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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 258 314
Rank change year-on-year +25 +56 +133
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 471 299 307
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.16% 0.97% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 2.60% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 190 220
10th Percentile £333 £375 £413
25th Percentile £413 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £693 £675
90th Percentile £728 £875 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.95% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £59.63 - £53.75
90th Percentile £65.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.25 - £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 15,384 11,479 14,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.93% 37.42% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 7,701 10,517
10th Percentile £310 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 173 331
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.00 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.05 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.93 £45.00 £52.29
90th Percentile £78.83 £76.85 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £20.25
% change year-on-year +65.43% +19.41% -1.89%

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 February 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
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 February 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 +10 386 £525 -12.50% 130
London +31 295 £525 -19.23% 72
Work from Home +11 148 £525 -20.45% 87
UK excluding London -27 125 £456 -3.95% 99
Scotland +39 45 £450 -5.26% 13
North of England -54 19 £373 -17.06% 25
South West -15 18 £475 -13.64% 8
South East -24 17 £525 +31.25% 38
North West -25 16 £345 -21.09% 17
Midlands -62 15 £550 +10.00% 13
West Midlands -55 11 £500 -9.09% 11
East of England -19 9 £550 - 2
East Midlands -23 4 £575 +33.72% 2
Yorkshire -52 2 £488 +5.41% 6
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -13 1 £575 -11.54% 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 86 (18.26%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.64%) Apache Spark
3 26 (5.52%) Apache
4 5 (1.06%) Confluence
4 5 (1.06%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.85%) SAS
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Luigi
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (5.10%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Eagle PACE
6 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 247 (52.44%) AWS
2 228 (48.41%) Azure
3 112 (23.78%) Power Platform
4 105 (22.29%) dbt
5 89 (18.90%) GCP
6 56 (11.89%) Serverless
7 52 (11.04%) Amazon S3
8 41 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (6.16%) Matillion
12 26 (5.52%) GitHub
13 23 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.61%) SaaS
15 15 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (3.18%) Fivetran
15 15 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.76%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (2.12%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (31.42%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (22.51%) Power BI
3 58 (12.31%) Snowflake Schema
4 54 (11.46%) Data Lake
5 43 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.13%) Tableau
6 34 (7.22%) BigQuery
7 32 (6.79%) Metadata
8 27 (5.73%) NoSQL
9 26 (5.52%) Big Data
9 26 (5.52%) Data Vault
9 26 (5.52%) Relational Database
10 25 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 23 (4.88%) SQL Server
12 16 (3.40%) RDBMS
13 12 (2.55%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (2.12%) Looker
16 8 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (1.70%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 44 (9.34%) Git
2 22 (4.67%) GitLab
3 20 (4.25%) JIRA
4 17 (3.61%) ERwin
5 15 (3.18%) ER Studio
6 14 (2.97%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.91%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (1.49%) DBeaver
8 7 (1.49%) MLflow
9 6 (1.27%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.64%) Selenium
10 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.64%) Toad
11 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.21%) Deequ
12 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 129 (27.39%) Finance
2 119 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 72 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.01%) Banking
5 23 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.82%) Retail
7 16 (3.40%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.55%) Front Office
8 12 (2.55%) Marketing
9 11 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.06%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.64%) Back Office
15 3 (0.64%) Law
16 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 154 (32.70%) Data Engineer
2 78 (16.56%) Snowflake Engineer
3 62 (13.16%) Analyst
4 60 (12.74%) Architect
4 60 (12.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 48 (10.19%) Data Analyst
6 44 (9.34%) Senior
7 38 (8.07%) Lead
8 37 (7.86%) Developer
9 34 (7.22%) Data Architect
10 30 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (5.31%) Data Modeller
12 24 (5.10%) Python Engineer
13 22 (4.67%) Snowflake Architect
14 18 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
15 17 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
15 17 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.52%) Kafka
2 21 (4.46%) Pandas
2 21 (4.46%) PySpark
3 18 (3.82%) PyTorch
4 17 (3.61%) Playwright
5 15 (3.18%) NumPy
6 14 (2.97%) TensorFlow
7 12 (2.55%) React
8 10 (2.12%) JSON
8 10 (2.12%) REST
9 9 (1.91%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.70%) Node.js
10 8 (1.70%) Spring
11 6 (1.27%) gRPC
11 6 (1.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (1.27%) Protocol Buffers
11 6 (1.27%) SciPy
12 5 (1.06%) .NET
12 5 (1.06%) LangChain
13 4 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.98%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.94%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.97%) Replication
5 13 (2.76%) Equities
5 13 (2.76%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.55%) Clustering
6 12 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.91%) Derivative
9 8 (1.70%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.27%) Pricing Data
11 6 (1.27%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.91%) Unix
2 6 (1.27%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (42.89%) Analytics
2 188 (39.92%) Data Modelling
3 161 (34.18%) ETL
4 143 (30.36%) Data Engineering
5 129 (27.39%) CI/CD
6 125 (26.54%) Business Intelligence
7 121 (25.69%) Data Pipeline
8 111 (23.57%) Agile
9 99 (21.02%) Data Governance
10 98 (20.81%) AI
11 96 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (15.71%) Migration
13 71 (15.07%) DevOps
13 71 (15.07%) Machine Learning
14 64 (13.59%) Data Architecture
15 61 (12.95%) Data Transformation
16 59 (12.53%) Performance Tuning
17 52 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (10.62%) Data Science
19 47 (9.98%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 289 (61.36%) SQL
2 249 (52.87%) Python
3 44 (9.34%) Java
4 30 (6.37%) TypeScript
5 29 (6.16%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.03%) C#
7 15 (3.18%) Bash
8 13 (2.76%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.91%) R
10 7 (1.49%) Korn
10 7 (1.49%) Scala
11 5 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.85%) Bicep
12 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (7.64%) Degree
2 30 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.18%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.34%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.49%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.64%) PhD
10 2 (0.42%) ACCA
10 2 (0.42%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (25.05%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.61%) QA
3 14 (2.97%) GDPR
4 6 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.64%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (8.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (13.38%) Terraform
2 32 (6.79%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.61%) Ansible
4 5 (1.06%) Grafana
4 5 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 130 (27.60%) Databricks
2 49 (10.40%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.79%) Oracle
4 20 (4.25%) Talend
5 16 (3.40%) SAP
6 15 (3.18%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.18%) Informatica
7 11 (2.34%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.12%) Google
8 10 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.12%) Teradata
9 8 (1.70%) Charles River
9 8 (1.70%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.27%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.27%) Sparx
12 5 (1.06%) Ab Initio
12 5 (1.06%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.06%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.85%) Murex