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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 220 274
Rank change year-on-year -23 +54 +193
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 469 359 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.23% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 3.26% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 273 284
10th Percentile £400 £410 £421
25th Percentile £450 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -4.10% +6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £850
90th Percentile £735 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.42% - -15.56%
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 16,881 11,015 13,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.78% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,436 7,643 9,909
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.74% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 251 343
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.95
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.30 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.15%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -53 389 £525 -12.50% 181
London -8 287 £525 -19.23% 107
Work from Home -40 144 £525 -19.23% 95
UK excluding London -61 142 £515 +8.42% 102
Scotland +25 54 £450 -0.11% 7
Midlands -63 27 £525 +7.69% 16
West Midlands -52 24 £518 -5.91% 14
North of England -63 22 £563 +18.42% 27
South East -58 17 £575 +49.84% 35
North West -38 15 £563 +9.22% 19
South West -38 14 £450 -14.29% 12
East of England -38 7 £400 -31.03% 1
Yorkshire -45 6 £550 +15.79% 5
East Midlands -33 3 £575 +36.90% 2
North East -23 1 £575 +35.29% 3
Wales - 1 £250 - 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 83 (17.70%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.10%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.05%) Apache
4 8 (1.71%) Confluence
5 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (4.48%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.07%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) 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%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 236 (50.32%) AWS
2 191 (40.72%) Azure
3 129 (27.51%) Power Platform
4 100 (21.32%) dbt
5 94 (20.04%) GCP
6 67 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 45 (9.59%) Serverless
8 42 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (6.82%) GitHub
12 30 (6.40%) Matillion
13 21 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (4.48%) Dagster
14 19 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (3.41%) Prefect
16 12 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Firewall
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (26.01%) Data Warehouse
2 121 (25.80%) Power BI
3 58 (12.37%) Tableau
4 57 (12.15%) Snowflake Schema
5 40 (8.53%) BigQuery
6 39 (8.32%) Data Lake
7 36 (7.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (7.25%) Big Data
9 32 (6.82%) SQL Server
10 28 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (5.12%) Data Vault
11 24 (5.12%) Metadata
11 24 (5.12%) Relational Database
12 17 (3.62%) NoSQL
13 15 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (2.99%) Looker
15 11 (2.35%) MySQL
16 8 (1.71%) DynamoDB
16 8 (1.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 8 (1.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (9.81%) Git
2 22 (4.69%) JIRA
3 21 (4.48%) GitLab
4 12 (2.56%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.49%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.49%) ERwin
7 6 (1.28%) MLflow
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 3 (0.64%) Snyk
8 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.64%) Toad
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.21%) GCC
10 1 (0.21%) LSMW
10 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 147 (31.34%) Finance
2 118 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.59%) Banking
5 29 (6.18%) Retail
6 22 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.26%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.99%) Marketing
9 9 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.71%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.07%) Front Office
13 5 (1.07%) Legal
13 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 169 (36.03%) Data Engineer
2 87 (18.55%) Snowflake Engineer
3 77 (16.42%) Architect
4 70 (14.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 69 (14.71%) Senior
6 52 (11.09%) Analyst
7 41 (8.74%) Lead
8 40 (8.53%) Data Architect
9 38 (8.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 33 (7.04%) Data Analyst
11 32 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (5.12%) Developer
13 22 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (4.05%) Business Analyst
15 18 (3.84%) Snowflake Architect
16 15 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (3.20%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (3.20%) Site Engineer
16 15 (3.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.02%) Kafka
2 19 (4.05%) PySpark
3 13 (2.77%) Playwright
3 13 (2.77%) PyTorch
4 11 (2.35%) Spring Boot
4 11 (2.35%) TensorFlow
5 10 (2.13%) Spring
6 9 (1.92%) React
7 7 (1.49%) .NET
7 7 (1.49%) Pandas
7 7 (1.49%) REST
7 7 (1.49%) Vue
8 6 (1.28%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.07%) NumPy
9 5 (1.07%) OAuth
9 5 (1.07%) OpenID
9 5 (1.07%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.85%) JSON
11 3 (0.64%) Middleware
11 3 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.35%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.13%) Equities
6 10 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.92%) Clustering
7 9 (1.92%) Replication
7 9 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.13%) Unix
2 9 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) VMS
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (44.56%) Analytics
2 173 (36.89%) Data Modelling
3 165 (35.18%) Data Engineering
4 152 (32.41%) ETL
5 148 (31.56%) Data Pipeline
6 147 (31.34%) Business Intelligence
7 144 (30.70%) CI/CD
8 116 (24.73%) AI
9 105 (22.39%) Agile
10 90 (19.19%) Data Governance
11 85 (18.12%) Migration
12 84 (17.91%) DevOps
13 73 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (15.14%) Machine Learning
15 66 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 61 (13.01%) Data Architecture
17 59 (12.58%) Validation
18 58 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
19 53 (11.30%) Decision-Making
20 51 (10.87%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 256 (54.58%) SQL
2 235 (50.11%) Python
3 44 (9.38%) Java
4 17 (3.62%) C#
5 15 (3.20%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.56%) Bash
6 12 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.71%) R
8 7 (1.49%) Scala
9 5 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.85%) Bicep
10 4 (0.85%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.64%) Korn
11 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 33 (7.04%) Degree
3 18 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.71%) SnowPro
7 7 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) PhD
9 3 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) 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
1 105 (22.39%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.54%) GDPR
3 25 (5.33%) QA
4 9 (1.92%) SLA
5 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.43%) EMIR
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
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 33 (7.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (13.65%) Terraform
2 25 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.99%) Grafana
4 9 (1.92%) Ansible
5 7 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.85%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 137 (29.21%) Databricks
2 52 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.54%) Informatica
3 26 (5.54%) Oracle
4 18 (3.84%) Google
5 16 (3.41%) SAP
6 14 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.99%) Talend
7 9 (1.92%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.71%) Greenplum
8 8 (1.71%) Teradata
9 7 (1.49%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.49%) Charles River
9 7 (1.49%) Denodo
9 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.07%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.07%) SimCorp
11 5 (1.07%) Splunk
11 5 (1.07%) Workday