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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 234 304
Rank change year-on-year -16 +70 +153
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 477 321 315
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.10% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 2.90% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 233 235
10th Percentile £362 £381 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £738
90th Percentile £750 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £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 16,535 11,076 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.94% 38.11% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,267 7,767 10,194
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -3.99% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 219 347
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.74 £35.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.04%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -25 394 £523 -12.92% 171
London +21 297 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -8 156 £538 -17.31% 70
UK excluding London -75 128 £500 +5.26% 112
Scotland +29 44 £450 +2.74% 8
North of England -64 25 £513 +1.99% 27
Midlands -59 22 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -57 19 £530 -3.64% 8
South West -27 17 £475 -15.56% 14
North West -33 17 £400 -27.93% 13
South East -59 13 £525 +43.84% 37
Yorkshire -52 7 £525 +10.53% 8
East of England -37 5 - - 10
East Midlands -35 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -14 1 £575 -11.54% 6

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 92 (19.29%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.13%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.40%) Apache
4 8 (1.68%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (4.82%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 235 (49.27%) AWS
2 216 (45.28%) Azure
3 126 (26.42%) Power Platform
4 110 (23.06%) dbt
5 88 (18.45%) GCP
6 60 (12.58%) Amazon S3
7 47 (9.85%) Serverless
8 38 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (6.92%) Matillion
10 31 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (5.24%) GitHub
12 21 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (3.77%) Dagster
15 17 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (3.56%) Prefect
16 15 (3.14%) SaaS
17 12 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (29.98%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (24.95%) Power BI
3 56 (11.74%) Tableau
4 54 (11.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 42 (8.81%) Data Lake
6 37 (7.76%) BigQuery
7 33 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (6.29%) Metadata
10 26 (5.45%) Data Vault
10 26 (5.45%) SQL Server
11 22 (4.61%) Big Data
11 22 (4.61%) NoSQL
12 15 (3.14%) Relational Database
13 11 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (2.10%) Looker
15 9 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.89%) Star Schema
16 8 (1.68%) MySQL
17 7 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 48 (10.06%) Git
2 21 (4.40%) GitLab
3 19 (3.98%) JIRA
4 15 (3.14%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.68%) ERwin
7 7 (1.47%) ER Studio
8 6 (1.26%) MLflow
9 4 (0.84%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.63%) Toad
11 2 (0.42%) Selenium
11 2 (0.42%) Snyk
11 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.21%) GCC
12 1 (0.21%) LSMW
12 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (28.51%) Finance
2 132 (27.67%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.34%) Banking
5 26 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.82%) Retail
7 15 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.73%) Marketing
9 12 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.47%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.26%) Front Office
13 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Back Office
14 3 (0.63%) Law
14 3 (0.63%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (36.27%) Data Engineer
2 82 (17.19%) Snowflake Engineer
3 69 (14.47%) Architect
4 66 (13.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 63 (13.21%) Analyst
6 59 (12.37%) Senior
7 48 (10.06%) Data Analyst
8 42 (8.81%) Data Architect
9 40 (8.39%) Lead
10 30 (6.29%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (6.08%) Senior Data Engineer
12 27 (5.66%) Developer
13 26 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (4.19%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (3.77%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.77%) Snowflake Architect
17 16 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 16 (3.35%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.60%) Kafka
2 21 (4.40%) PyTorch
3 19 (3.98%) TensorFlow
4 18 (3.77%) PySpark
5 16 (3.35%) Playwright
6 14 (2.94%) Pandas
7 10 (2.10%) NumPy
8 8 (1.68%) React
9 7 (1.47%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.26%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.26%) REST
10 6 (1.26%) Spring
11 5 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.05%) JSON
11 5 (1.05%) OAuth
11 5 (1.05%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.05%) Vue
12 4 (0.84%) .NET
12 4 (0.84%) ARM Templates
13 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.03%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.52%) Clustering
5 12 (2.52%) Replication
6 11 (2.31%) Equities
6 11 (2.31%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.10%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.68%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.05%) Derivative
10 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.68%) Unix
2 6 (1.26%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (44.23%) Analytics
2 180 (37.74%) Data Modelling
3 166 (34.80%) Data Engineering
4 156 (32.70%) ETL
5 145 (30.40%) Business Intelligence
6 141 (29.56%) CI/CD
7 137 (28.72%) Data Pipeline
8 108 (22.64%) AI
9 101 (21.17%) Agile
10 100 (20.96%) Data Governance
11 79 (16.56%) Migration
11 79 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (16.35%) Machine Learning
13 76 (15.93%) DevOps
14 68 (14.26%) Data Architecture
15 61 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
16 59 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 56 (11.74%) Decision-Making
18 55 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
19 50 (10.48%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 277 (58.07%) SQL
2 244 (51.15%) Python
3 37 (7.76%) Java
4 21 (4.40%) C#
5 20 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.14%) Bash
8 9 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.68%) Scala
10 7 (1.47%) R
11 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.05%) Korn
11 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.84%) Bicep
12 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) Ruby
14 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (8.60%) Degree
2 38 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.47%) SnowPro
8 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.63%) PhD
8 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) ACCA
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (26.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.03%) GDPR
3 19 (3.98%) QA
4 9 (1.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (7.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (14.05%) Terraform
2 24 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.52%) Ansible
4 8 (1.68%) Grafana
4 8 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.84%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 143 (29.98%) Databricks
2 55 (11.53%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.45%) Oracle
4 24 (5.03%) Informatica
5 20 (4.19%) Talend
6 18 (3.77%) Google
7 16 (3.35%) SAP
8 11 (2.31%) Greenplum
8 11 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.31%) Teradata
9 9 (1.89%) Charles River
9 9 (1.89%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
10 8 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.47%) Denodo
12 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.05%) Ab Initio
13 5 (1.05%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.05%) Splunk
13 5 (1.05%) Virgin Media