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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 228 213
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 +198
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 573 378 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.18% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 3.14% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 290 404
10th Percentile £400 £408 £425
25th Percentile £460 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £738
Median % change year-on-year - -25.42% +28.26%
75th Percentile £656 £745 £850
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £47.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.13 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 - £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 18,455 12,049 14,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.72% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,256 8,059 10,019
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 302 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.34 £70.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.99
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.08% -20.75%

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 8 July 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 8 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 17 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 8 July 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 -23 497 £550 -1.35% 184
London +8 362 £561 -10.20% 114
Work from Home -34 174 £575 -8.00% 110
UK excluding London -64 173 £525 +10.53% 101
Scotland +13 47 £435 -5.95% 13
North of England -66 35 £550 +10.00% 20
Midlands -49 34 £550 +12.82% 13
West Midlands -44 32 £550 +10.00% 6
South East -57 26 £550 +15.79% 35
North West -34 25 £538 -3.15% 14
South West -49 15 £550 +7.32% 10
East of England -32 9 £390 -32.76% 5
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 6
Yorkshire -43 6 £550 +15.79% 5
North East -36 4 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -16 2 £654 +55.65% 7
Wales -16 1 £250 -61.54%

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 99 (17.28%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.85%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.01%) Apache
4 16 (2.79%) Confluence
5 9 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.05%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (4.01%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.87%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.87%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.52%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 290 (50.61%) AWS
2 220 (38.39%) Azure
3 163 (28.45%) Power Platform
4 132 (23.04%) dbt
5 123 (21.47%) GCP
6 87 (15.18%) Amazon S3
7 51 (8.90%) GitHub
8 49 (8.55%) Serverless
9 47 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (5.24%) Matillion
14 24 (4.19%) Fivetran
15 22 (3.84%) Dagster
16 19 (3.32%) SaaS
17 18 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 17 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
19 16 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 16 (2.79%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.35%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) Broadband
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (27.75%) Data Warehouse
2 157 (27.40%) Power BI
3 79 (13.79%) Tableau
4 72 (12.57%) Snowflake Schema
5 66 (11.52%) BigQuery
6 64 (11.17%) Data Lake
7 47 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 44 (7.68%) Big Data
9 41 (7.16%) SQL Server
10 36 (6.28%) Relational Database
11 34 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (5.06%) Metadata
13 26 (4.54%) Data Vault
14 25 (4.36%) NoSQL
15 21 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (3.49%) Looker
17 14 (2.44%) MySQL
18 12 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (1.92%) MongoDB
19 11 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 57 (9.95%) Git
2 32 (5.58%) JIRA
3 29 (5.06%) GitLab
4 14 (2.44%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.22%) MLflow
6 6 (1.05%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.52%) Snyk
7 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.52%) Toad
8 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) ERwin
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 203 (35.43%) Finance
2 154 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 76 (13.26%) Banking
4 75 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.90%) Retail
6 26 (4.54%) Marketing
7 25 (4.36%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.84%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.32%) Financial Institution
9 19 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.44%) Front Office
11 12 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.92%) Legal
13 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.57%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.40%) Back Office
15 8 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 204 (35.60%) Data Engineer
2 105 (18.32%) Snowflake Engineer
3 101 (17.63%) Architect
4 92 (16.06%) Senior
5 80 (13.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 61 (10.65%) Analyst
7 56 (9.77%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (7.68%) Lead
10 38 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (6.11%) Data Analyst
12 28 (4.89%) Developer
12 28 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (4.36%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (4.19%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.32%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.14%) Snowflake Architect
17 17 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
18 16 (2.79%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.30%) Kafka
2 20 (3.49%) REST
3 18 (3.14%) PySpark
4 13 (2.27%) Spring
4 13 (2.27%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.75%) .NET
5 10 (1.75%) React
6 9 (1.57%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.22%) OAuth
7 7 (1.22%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.22%) Vue
8 6 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.05%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.05%) Playwright
8 6 (1.05%) YAML
9 5 (0.87%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.87%) JSON
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.87%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.87%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.06%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.27%) Fixed Income
5 13 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.92%) Equities
7 11 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.57%) Clustering
9 8 (1.40%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.22%) Replication
11 6 (1.05%) Data Fabric
11 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.87%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.75%) Unix
2 7 (1.22%) Linux
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (46.07%) Analytics
2 222 (38.74%) Data Engineering
3 202 (35.25%) Data Modelling
4 201 (35.08%) Data Pipeline
5 189 (32.98%) CI/CD
5 189 (32.98%) ETL
6 188 (32.81%) Business Intelligence
7 164 (28.62%) AI
8 129 (22.51%) Agile
9 108 (18.85%) Data Governance
10 106 (18.50%) Migration
11 102 (17.80%) DevOps
12 96 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 91 (15.88%) Validation
14 87 (15.18%) Data Architecture
15 79 (13.79%) Machine Learning
16 69 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 67 (11.69%) Data Transformation
17 67 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
18 66 (11.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 311 (54.28%) SQL
2 285 (49.74%) Python
3 60 (10.47%) Java
4 14 (2.44%) R
5 13 (2.27%) Bash
6 11 (1.92%) C#
7 8 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.40%) Scala
7 8 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.05%) Bicep
9 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.52%) Cypher
10 3 (0.52%) SHACL
11 2 (0.35%) Korn
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.35%) VBScript
12 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 43 (7.50%) Degree
3 27 (4.71%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.44%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.70%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.52%) CSPO
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.17%) ACCA
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (24.08%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.98%) GDPR
3 27 (4.71%) QA
4 10 (1.75%) SLA
5 7 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.52%) EMIR
6 3 (0.52%) MiFID
7 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.35%) PMO
7 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) CDISC
8 1 (0.17%) FATCA
8 1 (0.17%) GAAP
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 41 (7.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (13.79%) Terraform
2 39 (6.81%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.01%) Grafana
4 10 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.87%) Ansible
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 164 (28.62%) Databricks
2 65 (11.34%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.24%) Informatica
4 29 (5.06%) Oracle
5 28 (4.89%) Salesforce
6 26 (4.54%) Google
7 20 (3.49%) SAP
8 12 (2.09%) Talend
9 9 (1.57%) Charles River
9 9 (1.57%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.57%) Teradata
10 8 (1.40%) Denodo
10 8 (1.40%) FactSet
11 7 (1.22%) Splunk
11 7 (1.22%) Workday
12 6 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.05%) Murex
12 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.05%) PagerDuty