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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 241 317
Rank change year-on-year 0 +76 +134
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 485 317 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.08% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 2.84% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 224 214
10th Percentile £344 £377 £418
25th Percentile £414 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +6.36% -
75th Percentile £594 £700 £717
90th Percentile £725 £875 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.44 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 - £52.50
75th Percentile £85.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 16,339 11,153 14,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.27% 38.02% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,156 7,760 10,255
10th Percentile £313 £313 £289
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £488
% change year-on-year -1.04% -1.54% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 207 359
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +39.62% +24.01% -16.13%
75th Percentile £61.25 £42.49 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.20 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £17.80
% change year-on-year +76.53% +35.84% -19.24%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -18 401 £525 -12.50% 183
London +20 300 £525 -19.23% 104
Work from Home -4 154 £550 -15.38% 72
UK excluding London -50 135 £475 - 125
Scotland +35 45 £450 -5.37% 13
North of England -68 24 £500 -4.76% 30
Midlands -58 22 £550 +22.91% 11
South West -25 19 £475 -15.56% 12
West Midlands -57 19 £530 +9.28% 8
North West -29 18 £400 -24.53% 18
South East -49 18 £500 +36.99% 46
East of England -26 5 £500 -13.79% 10
Yorkshire -53 5 £500 +5.26% 5
East Midlands -34 3 £575 +28.49% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -16 1 £575 -11.54% 7

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 90 (18.56%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.01%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.33%) Apache
4 8 (1.65%) Confluence
5 5 (1.03%) SAS
6 4 (0.82%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (5.36%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.41%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (52.37%) AWS
2 221 (45.57%) Azure
3 126 (25.98%) Power Platform
4 104 (21.44%) dbt
5 88 (18.14%) GCP
6 61 (12.58%) Amazon S3
7 55 (11.34%) Serverless
8 42 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (7.22%) Matillion
10 32 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (5.57%) GitHub
12 24 (4.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (3.71%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (3.30%) Prefect
15 16 (3.30%) SaaS
16 14 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.47%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (32.78%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (24.54%) Power BI
3 56 (11.55%) Tableau
4 51 (10.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 45 (9.28%) Data Lake
6 42 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (7.01%) Metadata
8 33 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (6.80%) SQL Server
9 32 (6.60%) BigQuery
10 27 (5.57%) Big Data
11 25 (5.15%) Relational Database
12 24 (4.95%) Data Vault
13 21 (4.33%) NoSQL
14 13 (2.68%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.68%) Star Schema
15 12 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (2.27%) Looker
17 9 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
18 8 (1.65%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 48 (9.90%) Git
2 25 (5.15%) GitLab
3 20 (4.12%) JIRA
4 15 (3.09%) SpecFlow
5 11 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.06%) ERwin
7 9 (1.86%) ER Studio
8 7 (1.44%) MLflow
9 6 (1.24%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.62%) Toad
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.21%) Deequ
12 1 (0.21%) GCC
12 1 (0.21%) LSMW
12 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 133 (27.42%) Finance
3 73 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.42%) Banking
5 26 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.92%) Retail
7 16 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.47%) Marketing
10 10 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.86%) Front Office
11 9 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.44%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.62%) Back Office
16 3 (0.62%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.62%) Law
16 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 170 (35.05%) Data Engineer
2 80 (16.49%) Snowflake Engineer
3 64 (13.20%) Architect
3 64 (13.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 63 (12.99%) Analyst
5 50 (10.31%) Senior
6 48 (9.90%) Data Analyst
7 47 (9.69%) Lead
8 35 (7.22%) Data Architect
9 32 (6.60%) AWS Engineer
9 32 (6.60%) Developer
10 25 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (4.95%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
14 19 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 19 (3.92%) Snowflake Architect
15 18 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.51%) Business Analyst
16 17 (3.51%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.42%) Kafka
2 23 (4.74%) PyTorch
3 22 (4.54%) PySpark
4 19 (3.92%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.30%) Playwright
6 14 (2.89%) Pandas
7 10 (2.06%) NumPy
8 9 (1.86%) React
8 9 (1.86%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.65%) REST
9 8 (1.65%) Spring
10 7 (1.44%) JSON
10 7 (1.44%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.24%) .NET
12 5 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.03%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 5 (1.03%) Vue
13 4 (0.82%) FastAPI
13 4 (0.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.96%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.71%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.89%) Equities
5 14 (2.89%) Fixed Income
5 14 (2.89%) Replication
6 11 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.27%) Clustering
6 11 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.65%) Derivative
10 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.03%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.44%) Unix
2 5 (1.03%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (43.30%) Analytics
2 189 (38.97%) Data Modelling
3 169 (34.85%) ETL
4 162 (33.40%) Data Engineering
5 147 (30.31%) CI/CD
6 142 (29.28%) Business Intelligence
7 136 (28.04%) Data Pipeline
8 109 (22.47%) AI
9 106 (21.86%) Agile
9 106 (21.86%) Data Governance
10 88 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (16.70%) DevOps
12 79 (16.29%) Migration
13 77 (15.88%) Machine Learning
14 68 (14.02%) Data Architecture
15 59 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
16 57 (11.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 55 (11.34%) Data Transformation
18 54 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
19 52 (10.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 296 (61.03%) SQL
2 260 (53.61%) Python
3 37 (7.63%) Java
4 21 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.12%) C#
6 19 (3.92%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.51%) Bash
8 9 (1.86%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.86%) R
8 9 (1.86%) Scala
9 6 (1.24%) Korn
10 4 (0.82%) Bicep
10 4 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (8.25%) Degree
2 35 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.24%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.62%) 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%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (27.42%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.74%) GDPR
3 19 (3.92%) QA
4 9 (1.86%) SLA
5 4 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (9.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (14.02%) Terraform
2 32 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.30%) Ansible
4 9 (1.86%) Grafana
5 8 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.82%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 133 (27.42%) Databricks
2 54 (11.13%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.60%) Oracle
4 24 (4.95%) Informatica
5 20 (4.12%) Talend
6 17 (3.51%) Google
7 16 (3.30%) SAP
8 14 (2.89%) Greenplum
9 12 (2.47%) Charles River
9 12 (2.47%) MuleSoft
10 11 (2.27%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.06%) Teradata
12 8 (1.65%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
13 7 (1.44%) Murex
14 5 (1.03%) Ab Initio
14 5 (1.03%) Denodo
14 5 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.03%) SimCorp
14 5 (1.03%) Virgin Media