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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 225 263
Rank change year-on-year -24 +38 +184
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 474 357 374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.22% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 3.26% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 273 300
10th Percentile £379 £411 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -10.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 17,079 10,959 13,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 37.57% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,519 7,525 9,860
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 249 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.46 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.37 £17.72
% change year-on-year +84.09% +14.95% -31.49%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -53 398 £525 -11.58% 182
London +1 291 £525 -19.23% 125
UK excluding London -55 147 £525 +10.53% 89
Work from Home -49 144 £525 -16.00% 88
Scotland +23 54 £449 -2.92% 6
Midlands -56 29 £525 +7.69% 11
West Midlands -40 27 £525 -4.55% 11
North of England -64 23 £575 +17.95% 24
South East -64 19 £575 +33.33% 28
North West -39 16 £575 +8.49% 16
South West -43 16 £498 -5.24% 14
East of England -36 6 £400 -31.03% 5
Yorkshire -55 6 £550 +15.79% 6
East Midlands -31 2 £654 +55.65%
Wales -11 1 £250 -61.54% 1
North East -26 1 £575 +35.29% 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 79 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.59%) Apache
4 7 (1.48%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.43%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.05%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
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%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 241 (50.84%) AWS
2 181 (38.19%) Azure
3 131 (27.64%) Power Platform
4 103 (21.73%) dbt
5 94 (19.83%) GCP
6 69 (14.56%) Amazon S3
7 45 (9.49%) Serverless
8 40 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (7.17%) GitHub
11 31 (6.54%) Matillion
12 21 (4.43%) Dagster
13 19 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (3.38%) Prefect
16 15 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (2.74%) SaaS
18 12 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (25.95%) Power BI
2 118 (24.89%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (13.71%) Tableau
4 62 (13.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 42 (8.86%) BigQuery
6 36 (7.59%) Big Data
6 36 (7.59%) Data Lake
6 36 (7.59%) SQL Server
7 30 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (6.33%) Relational Database
8 29 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (4.85%) Data Vault
10 22 (4.64%) Metadata
11 17 (3.59%) NoSQL
12 16 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (3.16%) Looker
14 12 (2.53%) MySQL
15 9 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.90%) Star Schema
16 8 (1.69%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (9.92%) Git
2 21 (4.43%) GitLab
2 21 (4.43%) JIRA
3 11 (2.32%) SpecFlow
4 9 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.27%) MLflow
6 5 (1.05%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.05%) ERwin
7 3 (0.63%) Selenium
7 3 (0.63%) Snyk
7 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.63%) Toad
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) GCC
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 155 (32.70%) Finance
2 119 (25.11%) Social Skills
3 58 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.97%) Banking
5 32 (6.75%) Retail
6 24 (5.06%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.38%) Marketing
9 10 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.69%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.27%) Front Office
12 5 (1.05%) Back Office
12 5 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Legal
13 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (35.65%) Data Engineer
2 93 (19.62%) Snowflake Engineer
3 79 (16.67%) Architect
4 75 (15.82%) Senior
5 73 (15.40%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 51 (10.76%) Analyst
7 43 (9.07%) Data Architect
8 41 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (8.23%) Lead
10 34 (7.17%) Data Analyst
11 32 (6.75%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.70%) Developer
13 24 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (4.43%) AWS Data Engineer
15 18 (3.80%) Site Engineer
15 18 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.80%) Snowflake Architect
16 16 (3.38%) Business Analyst
17 15 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
18 13 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.92%) Kafka
2 16 (3.38%) PySpark
3 12 (2.53%) Playwright
4 11 (2.32%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.11%) PyTorch
5 10 (2.11%) REST
5 10 (2.11%) Spring
6 8 (1.69%) React
6 8 (1.69%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.48%) .NET
7 7 (1.48%) Vue
8 6 (1.27%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.05%) OAuth
9 5 (1.05%) OpenID
10 4 (0.84%) JSON
11 3 (0.63%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.63%) Middleware
11 3 (0.63%) Pandas
11 3 (0.63%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.06%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.32%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.11%) Clustering
5 10 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 9 (1.90%) Equities
6 9 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (1.69%) Replication
7 8 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.05%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.11%) Unix
2 8 (1.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (44.30%) Analytics
2 173 (36.50%) Data Engineering
3 168 (35.44%) Data Modelling
4 154 (32.49%) Business Intelligence
5 151 (31.86%) ETL
6 145 (30.59%) CI/CD
6 145 (30.59%) Data Pipeline
7 123 (25.95%) AI
8 104 (21.94%) Agile
9 90 (18.99%) Migration
10 86 (18.14%) Data Governance
11 80 (16.88%) DevOps
12 70 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (13.92%) Validation
14 65 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 63 (13.29%) Data Architecture
15 63 (13.29%) Machine Learning
16 58 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (10.97%) Decision-Making
17 52 (10.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 257 (54.22%) SQL
2 236 (49.79%) Python
3 48 (10.13%) Java
4 15 (3.16%) C#
5 14 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.32%) Bash
6 11 (2.32%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.11%) R
8 6 (1.27%) Scala
9 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) Bicep
11 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.42%) Korn
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 30 (6.33%) Degree
3 19 (4.01%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.11%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.48%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.42%) PhD
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) CFA
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (22.36%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.49%) GDPR
2 26 (5.49%) QA
3 9 (1.90%) SLA
4 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.42%) EMIR
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) MiFID
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (6.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (13.08%) Terraform
2 23 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.16%) Grafana
4 9 (1.90%) Ansible
5 6 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 135 (28.48%) Databricks
2 46 (9.70%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.91%) Oracle
4 27 (5.70%) Informatica
5 18 (3.80%) Google
6 14 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.95%) SAP
6 14 (2.95%) Talend
7 10 (2.11%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.69%) Greenplum
8 8 (1.69%) Teradata
9 7 (1.48%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.48%) Denodo
9 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.27%) Charles River
11 5 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.05%) SimCorp
11 5 (1.05%) Workday
12 4 (0.84%) FactSet
12 4 (0.84%) Splunk