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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 225 227
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +193
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 550 353 450
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.18% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 3.13% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 272 365
10th Percentile £380 £410 £421
25th Percentile £450 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £712
Median % change year-on-year - -22.70% +23.74%
75th Percentile £650 £728 £850
90th Percentile £740 £836 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £43.58 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £85.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 - £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 17,960 11,288 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.80% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,998 7,611 10,028
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £636
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 594 277 365
10th Percentile £16.54 £15.13 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +29.55% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -22.36%

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 June 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 June 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 20 June 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 -6 475 £550 -4.35% 146
London +10 350 £550 -10.20% 82
Work from Home -32 168 £575 -8.00% 82
UK excluding London -64 164 £523 +10.00% 104
Scotland +17 47 £440 -4.86% 7
Midlands -46 34 £550 +12.82% 13
West Midlands -43 32 £550 +10.00% 8
North of England -65 31 £550 +15.79% 32
North West -32 23 £525 -5.41% 27
South East -61 20 £575 +26.03% 32
South West -35 18 £535 +1.90% 6
East of England -38 9 £390 -32.76% 5
Yorkshire -59 6 £550 +18.92% 3
Northern Ireland - 5 £334 - 11
East Midlands -20 2 £654 +55.65% 5
North East -36 2 £575 +35.29% 2
Wales -13 1 £250 -61.54%

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 98 (17.82%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (8.18%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.00%) Apache
4 11 (2.00%) Confluence
5 8 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.09%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.00%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.91%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.73%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.55%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.55%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 281 (51.09%) AWS
2 210 (38.18%) Azure
3 156 (28.36%) Power Platform
4 126 (22.91%) dbt
5 114 (20.73%) GCP
6 83 (15.09%) Amazon S3
7 48 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (8.55%) GitHub
9 45 (8.18%) Serverless
10 43 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 35 (6.36%) Matillion
13 27 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (4.00%) Dagster
15 21 (3.82%) Fivetran
16 18 (3.27%) SaaS
16 18 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (2.91%) Prefect
18 15 (2.73%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) DNS
2 1 (0.18%) DSL
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Intranet
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (26.91%) Power BI
2 143 (26.00%) Data Warehouse
3 80 (14.55%) Tableau
4 73 (13.27%) Snowflake Schema
5 56 (10.18%) BigQuery
6 54 (9.82%) Data Lake
7 43 (7.82%) Big Data
8 39 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (6.91%) SQL Server
10 36 (6.55%) Relational Database
11 31 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.91%) Metadata
13 26 (4.73%) Data Vault
14 23 (4.18%) NoSQL
15 19 (3.45%) Looker
16 17 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (2.18%) MySQL
18 11 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
19 10 (1.82%) Delta Lake
19 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (9.64%) Git
2 27 (4.91%) GitLab
3 26 (4.73%) JIRA
4 14 (2.55%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.45%) SpecFlow
6 7 (1.27%) MLflow
7 3 (0.55%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.55%) Snyk
7 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.55%) Toad
8 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) ERwin
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 188 (34.18%) Finance
2 135 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.64%) Banking
5 44 (8.00%) Retail
6 26 (4.73%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.36%) Marketing
8 22 (4.00%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.82%) Front Office
13 9 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.64%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.45%) Back Office
14 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (1.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 196 (35.64%) Data Engineer
2 104 (18.91%) Snowflake Engineer
3 94 (17.09%) Architect
4 91 (16.55%) Senior
5 80 (14.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 58 (10.55%) Analyst
7 50 (9.09%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 43 (7.82%) Lead
10 38 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
10 38 (6.91%) Data Analyst
11 28 (5.09%) Developer
12 27 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.45%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.27%) Snowflake Architect
16 16 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
17 15 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.64%) Kafka
2 18 (3.27%) PySpark
3 17 (3.09%) REST
4 12 (2.18%) Spring
4 12 (2.18%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.82%) .NET
6 9 (1.64%) React
7 8 (1.45%) Playwright
7 8 (1.45%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.27%) Vue
9 6 (1.09%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.09%) OAuth
9 6 (1.09%) TensorFlow
10 5 (0.91%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.91%) JSON
10 5 (0.91%) OpenID
10 5 (0.91%) Snowpark
10 5 (0.91%) XML
10 5 (0.91%) YAML
11 4 (0.73%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.27%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.18%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.18%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.00%) Clustering
8 10 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.82%) Equities
8 10 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.45%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.45%) Replication
10 6 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.91%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.91%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.82%) Unix
2 7 (1.27%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (45.82%) Analytics
2 211 (38.36%) Data Engineering
3 189 (34.36%) Data Modelling
4 186 (33.82%) Data Pipeline
5 180 (32.73%) Business Intelligence
6 177 (32.18%) ETL
7 173 (31.45%) CI/CD
8 158 (28.73%) AI
9 116 (21.09%) Agile
10 104 (18.91%) Migration
11 100 (18.18%) Data Governance
11 100 (18.18%) DevOps
12 88 (16.00%) Validation
13 84 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 80 (14.55%) Data Architecture
15 75 (13.64%) Machine Learning
16 69 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 66 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
18 64 (11.64%) Data Transformation
18 64 (11.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 294 (53.45%) SQL
2 270 (49.09%) Python
3 58 (10.55%) Java
4 14 (2.55%) R
5 13 (2.36%) Bash
6 12 (2.18%) C#
7 10 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.64%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.09%) Scala
11 5 (0.91%) Bicep
12 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.36%) Cypher
14 2 (0.36%) Korn
14 2 (0.36%) SHACL
14 2 (0.36%) SOQL
14 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.36%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.91%) Degree
3 24 (4.36%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.36%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.73%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.55%) CSPO
11 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.18%) ACCA
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) CFA
12 1 (0.18%) CIMA
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (24.36%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.36%) GDPR
3 27 (4.91%) QA
4 9 (1.64%) SLA
5 7 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.55%) EMIR
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.36%) PMO
8 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) CDISC
9 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (7.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (13.64%) Terraform
2 37 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.82%) Grafana
4 9 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.09%) Ansible
6 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 153 (27.82%) Databricks
2 61 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.27%) Oracle
4 28 (5.09%) Informatica
5 25 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 24 (4.36%) Google
7 19 (3.45%) SAP
8 13 (2.36%) Talend
9 9 (1.64%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.64%) Teradata
10 8 (1.45%) Denodo
10 8 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.27%) Charles River
11 7 (1.27%) FactSet
11 7 (1.27%) Splunk
12 6 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.09%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.91%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.91%) Greenplum
13 5 (0.91%) Workday