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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 225 222
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +165
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 589 390 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.19% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 3.19% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 299 396
10th Percentile £400 £407 £417
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -31.25% +39.13%
75th Percentile £656 £781 £875
90th Percentile £750 £855 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £453
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.86% -21.22%
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 18,626 12,207 13,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,287 8,180 9,586
10th Percentile £327 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 314 313
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £37.02 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.37 £18.87 £20.29
% change year-on-year +98.04% -6.98% -24.17%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -21 508 £573 -0.43% 262
London 0 366 £575 -8.00% 174
Work from Home -37 184 £588 -9.62% 117
UK excluding London -62 181 £500 +5.26% 119
Scotland +12 47 £430 -7.03% 5
North of England -45 42 £525 +7.69% 44
Midlands -43 33 £518 +6.15% 10
North West -27 29 £525 -5.41% 23
West Midlands -50 29 £563 +12.50% 7
South East -59 24 £550 +10.00% 44
South West -52 18 £574 +11.95% 11
East of England -26 10 £380 -29.63% 2
Yorkshire -43 10 £550 +15.79% 15
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 1
East Midlands -12 4 £466 +10.83% 3
North East -34 3 - - 6
Wales -15 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
1 107 (18.17%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (7.47%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.26%) Apache
4 16 (2.72%) Confluence
5 10 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.85%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (3.90%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.85%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.85%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 295 (50.08%) AWS
2 221 (37.52%) Azure
3 169 (28.69%) Power Platform
4 145 (24.62%) dbt
5 132 (22.41%) GCP
6 84 (14.26%) Amazon S3
7 55 (9.34%) GitHub
8 49 (8.32%) Serverless
9 47 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 45 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (4.41%) Fivetran
13 26 (4.41%) Matillion
14 23 (3.90%) Dagster
15 21 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.89%) Prefect
17 17 (2.89%) SaaS
18 16 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Broadband
1 3 (0.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) 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
1 171 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 166 (28.18%) Power BI
3 83 (14.09%) Tableau
4 76 (12.90%) BigQuery
5 73 (12.39%) Data Lake
6 68 (11.54%) Snowflake Schema
7 52 (8.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.64%) Big Data
9 44 (7.47%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.77%) Relational Database
11 32 (5.43%) Metadata
11 32 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.58%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.07%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.57%) Looker
14 21 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (2.72%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (2.21%) MySQL
17 12 (2.04%) Delta Lake
17 12 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 60 (10.19%) Git
2 33 (5.60%) JIRA
3 26 (4.41%) GitLab
4 18 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.02%) MLflow
6 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.51%) Snyk
8 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.34%) Toad
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) ERwin
10 1 (0.17%) GCC
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 202 (34.30%) Finance
2 162 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 84 (14.26%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (13.58%) Banking
5 49 (8.32%) Retail
6 28 (4.75%) Marketing
7 22 (3.74%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.40%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.40%) Investment Banking
9 16 (2.72%) Front Office
10 14 (2.38%) Legal
11 12 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.70%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.36%) Back Office
13 8 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.19%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (34.13%) Data Engineer
2 102 (17.32%) Architect
2 102 (17.32%) Snowflake Engineer
3 94 (15.96%) Senior
4 76 (12.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 66 (11.21%) Analyst
6 57 (9.68%) Data Architect
7 47 (7.98%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (7.64%) Lead
9 41 (6.96%) Data Analyst
10 38 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (4.75%) Developer
11 28 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (4.24%) AWS Data Engineer
13 22 (3.74%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.23%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 17 (2.89%) Python Engineer
16 16 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.72%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.02%) Kafka
2 24 (4.07%) REST
3 18 (3.06%) PySpark
4 10 (1.70%) .NET
4 10 (1.70%) React
4 10 (1.70%) Spring
4 10 (1.70%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.53%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.19%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (1.19%) OAuth
6 7 (1.19%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.19%) Vue
7 6 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.02%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.02%) JSON
7 6 (1.02%) XML
7 6 (1.02%) YAML
8 5 (0.85%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (0.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.56%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.43%) Data Structures
3 23 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.38%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.70%) Equities
10 9 (1.53%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.36%) Clustering
12 7 (1.19%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.02%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.02%) Replication
14 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.87%) Unix
2 10 (1.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (45.84%) Analytics
2 235 (39.90%) Data Engineering
3 212 (35.99%) Data Pipeline
4 208 (35.31%) Data Modelling
5 200 (33.96%) ETL
6 195 (33.11%) Business Intelligence
7 191 (32.43%) CI/CD
8 165 (28.01%) AI
9 137 (23.26%) Agile
10 116 (19.69%) Data Governance
11 108 (18.34%) Migration
12 106 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 104 (17.66%) DevOps
14 97 (16.47%) Data Architecture
15 95 (16.13%) Validation
16 80 (13.58%) Machine Learning
17 77 (13.07%) Data Transformation
18 69 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
19 68 (11.54%) Data Science
19 68 (11.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 329 (55.86%) SQL
2 293 (49.75%) Python
3 55 (9.34%) Java
4 15 (2.55%) R
5 13 (2.21%) Bash
6 10 (1.70%) C#
6 10 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.19%) Scala
7 7 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.68%) Bicep
9 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.51%) Cypher
10 3 (0.51%) Delphi
10 3 (0.51%) SHACL
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
11 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (7.98%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.81%) Degree
3 28 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.38%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.51%) CSPO
12 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) CBAP
13 1 (0.17%) CISSP
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (25.30%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.30%) GDPR
3 30 (5.09%) QA
4 12 (2.04%) SLA
5 6 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) EMIR
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) MiFID
7 3 (0.51%) PMO
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (6.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (13.58%) Terraform
2 37 (6.28%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.24%) Grafana
4 9 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.68%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 173 (29.37%) Databricks
2 67 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.60%) Google
3 33 (5.60%) Informatica
4 29 (4.92%) Oracle
4 29 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.74%) SAP
6 12 (2.04%) Talend
7 11 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.70%) Charles River
9 9 (1.53%) Denodo
9 9 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.53%) Teradata
9 9 (1.53%) Workday
10 8 (1.36%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.36%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.19%) FactSet
11 7 (1.19%) Splunk
12 6 (1.02%) Foundry
13 5 (0.85%) Bloomberg