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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 220 274
Rank change year-on-year -23 +54 +163
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 479 359 373
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.22% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 3.25% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 274 300
10th Percentile £385 £411 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -8.63% +10.87%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 17,130 11,039 13,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.60% 37.58% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,560 7,585 9,831
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.66% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 251 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +34.76% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.75 £21.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.31% +20.40% -31.49%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -53 402 £525 -10.64% 168
London -7 295 £525 -19.23% 109
Work from Home -33 146 £525 -16.00% 79
UK excluding London -70 146 £525 +10.53% 86
Scotland +32 54 £449 -2.92% 5
Midlands -57 29 £525 +7.69% 11
West Midlands -48 27 £525 -4.55% 10
North of England -69 22 £563 +18.42% 21
South East -60 19 £575 +33.33% 27
South West -38 15 £475 -9.52% 17
North West -38 15 £563 +9.22% 14
East of England -34 6 £400 -31.03% 5
Yorkshire -56 6 £550 +15.79% 5
East Midlands -26 2 £654 +55.65% 1
Wales -12 1 £250 -61.54% 1
North East -23 1 £575 +35.29% 2

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 80 (16.70%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (7.93%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.34%) Apache
4 7 (1.46%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.38%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.04%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 243 (50.73%) AWS
2 188 (39.25%) Azure
3 132 (27.56%) Power Platform
4 104 (21.71%) dbt
5 95 (19.83%) GCP
6 67 (13.99%) Amazon S3
7 43 (8.98%) Serverless
8 42 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (7.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 35 (7.31%) GitHub
11 31 (6.47%) Matillion
12 21 (4.38%) Dagster
13 20 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (3.34%) Prefect
16 15 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (2.71%) SaaS
18 12 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (25.89%) Power BI
2 120 (25.05%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (13.57%) Tableau
4 62 (12.94%) Snowflake Schema
5 43 (8.98%) BigQuery
6 37 (7.72%) Big Data
7 36 (7.52%) Data Lake
8 34 (7.10%) SQL Server
9 31 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (5.85%) Relational Database
12 23 (4.80%) Data Vault
13 21 (4.38%) Metadata
14 16 (3.34%) NoSQL
14 16 (3.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (3.13%) Looker
16 12 (2.51%) MySQL
17 9 (1.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.88%) Star Schema
18 8 (1.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (9.81%) Git
2 21 (4.38%) GitLab
2 21 (4.38%) JIRA
3 11 (2.30%) SpecFlow
4 9 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.25%) MLflow
6 5 (1.04%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.04%) ERwin
7 3 (0.63%) Selenium
7 3 (0.63%) Snyk
7 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.63%) Toad
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) GCC
9 1 (0.21%) LSMW
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 154 (32.15%) Finance
2 118 (24.63%) Social Skills
3 59 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.86%) Banking
5 32 (6.68%) Retail
6 24 (5.01%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.80%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.34%) Marketing
9 11 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.67%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.25%) Front Office
12 6 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Back Office
13 5 (1.04%) Legal
14 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (35.70%) Data Engineer
2 96 (20.04%) Snowflake Engineer
3 81 (16.91%) Architect
4 75 (15.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 72 (15.03%) Senior
6 51 (10.65%) Analyst
7 42 (8.77%) Data Architect
8 40 (8.35%) Lead
8 40 (8.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 34 (7.10%) Data Analyst
10 33 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (5.22%) Developer
12 24 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (4.38%) AWS Data Engineer
14 18 (3.76%) Site Engineer
14 18 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (3.76%) Snowflake Architect
15 16 (3.34%) Business Analyst
16 15 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.81%) Kafka
2 17 (3.55%) PySpark
3 12 (2.51%) Playwright
4 11 (2.30%) PyTorch
4 11 (2.30%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.09%) REST
5 10 (2.09%) Spring
6 9 (1.88%) TensorFlow
7 8 (1.67%) React
8 7 (1.46%) .NET
8 7 (1.46%) Vue
9 6 (1.25%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.04%) OAuth
10 5 (1.04%) OpenID
11 4 (0.84%) JSON
11 4 (0.84%) Pandas
11 4 (0.84%) scikit-learn
12 3 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.63%) Middleware
12 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.36%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.01%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.09%) Clustering
7 9 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.88%) Equities
7 9 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.88%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.88%) Replication
8 8 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.04%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.09%) Unix
2 8 (1.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (44.68%) Analytics
2 173 (36.12%) Data Engineering
3 171 (35.70%) Data Modelling
4 154 (32.15%) Business Intelligence
5 150 (31.32%) ETL
6 149 (31.11%) Data Pipeline
7 146 (30.48%) CI/CD
8 124 (25.89%) AI
9 105 (21.92%) Agile
10 87 (18.16%) Data Governance
10 87 (18.16%) Migration
11 80 (16.70%) DevOps
12 70 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 67 (13.99%) Machine Learning
15 66 (13.78%) Validation
16 63 (13.15%) Data Architecture
17 57 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 54 (11.27%) Decision-Making
19 52 (10.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 259 (54.07%) SQL
2 236 (49.27%) Python
3 45 (9.39%) Java
4 15 (3.13%) C#
5 14 (2.92%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.51%) Bash
7 11 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.09%) R
9 6 (1.25%) Scala
10 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.63%) Bicep
12 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.42%) Korn
14 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) Ruby
14 1 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 39 (8.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.68%) Degree
3 19 (3.97%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.09%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
9 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (22.34%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.43%) QA
3 25 (5.22%) GDPR
4 9 (1.88%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) EMIR
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) MiFID
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (12.94%) Terraform
2 24 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.13%) Grafana
4 9 (1.88%) Ansible
5 6 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 139 (29.02%) Databricks
2 49 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.64%) Informatica
3 27 (5.64%) Oracle
4 19 (3.97%) Google
5 15 (3.13%) SAP
6 14 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.92%) Talend
7 10 (2.09%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.67%) Greenplum
8 8 (1.67%) Teradata
9 7 (1.46%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.46%) Denodo
9 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.25%) Charles River
11 5 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
11 5 (1.04%) Workday
12 4 (0.84%) Guidewire