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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 217 327
Rank change year-on-year -7 +110 +118
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 453 408 318
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.13% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 3.21% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 289 253
10th Percentile £363 £379 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £578
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +12.46% +0.52%
75th Percentile £675 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £749
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 13,594 12,721 16,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.41% 35.29% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,210 8,376 11,811
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
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 331 168 308
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £14.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%
75th Percentile £47.12 £59.66 £62.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year -32.12% +37.50% +18.73%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -29 380 £550 -18.52% 350
London -2 282 £600 -25.00% 225
Work from Home -24 165 £600 -25.00% 217
UK excluding London +23 122 £450 - 160
Scotland +27 34 £450 - 29
North of England -32 21 £375 -15.73% 33
South West +10 19 £475 -2.56% 11
South East +15 18 £506 +39.66% 61
East of England -7 16 £500 -9.09% 10
Midlands -45 15 £463 -6.33% 13
North West -22 14 £347 -22.13% 24
West Midlands -32 11 £425 -12.82% 8
Yorkshire -32 6 £469 - 9
East Midlands -24 4 £575 -7.93% 5
North East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £575 - 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
1 117 (25.83%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (13.25%) Apache
3 34 (7.51%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.77%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.88%) Confluence
6 3 (0.66%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Maple
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (3.09%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.55%) 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
1 249 (54.97%) AWS
2 203 (44.81%) Azure
3 129 (28.48%) dbt
4 104 (22.96%) Power Platform
5 91 (20.09%) GCP
6 52 (11.48%) Serverless
7 44 (9.71%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (6.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (4.42%) GitHub
12 19 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.19%) Matillion
13 18 (3.97%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (3.31%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.65%) SaaS
17 9 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (1.77%) AWS Step Functions
18 8 (1.77%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (33.77%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (22.96%) Power BI
3 85 (18.76%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.27%) BigQuery
5 41 (9.05%) Tableau
6 40 (8.83%) Amazon Athena
7 38 (8.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 37 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (7.95%) Apache Iceberg
10 34 (7.51%) Apache Arrow
10 34 (7.51%) Apache Ignite
10 34 (7.51%) Dremio
11 32 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
12 31 (6.84%) Metadata
13 28 (6.18%) NoSQL
14 26 (5.74%) Big Data
15 24 (5.30%) Relational Database
16 22 (4.86%) Data Vault
17 21 (4.64%) SQL Server
18 17 (3.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (10.38%) Git
2 18 (3.97%) ERwin
2 18 (3.97%) JIRA
3 15 (3.31%) ER Studio
3 15 (3.31%) GitLab
4 11 (2.43%) PowerDesigner
5 10 (2.21%) DBeaver
6 7 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.55%) SpecFlow
7 5 (1.10%) MLflow
8 4 (0.88%) Selenium
9 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.44%) Postman
10 2 (0.44%) TestRail
10 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.22%) Deequ
11 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (32.23%) Finance
2 129 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 65 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.70%) Banking
5 41 (9.05%) Front Office
6 39 (8.61%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (3.97%) Marketing
8 14 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 14 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.21%) Retail
10 8 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.44%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.44%) Law
13 2 (0.44%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 129 (28.48%) Data Engineer
2 72 (15.89%) Senior
3 62 (13.69%) Architect
4 56 (12.36%) Analyst
5 51 (11.26%) Python Engineer
5 51 (11.26%) Snowflake Engineer
6 48 (10.60%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (9.27%) Data Analyst
8 41 (9.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 36 (7.95%) Software Engineer
10 35 (7.73%) Java Engineer
11 34 (7.51%) AWS Software Engineer
11 34 (7.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (7.51%) Python Software Engineer
12 33 (7.28%) Lead
12 33 (7.28%) Senior Java Engineer
12 33 (7.28%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 33 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (6.84%) Data Architect
14 28 (6.18%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.26%) Pandas
2 42 (9.27%) NumPy
3 34 (7.51%) gRPC
3 34 (7.51%) Protocol Buffers
3 34 (7.51%) SciPy
4 28 (6.18%) Kafka
5 16 (3.53%) PySpark
6 14 (3.09%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.43%) React
8 10 (2.21%) REST
8 10 (2.21%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.77%) Node.js
9 8 (1.77%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 8 (1.77%) Playwright
10 7 (1.55%) .NET
10 7 (1.55%) JSON
11 6 (1.32%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.10%) LangChain
12 5 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.61%) Equities
1 39 (8.61%) Fixed Income
2 37 (8.17%) Derivative
3 36 (7.95%) Hedge funds
4 34 (7.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (7.51%) Pricing Data
5 32 (7.06%) Cloud Native
6 24 (5.30%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.43%) Replication
9 10 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.99%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.77%) Clustering
11 8 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.77%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.55%) Linux
1 7 (1.55%) Unix
2 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (37.31%) Data Modelling
2 167 (36.87%) Analytics
3 158 (34.88%) ETL
4 136 (30.02%) Agile
5 117 (25.83%) Data Engineering
6 106 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
7 105 (23.18%) Data Governance
8 104 (22.96%) CI/CD
9 101 (22.30%) Data Pipeline
10 79 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (16.78%) Migration
12 69 (15.23%) Asset Management
13 67 (14.79%) AI
14 66 (14.57%) Data Transformation
15 63 (13.91%) Software Engineering
16 62 (13.69%) DevOps
17 58 (12.80%) Data Integration
17 58 (12.80%) Machine Learning
18 54 (11.92%) Data Architecture
19 51 (11.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 261 (57.62%) SQL
2 248 (54.75%) Python
3 61 (13.47%) Java
4 51 (11.26%) JavaScript
4 51 (11.26%) TypeScript
5 11 (2.43%) C#
6 9 (1.99%) Bash
6 9 (1.99%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.99%) Scala
7 8 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (1.77%) Korn
7 8 (1.77%) R
8 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Bicep
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 29 (6.40%) Degree
2 17 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.53%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.43%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.32%) SnowPro
9 5 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.44%) ACCA
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.44%) CIMA
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.44%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (23.84%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.97%) QA
3 17 (3.75%) GDPR
4 7 (1.55%) 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 (7.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (9.93%) Terraform
2 24 (5.30%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.99%) 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
1 100 (22.08%) Databricks
2 35 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.73%) Oracle
3 23 (5.08%) SAP
4 13 (2.87%) Teradata
5 11 (2.43%) Informatica
6 10 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.21%) Talend
7 9 (1.99%) Cloudera
7 9 (1.99%) Google
8 7 (1.55%) Greenplum
8 7 (1.55%) Sparx
9 6 (1.32%) Charles River
9 6 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.10%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.10%) Foundry
10 5 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.10%) StreamSets
10 5 (1.10%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.88%) Palantir