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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 232 189
Rank change year-on-year +9 -43 +169
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 675 393 489
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.20% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 3.15% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 294 388
10th Percentile £400 £401 £419
25th Percentile £463 £463 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.34%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £453
% change year-on-year +15.79% +4.86% -24.50%
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 £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £50.16 £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 18,804 12,465 13,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 37.99% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,482 8,332 8,711
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 292 185
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.90 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +29.67%

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 28 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 28 September 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 28 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 +5 592 £575 +4.55% 732
London +12 436 £575 -6.12% 508
Work from Home -15 207 £600 -2.04% 399
UK excluding London -22 190 £550 +15.79% 326
Scotland -3 43 £423 -8.89% 48
North of England -49 38 £500 +17.65% 95
South East -46 32 £616 +20.20% 54
Midlands -30 29 £510 +10.27% 28
North West -39 26 £513 +25.00% 63
West Midlands -32 25 £550 +10.00% 16
South West -35 23 £650 +36.84% 40
East of England -23 16 £380 -24.00% 15
Yorkshire -37 9 £400 -15.79% 22
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 43
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +12.85% 12
North East -38 3 - - 10
Wales -14 1 £650 - 4

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
1 140 (20.74%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (8.74%) Apache Spark
3 43 (6.37%) Apache
4 18 (2.67%) Confluence
5 15 (2.22%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.59%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (2.52%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.74%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.74%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.74%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.30%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 351 (52.00%) AWS
2 288 (42.67%) Azure
3 198 (29.33%) dbt
4 178 (26.37%) Power Platform
5 146 (21.63%) GCP
6 87 (12.89%) GitHub
7 76 (11.26%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (8.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 57 (8.44%) Serverless
11 51 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 27 (4.00%) SaaS
15 26 (3.85%) Fivetran
16 20 (2.96%) Collibra
17 19 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.67%) Dagster
19 17 (2.52%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (2.52%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.30%) DSL
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) Network Security
2 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (31.70%) Data Warehouse
2 175 (25.93%) Power BI
3 94 (13.93%) Data Lake
4 81 (12.00%) Tableau
5 77 (11.41%) BigQuery
6 71 (10.52%) Snowflake Schema
7 65 (9.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (7.11%) Metadata
9 45 (6.67%) SQL Server
10 43 (6.37%) Big Data
11 40 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
12 36 (5.33%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.30%) NoSQL
14 26 (3.85%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.11%) Looker
16 20 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (2.81%) Delta Lake
18 15 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 15 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
19 14 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 81 (12.00%) Git
2 34 (5.04%) JIRA
3 28 (4.15%) GitLab
4 23 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.04%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.74%) MLflow
7 4 (0.59%) Snyk
7 4 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.30%) ERwin
9 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 217 (32.15%) Finance
2 201 (29.78%) Social Skills
3 116 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (12.89%) Banking
5 55 (8.15%) Retail
6 29 (4.30%) Marketing
7 24 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.96%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.52%) Front Office
10 17 (2.52%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 16 (2.37%) Legal
12 12 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.48%) Billing
13 10 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 236 (34.96%) Data Engineer
2 132 (19.56%) Senior
3 117 (17.33%) Architect
4 110 (16.30%) Snowflake Engineer
5 83 (12.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 74 (10.96%) Data Architect
6 74 (10.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 73 (10.81%) Analyst
8 45 (6.67%) Lead
9 42 (6.22%) Data Analyst
10 38 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
10 38 (5.63%) Developer
11 32 (4.74%) AWS Data Engineer
12 24 (3.56%) Business Analyst
12 24 (3.56%) Python Engineer
13 22 (3.26%) Snowflake Architect
14 20 (2.96%) Consultant
15 19 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.37%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (14.81%) Terraform
2 75 (11.11%) Kafka
3 40 (5.93%) REST
4 35 (5.19%) PySpark
5 18 (2.67%) .NET
6 10 (1.48%) FastAPI
6 10 (1.48%) JSON
6 10 (1.48%) React
6 10 (1.48%) YAML
7 9 (1.33%) Spring
7 9 (1.33%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.19%) OAuth
9 6 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.89%) AWS CDK
9 6 (0.89%) LangChain
9 6 (0.89%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (0.89%) XML
10 5 (0.74%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.74%) Langfuse
10 5 (0.74%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.63%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 22 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.37%) Life Science
8 15 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.22%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.63%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.48%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.19%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.19%) Replication
14 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.07%) Linux
2 10 (1.48%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (44.15%) Analytics
2 264 (39.11%) Data Engineering
3 260 (38.52%) Data Modelling
4 240 (35.56%) Data Pipeline
5 236 (34.96%) CI/CD
6 231 (34.22%) ETL
7 218 (32.30%) AI
8 198 (29.33%) Business Intelligence
9 175 (25.93%) Agile
10 158 (23.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 134 (19.85%) DevOps
12 133 (19.70%) Data Governance
13 129 (19.11%) Data Architecture
14 115 (17.04%) Migration
15 110 (16.30%) Data Transformation
16 108 (16.00%) Validation
17 97 (14.37%) Decision-Making
18 88 (13.04%) Machine Learning
19 86 (12.74%) Data Integration
19 86 (12.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 403 (59.70%) SQL
2 336 (49.78%) Python
3 52 (7.70%) Java
4 19 (2.81%) PowerShell
5 13 (1.93%) Bash
5 13 (1.93%) R
5 13 (1.93%) Scala
6 10 (1.48%) C#
6 10 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.04%) Bicep
9 4 (0.59%) C++
9 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.44%) Cypher
10 3 (0.44%) Delphi
10 3 (0.44%) SHACL
10 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) Korn
11 2 (0.30%) LookML
11 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 40 (5.93%) Degree
3 26 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.78%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.78%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.19%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.59%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.44%) CSPO
11 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CISSP
13 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (27.70%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.33%) GDPR
3 34 (5.04%) QA
4 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.59%) GRC
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.59%) MiFID
5 4 (0.59%) PMO
5 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.44%) EMIR
6 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 52 (7.70%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.11%) Grafana
3 7 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.89%) Ansible
5 4 (0.59%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 216 (32.00%) Databricks
2 95 (14.07%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.48%) Google
4 35 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 34 (5.04%) Informatica
6 29 (4.30%) Oracle
7 20 (2.96%) SAP
8 12 (1.78%) Talend
9 11 (1.63%) Foundry
9 11 (1.63%) Teradata
9 11 (1.63%) Workday
10 10 (1.48%) MicroStrategy
10 10 (1.48%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.19%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.04%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.04%) Denodo
13 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.74%) Confluent
14 5 (0.74%) Sage