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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 226 233
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +183
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 545 352 450
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.18% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.04% 3.12% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 272 366
10th Percentile £380 £410 £422
25th Percentile £450 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £706
Median % change year-on-year - -22.07% +22.74%
75th Percentile £650 £728 £850
90th Percentile £745 £836 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £43.58 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £85.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 - £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 17,914 11,278 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.82% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,970 7,607 10,025
10th Percentile £326 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 278 365
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
% change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -23.07%

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 19 June 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 19 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 17 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 19 June 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 -17 471 £550 -4.35% 119
London +4 346 £550 -11.11% 66
Work from Home -24 166 £569 -9.00% 61
UK excluding London -62 164 £523 +10.00% 88
Scotland +15 47 £440 -4.86% 4
Midlands -45 34 £550 +12.82% 9
West Midlands -44 32 £550 +10.00% 5
North of England -57 31 £550 +15.79% 25
North West -24 23 £525 -5.41% 20
South East -64 20 £575 +26.03% 30
South West -30 18 £535 +1.90% 6
East of England -33 9 £390 -32.76% 5
Yorkshire -59 6 £550 +18.92% 3
Northern Ireland - 5 £334 - 11
East Midlands -20 2 £654 +55.65% 4
North East -36 2 £575 +35.29% 2
Wales -15 1 £250 -61.54%

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 (17.43%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (7.71%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.49%) Apache
4 10 (1.83%) Confluence
5 7 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.10%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.85%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.92%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.73%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.55%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.55%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.37%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 278 (51.01%) AWS
2 208 (38.17%) Azure
3 154 (28.26%) Power Platform
4 123 (22.57%) dbt
5 111 (20.37%) GCP
6 81 (14.86%) Amazon S3
7 48 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (8.62%) GitHub
9 44 (8.07%) Serverless
10 42 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 35 (6.42%) Matillion
13 27 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (4.04%) Dagster
15 21 (3.85%) Fivetran
16 18 (3.30%) SaaS
17 17 (3.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (2.94%) Prefect
19 15 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) DNS
2 1 (0.18%) DSL
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Intranet
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (26.79%) Power BI
2 140 (25.69%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (14.50%) Tableau
4 72 (13.21%) Snowflake Schema
5 54 (9.91%) BigQuery
6 52 (9.54%) Data Lake
7 43 (7.89%) Big Data
8 37 (6.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (6.61%) SQL Server
10 34 (6.24%) Relational Database
11 30 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.95%) Metadata
13 26 (4.77%) Data Vault
14 22 (4.04%) NoSQL
15 18 (3.30%) Looker
16 17 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (2.20%) MySQL
18 10 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 10 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
18 10 (1.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (9.72%) Git
2 27 (4.95%) GitLab
3 25 (4.59%) JIRA
4 14 (2.57%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.47%) SpecFlow
6 7 (1.28%) MLflow
7 3 (0.55%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.55%) Snyk
7 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.55%) Toad
8 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) ERwin
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 184 (33.76%) Finance
2 134 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 65 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.56%) Banking
5 44 (8.07%) Retail
6 26 (4.77%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.22%) Marketing
8 22 (4.04%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.65%) Front Office
12 9 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.65%) Retail Banking
13 8 (1.47%) Back Office
13 8 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.47%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 194 (35.60%) Data Engineer
2 102 (18.72%) Snowflake Engineer
3 93 (17.06%) Architect
4 91 (16.70%) Senior
5 79 (14.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 58 (10.64%) Analyst
7 50 (9.17%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
9 43 (7.89%) Lead
10 38 (6.97%) AWS Engineer
10 38 (6.97%) Data Analyst
11 28 (5.14%) Developer
12 27 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (4.59%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (3.49%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.49%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.30%) Snowflake Architect
16 15 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.36%) Kafka
2 17 (3.12%) PySpark
2 17 (3.12%) REST
3 11 (2.02%) Spring
3 11 (2.02%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.83%) .NET
5 9 (1.65%) React
6 8 (1.47%) Playwright
6 8 (1.47%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.28%) Vue
8 6 (1.10%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.10%) OAuth
8 6 (1.10%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.92%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.92%) JSON
9 5 (0.92%) OpenID
9 5 (0.92%) Snowpark
9 5 (0.92%) XML
9 5 (0.92%) YAML
10 4 (0.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.32%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.02%) Clustering
8 10 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.83%) Equities
8 10 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.47%) Replication
10 6 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.92%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.83%) Unix
2 7 (1.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (45.69%) Analytics
2 208 (38.17%) Data Engineering
3 188 (34.50%) Data Modelling
4 185 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
5 179 (32.84%) Business Intelligence
6 176 (32.29%) ETL
7 171 (31.38%) CI/CD
8 155 (28.44%) AI
9 115 (21.10%) Agile
10 104 (19.08%) Migration
11 99 (18.17%) DevOps
12 97 (17.80%) Data Governance
13 87 (15.96%) Validation
14 85 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 79 (14.50%) Data Architecture
16 74 (13.58%) Machine Learning
17 70 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
18 66 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
19 63 (11.56%) Data Transformation
19 63 (11.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 291 (53.39%) SQL
2 267 (48.99%) Python
3 58 (10.64%) Java
4 14 (2.57%) R
5 13 (2.39%) Bash
5 13 (2.39%) C#
6 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.10%) Scala
10 5 (0.92%) Bicep
11 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) Korn
13 2 (0.37%) SOQL
13 2 (0.37%) VBScript
14 1 (0.18%) Cypher
14 1 (0.18%) SHACL
14 1 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 36 (6.61%) Degree
3 25 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.39%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.73%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) CSPO
12 1 (0.18%) ACCA
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) CFA
12 1 (0.18%) CIMA
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (23.85%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.24%) GDPR
3 27 (4.95%) QA
4 9 (1.65%) SLA
5 7 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.55%) EMIR
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) CDISC
9 1 (0.18%) FATCA
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (6.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (13.94%) Terraform
2 35 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.67%) Grafana
4 8 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.10%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 153 (28.07%) Databricks
2 63 (11.56%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.32%) Oracle
4 27 (4.95%) Informatica
5 25 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 23 (4.22%) Google
7 19 (3.49%) SAP
8 13 (2.39%) Talend
9 9 (1.65%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.65%) Teradata
10 8 (1.47%) Denodo
10 8 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.28%) Charles River
11 7 (1.28%) FactSet
11 7 (1.28%) Splunk
12 6 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.10%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.92%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.92%) Greenplum
13 5 (0.92%) Workday