Snowflake Contracts

Snowflake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Snowflake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snowflake over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 288 445
Rank change year-on-year +64 +157 +24
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 354 354 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 0.81% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 2.51% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 279 191
10th Percentile £410 £415 £406
25th Percentile £475 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £775 £850 £700
90th Percentile £875 £888 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £563
% change year-on-year - -15.56% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Cloud 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 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Snowflake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Snowflake.

Hourly rate trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 15 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +64 315 £600 -7.69% 310
London +56 222 £650 -10.34% 195
Work from Home +57 153 £650 -18.75% 173
UK excluding London +31 103 £475 - 133
North of England +11 23 £488 -2.50% 42
Scotland +4 21 £450 - 16
South East +23 20 £384 -23.25% 22
Midlands +34 19 £488 -4.88% 17
South West +61 18 £525 +31.25% 29
North West -6 16 £515 +3.00% 16
West Midlands +25 15 £550 - 11
East of England +36 9 £580 +28.89% 4
Yorkshire +17 4 £475 - 22
East Midlands +11 4 £420 -18.05% 6
North East -2 3 £538 +24.71% 4

Snowflake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 97 (27.40%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (18.08%) Apache
3 21 (5.93%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.41%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) Luigi
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.98%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.56%) Endur
5 1 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 216 (61.02%) AWS
2 138 (38.98%) Azure
3 114 (32.20%) dbt
4 84 (23.73%) GCP
5 76 (21.47%) Power Platform
6 23 (6.50%) GitHub
7 21 (5.93%) Amazon S3
7 21 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (5.93%) IaaS
8 20 (5.65%) PaaS
9 19 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (5.08%) Dagster
11 17 (4.80%) Matillion
12 12 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.82%) Serverless
14 8 (2.26%) SaaS
15 7 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.69%) DNS
1 6 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.41%) Firewall
2 5 (1.41%) VPN
3 4 (1.13%) Network Security
4 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.28%) DHCP
5 1 (0.28%) NAS
5 1 (0.28%) SAN
5 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (41.24%) Data Warehouse
2 75 (21.19%) Power BI
3 71 (20.06%) Data Lake
4 58 (16.38%) Amazon Athena
5 50 (14.12%) Apache Iceberg
6 47 (13.28%) Dremio
7 45 (12.71%) Apache Arrow
8 40 (11.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (9.32%) Tableau
10 29 (8.19%) Apache Ignite
11 28 (7.91%) BigQuery
12 24 (6.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (4.52%) NoSQL
14 14 (3.95%) Hadoop
14 14 (3.95%) SQL Server
15 11 (3.11%) Flink
16 10 (2.82%) Big Data
16 10 (2.82%) MongoDB
17 9 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
18 8 (2.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (2.82%) ERwin
1 10 (2.82%) Git
2 9 (2.54%) GitLab
3 8 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.41%) JIRA
5 4 (1.13%) JUnit
5 4 (1.13%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.28%) Ant
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
8 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) Mockito
8 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (34.75%) Finance
2 79 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 64 (18.08%) Banking
4 52 (14.69%) Investment Banking
5 50 (14.12%) Front Office
6 34 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.24%) Marketing
8 12 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.39%) Retail
9 9 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.69%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.85%) Law
12 3 (0.85%) Local Government
12 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (30.79%) Data Engineer
2 80 (22.60%) AWS Engineer
3 64 (18.08%) Snowflake Engineer
4 63 (17.80%) Senior
5 54 (15.25%) Architect
6 45 (12.71%) AWS Software Engineer
6 45 (12.71%) Software Engineer
7 43 (12.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 42 (11.86%) Data Architect
9 38 (10.73%) Developer
10 34 (9.60%) Analyst
11 33 (9.32%) Lead
12 32 (9.04%) Java Engineer
12 32 (9.04%) Python Engineer
13 31 (8.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 27 (7.63%) Snowflake Developer
15 26 (7.34%) Python Software Engineer
16 23 (6.50%) Data Analyst
16 23 (6.50%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.58%) PySpark
2 36 (10.17%) Pandas
3 34 (9.60%) Kafka
4 32 (9.04%) NumPy
5 29 (8.19%) gRPC
5 29 (8.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 29 (8.19%) SciPy
6 5 (1.41%) Spring
6 5 (1.41%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.13%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.13%) RESTful
7 4 (1.13%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.85%) .NET
8 3 (0.85%) ADO
8 3 (0.85%) Node.js
8 3 (0.85%) REST
9 2 (0.56%) Django
9 2 (0.56%) LDAP
9 2 (0.56%) pytest
9 2 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.84%) Hedge funds
2 47 (13.28%) Equities
2 47 (13.28%) Fixed Income
3 45 (12.71%) Derivative
3 45 (12.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.39%) Pricing Data
7 9 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.54%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.69%) Life Science
9 5 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.13%) Clustering
10 4 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.13%) Replication
11 3 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.69%) Linux
2 4 (1.13%) Unix
3 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.56%) Solaris
3 2 (0.56%) Windows
3 2 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (29.10%) ETL
2 97 (27.40%) Analytics
3 92 (25.99%) Data Modelling
4 82 (23.16%) Data Pipeline
5 81 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (21.47%) Business Intelligence
7 73 (20.62%) Agile
8 59 (16.67%) Migration
9 58 (16.38%) Asset Management
10 55 (15.54%) Data Engineering
11 51 (14.41%) CI/CD
11 51 (14.41%) Software Engineering
12 44 (12.43%) Data Governance
13 42 (11.86%) Data Architecture
13 42 (11.86%) Data Management
14 41 (11.58%) Data Transformation
14 41 (11.58%) Decision-Making
15 40 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (9.89%) Visualisation
17 34 (9.60%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 188 (53.11%) Python
2 187 (52.82%) SQL
3 66 (18.64%) Java
4 36 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 29 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.11%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.26%) R
7 8 (2.26%) Scala
8 7 (1.98%) Bash
8 7 (1.98%) C#
9 6 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.28%) Go
11 1 (0.28%) Perl
11 1 (0.28%) Ruby
11 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (7.06%) Degree
2 11 (3.11%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.26%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.98%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.13%) SnowPro
7 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.85%) PMP
7 3 (0.85%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CSPO
9 1 (0.28%) ISEB
9 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.30%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.08%) GDPR
3 14 (3.95%) QA
4 7 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.98%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.13%) PMO
6 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 23 (6.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (14.97%) Terraform
2 19 (5.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.56%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Control-M
5 1 (0.28%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.28%) Netcool
5 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 40 (11.30%) Databricks
2 22 (6.21%) Google
3 20 (5.65%) SAP
4 14 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.95%) Oracle
5 13 (3.67%) Informatica
6 12 (3.39%) Talend
7 8 (2.26%) IBM
8 7 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.69%) Sparx
9 6 (1.69%) Sybase
9 6 (1.69%) Teradata
9 6 (1.69%) Virgin Media
10 5 (1.41%) Confluent
11 4 (1.13%) Ariba
11 4 (1.13%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (1.13%) Splunk
12 3 (0.85%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.85%) Hyperion