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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 229 203
Rank change year-on-year +7 -26 +165
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 655 370 481
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.14% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.48% 3.05% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 282 406
10th Percentile £400 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -31.25% +34.68%
75th Percentile £667 £737 £888
90th Percentile £750 £825 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +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 £57.60 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £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 18,848 12,135 12,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.31% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,523 8,065 8,872
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 309 212
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £19.78
Median hourly rate £33.75 £29.07 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.08% -3.10% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.56 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.27 £28.25
% change year-on-year +68.66% -31.79% +4.63%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -2 570 £574 +4.43% 635
London +11 422 £575 -7.07% 451
Work from Home -20 208 £600 -2.04% 395
UK excluding London -29 180 £525 +10.53% 363
Scotland -15 43 £425 -8.11% 46
North of England -42 42 £513 +7.89% 92
South East -53 30 £616 +17.33% 72
Midlands -45 29 £518 +23.21% 46
North West -37 28 £525 +10.53% 55
West Midlands -36 25 £588 +27.03% 36
South West -43 16 £575 +21.05% 47
East of England -23 12 £380 -24.00% 13
Yorkshire -40 11 £450 -5.26% 11
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 44
East Midlands -19 4 £466 +10.83% 10
North East -39 3 - - 26

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
1 141 (21.53%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (8.09%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.11%) Apache
4 14 (2.14%) Confluence
4 14 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.61%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.15%) JBoss
6 1 (0.15%) Luigi
6 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.29%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.76%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.31%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 335 (51.15%) AWS
2 281 (42.90%) Azure
3 178 (27.18%) dbt
3 178 (27.18%) Power Platform
4 148 (22.60%) GCP
5 79 (12.06%) GitHub
6 75 (11.45%) Amazon S3
7 66 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 55 (8.40%) Serverless
10 49 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 28 (4.27%) Fivetran
13 27 (4.12%) SaaS
14 21 (3.21%) Dagster
15 19 (2.90%) Matillion
16 18 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (2.60%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) Broadband
1 3 (0.46%) Internet
2 2 (0.31%) DSL
2 2 (0.31%) Firewall
2 2 (0.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) Intranet
3 1 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (32.21%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (26.87%) Power BI
3 89 (13.59%) Data Lake
4 79 (12.06%) BigQuery
5 77 (11.76%) Tableau
6 73 (11.15%) Snowflake Schema
7 64 (9.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (7.48%) SQL Server
9 44 (6.72%) Big Data
10 42 (6.41%) Metadata
11 39 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
12 37 (5.65%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.43%) NoSQL
14 27 (4.12%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.21%) Looker
15 21 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (2.75%) Delta Lake
16 18 (2.75%) Semantic Layer
17 15 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (2.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 78 (11.91%) Git
2 29 (4.43%) JIRA
3 28 (4.27%) GitLab
4 25 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.07%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.61%) MLflow
7 4 (0.61%) Snyk
7 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.31%) Selenium
9 2 (0.31%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) LSMW
10 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 218 (33.28%) Finance
2 194 (29.62%) Social Skills
3 110 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.98%) Banking
5 55 (8.40%) Retail
6 31 (4.73%) Marketing
7 25 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.36%) Financial Institution
9 19 (2.90%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.75%) Front Office
11 17 (2.60%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.60%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (2.14%) Legal
15 10 (1.53%) Billing
15 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.07%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (35.27%) Data Engineer
2 120 (18.32%) Senior
3 115 (17.56%) Architect
4 106 (16.18%) Snowflake Engineer
5 78 (11.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 70 (10.69%) Data Architect
7 67 (10.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 66 (10.08%) Analyst
9 51 (7.79%) Lead
10 41 (6.26%) Data Analyst
11 38 (5.80%) Developer
12 29 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (3.66%) Python Engineer
14 23 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
15 22 (3.36%) Snowflake Architect
16 21 (3.21%) Business Analyst
17 19 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
18 17 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
19 16 (2.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 15 (2.29%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (14.20%) Terraform
2 73 (11.15%) Kafka
3 37 (5.65%) REST
4 29 (4.43%) PySpark
5 18 (2.75%) .NET
6 12 (1.83%) React
7 9 (1.37%) Spring
7 9 (1.37%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.22%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.22%) OAuth
8 8 (1.22%) YAML
9 7 (1.07%) JSON
9 7 (1.07%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.92%) LangGraph
10 6 (0.92%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.92%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.92%) XML
11 5 (0.76%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.95%) Data Structures
3 37 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.97%) AI Agents
5 20 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.29%) Life Science
8 14 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.14%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (1.68%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.68%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.53%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.22%) Clustering
13 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.22%) Replication
14 7 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (1.07%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.14%) Linux
2 12 (1.83%) Unix
3 3 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (44.43%) Analytics
2 260 (39.69%) Data Engineering
3 242 (36.95%) Data Modelling
4 241 (36.79%) CI/CD
5 235 (35.88%) Data Pipeline
6 232 (35.42%) ETL
7 207 (31.60%) AI
8 203 (30.99%) Business Intelligence
9 167 (25.50%) Agile
10 151 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 136 (20.76%) DevOps
12 131 (20.00%) Data Governance
13 120 (18.32%) Data Architecture
14 116 (17.71%) Migration
15 102 (15.57%) Validation
16 98 (14.96%) Data Transformation
17 89 (13.59%) Machine Learning
18 83 (12.67%) Decision-Making
19 81 (12.37%) Data Integration
20 79 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 374 (57.10%) SQL
2 329 (50.23%) Python
3 55 (8.40%) Java
4 18 (2.75%) PowerShell
5 13 (1.98%) Bash
6 12 (1.83%) R
7 10 (1.53%) C#
7 10 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (1.37%) Scala
9 6 (0.92%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.76%) Bicep
11 4 (0.61%) C++
11 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.46%) Cypher
12 3 (0.46%) Delphi
12 3 (0.46%) SHACL
12 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.31%) LookML
13 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (7.33%) Security Cleared
2 42 (6.41%) Degree
3 30 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.29%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.22%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.61%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.46%) CSPO
13 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.15%) CISM
15 1 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (26.72%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.65%) GDPR
3 35 (5.34%) QA
4 6 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.61%) GRC
6 4 (0.61%) MiFID
6 4 (0.61%) PMO
6 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.46%) EMIR
7 3 (0.46%) SLA
8 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (7.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.36%) Grafana
3 6 (0.92%) Ansible
3 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.61%) Control-M
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 200 (30.53%) Databricks
2 86 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.95%) Google
4 37 (5.65%) Informatica
5 35 (5.34%) Salesforce
6 28 (4.27%) Oracle
7 22 (3.36%) SAP
8 14 (2.14%) Talend
9 12 (1.83%) Foundry
9 12 (1.83%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.83%) Teradata
10 10 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
11 9 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.22%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.22%) Workday
13 7 (1.07%) Denodo
14 6 (0.92%) Bloomberg
15 5 (0.76%) Amplitude
15 5 (0.76%) Sage