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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 223 217
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +158
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 601 392 460
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.19% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.24% 3.20% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 301 389
10th Percentile £401 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £652 £800 £875
90th Percentile £750 £850 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +6.32% +5.56% -21.74%
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 18,544 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.94 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.75%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -16 519 £575 -0.86% 269
London +5 373 £575 -8.00% 189
Work from Home -49 191 £588 -9.62% 148
UK excluding London -46 183 £505 +6.32% 128
Scotland +9 47 £430 -4.44% 9
North of England -53 42 £525 +7.69% 32
Midlands -46 33 £518 +21.76% 14
North West -32 29 £525 -5.41% 17
West Midlands -44 29 £563 +21.62% 10
South East -60 24 £575 +19.48% 41
South West -47 20 £574 +11.95% 17
East of England -27 10 £380 -34.48% 2
Yorkshire -42 10 £550 +15.79% 12
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 11
East Midlands -13 4 £466 +10.83% 4
North East -45 3 - - 3
Wales -14 1 £250 -61.54% 2

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
1 110 (18.30%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (6.99%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.16%) Apache
4 16 (2.66%) Confluence
5 10 (1.66%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.83%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.66%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 301 (50.08%) AWS
2 225 (37.44%) Azure
3 169 (28.12%) Power Platform
4 148 (24.63%) dbt
5 129 (21.46%) GCP
6 84 (13.98%) Amazon S3
7 56 (9.32%) GitHub
8 50 (8.32%) Serverless
9 47 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (7.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 36 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (4.16%) Fivetran
12 25 (4.16%) Matillion
13 24 (3.99%) Dagster
14 21 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (3.00%) Prefect
16 17 (2.83%) SaaS
17 16 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
1 3 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (29.12%) Data Warehouse
2 166 (27.62%) Power BI
3 84 (13.98%) Tableau
4 76 (12.65%) BigQuery
5 74 (12.31%) Data Lake
6 69 (11.48%) Snowflake Schema
7 52 (8.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.49%) SQL Server
9 43 (7.15%) Big Data
10 34 (5.66%) Relational Database
11 32 (5.32%) Metadata
11 32 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.49%) NoSQL
13 22 (3.66%) Data Vault
13 22 (3.66%) Looker
14 21 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (2.83%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (2.16%) MySQL
17 12 (2.00%) Delta Lake
17 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 63 (10.48%) Git
2 33 (5.49%) JIRA
3 26 (4.33%) GitLab
4 18 (3.00%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.16%) MLflow
6 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.67%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.50%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.50%) Snyk
7 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.33%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 208 (34.61%) Finance
2 164 (27.29%) Social Skills
3 88 (14.64%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (13.81%) Banking
5 48 (7.99%) Retail
6 28 (4.66%) Marketing
7 25 (4.16%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.49%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.00%) Front Office
11 14 (2.33%) Legal
12 12 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.16%) Back Office
15 7 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (34.44%) Data Engineer
2 104 (17.30%) Architect
2 104 (17.30%) Snowflake Engineer
3 97 (16.14%) Senior
4 78 (12.98%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 67 (11.15%) Analyst
6 61 (10.15%) Data Architect
7 49 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
8 47 (7.82%) Lead
9 42 (6.99%) Data Analyst
10 40 (6.66%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (4.66%) Developer
12 27 (4.49%) AWS Data Engineer
13 23 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (3.49%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.16%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.16%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 16 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.66%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.82%) Kafka
2 25 (4.16%) REST
3 19 (3.16%) PySpark
4 10 (1.66%) .NET
4 10 (1.66%) PyTorch
5 9 (1.50%) React
5 9 (1.50%) Spring
5 9 (1.50%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.33%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.16%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.16%) OAuth
8 6 (1.00%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.00%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.00%) JSON
8 6 (1.00%) Vue
8 6 (1.00%) XML
8 6 (1.00%) YAML
9 5 (0.83%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.83%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 73 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.32%) Data Structures
3 24 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.00%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.66%) Equities
10 9 (1.50%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.16%) Clustering
11 7 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.00%) Data Fabric
12 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.00%) Replication
13 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.83%) Unix
2 10 (1.66%) Linux
3 2 (0.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (45.26%) Analytics
2 240 (39.93%) Data Engineering
3 216 (35.94%) Data Pipeline
4 212 (35.27%) Data Modelling
5 197 (32.78%) ETL
6 196 (32.61%) CI/CD
7 195 (32.45%) Business Intelligence
8 167 (27.79%) AI
9 136 (22.63%) Agile
10 119 (19.80%) Data Governance
11 111 (18.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 107 (17.80%) Migration
13 103 (17.14%) DevOps
14 101 (16.81%) Data Architecture
15 100 (16.64%) Validation
16 81 (13.48%) Machine Learning
17 80 (13.31%) Data Transformation
18 71 (11.81%) Data Science
18 71 (11.81%) Decision-Making
19 69 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 331 (55.07%) SQL
2 297 (49.42%) Python
3 52 (8.65%) Java
4 14 (2.33%) R
5 13 (2.16%) Bash
6 10 (1.66%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.50%) C#
8 7 (1.16%) Scala
9 6 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.67%) Bicep
11 3 (0.50%) Cypher
11 3 (0.50%) Delphi
11 3 (0.50%) SHACL
11 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) Korn
12 2 (0.33%) SOQL
12 2 (0.33%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 44 (7.32%) Degree
3 30 (4.99%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.00%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.67%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.50%) CSPO
13 2 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CISSP
14 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (26.12%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.82%) GDPR
3 31 (5.16%) QA
4 12 (2.00%) SLA
5 6 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.50%) EMIR
8 3 (0.50%) MiFID
8 3 (0.50%) PMO
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.17%) CDISC
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (6.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (13.31%) Terraform
2 36 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.16%) Grafana
4 9 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.67%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 181 (30.12%) Databricks
2 67 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.49%) Google
3 33 (5.49%) Informatica
4 31 (5.16%) Salesforce
5 30 (4.99%) Oracle
6 23 (3.83%) SAP
7 11 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.66%) Workday
9 9 (1.50%) Charles River
9 9 (1.50%) Denodo
9 9 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.33%) PagerDuty
10 8 (1.33%) Talend
11 7 (1.16%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.16%) Splunk
11 7 (1.16%) Teradata
12 6 (1.00%) FactSet
12 6 (1.00%) Foundry
13 5 (0.83%) Amplitude