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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 241 206
Rank change year-on-year +25 -35 +143
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 651 365 480
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.12% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.48% 3.01% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 277 408
10th Percentile £400 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -31.25% +36.75%
75th Percentile £669 £738 £888
90th Percentile £750 £825 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £42.65 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 18,719 12,123 13,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.27% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,419 8,074 8,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 310 224
10th Percentile £15.41 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.27 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +65.79% -21.42% -10.44%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +12 568 £575 +4.55% 812
London +20 420 £575 -6.12% 572
Work from Home -21 209 £600 -3.03% 505
UK excluding London -38 178 £525 +10.53% 459
Scotland -3 44 £425 -8.36% 64
North of England -53 41 £525 +10.53% 117
Midlands -45 30 £518 +23.21% 65
South East -50 30 £616 +17.33% 83
North West -28 28 £525 +10.53% 68
West Midlands -35 26 £588 +27.03% 54
South West -47 16 £575 +21.05% 54
East of England -25 11 £380 -24.00% 16
Yorkshire -36 10 £500 +5.26% 14
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 58
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +10.83% 11
North East -45 3 - - 35

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
1 137 (21.04%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (7.83%) Apache Spark
3 39 (5.99%) Apache
4 16 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 14 (2.15%) Confluence
6 4 (0.61%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.76%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.77%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.46%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 335 (51.46%) AWS
2 269 (41.32%) Azure
3 178 (27.34%) Power Platform
4 174 (26.73%) dbt
5 146 (22.43%) GCP
6 76 (11.67%) Amazon S3
7 75 (11.52%) GitHub
8 62 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (8.60%) Serverless
10 53 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 50 (7.68%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (4.45%) Fivetran
14 27 (4.15%) SaaS
15 24 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (3.38%) Dagster
17 20 (3.07%) Matillion
18 18 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.61%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) Broadband
1 3 (0.46%) Internet
2 2 (0.31%) DSL
2 2 (0.31%) Firewall
2 2 (0.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) Intranet
3 1 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (31.80%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (27.04%) Power BI
3 84 (12.90%) Data Lake
4 81 (12.44%) Tableau
5 80 (12.29%) BigQuery
6 73 (11.21%) Snowflake Schema
7 63 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (7.07%) SQL Server
9 44 (6.76%) Big Data
10 39 (5.99%) Metadata
11 38 (5.84%) Relational Database
12 36 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (4.45%) NoSQL
14 26 (3.99%) Data Vault
15 23 (3.53%) Looker
16 20 (3.07%) Semantic Layer
16 20 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 16 (2.46%) Delta Lake
18 15 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (2.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 77 (11.83%) Git
2 30 (4.61%) JIRA
3 28 (4.30%) GitLab
4 24 (3.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.92%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.61%) MLflow
7 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.46%) Snyk
8 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.31%) Selenium
9 2 (0.31%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) GCC
10 1 (0.15%) LSMW
10 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 222 (34.10%) Finance
2 196 (30.11%) Social Skills
3 110 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (13.67%) Banking
5 54 (8.29%) Retail
6 29 (4.45%) Marketing
7 23 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.38%) Financial Institution
9 20 (3.07%) Front Office
9 20 (3.07%) Investment Banking
10 19 (2.92%) Public Sector
11 17 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (2.00%) Legal
15 11 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.23%) Billing
17 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 228 (35.02%) Data Engineer
2 120 (18.43%) Senior
3 112 (17.20%) Architect
4 104 (15.98%) Snowflake Engineer
5 76 (11.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 70 (10.75%) Analyst
7 68 (10.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 67 (10.29%) Data Architect
9 51 (7.83%) Lead
10 43 (6.61%) Data Analyst
11 35 (5.38%) Developer
12 28 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (3.69%) Python Engineer
14 23 (3.53%) Business Analyst
15 22 (3.38%) AWS Data Engineer
15 22 (3.38%) Snowflake Architect
16 19 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (2.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 15 (2.30%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (13.82%) Terraform
2 71 (10.91%) Kafka
3 36 (5.53%) REST
4 29 (4.45%) PySpark
5 18 (2.76%) .NET
6 12 (1.84%) React
7 9 (1.38%) Spring
7 9 (1.38%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.23%) OAuth
8 8 (1.23%) YAML
9 7 (1.08%) JSON
9 7 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.92%) LangGraph
10 6 (0.92%) PyTorch
10 6 (0.92%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.92%) XML
11 5 (0.77%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.68%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.84%) AI Agents
5 20 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.30%) Life Science
8 14 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.00%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (1.69%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.54%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.23%) Clustering
13 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.23%) Equities
13 8 (1.23%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.15%) Linux
2 12 (1.84%) Unix
3 3 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (43.63%) Analytics
2 259 (39.78%) Data Engineering
3 240 (36.87%) Data Modelling
4 236 (36.25%) CI/CD
5 231 (35.48%) Data Pipeline
6 229 (35.18%) ETL
7 204 (31.34%) Business Intelligence
8 202 (31.03%) AI
9 168 (25.81%) Agile
10 153 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 135 (20.74%) DevOps
12 126 (19.35%) Data Governance
13 114 (17.51%) Data Architecture
14 112 (17.20%) Migration
15 102 (15.67%) Validation
16 93 (14.29%) Data Transformation
17 88 (13.52%) Machine Learning
18 83 (12.75%) Decision-Making
19 79 (12.14%) Data Integration
20 77 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 371 (56.99%) SQL
2 331 (50.84%) Python
3 55 (8.45%) Java
4 15 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.84%) R
6 11 (1.69%) Bash
7 10 (1.54%) C#
8 9 (1.38%) Scala
9 8 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.77%) Bicep
12 4 (0.61%) C++
12 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.46%) Cypher
13 3 (0.46%) Delphi
13 3 (0.46%) SHACL
13 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.31%) LookML
14 2 (0.31%) SOQL
14 2 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 44 (6.76%) Degree
3 31 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (4.15%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.30%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.38%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.61%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.46%) CSPO
13 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.15%) CISM
15 1 (0.15%) CISSP
15 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (26.73%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.84%) GDPR
3 36 (5.53%) QA
4 6 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.61%) GRC
6 4 (0.61%) MiFID
6 4 (0.61%) PMO
6 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.61%) SLA
7 3 (0.46%) EMIR
8 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (7.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.38%) Grafana
3 6 (0.92%) Ansible
3 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.61%) Control-M
5 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (30.11%) Databricks
2 81 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.99%) Google
4 36 (5.53%) Informatica
4 36 (5.53%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.30%) Oracle
6 23 (3.53%) SAP
7 12 (1.84%) Foundry
7 12 (1.84%) Talend
7 12 (1.84%) Teradata
8 11 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.38%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.38%) Workday
11 8 (1.23%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.23%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.08%) Denodo
13 6 (0.92%) Bloomberg
13 6 (0.92%) Charles River
14 5 (0.77%) Sage