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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 225 224
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +199
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 561 364 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.20% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 3.18% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 282 379
10th Percentile £400 £408 £424
25th Percentile £450 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -24.14% +26.09%
75th Percentile £650 £747 £850
90th Percentile £738 £871 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £80.75 - £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 18,048 11,456 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 37.87% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,047 7,701 10,004
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 286 363
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.30 £71.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.01% -20.81%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -21 487 £550 -4.35% 149
London +14 356 £550 -12.00% 95
Work from Home -46 172 £575 -8.00% 70
UK excluding London -71 167 £525 +10.53% 89
Scotland +14 46 £440 -4.86% 12
Midlands -51 34 £550 +12.82% 10
North of England -52 34 £550 +15.79% 24
West Midlands -42 32 £550 +10.00% 5
North West -29 25 £525 -5.41% 20
South East -56 21 £575 +21.05% 28
South West -43 17 £550 +6.02% 7
East of England -36 9 £390 -32.76% 5
Yorkshire -47 6 £550 +18.92% 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £334 - 5
North East -31 3 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -12 2 £654 +55.65% 5
Wales -13 1 £250 -61.54%

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 98 (17.47%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (8.02%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.10%) Apache
4 15 (2.67%) Confluence
5 9 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.07%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.92%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.89%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.71%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.71%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.53%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 285 (50.80%) AWS
2 215 (38.32%) Azure
3 161 (28.70%) Power Platform
4 128 (22.82%) dbt
5 117 (20.86%) GCP
6 84 (14.97%) Amazon S3
7 49 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (8.73%) GitHub
8 45 (8.02%) Serverless
9 43 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (7.49%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (6.24%) Matillion
12 28 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (3.92%) Dagster
13 22 (3.92%) Fivetran
14 19 (3.39%) SaaS
15 18 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) DNS
2 1 (0.18%) DSL
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Intranet
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (27.27%) Power BI
2 152 (27.09%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (14.08%) Tableau
4 73 (13.01%) Snowflake Schema
5 60 (10.70%) BigQuery
6 59 (10.52%) Data Lake
7 44 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 43 (7.66%) Big Data
9 39 (6.95%) SQL Server
10 36 (6.42%) Relational Database
11 31 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.81%) Data Vault
12 27 (4.81%) Metadata
13 23 (4.10%) NoSQL
14 21 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (3.39%) Looker
16 13 (2.32%) MySQL
17 11 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
18 10 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (1.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (9.45%) Git
2 30 (5.35%) JIRA
3 27 (4.81%) GitLab
4 14 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.25%) MLflow
5 7 (1.25%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.53%) Snyk
6 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.53%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.53%) Toad
7 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.18%) ERwin
8 1 (0.18%) GCC
8 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 196 (34.94%) Finance
2 144 (25.67%) Social Skills
3 72 (12.83%) Banking
4 67 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.73%) Retail
6 25 (4.46%) Marketing
6 25 (4.46%) Public Sector
7 22 (3.92%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.67%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.96%) Front Office
12 9 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.60%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.43%) Back Office
13 8 (1.43%) Legal
13 8 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.07%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 201 (35.83%) Data Engineer
2 106 (18.89%) Snowflake Engineer
3 96 (17.11%) Architect
4 92 (16.40%) Senior
5 81 (14.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 60 (10.70%) Analyst
7 51 (9.09%) Data Architect
8 49 (8.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (7.84%) Lead
10 38 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (6.24%) Data Analyst
12 30 (5.35%) Developer
13 27 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (4.46%) AWS Data Engineer
15 24 (4.28%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.39%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (3.21%) Snowflake Architect
18 17 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
19 16 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.63%) Kafka
2 18 (3.21%) PySpark
2 18 (3.21%) REST
3 12 (2.14%) Spring
3 12 (2.14%) Spring Boot
4 10 (1.78%) .NET
5 9 (1.60%) React
6 8 (1.43%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.25%) Playwright
7 7 (1.25%) Vue
8 6 (1.07%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.07%) OAuth
8 6 (1.07%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.89%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.89%) OpenID
9 5 (0.89%) Snowpark
9 5 (0.89%) YAML
10 4 (0.71%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 75 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.32%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.78%) Clustering
9 10 (1.78%) Equities
9 10 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.43%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.25%) Replication
12 6 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.89%) Data Fabric
13 5 (0.89%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.78%) Unix
2 7 (1.25%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (46.88%) Analytics
2 216 (38.50%) Data Engineering
3 195 (34.76%) Data Modelling
4 192 (34.22%) Data Pipeline
5 188 (33.51%) Business Intelligence
6 181 (32.26%) ETL
7 180 (32.09%) CI/CD
8 163 (29.06%) AI
9 125 (22.28%) Agile
10 105 (18.72%) Migration
11 103 (18.36%) Data Governance
12 101 (18.00%) DevOps
13 91 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 89 (15.86%) Validation
15 82 (14.62%) Data Architecture
16 77 (13.73%) Machine Learning
17 71 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 67 (11.94%) Observability
19 66 (11.76%) Data Transformation
19 66 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 299 (53.30%) SQL
2 273 (48.66%) Python
3 59 (10.52%) Java
4 13 (2.32%) Bash
4 13 (2.32%) R
5 11 (1.96%) C#
6 9 (1.60%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.07%) Bicep
9 6 (1.07%) Scala
10 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.36%) Cypher
11 2 (0.36%) Korn
11 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.36%) SHACL
11 2 (0.36%) SOQL
11 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 40 (7.13%) Degree
3 25 (4.46%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.50%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.71%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.53%) CSPO
11 1 (0.18%) ACCA
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.18%) CBAP
11 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (24.06%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.60%) GDPR
3 27 (4.81%) QA
4 9 (1.60%) SLA
5 7 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.53%) EMIR
6 3 (0.53%) MiFID
7 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) PMO
7 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.18%) CDISC
8 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.18%) FATCA
8 1 (0.18%) GAAP
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 40 (7.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (13.90%) Terraform
2 38 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.74%) Grafana
4 9 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.89%) Ansible
6 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 158 (28.16%) Databricks
2 64 (11.41%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.17%) Oracle
4 28 (4.99%) Informatica
5 27 (4.81%) Salesforce
6 24 (4.28%) Google
7 20 (3.57%) SAP
8 12 (2.14%) Talend
9 9 (1.60%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.60%) Teradata
10 8 (1.43%) Denodo
10 8 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.25%) Charles River
11 7 (1.25%) FactSet
11 7 (1.25%) MicroStrategy
11 7 (1.25%) Splunk
12 6 (1.07%) SimCorp
12 6 (1.07%) Workday
13 5 (0.89%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.89%) Amplitude