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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 232 198
Rank change year-on-year +8 -34 +169
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 649 373 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.14% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.47% 3.06% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 285 409
10th Percentile £400 £408 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -31.25% +34.68%
75th Percentile £656 £748 £888
90th Percentile £750 £825 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -26.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £43.58 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £71.13 £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 18,730 12,170 13,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.88% 37.16% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,406 8,107 9,047
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
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 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 321 228
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -14.23% -18.52%

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 27 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 27 August 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 27 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 +8 563 £575 +4.07% 765
London +15 412 £575 -6.12% 525
Work from Home -28 206 £600 -3.03% 484
UK excluding London -34 183 £525 +10.53% 451
Scotland +6 46 £428 -7.57% 63
North of England -49 42 £525 +10.53% 119
Midlands -40 33 £518 +23.21% 61
South East -40 30 £616 +17.33% 82
North West -28 29 £525 +7.69% 64
West Midlands -34 29 £563 +21.62% 50
South West -49 16 £575 +21.05% 57
East of England -29 10 £380 -34.48% 11
Yorkshire -46 10 £525 +10.53% 18
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 56
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +10.83% 11
North East -41 3 - - 37

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
1 136 (20.96%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (7.09%) Apache Spark
3 35 (5.39%) Apache
4 15 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 14 (2.16%) Confluence
6 5 (0.77%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.77%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.77%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.77%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
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
1 330 (50.85%) AWS
2 259 (39.91%) Azure
3 181 (27.89%) Power Platform
4 168 (25.89%) dbt
5 145 (22.34%) GCP
6 80 (12.33%) Amazon S3
7 72 (11.09%) GitHub
8 58 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (8.94%) Serverless
9 53 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.16%) Fivetran
13 24 (3.70%) Dagster
14 23 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (3.54%) Matillion
14 23 (3.54%) SaaS
15 19 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (2.93%) Prefect
16 18 (2.77%) Amazon SQS
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
1 203 (31.28%) Data Warehouse
2 179 (27.58%) Power BI
3 86 (13.25%) Tableau
4 81 (12.48%) BigQuery
5 80 (12.33%) Data Lake
6 70 (10.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 65 (10.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (6.47%) SQL Server
9 41 (6.32%) Big Data
10 38 (5.86%) Metadata
11 35 (5.39%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (4.31%) NoSQL
14 26 (4.01%) Data Vault
15 24 (3.70%) Looker
16 22 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (2.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 13 (2.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (11.40%) Git
2 30 (4.62%) GitLab
2 30 (4.62%) JIRA
3 27 (4.16%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.92%) Terragrunt
5 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.62%) MLflow
6 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.46%) Snyk
7 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) GCC
9 1 (0.15%) LSMW
9 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 219 (33.74%) Finance
2 192 (29.58%) Social Skills
3 102 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (13.71%) Banking
5 53 (8.17%) Retail
6 29 (4.47%) Marketing
7 22 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 22 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.08%) Front Office
8 20 (3.08%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.31%) Legal
11 10 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.08%) Billing
13 7 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 222 (34.21%) Data Engineer
2 119 (18.34%) Senior
3 113 (17.41%) Architect
4 106 (16.33%) Snowflake Engineer
5 78 (12.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 70 (10.79%) Analyst
7 66 (10.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 64 (9.86%) Data Architect
9 51 (7.86%) Lead
10 42 (6.47%) Data Analyst
11 33 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (5.08%) Developer
12 24 (3.70%) Business Analyst
13 23 (3.54%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (3.54%) Python Engineer
13 23 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (3.24%) Snowflake Architect
15 17 (2.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 16 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (13.87%) Terraform
2 68 (10.48%) Kafka
3 35 (5.39%) REST
4 27 (4.16%) PySpark
5 17 (2.62%) .NET
6 12 (1.85%) React
7 9 (1.39%) Spring
7 9 (1.39%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.23%) OAuth
8 8 (1.23%) YAML
9 7 (1.08%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.08%) JSON
9 7 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (1.08%) PyTorch
9 7 (1.08%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.92%) LangGraph
10 6 (0.92%) Vue
10 6 (0.92%) XML
11 5 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 33 (5.08%) Data Structures
4 21 (3.24%) AI Agents
5 19 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.16%) Life Science
7 14 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.00%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.69%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.54%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.23%) Clustering
12 8 (1.23%) Equities
12 8 (1.23%) Replication
13 7 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.16%) Linux
2 12 (1.85%) 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
1 278 (42.84%) Analytics
2 258 (39.75%) Data Engineering
3 239 (36.83%) CI/CD
4 231 (35.59%) Data Modelling
5 229 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
6 228 (35.13%) ETL
7 205 (31.59%) Business Intelligence
8 190 (29.28%) AI
9 162 (24.96%) Agile
10 152 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 134 (20.65%) DevOps
12 126 (19.41%) Data Governance
13 117 (18.03%) Migration
14 113 (17.41%) Data Architecture
15 101 (15.56%) Validation
16 93 (14.33%) Data Transformation
17 84 (12.94%) Decision-Making
18 82 (12.63%) Machine Learning
19 80 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
20 77 (11.86%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 362 (55.78%) SQL
2 327 (50.39%) Python
3 55 (8.47%) Java
4 13 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.85%) R
6 11 (1.69%) Bash
7 8 (1.23%) C#
8 7 (1.08%) Scala
9 6 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.77%) Bicep
10 5 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.62%) C++
11 4 (0.62%) 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%) SOQL
13 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 50 (7.70%) Security Cleared
2 44 (6.78%) Degree
3 31 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (4.47%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.16%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.23%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.62%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.46%) CSPO
12 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.15%) CISM
14 1 (0.15%) CISSP
14 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (26.04%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.01%) GDPR
3 36 (5.55%) QA
4 9 (1.39%) SLA
5 6 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.62%) MiFID
7 4 (0.62%) PMO
7 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.46%) EMIR
8 3 (0.46%) GRC
8 3 (0.46%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 51 (7.86%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.85%) Grafana
3 9 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.92%) Ansible
5 4 (0.62%) Control-M
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 194 (29.89%) Databricks
2 80 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.86%) Google
4 37 (5.70%) Informatica
5 34 (5.24%) Salesforce
6 27 (4.16%) Oracle
7 24 (3.70%) SAP
8 12 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.85%) Teradata
9 11 (1.69%) Foundry
9 11 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.69%) Talend
9 11 (1.69%) Workday
10 9 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
11 8 (1.23%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.23%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.08%) Denodo
12 7 (1.08%) Splunk
13 6 (0.92%) Charles River
14 5 (0.77%) Bloomberg