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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 223 204
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 +172
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 633 391 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 1.19% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 3.20% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 297 403
10th Percentile £406 £408 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £656 £750 £875
90th Percentile £753 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £80.75 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 18,783 12,214 13,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 37.16% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,148 9,109
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £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 610 316 251
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.80 £47.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.26 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -16.03%

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 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 18 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 18 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 -18 548 £575 +4.07% 155
London +6 397 £575 -8.00% 93
Work from Home -31 199 £600 -4.00% 86
UK excluding London -47 185 £525 +10.53% 111
Scotland +10 45 £430 -5.75% 9
North of England -60 43 £525 +10.53% 20
Midlands -39 34 £518 +23.21% 14
North West -30 31 £525 +1.94% 10
South East -62 31 £606 +19.75% 51
West Midlands -32 30 £563 +32.35% 12
South West -50 16 £575 +21.05% 9
East of England -32 10 £380 -34.48% 2
Yorkshire -42 9 £550 +15.79% 8
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 5
East Midlands -18 4 £466 +10.83% 2
North East -39 3 - - 2

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
1 130 (20.54%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (6.79%) Apache Spark
3 34 (5.37%) Apache
4 16 (2.53%) Confluence
5 15 (2.37%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.79%) 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 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.00%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.79%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.79%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.79%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 325 (51.34%) AWS
2 250 (39.49%) Azure
3 178 (28.12%) Power Platform
4 161 (25.43%) dbt
5 141 (22.27%) GCP
6 80 (12.64%) Amazon S3
7 67 (10.58%) GitHub
8 57 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (8.37%) Serverless
10 50 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (7.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 43 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.27%) Fivetran
14 24 (3.79%) Dagster
14 24 (3.79%) Matillion
15 20 (3.16%) SaaS
16 19 (3.00%) Prefect
17 18 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 18 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.47%) Broadband
1 3 (0.47%) Internet
2 2 (0.32%) DSL
2 2 (0.32%) Firewall
2 2 (0.32%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.16%) SSH
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (30.96%) Data Warehouse
2 175 (27.65%) Power BI
3 86 (13.59%) Tableau
4 80 (12.64%) BigQuery
5 79 (12.48%) Data Lake
6 68 (10.74%) Snowflake Schema
7 62 (9.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.11%) SQL Server
9 42 (6.64%) Big Data
10 36 (5.69%) Metadata
11 33 (5.21%) Relational Database
12 31 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (4.58%) NoSQL
14 28 (4.42%) Data Vault
15 23 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (3.32%) Looker
17 20 (3.16%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (2.21%) Delta Lake
19 13 (2.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 13 (2.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 75 (11.85%) Git
2 33 (5.21%) JIRA
3 29 (4.58%) GitLab
4 26 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.95%) MLflow
5 6 (0.95%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.47%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.47%) Snyk
7 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.32%) Selenium
9 1 (0.16%) ERwin
9 1 (0.16%) LSMW
9 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
General
1 214 (33.81%) Finance
2 189 (29.86%) Social Skills
3 98 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (14.22%) Banking
5 54 (8.53%) Retail
6 30 (4.74%) Marketing
7 23 (3.63%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.48%) Financial Institution
8 22 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.16%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.00%) Front Office
11 17 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (2.21%) Legal
15 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.11%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 214 (33.81%) Data Engineer
2 111 (17.54%) Architect
3 105 (16.59%) Senior
4 104 (16.43%) Snowflake Engineer
5 78 (12.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 68 (10.74%) Analyst
7 64 (10.11%) Data Architect
8 55 (8.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 51 (8.06%) Lead
10 40 (6.32%) Data Analyst
11 33 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (5.21%) Developer
12 24 (3.79%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (3.63%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.48%) Python Engineer
14 22 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.32%) Snowflake Architect
16 18 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 16 (2.53%) Site Engineer
17 16 (2.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (10.43%) Kafka
2 34 (5.37%) REST
3 26 (4.11%) PySpark
4 15 (2.37%) .NET
5 11 (1.74%) PyTorch
5 11 (1.74%) React
6 9 (1.42%) Spring
6 9 (1.42%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.42%) TensorFlow
7 8 (1.26%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.26%) OAuth
8 7 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (0.95%) AWS CDK
9 6 (0.95%) JSON
9 6 (0.95%) scikit-learn
9 6 (0.95%) Vue
9 6 (0.95%) XML
9 6 (0.95%) YAML
10 5 (0.79%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 84 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 17 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.21%) Fixed Income
9 13 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.05%) Life Science
10 12 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.58%) Equities
12 9 (1.42%) Reinsurance
13 8 (1.26%) Clustering
14 7 (1.11%) Reference Data
14 7 (1.11%) Replication
15 6 (0.95%) Data Fabric
15 6 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.05%) Linux
2 12 (1.90%) Unix
3 3 (0.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (42.97%) Analytics
2 251 (39.65%) Data Engineering
3 224 (35.39%) Data Pipeline
4 223 (35.23%) CI/CD
5 219 (34.60%) Data Modelling
6 215 (33.97%) ETL
7 202 (31.91%) Business Intelligence
8 181 (28.59%) AI
9 157 (24.80%) Agile
10 138 (21.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 125 (19.75%) Data Governance
11 125 (19.75%) DevOps
12 110 (17.38%) Data Architecture
13 107 (16.90%) Migration
14 100 (15.80%) Validation
15 89 (14.06%) Data Transformation
16 85 (13.43%) Machine Learning
17 78 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 77 (12.16%) Decision-Making
19 71 (11.22%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 353 (55.77%) SQL
2 317 (50.08%) Python
3 54 (8.53%) Java
4 12 (1.90%) R
5 11 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.42%) Bash
7 8 (1.26%) C#
8 7 (1.11%) Scala
9 6 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.79%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.79%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.63%) Bicep
11 4 (0.63%) C++
12 3 (0.47%) Cypher
12 3 (0.47%) Delphi
12 3 (0.47%) SHACL
12 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.11%) Degree
3 32 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (4.58%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.05%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.26%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.63%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.47%) CSPO
12 3 (0.47%) 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 (25.91%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.16%) GDPR
3 36 (5.69%) QA
4 9 (1.42%) SLA
5 5 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.63%) PMO
6 4 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.47%) EMIR
7 3 (0.47%) MiFID
8 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.32%) GRC
8 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.16%) CDISC
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (8.21%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (13.74%) Terraform
2 51 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.95%) Grafana
4 9 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.79%) Ansible
6 4 (0.63%) Control-M
7 2 (0.32%) Argo
7 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 184 (29.07%) Databricks
2 73 (11.53%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.00%) Google
4 36 (5.69%) Informatica
5 32 (5.06%) Salesforce
6 29 (4.58%) Oracle
7 24 (3.79%) SAP
8 13 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.90%) Teradata
10 11 (1.74%) Foundry
10 11 (1.74%) Workday
11 10 (1.58%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.42%) Denodo
12 9 (1.42%) MicroStrategy
12 9 (1.42%) Talend
13 8 (1.26%) Charles River
13 8 (1.26%) PagerDuty
14 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft
14 7 (1.11%) Splunk
15 5 (0.79%) Sage