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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 221 347
Rank change year-on-year +10 +126 +110
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 455 415 310
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.13% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 3.21% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 296 246
10th Percentile £363 £378 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £653 £578
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +12.97% +0.52%
75th Percentile £675 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.25 - -

All Cloud 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 13,679 12,946 16,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.49% 35.28% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,258 8,540 11,784
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 172 314
10th Percentile £15.23 £18.58 £14.53
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.59 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +4.93% +46.14%
75th Percentile £47.03 £60.15 £61.41
90th Percentile £72.35 £70.00 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.86% +41.11% +18.42%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -25 383 £550 -18.52% 350
London +2 282 £600 -25.00% 228
Work from Home -26 165 £600 -25.00% 203
UK excluding London +21 126 £450 - 162
Scotland +19 34 £450 - 28
North of England -37 22 £388 -12.92% 32
South West +9 20 £475 -17.39% 9
South East +12 18 £506 +39.66% 69
East of England -4 18 £500 -9.09% 7
North West -20 15 £361 -18.93% 23
Midlands -40 15 £463 -6.33% 14
West Midlands -34 11 £425 -12.82% 9
Yorkshire -31 6 £469 - 9
East Midlands -21 4 £575 -7.93% 5
Wales - 2 £613 - 2
North East - 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
1 115 (25.27%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (13.19%) Apache
3 34 (7.47%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.76%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.66%) Confluence
5 3 (0.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) Luigi
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) Maple
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.86%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
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%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 253 (55.60%) AWS
2 196 (43.08%) Azure
3 128 (28.13%) dbt
4 109 (23.96%) Power Platform
5 91 (20.00%) GCP
6 54 (11.87%) Serverless
7 46 (10.11%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (6.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.62%) GitHub
11 19 (4.18%) Matillion
12 18 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
12 18 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.52%) Fivetran
15 13 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.64%) SaaS
17 10 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
18 9 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
19 8 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
2 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (33.41%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (23.96%) Power BI
3 83 (18.24%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.23%) BigQuery
4 42 (9.23%) Tableau
5 41 (9.01%) Amazon Athena
6 39 (8.57%) Snowflake Schema
7 36 (7.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (7.91%) Apache Iceberg
8 34 (7.47%) Apache Arrow
8 34 (7.47%) Apache Ignite
8 34 (7.47%) Dremio
9 32 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (6.81%) Metadata
11 28 (6.15%) NoSQL
12 26 (5.71%) Big Data
13 24 (5.27%) Relational Database
13 24 (5.27%) SQL Server
14 23 (5.05%) Data Vault
15 17 (3.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (10.33%) Git
2 18 (3.96%) JIRA
3 17 (3.74%) ERwin
4 16 (3.52%) GitLab
5 14 (3.08%) ER Studio
6 11 (2.42%) PowerDesigner
7 10 (2.20%) DBeaver
8 7 (1.54%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.32%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.10%) MLflow
11 4 (0.88%) Selenium
12 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.44%) Postman
13 2 (0.44%) TestRail
13 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.22%) Deequ
14 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
14 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 144 (31.65%) Finance
2 129 (28.35%) Social Skills
3 64 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.65%) Banking
5 41 (9.01%) Front Office
6 39 (8.57%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.18%) Marketing
8 17 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.20%) Retail
11 8 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.32%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.44%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.44%) Law
15 2 (0.44%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 126 (27.69%) Data Engineer
2 72 (15.82%) Senior
3 63 (13.85%) Architect
4 58 (12.75%) Analyst
5 51 (11.21%) Python Engineer
6 48 (10.55%) AWS Engineer
6 48 (10.55%) Snowflake Engineer
7 43 (9.45%) Data Analyst
8 39 (8.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 36 (7.91%) Software Engineer
10 35 (7.69%) Java Engineer
10 35 (7.69%) Lead
11 34 (7.47%) AWS Software Engineer
11 34 (7.47%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (7.47%) Python Software Engineer
12 33 (7.25%) Senior Java Engineer
12 33 (7.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 33 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (7.03%) Data Architect
14 28 (6.15%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.21%) Pandas
2 42 (9.23%) NumPy
3 34 (7.47%) gRPC
3 34 (7.47%) Protocol Buffers
3 34 (7.47%) SciPy
4 29 (6.37%) Kafka
5 15 (3.30%) PySpark
6 14 (3.08%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.42%) React
8 10 (2.20%) REST
8 10 (2.20%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.76%) Node.js
9 8 (1.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 7 (1.54%) .NET
10 7 (1.54%) JSON
10 7 (1.54%) Playwright
11 6 (1.32%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.10%) LangChain
13 4 (0.88%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.35%) Equities
1 38 (8.35%) Fixed Income
2 37 (8.13%) Derivative
3 36 (7.91%) Hedge funds
4 34 (7.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (7.47%) Pricing Data
5 31 (6.81%) Cloud Native
6 24 (5.27%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.64%) Replication
9 11 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.76%) Clustering
11 8 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.76%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.54%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.54%) Linux
1 7 (1.54%) Unix
2 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (36.48%) Data Modelling
2 162 (35.60%) Analytics
3 156 (34.29%) ETL
4 137 (30.11%) Agile
5 113 (24.84%) Business Intelligence
5 113 (24.84%) Data Engineering
6 104 (22.86%) Data Governance
7 101 (22.20%) CI/CD
8 99 (21.76%) Data Pipeline
9 79 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
10 77 (16.92%) Migration
11 68 (14.95%) AI
12 67 (14.73%) Asset Management
13 66 (14.51%) Data Transformation
14 63 (13.85%) Software Engineering
15 59 (12.97%) Data Integration
15 59 (12.97%) DevOps
16 57 (12.53%) Machine Learning
17 55 (12.09%) Data Architecture
18 53 (11.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 259 (56.92%) SQL
2 242 (53.19%) Python
3 61 (13.41%) Java
4 50 (10.99%) JavaScript
4 50 (10.99%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.20%) C#
6 9 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (1.98%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.98%) Scala
7 8 (1.76%) Bash
7 8 (1.76%) Korn
7 8 (1.76%) R
8 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (6.15%) Degree
2 16 (3.52%) AWS Certification
3 14 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.20%) Azure Certification
4 10 (2.20%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.98%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.32%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.44%) ACCA
8 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.44%) CIMA
8 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.44%) PMP
9 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) CBAP
9 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (23.52%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.96%) QA
3 17 (3.74%) GDPR
4 7 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.44%) DICOM
6 2 (0.44%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.22%) LOINC
7 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (7.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (9.67%) Terraform
2 24 (5.27%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.98%) Ansible
4 6 (1.32%) Grafana
5 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 96 (21.10%) Databricks
2 35 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.69%) Oracle
3 23 (5.05%) SAP
4 15 (3.30%) Teradata
5 11 (2.42%) Informatica
5 11 (2.42%) Talend
6 10 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.98%) Cloudera
7 9 (1.98%) Google
8 7 (1.54%) Greenplum
8 7 (1.54%) Sparx
9 6 (1.32%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.32%) StreamSets
10 5 (1.10%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.10%) Charles River
10 5 (1.10%) Foundry
10 5 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.10%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.88%) Palantir