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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 255 315
Rank change year-on-year +20 +60 +128
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 469 305 304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 0.99% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 2.64% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 194 218
10th Percentile £340 £375 £413
25th Percentile £413 £486 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £675
90th Percentile £729 £875 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £74.44 - £53.75
90th Percentile £83.78 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 - £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 15,481 11,563 14,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.80% 37.62% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,618 7,801 10,592
10th Percentile £311 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 178 335
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.93 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.29 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.58 £50.13
90th Percentile £80.18 £76.01 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +74.80% +22.10% -4.76%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -4 385 £525 -12.50% 140
London +27 292 £525 -19.23% 78
Work from Home +13 146 £525 -19.23% 81
UK excluding London -32 127 £463 -2.63% 101
Scotland +38 45 £450 -5.26% 11
North of England -57 21 £400 -11.11% 23
South West -16 18 £475 -20.83% 7
North West -28 18 £347 -20.80% 16
South East -25 17 £525 +31.25% 41
Midlands -60 15 £550 +10.00% 16
West Midlands -60 11 £500 -9.09% 14
East of England -15 9 £550 - 3
East Midlands -24 4 £575 +33.72% 2
Yorkshire -61 2 £488 +5.41% 5
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -20 1 £575 -11.54% 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 88 (18.76%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.68%) Apache Spark
3 26 (5.54%) Apache
4 5 (1.07%) Confluence
4 5 (1.07%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.85%) SAS
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Luigi
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (5.12%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 248 (52.88%) AWS
2 228 (48.61%) Azure
3 112 (23.88%) Power Platform
4 105 (22.39%) dbt
5 86 (18.34%) GCP
6 56 (11.94%) Serverless
7 53 (11.30%) Amazon S3
8 41 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (6.18%) Matillion
12 27 (5.76%) GitHub
13 23 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.62%) SaaS
15 16 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (3.20%) Fivetran
17 14 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
18 13 (2.77%) Amazon EMR
19 10 (2.13%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (31.34%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (22.39%) Power BI
3 58 (12.37%) Snowflake Schema
4 54 (11.51%) Data Lake
5 43 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.17%) Tableau
6 33 (7.04%) BigQuery
7 32 (6.82%) Metadata
8 27 (5.76%) Big Data
9 26 (5.54%) Data Vault
9 26 (5.54%) NoSQL
9 26 (5.54%) Relational Database
10 25 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (5.33%) SQL Server
11 16 (3.41%) RDBMS
12 12 (2.56%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (2.13%) Looker
14 8 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.71%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 44 (9.38%) Git
2 22 (4.69%) GitLab
3 17 (3.62%) JIRA
4 16 (3.41%) ERwin
5 14 (2.99%) ER Studio
5 14 (2.99%) SpecFlow
6 9 (1.92%) MLflow
7 8 (1.71%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (1.49%) DBeaver
9 6 (1.28%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.64%) Selenium
10 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.64%) Toad
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.21%) Deequ
General
1 127 (27.08%) Finance
2 120 (25.59%) Social Skills
3 72 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.04%) Banking
5 23 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.26%) Retail
7 16 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.56%) Marketing
9 11 (2.35%) Front Office
9 11 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.64%) Back Office
15 3 (0.64%) Law
16 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (33.26%) Data Engineer
2 79 (16.84%) Snowflake Engineer
3 61 (13.01%) Analyst
3 61 (13.01%) Architect
3 61 (13.01%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 47 (10.02%) Data Analyst
5 44 (9.38%) Senior
6 39 (8.32%) Lead
7 35 (7.46%) Developer
8 34 (7.25%) Data Architect
9 29 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.90%) Python Engineer
12 22 (4.69%) Data Modeller
12 22 (4.69%) Snowflake Architect
13 18 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 17 (3.62%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.97%) Kafka
2 21 (4.48%) PySpark
3 20 (4.26%) Pandas
3 20 (4.26%) PyTorch
4 17 (3.62%) Playwright
5 14 (2.99%) NumPy
5 14 (2.99%) TensorFlow
6 11 (2.35%) React
7 10 (2.13%) JSON
7 10 (2.13%) REST
8 9 (1.92%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.71%) Spring
10 7 (1.49%) Node.js
11 6 (1.28%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (1.28%) scikit-learn
12 5 (1.07%) .NET
12 5 (1.07%) gRPC
12 5 (1.07%) Protocol Buffers
12 5 (1.07%) SciPy
13 4 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.54%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.90%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.99%) Replication
5 13 (2.77%) Clustering
5 13 (2.77%) Equities
5 13 (2.77%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.92%) Derivative
9 7 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.49%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.07%) Pricing Data
11 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Unix
2 6 (1.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (42.86%) Analytics
2 188 (40.09%) Data Modelling
3 158 (33.69%) ETL
4 145 (30.92%) Data Engineering
5 131 (27.93%) CI/CD
6 125 (26.65%) Business Intelligence
7 122 (26.01%) Data Pipeline
8 109 (23.24%) Agile
9 100 (21.32%) AI
10 98 (20.90%) Data Governance
11 92 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (15.57%) DevOps
12 73 (15.57%) Machine Learning
13 72 (15.35%) Migration
14 63 (13.43%) Data Architecture
15 59 (12.58%) Data Transformation
15 59 (12.58%) Performance Tuning
16 55 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 53 (11.30%) Data Science
18 46 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 287 (61.19%) SQL
2 250 (53.30%) Python
3 42 (8.96%) Java
4 27 (5.76%) JavaScript
4 27 (5.76%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.05%) C#
6 15 (3.20%) Bash
7 13 (2.77%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.92%) R
9 7 (1.49%) Korn
9 7 (1.49%) Scala
10 4 (0.85%) Bicep
10 4 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.25%) Degree
2 30 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.49%) SnowPro
7 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.64%) PhD
9 2 (0.43%) ACCA
9 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (24.95%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.62%) QA
3 14 (2.99%) GDPR
4 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.64%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (8.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (13.86%) Terraform
2 33 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.62%) Ansible
4 5 (1.07%) Grafana
4 5 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 126 (26.87%) Databricks
2 50 (10.66%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.82%) Oracle
4 20 (4.26%) Talend
5 16 (3.41%) SAP
6 15 (3.20%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.20%) Informatica
7 11 (2.35%) Google
7 11 (2.35%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.13%) Teradata
9 9 (1.92%) Charles River
10 8 (1.71%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.28%) Cloudera
13 5 (1.07%) Ab Initio
13 5 (1.07%) Murex
13 5 (1.07%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.07%) Sparx
13 5 (1.07%) Virgin Media