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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 222 221
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +185
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 572 369 474
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.20% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 3.18% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 283 383
10th Percentile £400 £408 £420
25th Percentile £456 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -24.14% +26.09%
75th Percentile £650 £731 £850
90th Percentile £750 £868 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £47.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.13 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 - £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 18,185 11,614 14,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.38% 37.76% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,100 7,779 9,953
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £622 £638
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 609 295 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.26 £14.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.49 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.87
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.58% -18.87%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -16 495 £550 -1.79% 246
London +5 360 £550 -11.11% 158
UK excluding London -52 174 £523 +10.00% 118
Work from Home -35 172 £575 -8.00% 131
Scotland +21 48 £440 -4.86% 12
North of England -59 36 £550 +15.79% 32
Midlands -48 33 £550 +10.00% 18
West Midlands -38 31 £550 +10.00% 11
North West -24 26 £525 -5.41% 24
South East -58 25 £550 +15.79% 38
South West -43 16 £550 +7.32% 8
East of England -28 9 £390 -32.76% 5
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 5
Yorkshire -50 6 £550 +18.92% 6
North East -31 4 £575 +35.29% 2
East Midlands -15 2 £654 +55.65% 7
Wales -13 1 £250 -61.54% 1

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
1 100 (17.48%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (8.04%) Apache Spark
3 24 (4.20%) Apache
4 16 (2.80%) Confluence
5 9 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.05%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.67%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.87%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.87%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.70%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.52%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 289 (50.52%) AWS
2 219 (38.29%) Azure
3 163 (28.50%) Power Platform
4 132 (23.08%) dbt
5 124 (21.68%) GCP
6 85 (14.86%) Amazon S3
7 50 (8.74%) GitHub
8 49 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (8.04%) Serverless
10 44 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (5.77%) Matillion
13 30 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (4.20%) Fivetran
15 22 (3.85%) Dagster
16 20 (3.50%) SaaS
17 18 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 17 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
19 16 (2.80%) Collibra
19 16 (2.80%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.35%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (27.97%) Data Warehouse
2 156 (27.27%) Power BI
3 79 (13.81%) Tableau
4 73 (12.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 66 (11.54%) BigQuery
6 62 (10.84%) Data Lake
7 47 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 43 (7.52%) Big Data
9 41 (7.17%) SQL Server
10 36 (6.29%) Relational Database
11 34 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (5.07%) Metadata
13 26 (4.55%) Data Vault
14 25 (4.37%) NoSQL
15 21 (3.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (3.50%) Looker
17 14 (2.45%) MySQL
18 11 (1.92%) MongoDB
18 11 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
19 10 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 58 (10.14%) Git
2 31 (5.42%) JIRA
3 28 (4.90%) GitLab
4 14 (2.45%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.22%) MLflow
6 6 (1.05%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.52%) Snyk
7 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.52%) Toad
8 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.35%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) ERwin
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 201 (35.14%) Finance
2 150 (26.22%) Social Skills
3 75 (13.11%) Banking
4 72 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.92%) Retail
6 27 (4.72%) Marketing
7 26 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.32%) Financial Institution
9 19 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.92%) Front Office
12 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.57%) Legal
13 9 (1.57%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.40%) Back Office
14 8 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 205 (35.84%) Data Engineer
2 106 (18.53%) Snowflake Engineer
3 99 (17.31%) Architect
4 94 (16.43%) Senior
5 80 (13.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 59 (10.31%) Analyst
7 54 (9.44%) Data Architect
8 50 (8.74%) Senior Data Engineer
9 45 (7.87%) Lead
10 38 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (5.77%) Data Analyst
12 29 (5.07%) Developer
13 27 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (4.37%) AWS Data Engineer
15 24 (4.20%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.32%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (3.15%) Snowflake Architect
18 17 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
19 16 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.31%) Kafka
2 20 (3.50%) REST
3 18 (3.15%) PySpark
4 13 (2.27%) Spring
4 13 (2.27%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.75%) .NET
5 10 (1.75%) React
6 9 (1.57%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.22%) OAuth
7 7 (1.22%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.22%) Vue
8 6 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.05%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.05%) JSON
8 6 (1.05%) Playwright
8 6 (1.05%) YAML
9 5 (0.87%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.87%) OpenID
9 5 (0.87%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 76 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.24%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.10%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.10%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.75%) Clustering
7 10 (1.75%) Equities
7 10 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.40%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.40%) Replication
9 6 (1.05%) Data Fabric
9 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.87%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.75%) Unix
2 7 (1.22%) Linux
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (46.33%) Analytics
2 221 (38.64%) Data Engineering
3 200 (34.97%) Data Modelling
4 196 (34.27%) Data Pipeline
5 188 (32.87%) Business Intelligence
6 187 (32.69%) CI/CD
7 186 (32.52%) ETL
8 165 (28.85%) AI
9 128 (22.38%) Agile
10 107 (18.71%) Data Governance
11 106 (18.53%) Migration
12 101 (17.66%) DevOps
13 94 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 90 (15.73%) Validation
15 85 (14.86%) Data Architecture
16 79 (13.81%) Machine Learning
17 71 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 68 (11.89%) Observability
19 67 (11.71%) Data Transformation
20 65 (11.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 306 (53.50%) SQL
2 280 (48.95%) Python
3 61 (10.66%) Java
4 14 (2.45%) R
5 13 (2.27%) Bash
6 11 (1.92%) C#
7 8 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.40%) Scala
7 8 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.22%) Bicep
8 7 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.52%) Cypher
10 3 (0.52%) SHACL
11 2 (0.35%) Korn
11 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 43 (7.52%) Degree
3 27 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.45%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.70%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.52%) CSPO
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.17%) ACCA
12 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (24.30%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.99%) GDPR
3 27 (4.72%) QA
4 9 (1.57%) SLA
5 7 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.52%) EMIR
6 3 (0.52%) MiFID
7 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.35%) PMO
7 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.17%) CDISC
8 1 (0.17%) GAAP
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 42 (7.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (13.99%) Terraform
2 40 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 22 (3.85%) Grafana
4 9 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.05%) Ansible
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 162 (28.32%) Databricks
2 66 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.42%) Informatica
4 29 (5.07%) Oracle
5 28 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 27 (4.72%) Google
7 20 (3.50%) SAP
8 13 (2.27%) Talend
9 9 (1.57%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.57%) Teradata
10 8 (1.40%) Denodo
10 8 (1.40%) FactSet
10 8 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.22%) Charles River
11 7 (1.22%) Splunk
11 7 (1.22%) Workday
12 6 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.05%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.87%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.87%) Sage