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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 224 202
Rank change year-on-year +3 -22 +175
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 622 389 468
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.18% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.31% 3.17% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 300 396
10th Percentile £404 £408 £414
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +38.41%
75th Percentile £653 £825 £875
90th Percentile £751 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -21.74%
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 18,767 12,254 13,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.21% 37.23% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,215 9,213
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £614 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 310 274
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.45 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +29.33% +14.49% -31.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.41 £52.73
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -5 542 £574 -1.08% 390
London +4 388 £575 -11.54% 281
Work from Home -40 193 £600 -7.69% 168
UK excluding London -47 189 £525 +10.53% 159
Scotland +21 46 £435 -3.33% 12
North of England -48 43 £525 +7.69% 42
Midlands -36 36 £518 +21.76% 23
West Midlands -37 32 £563 +21.62% 15
North West -33 30 £525 -5.41% 22
South East -46 30 £591 +15.24% 52
South West -53 18 £575 +17.95% 18
East of England -28 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -45 10 £550 +15.79% 17
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 6
East Midlands -8 4 £466 +10.83% 8
North East -39 3 - - 3

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
1 120 (19.29%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (6.91%) Apache Spark
3 34 (5.47%) Apache
4 18 (2.89%) Confluence
5 10 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.80%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.54%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.80%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.80%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.80%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 316 (50.80%) AWS
2 239 (38.42%) Azure
3 174 (27.97%) Power Platform
4 159 (25.56%) dbt
5 136 (21.86%) GCP
6 81 (13.02%) Amazon S3
7 62 (9.97%) GitHub
8 52 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (8.36%) Serverless
9 49 (7.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 48 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (4.66%) Fivetran
13 26 (4.18%) Matillion
14 25 (4.02%) Dagster
15 19 (3.05%) Prefect
15 19 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) Broadband
1 3 (0.48%) Internet
2 2 (0.32%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (30.23%) Data Warehouse
2 171 (27.49%) Power BI
3 85 (13.67%) Tableau
4 79 (12.70%) BigQuery
5 77 (12.38%) Data Lake
6 71 (11.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 55 (8.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (7.40%) SQL Server
9 43 (6.91%) Big Data
10 36 (5.79%) Metadata
11 35 (5.63%) Relational Database
12 33 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (4.50%) NoSQL
14 27 (4.34%) Data Vault
15 23 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (3.38%) Looker
17 19 (3.05%) Semantic Layer
18 13 (2.09%) Delta Lake
18 13 (2.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 13 (2.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (10.93%) Git
2 35 (5.63%) JIRA
3 29 (4.66%) GitLab
4 24 (3.86%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.13%) MLflow
6 4 (0.64%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.64%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.64%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.48%) Snyk
7 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.32%) Selenium
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.16%) GCC
9 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 216 (34.73%) Finance
2 180 (28.94%) Social Skills
3 96 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (14.15%) Banking
5 52 (8.36%) Retail
6 31 (4.98%) Marketing
7 26 (4.18%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.38%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.22%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.05%) Front Office
11 15 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.25%) Legal
13 12 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (1.13%) Back Office
18 7 (1.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 213 (34.24%) Data Engineer
2 108 (17.36%) Architect
3 103 (16.56%) Senior
3 103 (16.56%) Snowflake Engineer
4 78 (12.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 71 (11.41%) Analyst
6 62 (9.97%) Data Architect
7 53 (8.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 51 (8.20%) Lead
9 41 (6.59%) Data Analyst
10 38 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.82%) Developer
12 28 (4.50%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (3.86%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.22%) Python Engineer
15 20 (3.22%) Snowflake Architect
16 17 (2.73%) Site Engineer
16 17 (2.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 15 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.65%) Kafka
2 27 (4.34%) REST
3 20 (3.22%) PySpark
4 10 (1.61%) .NET
4 10 (1.61%) PyTorch
4 10 (1.61%) Spring
4 10 (1.61%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.45%) React
6 8 (1.29%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.13%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.13%) OAuth
8 6 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.96%) AWS CDK
8 6 (0.96%) JSON
8 6 (0.96%) Vue
8 6 (0.96%) XML
8 6 (0.96%) YAML
9 5 (0.80%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.80%) OpenID
9 5 (0.80%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 80 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.14%) Data Structures
3 28 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.25%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.25%) Fixed Income
8 13 (2.09%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.61%) Equities
11 9 (1.45%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.29%) Clustering
13 7 (1.13%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.96%) Data Fabric
14 6 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.96%) Life Science
14 6 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.09%) Unix
2 11 (1.77%) Linux
3 3 (0.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (44.37%) Analytics
2 249 (40.03%) Data Engineering
3 223 (35.85%) Data Pipeline
4 221 (35.53%) Data Modelling
5 211 (33.92%) CI/CD
6 210 (33.76%) ETL
7 198 (31.83%) Business Intelligence
8 171 (27.49%) AI
9 149 (23.95%) Agile
10 128 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 125 (20.10%) Data Governance
12 116 (18.65%) DevOps
13 112 (18.01%) Migration
14 108 (17.36%) Data Architecture
15 98 (15.76%) Validation
16 89 (14.31%) Data Transformation
17 83 (13.34%) Decision-Making
18 82 (13.18%) Machine Learning
19 75 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
20 72 (11.58%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 345 (55.47%) SQL
2 305 (49.04%) Python
3 55 (8.84%) Java
4 14 (2.25%) R
5 11 (1.77%) Bash
5 11 (1.77%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.45%) C#
7 7 (1.13%) Scala
8 6 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.64%) Bicep
10 3 (0.48%) Cypher
10 3 (0.48%) Delphi
10 3 (0.48%) SHACL
10 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) C++
11 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 47 (7.56%) Degree
3 32 (5.14%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.09%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.64%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.48%) CSPO
12 3 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.16%) CBAP
14 1 (0.16%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (26.37%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.59%) GDPR
3 34 (5.47%) QA
4 10 (1.61%) SLA
5 6 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.64%) PMO
8 3 (0.48%) EMIR
8 3 (0.48%) MiFID
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (6.91%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (13.83%) Terraform
2 40 (6.43%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.02%) Grafana
4 9 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.80%) Ansible
6 4 (0.64%) Control-M
7 2 (0.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 184 (29.58%) Databricks
2 74 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.95%) Google
4 36 (5.79%) Informatica
5 31 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 30 (4.82%) Oracle
7 24 (3.86%) SAP
8 12 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.77%) Workday
10 10 (1.61%) Teradata
11 9 (1.45%) Charles River
11 9 (1.45%) Denodo
11 9 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.45%) Talend
12 8 (1.29%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.13%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.13%) Splunk
14 6 (0.96%) FactSet
14 6 (0.96%) Foundry
14 6 (0.96%) MicroStrategy