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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 250 332
Rank change year-on-year +18 +82 +133
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 445 313 287
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 0.99% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 2.69% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 200 219
10th Percentile £344 £375 £413
25th Percentile £421 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £623 £716 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £456 £513
% change year-on-year +1.37% -10.98% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,116 11,615 14,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 36.59% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,715 7,724 10,493
10th Percentile £305 £313 £297
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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 176 271
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.11 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £66.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +10.06%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +5 358 £525 -16.00% 244
London +33 274 £550 -15.38% 87
Work from Home +21 155 £550 -17.91% 161
UK excluding London -9 117 £463 +1.37% 217
Scotland +41 45 £450 +12.50% 7
North of England -46 20 £375 -14.29% 30
North West -23 17 £347 -20.80% 18
South East -12 16 £500 +21.21% 99
South West +2 15 £488 +21.88% 20
East of England -6 11 £565 +13.00% 31
Midlands -54 11 £550 +10.00% 19
West Midlands -42 7 £550 +10.00% 11
East Midlands -25 4 £575 -7.93% 8
Yorkshire -48 2 £469 - 7
North East -13 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 £575 - 9

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 95 (21.35%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (8.09%) Apache
3 33 (7.42%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.67%) Confluence
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Luigi
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (4.49%) Aladdin
2 13 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.45%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 234 (52.58%) AWS
2 211 (47.42%) Azure
3 104 (23.37%) dbt
3 104 (23.37%) Power Platform
4 80 (17.98%) GCP
5 49 (11.01%) Serverless
6 42 (9.44%) Amazon S3
7 35 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (5.17%) GitHub
10 22 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (4.72%) Matillion
12 15 (3.37%) Fivetran
12 15 (3.37%) SaaS
13 13 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.25%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (32.58%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (22.70%) Power BI
3 69 (15.51%) Data Lake
4 46 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
5 41 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (8.54%) Tableau
7 33 (7.42%) BigQuery
8 28 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (6.29%) Metadata
9 26 (5.84%) Big Data
10 24 (5.39%) Relational Database
11 23 (5.17%) Data Vault
11 23 (5.17%) SQL Server
12 22 (4.94%) NoSQL
13 20 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
15 16 (3.60%) RDBMS
16 15 (3.37%) Apache Arrow
16 15 (3.37%) Apache Ignite
16 15 (3.37%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 46 (10.34%) Git
2 21 (4.72%) GitLab
3 18 (4.04%) ERwin
3 18 (4.04%) JIRA
4 15 (3.37%) ER Studio
5 12 (2.70%) SpecFlow
6 10 (2.25%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (1.80%) DBeaver
8 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.12%) MLflow
10 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.67%) Selenium
10 3 (0.67%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.45%) TestRail
11 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.22%) Deequ
12 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 136 (30.56%) Finance
2 114 (25.62%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.76%) Banking
5 23 (5.17%) Investment Banking
6 22 (4.94%) Front Office
7 20 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.15%) Marketing
8 14 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 14 (3.15%) Retail
9 13 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.67%) Law
14 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.45%) iGaming
16 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (31.91%) Data Engineer
2 68 (15.28%) Snowflake Engineer
3 59 (13.26%) Analyst
4 53 (11.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 50 (11.24%) Senior
6 47 (10.56%) Data Analyst
7 45 (10.11%) Architect
8 34 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (7.64%) Python Engineer
9 33 (7.42%) Developer
10 32 (7.19%) Lead
11 25 (5.62%) Data Architect
12 24 (5.39%) Data Modeller
13 23 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 17 (3.82%) Python Data Engineer
14 17 (3.82%) Software Engineer
15 16 (3.60%) Business Analyst
15 16 (3.60%) Java Engineer
15 16 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.97%) Pandas
2 24 (5.39%) NumPy
3 22 (4.94%) Kafka
4 21 (4.72%) PySpark
5 18 (4.04%) PyTorch
6 15 (3.37%) gRPC
6 15 (3.37%) Playwright
6 15 (3.37%) Protocol Buffers
6 15 (3.37%) SciPy
7 14 (3.15%) TensorFlow
8 13 (2.92%) REST
9 11 (2.47%) React
10 10 (2.25%) JSON
11 8 (1.80%) Node.js
12 6 (1.35%) .NET
12 6 (1.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 6 (1.35%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.12%) LangChain
13 5 (1.12%) scikit-learn
13 5 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
3 22 (4.94%) Equities
3 22 (4.94%) Fixed Income
4 18 (4.04%) Derivative
5 17 (3.82%) Hedge funds
6 15 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (3.37%) Pricing Data
7 14 (3.15%) Replication
8 12 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.25%) Clustering
9 10 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.80%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.35%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.02%) Linux
2 8 (1.80%) Unix
3 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (39.55%) Analytics
2 166 (37.30%) Data Modelling
3 150 (33.71%) ETL
4 126 (28.31%) Data Engineering
5 116 (26.07%) Agile
6 113 (25.39%) CI/CD
7 110 (24.72%) Business Intelligence
8 100 (22.47%) Data Governance
9 99 (22.25%) Data Pipeline
10 91 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (17.53%) AI
12 70 (15.73%) Migration
13 67 (15.06%) Machine Learning
14 66 (14.83%) DevOps
15 61 (13.71%) Data Transformation
16 55 (12.36%) Asset Management
17 54 (12.13%) Data Architecture
17 54 (12.13%) Performance Tuning
18 50 (11.24%) Data Integration
19 49 (11.01%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 265 (59.55%) SQL
2 237 (53.26%) Python
3 47 (10.56%) Java
4 38 (8.54%) TypeScript
5 36 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.60%) C#
7 13 (2.92%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.25%) Bash
9 7 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.57%) Korn
9 7 (1.57%) R
9 7 (1.57%) Scala
10 4 (0.90%) Bicep
11 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.64%) Degree
2 23 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.37%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.15%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.92%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.12%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.67%) PhD
11 2 (0.45%) ACCA
11 2 (0.45%) CIMA
11 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.45%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) CSPO
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (22.25%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.60%) GDPR
2 16 (3.60%) QA
3 7 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.45%) MiFID
5 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.22%) GRC
5 1 (0.22%) IFRS
5 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.22%) PMO
5 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (8.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (12.13%) Terraform
2 29 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.82%) Ansible
4 6 (1.35%) Grafana
5 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 114 (25.62%) Databricks
2 41 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.74%) Oracle
4 21 (4.72%) SAP
5 16 (3.60%) Talend
6 14 (3.15%) Greenplum
6 14 (3.15%) Informatica
7 12 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.02%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.80%) Google
9 8 (1.80%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.57%) Sparx
11 6 (1.35%) Charles River
11 6 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.35%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.35%) Teradata
12 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.12%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.90%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.67%) StreamSets