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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 218 204
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 +146
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 675 416 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.25% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.58% 3.28% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 309 364
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £750
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -29.33% +28.21%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £43.58 £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 £58.30 £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 18,872 12,667 13,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.19% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,527 8,448 8,687
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.84 £65.04
90th Percentile £78.95 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +1 592 £575 +4.55% 927
London +3 435 £575 -4.17% 690
Work from Home -40 200 £600 +4.35% 433
UK excluding London -25 195 £550 +15.79% 300
Scotland -5 45 £428 -5.00% 52
North of England -47 38 £488 +16.42% 110
South East -50 31 £616 +18.75% 42
Midlands -27 30 £500 +8.11% 26
North West -35 27 £500 +23.46% 58
West Midlands -29 26 £520 +4.00% 15
South West -25 25 £650 +36.84% 23
East of England -30 17 £365 -27.00% 20
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 24
Yorkshire -32 8 £400 -15.79% 32
East Midlands -17 4 £466 +12.85% 11
North East -40 3 - - 20
Wales -10 1 £650 - 5

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
1 143 (21.19%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (8.74%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.41%) Apache
4 18 (2.67%) Confluence
5 15 (2.22%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.74%) 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%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.37%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.74%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.74%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.30%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 347 (51.41%) AWS
2 292 (43.26%) Azure
3 203 (30.07%) dbt
4 181 (26.81%) Power Platform
5 146 (21.63%) GCP
6 91 (13.48%) GitHub
7 72 (10.67%) Amazon S3
8 64 (9.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 59 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (8.15%) Serverless
11 53 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 31 (4.59%) SaaS
14 30 (4.44%) Fivetran
15 21 (3.11%) Collibra
16 20 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.67%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.30%) DSL
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) Network Security
2 2 (0.30%) VPN
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 (31.85%) Data Warehouse
2 177 (26.22%) Power BI
3 95 (14.07%) Data Lake
4 81 (12.00%) Tableau
5 76 (11.26%) BigQuery
6 70 (10.37%) Snowflake Schema
7 67 (9.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (7.85%) Metadata
9 43 (6.37%) SQL Server
10 40 (5.93%) Big Data
11 37 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
12 31 (4.59%) Relational Database
13 27 (4.00%) Data Vault
13 27 (4.00%) NoSQL
14 20 (2.96%) Delta Lake
15 19 (2.81%) Looker
16 18 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (2.52%) Semantic Layer
18 15 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
18 15 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 83 (12.30%) Git
2 35 (5.19%) JIRA
3 31 (4.59%) GitLab
4 21 (3.11%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.04%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.59%) MLflow
7 4 (0.59%) Snyk
8 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.30%) ERwin
8 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 221 (32.74%) Finance
2 209 (30.96%) Social Skills
3 124 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (13.33%) Banking
5 54 (8.00%) Retail
6 33 (4.89%) Marketing
7 23 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.96%) Public Sector
10 19 (2.81%) Legal
11 18 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (2.52%) Investment Banking
12 17 (2.52%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.37%) Front Office
14 12 (1.78%) Billing
15 11 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.04%) Automotive
18 6 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 237 (35.11%) Data Engineer
2 132 (19.56%) Senior
3 112 (16.59%) Architect
4 109 (16.15%) Snowflake Engineer
5 83 (12.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 77 (11.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 76 (11.26%) Analyst
8 72 (10.67%) Data Architect
9 43 (6.37%) Data Analyst
10 42 (6.22%) Lead
11 38 (5.63%) Developer
12 36 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
13 30 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.70%) Python Engineer
15 24 (3.56%) Business Analyst
16 22 (3.26%) Consultant
16 22 (3.26%) Snowflake Architect
17 18 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 15 (2.22%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (15.11%) Terraform
2 77 (11.41%) Kafka
3 42 (6.22%) REST
4 38 (5.63%) PySpark
5 17 (2.52%) .NET
6 12 (1.78%) FastAPI
7 11 (1.63%) JSON
8 10 (1.48%) YAML
9 9 (1.33%) OAuth
10 8 (1.19%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.19%) LangChain
10 8 (1.19%) React
11 7 (1.04%) OpenID
12 6 (0.89%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.89%) LangGraph
12 6 (0.89%) Pandas
12 6 (0.89%) Snowpark
12 6 (0.89%) Spring
12 6 (0.89%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.07%) Data Structures
4 31 (4.59%) AI Agents
5 23 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.67%) Life Science
8 15 (2.22%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.93%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.48%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.19%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.19%) Replication
12 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.22%) Linux
2 8 (1.19%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) 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
1 305 (45.19%) Analytics
2 274 (40.59%) Data Engineering
2 274 (40.59%) Data Modelling
3 255 (37.78%) Data Pipeline
4 244 (36.15%) CI/CD
5 235 (34.81%) ETL
6 230 (34.07%) AI
7 202 (29.93%) Business Intelligence
8 178 (26.37%) Agile
9 161 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 137 (20.30%) Data Governance
11 134 (19.85%) DevOps
12 129 (19.11%) Data Architecture
13 112 (16.59%) Data Transformation
13 112 (16.59%) Migration
14 110 (16.30%) Validation
15 99 (14.67%) Decision-Making
16 90 (13.33%) Machine Learning
17 89 (13.19%) Data Integration
17 89 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 408 (60.44%) SQL
2 344 (50.96%) Python
3 46 (6.81%) Java
4 21 (3.11%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.22%) Scala
6 13 (1.93%) Bash
6 13 (1.93%) R
7 12 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.48%) C#
9 8 (1.19%) Bicep
9 8 (1.19%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.59%) C++
10 4 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.44%) Cypher
11 3 (0.44%) Delphi
11 3 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.44%) LookML
11 3 (0.44%) SHACL
12 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 44 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.07%) Degree
3 25 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.78%) AWS Certification
4 12 (1.78%) Azure Certification
4 12 (1.78%) SnowPro
5 11 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.59%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.44%) CSPO
9 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.30%) ACCA
10 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.30%) CISSP
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (29.78%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.33%) GDPR
3 33 (4.89%) QA
4 6 (0.89%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.59%) GRC
6 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) MiFID
7 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.44%) EMIR
7 3 (0.44%) PMO
7 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.15%) CDISC
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 51 (7.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.11%) Grafana
3 8 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.04%) Ansible
5 5 (0.74%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 214 (31.70%) Databricks
2 105 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.07%) Google
4 39 (5.78%) Salesforce
5 35 (5.19%) Informatica
6 33 (4.89%) Oracle
7 19 (2.81%) SAP
8 14 (2.07%) Talend
9 10 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.48%) Workday
10 9 (1.33%) Foundry
10 9 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.33%) Teradata
11 8 (1.19%) Denodo
11 8 (1.19%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.04%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.74%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.74%) Sage