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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 239 306
Rank change year-on-year -12 +67 +149
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 478 319 305
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.10% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 2.88% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 232 224
10th Percentile £354 £381 £425
25th Percentile £416 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £585 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £728 £728
90th Percentile £729 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £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 16,453 11,086 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.02% 38.15% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,208 7,783 10,212
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 219 352
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -20.69%
75th Percentile £66.88 £41.50 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.65 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +86.10% +36.46% -19.45%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -33 392 £520 -13.33% 171
London +19 296 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -10 154 £550 -15.38% 70
UK excluding London -69 131 £475 - 112
Scotland +27 47 £449 +2.63% 8
North of England -64 24 £500 -0.50% 27
Midlands -71 22 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -51 19 £530 -3.64% 8
North West -36 18 £400 -27.93% 13
South West -26 17 £475 -15.56% 14
South East -57 13 £525 +43.84% 37
East of England -34 6 £500 -13.79% 10
Yorkshire -52 5 £500 +5.26% 8
East Midlands -35 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -11 1 £575 -11.54% 6

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 93 (19.46%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.32%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.60%) Apache
4 8 (1.67%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (4.81%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 239 (50.00%) AWS
2 217 (45.40%) Azure
3 126 (26.36%) Power Platform
4 109 (22.80%) dbt
5 88 (18.41%) GCP
6 58 (12.13%) Amazon S3
7 51 (10.67%) Serverless
8 38 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (7.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 34 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (6.90%) Matillion
11 27 (5.65%) GitHub
12 22 (4.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (3.56%) Prefect
15 15 (3.14%) Dagster
15 15 (3.14%) SaaS
16 14 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (31.38%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (24.90%) Power BI
3 56 (11.72%) Tableau
4 53 (11.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 44 (9.21%) Data Lake
6 35 (7.32%) BigQuery
6 35 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (6.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (6.69%) Metadata
8 29 (6.07%) SQL Server
9 25 (5.23%) Data Vault
10 24 (5.02%) Big Data
11 22 (4.60%) NoSQL
12 18 (3.77%) Relational Database
13 12 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (2.09%) Looker
14 10 (2.09%) Star Schema
15 9 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.88%) MySQL
16 7 (1.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (9.83%) Git
2 23 (4.81%) GitLab
3 20 (4.18%) JIRA
4 15 (3.14%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.88%) ERwin
6 8 (1.67%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.67%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.46%) MLflow
8 4 (0.84%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.63%) Toad
10 2 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.42%) Selenium
10 2 (0.42%) Snyk
10 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.21%) Deequ
11 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (28.24%) Finance
1 135 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 69 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (7.32%) Banking
4 26 (5.44%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.81%) Retail
6 15 (3.14%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.93%) Marketing
8 13 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.46%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.26%) Front Office
13 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Back Office
14 3 (0.63%) Law
14 3 (0.63%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 172 (35.98%) Data Engineer
2 81 (16.95%) Snowflake Engineer
3 67 (14.02%) Architect
4 65 (13.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 63 (13.18%) Analyst
6 54 (11.30%) Senior
7 48 (10.04%) Data Analyst
8 42 (8.79%) Lead
9 40 (8.37%) Data Architect
10 32 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (5.65%) Developer
12 26 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (4.18%) Lead Data Engineer
13 20 (4.18%) Snowflake Architect
14 19 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 18 (3.77%) Business Analyst
16 17 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.35%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.37%) Kafka
2 23 (4.81%) PyTorch
3 22 (4.60%) PySpark
4 19 (3.97%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.35%) Playwright
6 15 (3.14%) Pandas
7 10 (2.09%) NumPy
8 8 (1.67%) React
9 7 (1.46%) REST
9 7 (1.46%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.26%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.26%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.05%) JSON
11 5 (1.05%) Spring
11 5 (1.05%) Vue
12 4 (0.84%) .NET
12 4 (0.84%) FastAPI
12 4 (0.84%) OAuth
13 3 (0.63%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.02%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (3.97%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.51%) Replication
6 11 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.30%) Clustering
6 11 (2.30%) Equities
6 11 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 10 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.05%) Derivative
9 5 (1.05%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.67%) Unix
2 6 (1.26%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (44.77%) Analytics
2 185 (38.70%) Data Modelling
3 169 (35.36%) Data Engineering
4 161 (33.68%) ETL
5 147 (30.75%) Business Intelligence
6 146 (30.54%) CI/CD
7 138 (28.87%) Data Pipeline
8 116 (24.27%) AI
9 102 (21.34%) Agile
9 102 (21.34%) Data Governance
10 84 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
11 83 (17.36%) Machine Learning
12 80 (16.74%) DevOps
12 80 (16.74%) Migration
13 67 (14.02%) Data Architecture
14 61 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 60 (12.55%) Performance Tuning
16 56 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 53 (11.09%) Data Transformation
17 53 (11.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 286 (59.83%) SQL
2 253 (52.93%) Python
3 33 (6.90%) Java
4 21 (4.39%) C#
5 20 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.77%) Bash
6 18 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.88%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.67%) Scala
9 7 (1.46%) R
10 5 (1.05%) Korn
10 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.84%) Bicep
11 4 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (8.58%) Degree
2 39 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.14%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.46%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
9 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) CFA
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (27.20%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.02%) GDPR
3 19 (3.97%) QA
4 9 (1.88%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (8.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (14.85%) Terraform
2 26 (5.44%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.14%) Ansible
4 10 (2.09%) Grafana
5 8 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.84%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 140 (29.29%) Databricks
2 53 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.86%) Oracle
4 24 (5.02%) Informatica
5 20 (4.18%) Talend
6 18 (3.77%) Google
7 15 (3.14%) SAP
8 13 (2.72%) Greenplum
9 11 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.30%) Teradata
10 10 (2.09%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.88%) Charles River
12 8 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
12 8 (1.67%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.26%) Denodo
13 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.05%) Ab Initio
14 5 (1.05%) SimCorp
14 5 (1.05%) Virgin Media
15 4 (0.84%) Guidewire