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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 241 293
Rank change year-on-year -19 +52 +171
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 460 336 335
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.15% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 3.02% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 246 256
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -2.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £769 £744
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 16,714 11,128 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.40% 37.98% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,401 7,742 10,061
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £703 £725 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 242 345
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £19.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.82% +31.57% -30.86%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.45 £60.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -25.20%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -26 387 £525 -12.50% 207
London +9 285 £525 -20.45% 103
Work from Home -42 138 £525 -19.23% 87
UK excluding London -61 133 £500 +5.26% 143
Scotland +26 44 £449 -0.22% 7
North of England -65 26 £525 +10.53% 29
Midlands -61 23 £550 +15.79% 23
West Midlands -52 20 £530 -3.64% 16
North West -31 18 £525 -5.41% 20
South West -30 17 £475 -9.52% 15
South East -57 15 £525 +42.86% 47
East of England -37 7 £400 -31.03% 15
Yorkshire -51 7 £525 +10.53% 5
East Midlands -33 3 £575 +36.90% 7
North East -19 1 £575 +6.98% 4
Wales - 1 £250 - 4

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 (19.78%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (7.17%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.13%) Apache
4 8 (1.74%) Confluence
5 4 (0.87%) SAS
6 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 18 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (5.22%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.09%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.65%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 230 (50.00%) AWS
2 196 (42.61%) Azure
3 118 (25.65%) Power Platform
4 106 (23.04%) dbt
5 87 (18.91%) GCP
6 68 (14.78%) Amazon S3
7 49 (10.65%) Serverless
8 43 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (6.74%) Matillion
12 26 (5.65%) GitHub
13 23 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (4.78%) Dagster
15 20 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (4.35%) Prefect
16 14 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (29.35%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (24.13%) Power BI
3 58 (12.61%) Snowflake Schema
3 58 (12.61%) Tableau
4 39 (8.48%) BigQuery
5 37 (8.04%) Data Lake
6 35 (7.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (6.74%) Metadata
8 29 (6.30%) SQL Server
9 25 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (5.22%) Big Data
11 22 (4.78%) Data Vault
12 20 (4.35%) NoSQL
13 18 (3.91%) Relational Database
14 14 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (2.61%) Looker
16 9 (1.96%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.74%) DynamoDB
18 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 7 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (9.35%) Git
2 20 (4.35%) JIRA
3 19 (4.13%) GitLab
4 15 (3.26%) SpecFlow
5 8 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.52%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.52%) ERwin
7 6 (1.30%) MLflow
8 3 (0.65%) Selenium
8 3 (0.65%) Snyk
8 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.65%) Toad
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.22%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 138 (30.00%) Finance
2 124 (26.96%) Social Skills
3 66 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.17%) Banking
5 25 (5.43%) Retail
6 24 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.61%) Marketing
9 11 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.52%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.09%) Front Office
15 5 (1.09%) Legal
16 4 (0.87%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 169 (36.74%) Data Engineer
2 83 (18.04%) Snowflake Engineer
3 69 (15.00%) Architect
4 68 (14.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 63 (13.70%) Senior
6 58 (12.61%) Analyst
7 42 (9.13%) Data Analyst
7 42 (9.13%) Lead
8 39 (8.48%) Data Architect
9 33 (7.17%) Senior Data Engineer
10 31 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (5.22%) Developer
12 21 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
14 19 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (3.91%) AWS Data Engineer
15 18 (3.91%) Business Analyst
16 17 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.70%) Snowflake Architect
17 13 (2.83%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.91%) Kafka
2 17 (3.70%) PySpark
3 16 (3.48%) Playwright
3 16 (3.48%) PyTorch
4 14 (3.04%) TensorFlow
5 10 (2.17%) React
6 9 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.74%) Spring
8 7 (1.52%) Pandas
9 6 (1.30%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.30%) OAuth
9 6 (1.30%) REST
9 6 (1.30%) Vue
10 5 (1.09%) .NET
10 5 (1.09%) NumPy
10 5 (1.09%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.87%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.87%) JSON
11 4 (0.87%) OpenID
11 4 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.96%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.04%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.61%) Clustering
7 11 (2.39%) Replication
8 10 (2.17%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.96%) Equities
9 9 (1.96%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.74%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.52%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.39%) Unix
2 8 (1.74%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (43.91%) Analytics
2 176 (38.26%) Data Modelling
3 157 (34.13%) Data Engineering
4 154 (33.48%) ETL
5 139 (30.22%) Business Intelligence
6 138 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
7 137 (29.78%) CI/CD
8 103 (22.39%) AI
9 102 (22.17%) Agile
10 96 (20.87%) Data Governance
11 78 (16.96%) DevOps
11 78 (16.96%) Migration
12 75 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (14.78%) Machine Learning
14 65 (14.13%) Data Architecture
15 58 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 57 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
17 56 (12.17%) Decision-Making
18 54 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
19 49 (10.65%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 263 (57.17%) SQL
2 231 (50.22%) Python
3 38 (8.26%) Java
4 19 (4.13%) C#
5 18 (3.91%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.26%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.83%) Bash
8 8 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.52%) R
9 7 (1.52%) Scala
10 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.09%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.87%) Bicep
11 4 (0.87%) Korn
11 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.22%) C
13 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (8.26%) Degree
1 38 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 22 (4.78%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.39%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.74%) SnowPro
7 4 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.65%) PhD
8 3 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) ACCA
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) CIMA
10 1 (0.22%) CSPO
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (24.78%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.65%) GDPR
3 18 (3.91%) QA
4 9 (1.96%) SLA
5 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) FATCA
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (14.13%) Terraform
2 22 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.96%) Ansible
3 9 (1.96%) Grafana
4 8 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.87%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 137 (29.78%) Databricks
2 54 (11.74%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.87%) Oracle
4 24 (5.22%) Informatica
5 17 (3.70%) Google
6 16 (3.48%) SAP
7 15 (3.26%) Talend
8 13 (2.83%) Teradata
9 12 (2.61%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.96%) Charles River
10 9 (1.96%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.74%) Denodo
11 8 (1.74%) Greenplum
12 7 (1.52%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.52%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (1.09%) SimCorp
14 5 (1.09%) Splunk
14 5 (1.09%) Workday