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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 229 301
Rank change year-on-year -28 +72 +136
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 472 331 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.13% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 2.98% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 241 251
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £738
90th Percentile £748 £875 £863
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 16,733 11,092 14,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.56% 37.96% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,425 7,746 10,122
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
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 £634
90th Percentile £702 £725 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 236 343
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £16.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.88 £61.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +97.65% +29.94% -22.20%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -26 395 £525 -12.50% 171
London +8 296 £525 -20.45% 99
Work from Home -27 144 £525 -19.23% 70
UK excluding London -68 131 £500 +5.26% 112
Scotland +28 45 £450 -0.11% 8
North of England -62 25 £525 +4.48% 27
Midlands -57 23 £550 +15.79% 11
West Midlands -55 20 £530 -3.64% 8
North West -27 17 £525 -5.41% 13
South West -33 17 £475 -9.52% 14
South East -58 14 £525 +43.84% 37
Yorkshire -47 7 £525 +10.53% 8
East of England -34 5 - - 10
East Midlands -40 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -17 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 91 (19.28%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (6.99%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.03%) Apache
4 8 (1.69%) Confluence
5 5 (1.06%) SAS
6 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 18 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.12%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (5.08%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.06%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 235 (49.79%) AWS
2 206 (43.64%) Azure
3 126 (26.69%) Power Platform
4 106 (22.46%) dbt
5 88 (18.64%) GCP
6 66 (13.98%) Amazon S3
7 50 (10.59%) Serverless
8 42 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (6.78%) Matillion
11 27 (5.72%) GitHub
12 22 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (4.45%) Dagster
14 20 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (4.03%) Prefect
16 14 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (2.75%) SaaS
18 12 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (30.51%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (25.21%) Power BI
3 58 (12.29%) Tableau
4 56 (11.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 39 (8.26%) Data Lake
6 38 (8.05%) BigQuery
7 34 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (6.57%) Metadata
9 29 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (5.93%) SQL Server
11 24 (5.08%) Big Data
11 24 (5.08%) Data Vault
12 21 (4.45%) NoSQL
13 18 (3.81%) Relational Database
14 14 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.33%) Looker
16 8 (1.69%) DynamoDB
16 8 (1.69%) MySQL
16 8 (1.69%) Star Schema
17 7 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 45 (9.53%) Git
2 20 (4.24%) GitLab
2 20 (4.24%) JIRA
3 15 (3.18%) SpecFlow
4 8 (1.69%) ERwin
4 8 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.48%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.27%) MLflow
7 3 (0.64%) Selenium
7 3 (0.64%) Snyk
7 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.64%) Toad
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.42%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 139 (29.45%) Finance
2 128 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 69 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.20%) Banking
5 26 (5.51%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.08%) Retail
7 14 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.54%) Marketing
10 11 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.48%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (1.06%) Front Office
14 5 (1.06%) Legal
15 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.64%) Back Office
16 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (37.29%) Data Engineer
2 89 (18.86%) Snowflake Engineer
3 73 (15.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 70 (14.83%) Architect
5 62 (13.14%) Senior
6 61 (12.92%) Analyst
7 45 (9.53%) Data Analyst
8 43 (9.11%) Lead
9 40 (8.47%) Data Architect
10 32 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 25 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (5.08%) Developer
13 20 (4.24%) Lead Data Engineer
14 19 (4.03%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (3.81%) Business Analyst
16 17 (3.60%) Azure Data Engineer
16 17 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.39%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.69%) Kafka
2 17 (3.60%) PySpark
3 16 (3.39%) Playwright
3 16 (3.39%) PyTorch
4 14 (2.97%) TensorFlow
5 11 (2.33%) Pandas
6 10 (2.12%) React
7 9 (1.91%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.69%) Spring
9 7 (1.48%) NumPy
10 6 (1.27%) .NET
10 6 (1.27%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.27%) OAuth
10 6 (1.27%) REST
10 6 (1.27%) Vue
11 5 (1.06%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (0.85%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.85%) JSON
12 4 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (11.44%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.45%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.54%) Clustering
6 11 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.33%) Replication
7 10 (2.12%) Fixed Income
7 10 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.91%) Equities
9 8 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.06%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.33%) Unix
2 8 (1.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
4 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (44.49%) Analytics
2 179 (37.92%) Data Modelling
3 162 (34.32%) Data Engineering
4 159 (33.69%) ETL
5 146 (30.93%) Business Intelligence
6 138 (29.24%) Data Pipeline
7 137 (29.03%) CI/CD
8 106 (22.46%) AI
9 100 (21.19%) Agile
10 92 (19.49%) Data Governance
11 79 (16.74%) DevOps
11 79 (16.74%) Migration
12 78 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (15.04%) Machine Learning
14 68 (14.41%) Data Architecture
15 59 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
16 58 (12.29%) Decision-Making
17 56 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
19 49 (10.38%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 270 (57.20%) SQL
2 240 (50.85%) Python
3 38 (8.05%) Java
4 20 (4.24%) C#
5 18 (3.81%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.18%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.97%) Bash
8 8 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.48%) R
9 7 (1.48%) Scala
10 5 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.06%) Korn
10 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.85%) Bicep
11 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (8.26%) Degree
1 39 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (4.66%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.91%) Azure Certification
5 9 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.69%) SnowPro
7 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.64%) PhD
8 3 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) ACCA
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.21%) CFA
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (24.79%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.51%) GDPR
3 19 (4.03%) QA
4 9 (1.91%) SLA
5 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (14.19%) Terraform
2 22 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.12%) Ansible
4 9 (1.91%) Grafana
5 8 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.85%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 140 (29.66%) Databricks
2 53 (11.23%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.51%) Oracle
4 24 (5.08%) Informatica
5 17 (3.60%) Google
5 17 (3.60%) Talend
6 15 (3.18%) SAP
7 13 (2.75%) Teradata
8 11 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.91%) Charles River
9 9 (1.91%) Greenplum
9 9 (1.91%) MicroStrategy
9 9 (1.91%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.69%) Denodo
11 7 (1.48%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.48%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.06%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.06%) Splunk
12 5 (1.06%) Virgin Media