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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 256 313
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 +149
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 458 310 310
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 0.99% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 2.66% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 198 232
10th Percentile £333 £384 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +5.26% +2.24%
75th Percentile £600 £693 £675
90th Percentile £738 £888 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £494 £510
% change year-on-year -5.82% -3.19% -2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,620 11,635 15,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.94% 37.04% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,061 7,723 10,764
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 173 318
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.36
Median hourly rate £32.75 £27.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.09% +20.88% -5.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £50.19
90th Percentile £79.63 £72.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +33.82% +17.43% +5.00%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +6 372 £520 -13.33% 177
London +33 284 £525 -19.23% 112
Work from Home +26 154 £525 -20.45% 105
UK excluding London -11 120 £465 -5.82% 118
Scotland +40 44 £450 -5.26% 10
North of England -55 20 £375 -15.49% 26
South East -6 19 £500 +8.11% 58
North West -22 17 £347 -20.80% 19
South West -17 15 £488 -8.24% 7
Midlands -62 14 £550 - 9
West Midlands -46 10 £500 -4.76% 9
East of England -13 9 £550 +4.76% 6
East Midlands -26 4 £575 -7.93%
North East -15 2 £575 -11.54% 4
Yorkshire -52 1 £488 +8.33% 3
Wales - 1 £575 - 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 89 (19.43%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.64%) Apache Spark
3 28 (6.11%) Apache
4 6 (1.31%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.87%) SAS
6 3 (0.66%) Confluence
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.80%) Aladdin
2 11 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 237 (51.75%) AWS
2 220 (48.03%) Azure
3 110 (24.02%) Power Platform
4 103 (22.49%) dbt
5 87 (19.00%) GCP
6 51 (11.14%) Serverless
7 45 (9.83%) Amazon S3
8 37 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (6.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (5.90%) Matillion
12 22 (4.80%) GitHub
13 21 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.49%) SaaS
15 15 (3.28%) Fivetran
16 14 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
17 13 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
18 10 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (2.18%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (31.44%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (22.93%) Power BI
3 57 (12.45%) Data Lake
4 51 (11.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 45 (9.83%) Tableau
6 43 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (7.21%) BigQuery
8 31 (6.77%) Metadata
9 27 (5.90%) Big Data
10 26 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (5.46%) Data Vault
11 25 (5.46%) NoSQL
11 25 (5.46%) Relational Database
12 20 (4.37%) SQL Server
13 16 (3.49%) RDBMS
14 14 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (2.62%) Star Schema
16 11 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (1.97%) Apache Arrow
17 9 (1.97%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 47 (10.26%) Git
2 22 (4.80%) GitLab
3 19 (4.15%) JIRA
4 17 (3.71%) ERwin
5 15 (3.28%) ER Studio
6 13 (2.84%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.97%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (1.75%) DBeaver
9 6 (1.31%) Jenkins
10 5 (1.09%) MLflow
11 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.66%) Selenium
11 3 (0.66%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.44%) TestRail
12 2 (0.44%) Toad
12 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.22%) Deequ
General
1 127 (27.73%) Finance
2 118 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 69 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.86%) Banking
5 20 (4.37%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.15%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.93%) Retail
8 16 (3.49%) Front Office
9 14 (3.06%) Marketing
10 13 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.09%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
17 3 (0.66%) Law
18 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.44%) iGaming
18 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 148 (32.31%) Data Engineer
2 75 (16.38%) Snowflake Engineer
3 63 (13.76%) Analyst
4 59 (12.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 56 (12.23%) Architect
6 50 (10.92%) Data Analyst
7 44 (9.61%) Senior
8 35 (7.64%) Developer
8 35 (7.64%) Lead
9 30 (6.55%) Data Architect
10 26 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (5.68%) Python Engineer
11 24 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (5.02%) Data Modeller
13 21 (4.59%) Snowflake Architect
14 18 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
15 17 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.71%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.71%) Senior Data Engineer
16 15 (3.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.68%) Kafka
2 24 (5.24%) Pandas
3 21 (4.59%) PySpark
4 18 (3.93%) NumPy
4 18 (3.93%) PyTorch
5 16 (3.49%) Playwright
6 14 (3.06%) TensorFlow
7 12 (2.62%) React
8 11 (2.40%) REST
9 10 (2.18%) JSON
10 9 (1.97%) gRPC
10 9 (1.97%) Protocol Buffers
10 9 (1.97%) SciPy
11 8 (1.75%) Node.js
11 8 (1.75%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (1.53%) Spring
13 6 (1.31%) .NET
14 5 (1.09%) LangChain
14 5 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.11%) Data Structures
3 23 (5.02%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (3.49%) Equities
4 16 (3.49%) Fixed Income
5 15 (3.28%) Replication
6 12 (2.62%) Clustering
6 12 (2.62%) Derivative
6 12 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.40%) Hedge funds
8 10 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.97%) Pricing Data
10 8 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.31%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.75%) Unix
2 7 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (41.05%) Analytics
2 177 (38.65%) Data Modelling
3 160 (34.93%) ETL
4 131 (28.60%) Data Engineering
5 120 (26.20%) Business Intelligence
5 120 (26.20%) CI/CD
6 116 (25.33%) Agile
7 107 (23.36%) Data Pipeline
8 100 (21.83%) Data Governance
9 94 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (19.43%) AI
11 71 (15.50%) Migration
12 69 (15.07%) Machine Learning
13 68 (14.85%) DevOps
14 60 (13.10%) Data Architecture
15 59 (12.88%) Data Transformation
16 55 (12.01%) Performance Tuning
17 50 (10.92%) Asset Management
18 49 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
19 48 (10.48%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 277 (60.48%) SQL
2 239 (52.18%) Python
3 45 (9.83%) Java
4 33 (7.21%) TypeScript
5 31 (6.77%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.71%) C#
7 13 (2.84%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.97%) Bash
9 8 (1.75%) R
9 8 (1.75%) Scala
10 7 (1.53%) Korn
11 6 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.87%) Bicep
12 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.66%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.42%) Degree
2 24 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.53%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.66%) PhD
10 3 (0.66%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.44%) ACCA
11 2 (0.44%) CIMA
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.22%) CBAP
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (23.58%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.15%) QA
3 14 (3.06%) GDPR
4 7 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) FATCA
6 1 (0.22%) GAAP
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (8.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (12.45%) Terraform
2 31 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.71%) Ansible
4 5 (1.09%) Grafana
4 5 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.66%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 119 (25.98%) Databricks
2 46 (10.04%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.77%) Oracle
4 20 (4.37%) Talend
5 18 (3.93%) SAP
6 15 (3.28%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.28%) Informatica
7 11 (2.40%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.97%) Google
8 9 (1.97%) Teradata
9 8 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.53%) Charles River
10 7 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.31%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.31%) Sparx
12 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.87%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.87%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.87%) SimCorp