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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 225 206
Rank change year-on-year -2 -19 +190
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 620 391 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 1.19% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 3.19% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 301 391
10th Percentile £400 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £650 £813 £875
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -21.74%
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 18,822 12,256 13,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.30% 37.26% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,428 8,209 9,287
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 312 280
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.70 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%
75th Percentile £69.67 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -20 538 £570 -1.72% 361
London +12 389 £575 -8.00% 248
Work from Home -36 195 £594 -8.65% 177
UK excluding London -38 186 £500 +5.26% 162
Scotland +14 47 £430 -4.44% 7
North of England -49 43 £525 +7.69% 44
Midlands -39 34 £518 +15.00% 23
North West -34 30 £525 -5.41% 25
West Midlands -47 30 £563 +12.50% 20
South East -57 25 £575 +19.48% 51
South West -46 20 £574 +14.75% 21
East of England -26 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -36 10 £550 +15.79% 16
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 8
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +10.83% 3
North East -38 3 - - 3
Wales -10 1 £250 -61.54% 4

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
1 119 (19.19%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (6.94%) Apache Spark
3 33 (5.32%) Apache
4 18 (2.90%) Confluence
5 10 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.81%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.55%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.81%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.81%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 314 (50.65%) AWS
2 237 (38.23%) Azure
3 175 (28.23%) Power Platform
4 158 (25.48%) dbt
5 132 (21.29%) GCP
6 84 (13.55%) Amazon S3
7 62 (10.00%) GitHub
8 51 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (8.06%) Serverless
10 48 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 46 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (4.52%) Fivetran
14 26 (4.19%) Matillion
15 24 (3.87%) Dagster
16 21 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 18 (2.90%) Prefect
18 17 (2.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) Broadband
1 3 (0.48%) Internet
2 2 (0.32%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 171 (27.58%) Power BI
3 84 (13.55%) Tableau
4 78 (12.58%) BigQuery
5 77 (12.42%) Data Lake
6 70 (11.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 55 (8.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.26%) SQL Server
9 43 (6.94%) Big Data
10 34 (5.48%) Metadata
11 33 (5.32%) Relational Database
12 32 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (4.35%) Data Vault
13 27 (4.35%) NoSQL
14 23 (3.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 22 (3.55%) Looker
16 19 (3.06%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (2.10%) Delta Lake
17 13 (2.10%) MySQL
18 12 (1.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 66 (10.65%) Git
2 35 (5.65%) JIRA
3 29 (4.68%) GitLab
4 22 (3.55%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.13%) MLflow
6 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.65%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.65%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.48%) Snyk
7 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.32%) Selenium
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.16%) GCC
9 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 217 (35.00%) Finance
2 175 (28.23%) Social Skills
3 94 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (14.03%) Banking
5 51 (8.23%) Retail
6 29 (4.68%) Marketing
7 25 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.39%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.06%) Front Office
11 15 (2.42%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.26%) Legal
13 12 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.13%) Back Office
17 7 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (34.19%) Data Engineer
2 107 (17.26%) Architect
3 105 (16.94%) Snowflake Engineer
4 102 (16.45%) Senior
5 78 (12.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 72 (11.61%) Analyst
7 61 (9.84%) Data Architect
8 52 (8.39%) Senior Data Engineer
9 50 (8.06%) Lead
10 43 (6.94%) Data Analyst
11 40 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.68%) Developer
13 27 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (3.87%) Business Analyst
15 23 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (3.39%) Python Engineer
17 19 (3.06%) Site Engineer
17 19 (3.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 18 (2.90%) Snowflake Architect
19 16 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.52%) Kafka
2 26 (4.19%) REST
3 20 (3.23%) PySpark
4 10 (1.61%) .NET
4 10 (1.61%) PyTorch
5 9 (1.45%) React
5 9 (1.45%) Spring
5 9 (1.45%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.29%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.13%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.13%) OAuth
8 6 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.97%) AWS CDK
8 6 (0.97%) JSON
8 6 (0.97%) Vue
8 6 (0.97%) XML
8 6 (0.97%) YAML
9 5 (0.81%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.81%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.16%) Data Structures
3 28 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.26%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.10%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (1.61%) Equities
10 9 (1.45%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.29%) Clustering
12 7 (1.13%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.97%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.97%) Replication
14 5 (0.81%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.10%) Unix
2 10 (1.61%) Linux
3 2 (0.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (45.48%) Analytics
2 251 (40.48%) Data Engineering
3 224 (36.13%) Data Pipeline
4 223 (35.97%) Data Modelling
5 211 (34.03%) CI/CD
6 208 (33.55%) ETL
7 201 (32.42%) Business Intelligence
8 173 (27.90%) AI
9 147 (23.71%) Agile
10 124 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 123 (19.84%) Data Governance
12 113 (18.23%) DevOps
13 109 (17.58%) Migration
14 106 (17.10%) Data Architecture
15 102 (16.45%) Validation
16 86 (13.87%) Data Transformation
17 81 (13.06%) Decision-Making
17 81 (13.06%) Machine Learning
18 74 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
19 72 (11.61%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 347 (55.97%) SQL
2 308 (49.68%) Python
3 53 (8.55%) Java
4 14 (2.26%) Bash
4 14 (2.26%) R
5 11 (1.77%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.45%) C#
7 7 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (1.13%) Scala
8 6 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.97%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.65%) Bicep
10 3 (0.48%) Cypher
10 3 (0.48%) Delphi
10 3 (0.48%) SHACL
10 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) C++
11 2 (0.32%) Korn
11 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 47 (7.58%) Degree
3 31 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.94%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.65%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.48%) CSPO
12 3 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.16%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (26.29%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.77%) GDPR
3 31 (5.00%) QA
4 12 (1.94%) SLA
5 6 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.65%) PMO
8 3 (0.48%) EMIR
8 3 (0.48%) MiFID
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (6.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (13.55%) Terraform
2 39 (6.29%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.03%) Grafana
4 9 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.65%) Ansible
5 4 (0.65%) Control-M
6 2 (0.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 186 (30.00%) Databricks
2 72 (11.61%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.65%) Google
3 35 (5.65%) Informatica
4 31 (5.00%) Oracle
4 31 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.71%) SAP
6 12 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.77%) Workday
8 10 (1.61%) Teradata
9 9 (1.45%) Charles River
9 9 (1.45%) Denodo
9 9 (1.45%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.29%) PagerDuty
10 8 (1.29%) Talend
11 7 (1.13%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.13%) Splunk
12 6 (0.97%) FactSet
12 6 (0.97%) Foundry
12 6 (0.97%) MicroStrategy