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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 223 325
Rank change year-on-year +7 +102 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 455 410 318
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.12% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.30% 3.17% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 288 253
10th Percentile £363 £374 £413
25th Percentile £449 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £650 £578
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +12.46% +0.52%
75th Percentile £666 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.25 - -

All Cloud 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 13,780 12,954 16,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.36% 35.26% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,334 8,529 11,730
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £738 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 186 306
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%
75th Percentile £51.00 £55.00 £61.41
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +15.30%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -17 381 £550 -15.38% 339
London +3 284 £600 -20.00% 212
Work from Home -29 166 £588 -26.56% 206
UK excluding London +1 122 £450 - 162
Scotland +23 35 £450 - 27
North of England -34 21 £375 -14.29% 33
South East +11 18 £506 +39.66% 62
South West +7 18 £475 -2.56% 12
East of England -3 16 £500 -9.09% 13
Midlands -48 15 £463 -6.33% 11
North West -28 14 £347 -20.80% 23
West Midlands -30 11 £425 -12.82% 7
Yorkshire -34 6 £469 - 10
East Midlands -20 4 £575 -7.93% 4
North East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £575 - 1

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
1 116 (25.49%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (12.75%) Apache
3 36 (7.91%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.76%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.88%) Confluence
6 3 (0.66%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Maple
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (3.08%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 249 (54.73%) AWS
2 209 (45.93%) Azure
3 129 (28.35%) dbt
4 104 (22.86%) Power Platform
5 92 (20.22%) GCP
6 49 (10.77%) Serverless
7 44 (9.67%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (6.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (4.40%) GitHub
12 19 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.18%) Matillion
13 18 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (3.30%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.64%) SaaS
17 9 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (1.76%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (33.85%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (22.86%) Power BI
3 83 (18.24%) Data Lake
4 43 (9.45%) BigQuery
5 41 (9.01%) Tableau
6 38 (8.35%) Amazon Athena
6 38 (8.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 38 (8.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 34 (7.47%) Apache Iceberg
8 32 (7.03%) Apache Arrow
8 32 (7.03%) Apache Ignite
8 32 (7.03%) Dremio
8 32 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (6.81%) Metadata
10 28 (6.15%) NoSQL
11 27 (5.93%) Big Data
12 24 (5.27%) Relational Database
13 22 (4.84%) Data Vault
14 21 (4.62%) SQL Server
15 17 (3.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (10.33%) Git
2 19 (4.18%) ERwin
3 18 (3.96%) JIRA
4 16 (3.52%) ER Studio
5 15 (3.30%) GitLab
6 11 (2.42%) PowerDesigner
7 10 (2.20%) DBeaver
8 7 (1.54%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.54%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.10%) MLflow
10 4 (0.88%) Selenium
11 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.44%) Postman
12 2 (0.44%) TestRail
12 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.22%) Deequ
13 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 145 (31.87%) Finance
2 129 (28.35%) Social Skills
3 66 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.21%) Banking
5 39 (8.57%) Front Office
6 37 (8.13%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (3.96%) Marketing
8 15 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 14 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.20%) Retail
11 9 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.32%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.44%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.44%) Law
15 2 (0.44%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 132 (29.01%) Data Engineer
2 70 (15.38%) Senior
3 61 (13.41%) Architect
4 56 (12.31%) Analyst
5 52 (11.43%) Snowflake Engineer
6 50 (10.99%) Python Engineer
7 47 (10.33%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (9.23%) Data Analyst
8 42 (9.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 35 (7.69%) Lead
10 34 (7.47%) Software Engineer
11 33 (7.25%) Java Engineer
12 32 (7.03%) AWS Software Engineer
12 32 (7.03%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (7.03%) Python Software Engineer
13 31 (6.81%) Senior Java Engineer
13 31 (6.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 31 (6.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 30 (6.59%) Data Architect
15 28 (6.15%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.99%) Pandas
2 41 (9.01%) NumPy
3 32 (7.03%) gRPC
3 32 (7.03%) Protocol Buffers
3 32 (7.03%) SciPy
4 28 (6.15%) Kafka
5 16 (3.52%) PySpark
6 15 (3.30%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.42%) React
7 11 (2.42%) TensorFlow
8 10 (2.20%) REST
9 8 (1.76%) Node.js
9 8 (1.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 8 (1.76%) Playwright
10 7 (1.54%) .NET
10 7 (1.54%) JSON
11 6 (1.32%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.10%) LangChain
12 5 (1.10%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.13%) Equities
1 37 (8.13%) Fixed Income
2 36 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 35 (7.69%) Derivative
4 34 (7.47%) Hedge funds
5 32 (7.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (7.03%) Pricing Data
6 24 (5.27%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.42%) Replication
10 10 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.98%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.76%) Clustering
12 8 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.54%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.54%) Linux
1 7 (1.54%) Unix
2 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (37.58%) Data Modelling
2 169 (37.14%) Analytics
3 158 (34.73%) ETL
4 135 (29.67%) Agile
5 117 (25.71%) Data Engineering
6 107 (23.52%) CI/CD
7 106 (23.30%) Business Intelligence
7 106 (23.30%) Data Governance
8 104 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
9 79 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (16.70%) Migration
11 72 (15.82%) AI
12 68 (14.95%) Asset Management
13 65 (14.29%) Data Transformation
14 64 (14.07%) Machine Learning
15 62 (13.63%) DevOps
15 62 (13.63%) Software Engineering
16 58 (12.75%) Data Integration
17 55 (12.09%) Data Architecture
18 51 (11.21%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 265 (58.24%) SQL
2 249 (54.73%) Python
3 59 (12.97%) Java
4 49 (10.77%) JavaScript
4 49 (10.77%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.42%) C#
6 9 (1.98%) Bash
6 9 (1.98%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.98%) Scala
7 8 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (1.76%) Korn
7 8 (1.76%) R
8 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Bicep
9 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (6.59%) Degree
2 18 (3.96%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.52%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.64%) Master's Degree
4 12 (2.64%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.32%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.44%) ACCA
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.44%) CIMA
9 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.44%) PMP
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (23.74%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.96%) QA
3 17 (3.74%) GDPR
4 7 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.44%) DICOM
6 2 (0.44%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.22%) LOINC
7 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (9.89%) Terraform
2 25 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.98%) Ansible
4 6 (1.32%) Grafana
5 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (22.86%) Databricks
2 38 (8.35%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.69%) Oracle
4 23 (5.05%) SAP
5 13 (2.86%) Teradata
6 11 (2.42%) Informatica
7 10 (2.20%) Google
7 10 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.20%) Talend
8 9 (1.98%) Cloudera
9 8 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.54%) Greenplum
10 7 (1.54%) Sparx
11 6 (1.32%) Charles River
11 6 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.10%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.10%) Foundry
12 5 (1.10%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.10%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.88%) Palantir