fabric
11 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.85%) Derivative
12 5 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.54%) Unix
2 7 (1.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (46.25%) Analytics
2 229 (39.08%) Data Engineering
3 211 (36.01%) Data Pipeline
4 208 (35.49%) Data Modelling
5 195 (33.28%) Business Intelligence
6 194 (33.11%) ETL
7 187 (31.91%) CI/CD
8 164 (27.99%) AI
9 132 (22.53%) Agile
10 108 (18.43%) Data Governance
10 108 (18.43%) Migration
11 101 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 100 (17.06%) DevOps
13 92 (15.70%) Validation
14 91 (15.53%) Data Architecture
15 81 (13.82%) Machine Learning
16 70 (11.95%) Data Transformation
17 68 (11.60%) Decision-Making
18 67 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
19 66 (11.26%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 324 (55.29%) SQL
2 292 (49.83%) Python
3 56 (9.56%) Java
4 15 (2.56%) R
5 13 (2.22%) Bash
6 10 (1.71%) C#
6 10 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.37%) Scala
8 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.19%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.68%) Bicep
11 3 (0.51%) Cypher
11 3 (0.51%) 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
13 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 41 (7.00%) Degree
3 29 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.39%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.51%) CSPO
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (24.57%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.83%) GDPR
3 28 (4.78%) QA
4 12 (2.05%) SLA
5 7 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) EMIR
7 3 (0.51%) 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 36 (6.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (13.14%) Terraform
2 37 (6.31%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.92%) Grafana
4 10 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 166 (28.33%) Databricks
2 65 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.46%) Informatica
4 30 (5.12%) Google
5 29 (4.95%) Oracle
6 27 (4.61%) Salesforce
7 21 (3.58%) SAP
8 11 (1.88%) Talend
9 9 (1.54%) Charles River
9 9 (1.54%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.54%) Teradata
10 8 (1.37%) Denodo
11 7 (1.19%) FactSet
11 7 (1.19%) Splunk
11 7 (1.19%) Workday
12 6 (1.02%) Murex
12 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.02%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.85%) MicroStrategy