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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 233 194
Rank change year-on-year +12 -39 +159
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 680 390 484
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.20% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 3.15% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 291 383
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £463 £463 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.93%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £457
% change year-on-year +15.79% +4.05% -23.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £42.65 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £50.16 £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 18,921 12,386 13,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 37.99% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,563 8,276 8,646
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 291 185
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% +1.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.80 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.14 £33.00
% change year-on-year +56.78% -42.02% +34.83%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -2 597 £575 +4.55% 741
London +10 438 £575 -6.12% 517
Work from Home -14 207 £600 - 400
UK excluding London -27 193 £550 +15.79% 325
Scotland -3 43 £423 -8.89% 48
North of England -54 39 £513 +20.59% 95
South East -54 33 £616 +20.20% 54
Midlands -29 29 £510 +10.27% 29
North West -33 27 £525 +28.05% 62
West Midlands -31 25 £550 +10.00% 16
South West -36 24 £650 +36.84% 40
East of England -29 16 £380 -24.00% 14
Yorkshire -37 9 £400 -15.79% 23
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 42
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +12.85% 13
North East -40 3 - - 10
Wales -13 1 £650 - 4

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
1 142 (20.88%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (8.82%) Apache Spark
3 45 (6.62%) Apache
4 18 (2.65%) Confluence
5 15 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.59%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (2.50%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.74%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.74%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.74%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.29%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.29%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 354 (52.06%) AWS
2 290 (42.65%) Azure
3 203 (29.85%) dbt
4 179 (26.32%) Power Platform
5 147 (21.62%) GCP
6 89 (13.09%) GitHub
7 77 (11.32%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (8.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 57 (8.38%) Serverless
11 52 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 28 (4.12%) SaaS
15 26 (3.82%) Fivetran
16 21 (3.09%) Collibra
17 19 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (2.79%) Dagster
18 17 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.50%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.29%) DSL
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
2 2 (0.29%) Internet
2 2 (0.29%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (31.62%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (25.88%) Power BI
3 94 (13.82%) Data Lake
4 81 (11.91%) Tableau
5 78 (11.47%) BigQuery
6 72 (10.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 67 (9.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (7.06%) Metadata
9 45 (6.62%) SQL Server
10 43 (6.32%) Big Data
11 41 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
12 36 (5.29%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.26%) NoSQL
14 26 (3.82%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.09%) Looker
16 20 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (2.79%) Delta Lake
18 16 (2.35%) Apache Iceberg
19 15 (2.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 15 (2.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 83 (12.21%) Git
2 34 (5.00%) JIRA
3 28 (4.12%) GitLab
4 23 (3.38%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.03%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.74%) MLflow
6 5 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.59%) Snyk
8 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) ERwin
9 2 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 218 (32.06%) Finance
2 203 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 117 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (12.79%) Banking
5 55 (8.09%) Retail
6 29 (4.26%) Marketing
7 24 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.94%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.50%) Front Office
10 17 (2.50%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 16 (2.35%) Legal
12 12 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.62%) Billing
14 10 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.03%) Automotive
16 7 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 239 (35.15%) Data Engineer
2 133 (19.56%) Senior
3 117 (17.21%) Architect
4 111 (16.32%) Snowflake Engineer
5 84 (12.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 75 (11.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 74 (10.88%) Data Architect
8 73 (10.74%) Analyst
9 45 (6.62%) Lead
10 42 (6.18%) Data Analyst
11 39 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (5.59%) Developer
13 33 (4.85%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (3.53%) Business Analyst
14 24 (3.53%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.24%) Snowflake Architect
16 21 (3.09%) Consultant
17 19 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (2.35%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (14.71%) Terraform
2 77 (11.32%) Kafka
3 40 (5.88%) REST
4 37 (5.44%) PySpark
5 18 (2.65%) .NET
6 10 (1.47%) FastAPI
6 10 (1.47%) JSON
6 10 (1.47%) React
6 10 (1.47%) YAML
7 9 (1.32%) Spring
7 9 (1.32%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.18%) OAuth
9 7 (1.03%) LangChain
10 6 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.88%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.88%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.88%) XML
11 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.74%) OpenID
11 5 (0.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 88 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.74%) Data Structures
4 27 (3.97%) AI Agents
5 22 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.35%) Life Science
8 15 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.21%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.62%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.62%) Taxonomies
12 10 (1.47%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.18%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.18%) Replication
15 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.06%) Linux
2 10 (1.47%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (44.41%) Analytics
2 269 (39.56%) Data Engineering
3 263 (38.68%) Data Modelling
4 244 (35.88%) Data Pipeline
5 239 (35.15%) CI/CD
6 233 (34.26%) ETL
7 220 (32.35%) AI
8 200 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
9 177 (26.03%) Agile
10 158 (23.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 134 (19.71%) DevOps
12 133 (19.56%) Data Governance
13 129 (18.97%) Data Architecture
14 116 (17.06%) Migration
15 110 (16.18%) Data Transformation
16 109 (16.03%) Validation
17 98 (14.41%) Decision-Making
18 90 (13.24%) Machine Learning
19 87 (12.79%) Infrastructure as Code
20 86 (12.65%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 407 (59.85%) SQL
2 340 (50.00%) Python
3 53 (7.79%) Java
4 19 (2.79%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.06%) Scala
6 13 (1.91%) Bash
6 13 (1.91%) R
7 11 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.47%) C#
9 8 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.03%) Bicep
11 4 (0.59%) C++
11 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.44%) Cypher
12 3 (0.44%) Delphi
12 3 (0.44%) SHACL
12 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.29%) LookML
13 2 (0.29%) SOQL
13 2 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 45 (6.62%) Security Cleared
2 40 (5.88%) Degree
3 26 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (3.68%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.76%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.76%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.59%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.44%) CSPO
11 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.15%) ACCA
13 1 (0.15%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (27.65%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.29%) GDPR
3 34 (5.00%) QA
4 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.59%) GRC
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.59%) MiFID
5 4 (0.59%) PMO
5 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.44%) EMIR
6 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 53 (7.79%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.09%) Grafana
3 7 (1.03%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.88%) Ansible
5 4 (0.59%) Control-M
6 2 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 218 (32.06%) Databricks
2 95 (13.97%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.44%) Google
4 35 (5.15%) Salesforce
5 34 (5.00%) Informatica
6 30 (4.41%) Oracle
7 20 (2.94%) SAP
8 12 (1.76%) Talend
9 11 (1.62%) Foundry
9 11 (1.62%) Teradata
9 11 (1.62%) Workday
10 10 (1.47%) MicroStrategy
10 10 (1.47%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.18%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.03%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.03%) Denodo
13 7 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.74%) Confluent
14 5 (0.74%) Sage