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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 252 315
Rank change year-on-year +17 +63 +145
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 469 318 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.04% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 2.77% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 204 212
10th Percentile £337 £364 £413
25th Percentile £414 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £696 £675
90th Percentile £732 £875 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £74.44 - £53.75
90th Percentile £83.78 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 - £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 15,625 11,482 14,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.83% 37.69% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,725 7,774 10,433
10th Percentile £312 £313 £285
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 £633 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 179 338
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.65 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.84 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £24.18 £18.98
% change year-on-year +80.36% +27.43% -8.86%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -11 383 £525 -12.50% 151
London +13 292 £525 -19.23% 82
Work from Home +2 148 £525 -19.23% 74
UK excluding London -36 126 £463 -2.63% 108
Scotland +44 46 £450 -5.26% 10
North of England -58 21 £400 -13.51% 27
North West -33 18 £347 -20.80% 19
South West -22 17 £475 -20.83% 8
South East -35 17 £525 +44.83% 40
Midlands -66 14 £550 +10.00% 22
West Midlands -61 11 £500 -4.76% 17
East of England -17 9 £550 - 1
East Midlands -29 3 £575 +33.72% 5
Yorkshire -59 2 £488 +5.41% 5
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -16 1 £575 -11.54% 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 89 (18.98%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.46%) Apache Spark
3 25 (5.33%) Apache
4 7 (1.49%) Confluence
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.85%) SAS
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Luigi
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (5.33%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 246 (52.45%) AWS
2 228 (48.61%) Azure
3 111 (23.67%) Power Platform
4 104 (22.17%) dbt
5 86 (18.34%) GCP
6 55 (11.73%) Serverless
7 51 (10.87%) Amazon S3
8 40 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (6.18%) Matillion
12 27 (5.76%) GitHub
13 22 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.41%) SaaS
15 15 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (2.99%) Fivetran
17 13 (2.77%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (30.92%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (22.17%) Power BI
3 57 (12.15%) Snowflake Schema
4 53 (11.30%) Data Lake
5 44 (9.38%) Tableau
6 42 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (7.25%) BigQuery
8 32 (6.82%) Metadata
9 27 (5.76%) Big Data
10 26 (5.54%) Data Vault
10 26 (5.54%) NoSQL
10 26 (5.54%) Relational Database
10 26 (5.54%) SQL Server
11 24 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (3.41%) RDBMS
13 11 (2.35%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (2.13%) Looker
15 8 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.71%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 47 (10.02%) Git
2 22 (4.69%) GitLab
3 19 (4.05%) JIRA
4 16 (3.41%) ERwin
5 15 (3.20%) SpecFlow
6 14 (2.99%) ER Studio
7 9 (1.92%) MLflow
8 8 (1.71%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (1.28%) DBeaver
9 6 (1.28%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.64%) Selenium
10 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.64%) Toad
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.21%) Deequ
General
1 128 (27.29%) Finance
2 120 (25.59%) Social Skills
3 70 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.25%) Banking
5 23 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.26%) Retail
7 15 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.56%) Marketing
9 11 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.13%) Front Office
10 10 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.64%) Back Office
14 3 (0.64%) Law
15 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (33.26%) Data Engineer
2 79 (16.84%) Snowflake Engineer
3 62 (13.22%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 61 (13.01%) Analyst
5 60 (12.79%) Architect
6 47 (10.02%) Data Analyst
7 43 (9.17%) Senior
8 39 (8.32%) Lead
9 35 (7.46%) Developer
10 34 (7.25%) Data Architect
11 30 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (5.12%) Python Engineer
14 22 (4.69%) Data Modeller
14 22 (4.69%) Snowflake Architect
15 18 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 18 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
15 18 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
16 17 (3.62%) Lead Data Engineer
16 17 (3.62%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.97%) Kafka
2 21 (4.48%) PySpark
2 21 (4.48%) PyTorch
3 20 (4.26%) Pandas
4 18 (3.84%) Playwright
5 15 (3.20%) TensorFlow
6 14 (2.99%) NumPy
7 10 (2.13%) React
7 10 (2.13%) REST
8 9 (1.92%) JSON
8 9 (1.92%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.71%) Spring
10 6 (1.28%) Node.js
10 6 (1.28%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.07%) gRPC
11 5 (1.07%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 5 (1.07%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (1.07%) SciPy
12 4 (0.85%) .NET
12 4 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.54%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.90%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.99%) Equities
4 14 (2.99%) Fixed Income
4 14 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.77%) Clustering
5 13 (2.77%) Replication
6 12 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.92%) Derivative
9 8 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.49%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.07%) Pricing Data
12 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Unix
2 6 (1.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (43.07%) Analytics
2 187 (39.87%) Data Modelling
3 157 (33.48%) ETL
4 146 (31.13%) Data Engineering
5 130 (27.72%) CI/CD
6 125 (26.65%) Business Intelligence
7 122 (26.01%) Data Pipeline
8 110 (23.45%) Agile
9 102 (21.75%) AI
10 99 (21.11%) Data Governance
11 92 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (15.99%) Machine Learning
13 74 (15.78%) DevOps
14 72 (15.35%) Migration
15 63 (13.43%) Data Architecture
16 60 (12.79%) Data Transformation
17 59 (12.58%) Performance Tuning
18 55 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
19 53 (11.30%) Data Science
20 47 (10.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 286 (60.98%) SQL
2 251 (53.52%) Python
3 40 (8.53%) Java
4 27 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 27 (5.76%) TypeScript
5 20 (4.26%) C#
6 15 (3.20%) Bash
7 13 (2.77%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.92%) R
9 8 (1.71%) Scala
10 6 (1.28%) Korn
11 4 (0.85%) Bicep
11 4 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (7.46%) Degree
2 30 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.28%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.64%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (24.95%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.84%) QA
3 14 (2.99%) GDPR
4 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.64%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (8.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (13.86%) Terraform
2 33 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.62%) Ansible
4 5 (1.07%) Grafana
4 5 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 128 (27.29%) Databricks
2 49 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.82%) Oracle
4 20 (4.26%) Talend
5 16 (3.41%) SAP
6 15 (3.20%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.20%) Informatica
7 11 (2.35%) Google
7 11 (2.35%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.13%) Charles River
8 10 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.13%) Teradata
9 8 (1.71%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.28%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.07%) Ab Initio
12 5 (1.07%) Murex
12 5 (1.07%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.07%) Sparx
12 5 (1.07%) Virgin Media