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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 217 215
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +176
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 600 395 464
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.13% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.20% 3.21% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 302 392
10th Percentile £405 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £553 £800
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -30.94% +39.13%
75th Percentile £664 £800 £875
90th Percentile £750 £848 £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 18,762 12,315 13,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.35% 37.40% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,247 9,481
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 316 300
10th Percentile £16.60 £15.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.51 £16.29
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +97.35% -10.14% -19.23%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -21 519 £575 - 239
London -1 373 £575 -9.80% 165
Work from Home -35 188 £600 -7.69% 114
UK excluding London -55 183 £500 +5.26% 105
Scotland +9 47 £430 -7.03% 5
North of England -57 42 £525 +7.69% 32
Midlands -40 33 £518 +8.95% 11
North West -30 29 £525 -5.41% 18
West Midlands -41 29 £563 +12.50% 8
South East -69 25 £575 +15.00% 41
South West -46 19 £573 +11.71% 11
East of England -32 10 £380 -29.63% 2
Yorkshire -44 10 £550 +15.79% 11
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 1
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +10.83% 3
North East -42 3 - - 3
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
1 108 (18.00%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (7.17%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.17%) Apache
4 16 (2.67%) Confluence
5 10 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.83%) 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 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (4.00%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.50%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.33%) 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
1 301 (50.17%) AWS
2 225 (37.50%) Azure
3 171 (28.50%) Power Platform
4 146 (24.33%) dbt
5 131 (21.83%) GCP
6 84 (14.00%) Amazon S3
7 55 (9.17%) GitHub
8 50 (8.33%) Serverless
9 47 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (7.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 36 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (4.17%) Fivetran
12 25 (4.17%) Matillion
13 24 (4.00%) Dagster
14 21 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (3.00%) Prefect
16 17 (2.83%) SaaS
17 16 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
1 3 (0.50%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) 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
1 175 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
2 168 (28.00%) Power BI
3 83 (13.83%) Tableau
4 76 (12.67%) BigQuery
5 74 (12.33%) Data Lake
6 69 (11.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 52 (8.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.50%) SQL Server
9 44 (7.33%) Big Data
10 35 (5.83%) Relational Database
11 33 (5.50%) Metadata
11 33 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
12 28 (4.67%) NoSQL
13 23 (3.83%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (3.33%) Looker
16 17 (2.83%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (2.17%) MySQL
18 12 (2.00%) Delta Lake
18 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 62 (10.33%) Git
2 34 (5.67%) JIRA
3 26 (4.33%) GitLab
4 18 (3.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.00%) MLflow
6 5 (0.83%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.50%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.50%) Snyk
8 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.33%) Selenium
9 2 (0.33%) Toad
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) ERwin
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 211 (35.17%) Finance
2 164 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 87 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (13.50%) Banking
5 49 (8.17%) Retail
6 28 (4.67%) Marketing
7 23 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.50%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.00%) Front Office
11 14 (2.33%) Legal
12 12 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.33%) Back Office
16 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 205 (34.17%) Data Engineer
2 106 (17.67%) Architect
3 104 (17.33%) Snowflake Engineer
4 96 (16.00%) Senior
5 78 (13.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 67 (11.17%) Analyst
7 59 (9.83%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 45 (7.50%) Lead
10 42 (7.00%) Data Analyst
11 39 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (4.67%) Developer
12 28 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (4.33%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (3.67%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.17%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.17%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.00%) Snowflake Architect
17 16 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (9.67%) Kafka
2 24 (4.00%) REST
3 18 (3.00%) PySpark
4 10 (1.67%) .NET
4 10 (1.67%) React
4 10 (1.67%) Spring
4 10 (1.67%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.50%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.17%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (1.17%) OAuth
6 7 (1.17%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.17%) Vue
7 6 (1.00%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.00%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.00%) JSON
7 6 (1.00%) XML
7 6 (1.00%) YAML
8 5 (0.83%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (0.83%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.33%) Data Structures
3 23 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.33%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.83%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.67%) Equities
11 9 (1.50%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.17%) Clustering
12 7 (1.17%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.00%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.00%) Replication
14 5 (0.83%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.83%) Unix
2 10 (1.67%) Linux
3 2 (0.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (45.50%) Analytics
2 237 (39.50%) Data Engineering
3 215 (35.83%) Data Pipeline
4 210 (35.00%) Data Modelling
5 199 (33.17%) ETL
6 196 (32.67%) Business Intelligence
7 195 (32.50%) CI/CD
8 168 (28.00%) AI
9 137 (22.83%) Agile
10 116 (19.33%) Data Governance
11 110 (18.33%) Migration
11 110 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 104 (17.33%) DevOps
13 101 (16.83%) Data Architecture
14 98 (16.33%) Validation
15 81 (13.50%) Data Transformation
16 80 (13.33%) Machine Learning
17 70 (11.67%) Decision-Making
17 70 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 69 (11.50%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 332 (55.33%) SQL
2 296 (49.33%) Python
3 55 (9.17%) Java
4 14 (2.33%) R
5 13 (2.17%) Bash
6 10 (1.67%) C#
6 10 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.17%) Scala
7 7 (1.17%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.67%) Bicep
9 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.50%) Cypher
10 3 (0.50%) Delphi
10 3 (0.50%) SHACL
11 2 (0.33%) Korn
11 2 (0.33%) SOQL
11 2 (0.33%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.50%) Degree
3 29 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.17%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.67%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.50%) CSPO
13 2 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CISSP
14 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (25.50%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.83%) GDPR
3 30 (5.00%) QA
4 12 (2.00%) SLA
5 6 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) EMIR
7 3 (0.50%) MiFID
7 3 (0.50%) PMO
8 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 39 (6.50%) Docker
2 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (13.50%) Terraform
2 37 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.17%) Grafana
4 9 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.67%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 178 (29.67%) Databricks
2 68 (11.33%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.50%) Google
3 33 (5.50%) Informatica
4 30 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 29 (4.83%) Oracle
6 22 (3.67%) SAP
7 12 (2.00%) Talend
8 11 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.67%) Charles River
10 9 (1.50%) Denodo
10 9 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.50%) Teradata
10 9 (1.50%) Workday
11 8 (1.33%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.33%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.17%) FactSet
12 7 (1.17%) Splunk
13 6 (1.00%) Bloomberg
13 6 (1.00%) Foundry