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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 254 320
Rank change year-on-year +25 +66 +145
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 459 307 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 0.98% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 2.65% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 195 226
10th Percentile £340 £377 £425
25th Percentile £414 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £469 £513
% change year-on-year +1.33% -8.54% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,580 11,565 14,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.98% 36.95% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,051 7,681 10,622
10th Percentile £306 £313 £286
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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 167 307
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.35 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% +17.69% +0.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £50.92
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.76% +17.43% +7.69%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -5 373 £525 -16.00% 257
London +31 283 £550 -15.38% 92
Work from Home +13 155 £550 -17.91% 172
UK excluding London +2 122 £475 +1.33% 228
Scotland +41 44 £450 +12.50% 12
North of England -52 20 £375 -15.49% 34
South East -8 18 £500 +21.21% 104
North West -23 17 £347 -20.80% 19
South West -13 15 £488 +9.86% 20
Midlands -55 15 £550 +10.00% 19
East of England -6 11 £580 +16.00% 29
West Midlands -39 11 £525 +5.00% 11
East Midlands -35 4 £575 -7.93% 8
North East -14 2 £575 -11.54% 6
Yorkshire -50 1 £488 +8.33% 9
Wales - 1 £575 - 9

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 91 (19.83%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 30 (6.54%) Apache
4 6 (1.31%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.87%) SAS
6 3 (0.65%) Confluence
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (4.58%) Aladdin
2 13 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 236 (51.42%) AWS
2 218 (47.49%) Azure
3 111 (24.18%) Power Platform
4 106 (23.09%) dbt
5 84 (18.30%) GCP
6 51 (11.11%) Serverless
7 45 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (6.10%) Matillion
11 23 (5.01%) GitHub
12 22 (4.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.49%) Fivetran
13 16 (3.49%) SaaS
14 14 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (2.18%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (31.59%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (23.09%) Power BI
3 62 (13.51%) Data Lake
4 51 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
5 42 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (9.15%) Tableau
6 33 (7.19%) BigQuery
7 30 (6.54%) Metadata
8 27 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (5.66%) Big Data
10 24 (5.23%) Data Vault
10 24 (5.23%) Relational Database
11 23 (5.01%) NoSQL
11 23 (5.01%) SQL Server
12 16 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (3.49%) RDBMS
13 14 (3.05%) Star Schema
14 12 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
15 11 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
15 11 (2.40%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 47 (10.24%) Git
2 22 (4.79%) GitLab
3 18 (3.92%) ERwin
3 18 (3.92%) JIRA
4 15 (3.27%) ER Studio
5 13 (2.83%) SpecFlow
6 10 (2.18%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (1.74%) DBeaver
8 6 (1.31%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.09%) MLflow
10 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.65%) Selenium
10 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.44%) TestRail
11 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.22%) Deequ
12 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 132 (28.76%) Finance
2 119 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 72 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.28%) Banking
5 21 (4.58%) Investment Banking
6 20 (4.36%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.92%) Front Office
8 16 (3.49%) Retail
9 14 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.83%) Marketing
11 10 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.09%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.65%) Law
16 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 147 (32.03%) Data Engineer
2 73 (15.90%) Snowflake Engineer
3 61 (13.29%) Analyst
4 57 (12.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 53 (11.55%) Architect
6 49 (10.68%) Data Analyst
7 48 (10.46%) Senior
8 35 (7.63%) Developer
9 34 (7.41%) Lead
10 30 (6.54%) Data Architect
11 29 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (6.10%) Python Engineer
13 24 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (5.23%) Data Modeller
14 19 (4.14%) Snowflake Architect
15 18 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
16 17 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 17 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.49%) Business Analyst
18 15 (3.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.88%) Pandas
2 24 (5.23%) Kafka
3 21 (4.58%) PySpark
4 20 (4.36%) NumPy
5 18 (3.92%) PyTorch
6 16 (3.49%) Playwright
7 14 (3.05%) TensorFlow
8 11 (2.40%) gRPC
8 11 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
8 11 (2.40%) React
8 11 (2.40%) REST
8 11 (2.40%) SciPy
9 10 (2.18%) JSON
10 8 (1.74%) Node.js
11 7 (1.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 7 (1.53%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.31%) .NET
12 6 (1.31%) Spring
13 5 (1.09%) scikit-learn
13 5 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.10%) Data Structures
3 23 (5.01%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (3.92%) Equities
4 18 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 15 (3.27%) Replication
6 14 (3.05%) Derivative
7 13 (2.83%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.61%) Clustering
8 12 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (2.40%) Pricing Data
10 10 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.74%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.31%) Reinsurance
14 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.74%) Unix
2 7 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (40.52%) Analytics
2 175 (38.13%) Data Modelling
3 158 (34.42%) ETL
4 129 (28.10%) Data Engineering
5 120 (26.14%) CI/CD
6 117 (25.49%) Business Intelligence
7 115 (25.05%) Agile
8 106 (23.09%) Data Pipeline
9 103 (22.44%) Data Governance
10 96 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (18.74%) AI
12 70 (15.25%) Machine Learning
13 69 (15.03%) DevOps
13 69 (15.03%) Migration
14 61 (13.29%) Data Transformation
15 58 (12.64%) Data Architecture
16 56 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
17 52 (11.33%) Asset Management
18 48 (10.46%) Data Science
18 48 (10.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 274 (59.69%) SQL
2 241 (52.51%) Python
3 46 (10.02%) Java
4 35 (7.63%) TypeScript
5 33 (7.19%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.70%) C#
7 13 (2.83%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.18%) Bash
9 8 (1.74%) R
9 8 (1.74%) Scala
10 7 (1.53%) Korn
11 6 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.87%) Bicep
13 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.41%) Degree
2 24 (5.23%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.27%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.05%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.53%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.65%) ACCA
9 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.65%) CIMA
9 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.65%) PhD
9 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (23.31%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.14%) QA
3 15 (3.27%) GDPR
4 7 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) FATCA
6 1 (0.22%) GAAP
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (8.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (12.20%) Terraform
2 31 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.92%) Ansible
4 6 (1.31%) Grafana
4 6 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 116 (25.27%) Databricks
2 45 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.75%) Oracle
4 21 (4.58%) SAP
5 17 (3.70%) Talend
6 15 (3.27%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.27%) Informatica
7 11 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.18%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.96%) Google
10 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.74%) Teradata
11 7 (1.53%) Sparx
12 6 (1.31%) Charles River
12 6 (1.31%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.31%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.87%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.87%) Murex
15 3 (0.65%) IBM