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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 242 310
Rank change year-on-year +4 +68 +159
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 480 321 294
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.10% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 2.88% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 224 215
10th Percentile £346 £377 £414
25th Percentile £417 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.36% -
75th Percentile £594 £700 £714
90th Percentile £725 £875 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.44 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 - £52.50
75th Percentile £85.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £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 16,163 11,156 14,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.29% 38.09% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,038 7,751 10,267
10th Percentile £313 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 206 359
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.87 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -16.88%
75th Percentile £60.63 £41.85 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
% change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -20.13%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -16 396 £525 -12.50% 162
London +31 296 £525 -19.23% 89
Work from Home -8 152 £550 -15.38% 64
UK excluding London -48 134 £475 - 112
Scotland +33 45 £450 -5.37% 11
North of England -71 24 £513 -2.84% 33
Midlands -65 22 £550 +12.82% 12
South West -19 19 £475 -20.83% 10
North West -32 19 £463 -16.67% 19
West Midlands -55 19 £530 +6.00% 9
South East -49 18 £500 +36.99% 39
East of England -26 4 £525 -9.48% 6
Yorkshire -56 4 £500 +5.26% 6
East Midlands -36 3 £575 +28.49% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 2
North East -9 1 £575 -11.54% 8

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 92 (19.17%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.08%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.58%) Apache
4 8 (1.67%) Confluence
5 5 (1.04%) SAS
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (5.42%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 253 (52.71%) AWS
2 221 (46.04%) Azure
3 120 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 106 (22.08%) dbt
5 88 (18.33%) GCP
6 61 (12.71%) Amazon S3
7 56 (11.67%) Serverless
8 43 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.29%) Matillion
10 34 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (5.63%) GitHub
13 23 (4.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (3.13%) Prefect
17 15 (3.13%) SaaS
18 12 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (32.50%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (23.54%) Power BI
3 54 (11.25%) Tableau
4 49 (10.21%) Snowflake Schema
5 44 (9.17%) Data Lake
6 42 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (6.88%) BigQuery
7 33 (6.88%) Metadata
8 32 (6.67%) SQL Server
9 31 (6.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (5.63%) Big Data
11 24 (5.00%) Data Vault
11 24 (5.00%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.58%) NoSQL
13 13 (2.71%) RDBMS
14 11 (2.29%) Looker
14 11 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (2.29%) Star Schema
15 9 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.67%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 48 (10.00%) Git
2 25 (5.21%) GitLab
3 18 (3.75%) JIRA
4 15 (3.13%) SpecFlow
5 11 (2.29%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.08%) ERwin
7 9 (1.88%) ER Studio
7 9 (1.88%) MLflow
8 6 (1.25%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.63%) Toad
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.21%) Deequ
11 1 (0.21%) GCC
11 1 (0.21%) Selenium
11 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 133 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 130 (27.08%) Finance
3 74 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.08%) Banking
5 28 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.17%) Retail
7 16 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.50%) Marketing
10 10 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.88%) Front Office
11 9 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.46%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.63%) Back Office
16 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.63%) Law
16 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 166 (34.58%) Data Engineer
2 79 (16.46%) Snowflake Engineer
3 65 (13.54%) Architect
4 63 (13.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 62 (12.92%) Analyst
6 50 (10.42%) Senior
7 47 (9.79%) Data Analyst
8 43 (8.96%) Lead
9 36 (7.50%) Data Architect
10 32 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (6.67%) Developer
11 25 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
13 21 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 19 (3.96%) Lead Data Engineer
14 19 (3.96%) Snowflake Architect
15 17 (3.54%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.08%) Kafka
2 25 (5.21%) PyTorch
3 20 (4.17%) PySpark
4 19 (3.96%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.33%) Pandas
5 16 (3.33%) Playwright
6 10 (2.08%) NumPy
6 10 (2.08%) React
7 9 (1.88%) REST
7 9 (1.88%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.67%) Spring
9 7 (1.46%) JSON
9 7 (1.46%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.25%) .NET
11 5 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.04%) AWS CDK
11 5 (1.04%) Node.js
11 5 (1.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 5 (1.04%) Vue
12 4 (0.83%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.21%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (3.54%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.92%) Equities
5 14 (2.92%) Fixed Income
5 14 (2.92%) Replication
6 11 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.08%) Clustering
7 10 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.67%) Derivative
10 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.04%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.46%) Unix
2 5 (1.04%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (42.92%) Analytics
2 184 (38.33%) Data Modelling
3 164 (34.17%) ETL
4 159 (33.13%) Data Engineering
5 146 (30.42%) CI/CD
6 136 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
7 135 (28.13%) Data Pipeline
8 108 (22.50%) AI
9 106 (22.08%) Agile
10 105 (21.88%) Data Governance
11 90 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (16.67%) DevOps
13 78 (16.25%) Machine Learning
13 78 (16.25%) Migration
14 66 (13.75%) Data Architecture
15 57 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
17 55 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (11.25%) Data Transformation
19 52 (10.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 295 (61.46%) SQL
2 260 (54.17%) Python
3 37 (7.71%) Java
4 21 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.17%) C#
6 19 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.54%) Bash
8 9 (1.88%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.88%) R
8 9 (1.88%) Scala
9 6 (1.25%) Korn
10 4 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (8.13%) Degree
2 35 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.04%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.63%) PhD
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) CFA
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.38%) GDPR
3 19 (3.96%) QA
4 9 (1.88%) SLA
5 6 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (9.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (13.96%) Terraform
2 32 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.33%) Ansible
4 9 (1.88%) Grafana
5 8 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.83%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 133 (27.71%) Databricks
2 51 (10.63%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.67%) Oracle
4 21 (4.38%) Informatica
5 19 (3.96%) Talend
6 16 (3.33%) Google
7 15 (3.13%) SAP
8 14 (2.92%) Greenplum
9 12 (2.50%) Charles River
10 11 (2.29%) MuleSoft
10 11 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.08%) OpenAI
11 10 (2.08%) Teradata
12 7 (1.46%) MicroStrategy
12 7 (1.46%) Murex
13 5 (1.04%) Ab Initio
13 5 (1.04%) Denodo
13 5 (1.04%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.04%) Virgin Media