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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 217 203
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 +147
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 679 418 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.26% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 3.30% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 309 359
10th Percentile £400 £400 £411
25th Percentile £460 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £750
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -30.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +13.16% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £51.10 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £57.00 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 18,899 12,656 13,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.62% 38.21% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,531 8,445 8,675
10th Percentile £325 £309 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 287 184
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.40 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.71 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +47.55%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -9 595 £575 +4.55% 880
London +3 438 £575 -4.17% 649
Work from Home -34 201 £600 +4.35% 424
UK excluding London -14 195 £538 +13.16% 292
Scotland +2 46 £425 -5.56% 50
North of England -57 38 £488 +16.42% 106
South East -58 31 £616 +18.75% 41
Midlands -28 30 £500 +8.11% 26
North West -35 27 £500 +23.46% 57
West Midlands -31 26 £520 +4.00% 16
South West -24 24 £650 +36.84% 21
East of England -36 17 £365 -27.00% 21
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 24
Yorkshire -27 8 £400 -15.79% 28
East Midlands -12 4 £466 +12.85% 10
North East -42 3 - - 21
Wales -11 1 £650 - 5

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
1 142 (20.91%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (8.84%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.36%) Apache
4 18 (2.65%) Confluence
5 15 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.36%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.74%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.74%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.44%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.29%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 347 (51.10%) AWS
2 298 (43.89%) Azure
3 203 (29.90%) dbt
4 182 (26.80%) Power Platform
5 151 (22.24%) GCP
6 91 (13.40%) GitHub
7 71 (10.46%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 59 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (8.10%) Serverless
11 53 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (4.71%) SaaS
14 31 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 30 (4.42%) Fivetran
16 21 (3.09%) Collibra
17 20 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.65%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (2.65%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.29%) DSL
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
2 2 (0.29%) Internet
2 2 (0.29%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (31.81%) Data Warehouse
2 177 (26.07%) Power BI
3 97 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 81 (11.93%) Tableau
5 77 (11.34%) BigQuery
6 70 (10.31%) Snowflake Schema
7 68 (10.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (7.81%) Metadata
9 43 (6.33%) SQL Server
10 40 (5.89%) Big Data
11 38 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
12 31 (4.57%) Relational Database
13 27 (3.98%) NoSQL
14 26 (3.83%) Data Vault
15 20 (2.95%) Delta Lake
16 19 (2.80%) Looker
17 18 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 17 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
19 15 (2.21%) Apache Iceberg
19 15 (2.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 84 (12.37%) Git
2 35 (5.15%) JIRA
3 31 (4.57%) GitLab
4 21 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.03%) Terragrunt
6 6 (0.88%) Claude Code
7 5 (0.74%) Snyk
7 5 (0.74%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.59%) MLflow
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) ERwin
9 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 222 (32.70%) Finance
2 210 (30.93%) Social Skills
3 125 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (13.40%) Banking
5 54 (7.95%) Retail
6 34 (5.01%) Marketing
7 23 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.95%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.80%) Legal
11 18 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (2.50%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.50%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.36%) Front Office
14 13 (1.91%) Billing
15 11 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.03%) Automotive
18 6 (0.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 236 (34.76%) Data Engineer
2 131 (19.29%) Senior
3 112 (16.49%) Architect
4 107 (15.76%) Snowflake Engineer
5 81 (11.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 76 (11.19%) Analyst
6 76 (11.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 73 (10.75%) Data Architect
8 43 (6.33%) Data Analyst
9 41 (6.04%) Lead
10 38 (5.60%) Developer
11 35 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.27%) AWS Data Engineer
13 25 (3.68%) Python Engineer
14 24 (3.53%) Business Analyst
15 23 (3.39%) Consultant
16 22 (3.24%) Snowflake Architect
17 18 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 15 (2.21%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (15.17%) Terraform
2 77 (11.34%) Kafka
3 42 (6.19%) REST
4 38 (5.60%) PySpark
5 17 (2.50%) .NET
6 12 (1.77%) FastAPI
7 11 (1.62%) JSON
7 11 (1.62%) YAML
8 8 (1.18%) AWS CDK
8 8 (1.18%) LangChain
8 8 (1.18%) OAuth
8 8 (1.18%) React
9 7 (1.03%) Pandas
10 6 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.88%) OpenID
10 6 (0.88%) pytest
10 6 (0.88%) Snowpark
10 6 (0.88%) Spring
10 6 (0.88%) Spring Boot
10 6 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.81%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.33%) Data Structures
4 31 (4.57%) AI Agents
5 23 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.09%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.65%) Life Science
8 15 (2.21%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.91%) Taxonomies
11 11 (1.62%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.47%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.33%) Replication
14 8 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.18%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.21%) Linux
2 8 (1.18%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (45.36%) Analytics
2 276 (40.65%) Data Engineering
2 276 (40.65%) Data Modelling
3 257 (37.85%) Data Pipeline
4 248 (36.52%) CI/CD
5 236 (34.76%) ETL
6 234 (34.46%) AI
7 203 (29.90%) Business Intelligence
8 178 (26.22%) Agile
9 161 (23.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 139 (20.47%) Data Governance
11 133 (19.59%) DevOps
12 131 (19.29%) Data Architecture
13 114 (16.79%) Migration
14 112 (16.49%) Data Transformation
15 110 (16.20%) Validation
16 101 (14.87%) Decision-Making
17 91 (13.40%) Machine Learning
18 90 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
19 89 (13.11%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 411 (60.53%) SQL
2 347 (51.10%) Python
3 45 (6.63%) Java
4 23 (3.39%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.21%) Scala
6 13 (1.91%) Bash
6 13 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (1.91%) R
7 10 (1.47%) C#
8 8 (1.18%) Bicep
8 8 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.59%) C++
9 4 (0.59%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.44%) Cypher
10 3 (0.44%) Delphi
10 3 (0.44%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.44%) LookML
10 3 (0.44%) SHACL
11 2 (0.29%) SOQL
11 2 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 44 (6.48%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.04%) Degree
3 25 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.77%) AWS Certification
4 12 (1.77%) Azure Certification
4 12 (1.77%) SnowPro
5 11 (1.62%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.59%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.44%) CSPO
9 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.29%) ACCA
10 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.29%) CIMA
10 2 (0.29%) CISM
10 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (30.04%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.45%) GDPR
3 33 (4.86%) QA
4 8 (1.18%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.59%) GRC
6 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) MiFID
7 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.44%) EMIR
7 3 (0.44%) PMO
7 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.15%) CDISC
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (7.51%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.09%) Grafana
3 8 (1.18%) Ansible
3 8 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.74%) Control-M
5 2 (0.29%) Argo
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 217 (31.96%) Databricks
2 109 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 42 (6.19%) Google
4 39 (5.74%) Salesforce
5 36 (5.30%) Informatica
6 33 (4.86%) Oracle
7 19 (2.80%) SAP
8 15 (2.21%) Talend
9 10 (1.47%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.47%) Workday
10 9 (1.33%) Foundry
10 9 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.33%) Teradata
11 8 (1.18%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.03%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.03%) Denodo
12 7 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.74%) Confluent
13 5 (0.74%) Sage