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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 223 252
Rank change year-on-year -23 +29 +204
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 498 348 396
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.22% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 3.23% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 268 318
10th Percentile £364 £410 £419
25th Percentile £441 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -10.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 17,337 10,775 13,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.57% 37.71% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,387 9,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 238 344
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.10 £72.50 £66.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -48 424 £525 -12.50% 199
London -2 313 £525 -19.23% 137
Work from Home -42 150 £525 -16.00% 89
UK excluding London -74 149 £523 +10.00% 89
Scotland +29 52 £445 -3.89% 6
Midlands -57 32 £550 +12.82% 8
West Midlands -45 30 £550 - 5
North of England -69 24 £575 +15.00% 32
South East -56 20 £575 +24.32% 28
North West -37 17 £588 +5.86% 21
South West -39 15 £475 -9.52% 9
East of England -36 6 £400 -31.03% 5
Yorkshire -51 6 £550 +15.79% 8
East Midlands -33 2 £654 +55.65% 3
Wales -16 1 £250 -61.54%
North East -27 1 £575 +35.29% 3

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 87 (17.47%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (8.43%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.61%) Apache
4 7 (1.41%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) SAS
6 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.42%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.00%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.40%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 255 (51.20%) AWS
2 196 (39.36%) Azure
3 140 (28.11%) Power Platform
4 111 (22.29%) dbt
5 99 (19.88%) GCP
6 71 (14.26%) Amazon S3
7 47 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (9.24%) Serverless
9 41 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (8.23%) GitHub
10 40 (8.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (6.43%) Matillion
12 23 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (4.42%) Dagster
14 19 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (3.41%) Prefect
16 16 (3.21%) SaaS
17 15 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (2.81%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (26.51%) Power BI
2 126 (25.30%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (14.46%) Tableau
4 70 (14.06%) Snowflake Schema
5 46 (9.24%) BigQuery
6 43 (8.63%) Data Lake
7 40 (8.03%) Big Data
8 37 (7.43%) SQL Server
9 33 (6.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (6.22%) Relational Database
11 28 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (5.02%) Data Vault
13 23 (4.62%) Metadata
14 19 (3.82%) NoSQL
15 17 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (3.21%) Looker
17 12 (2.41%) MySQL
18 10 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 9 (1.81%) Delta Lake
19 9 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 51 (10.24%) Git
2 24 (4.82%) GitLab
3 22 (4.42%) JIRA
4 12 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.01%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.20%) MLflow
7 4 (0.80%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.80%) ERwin
8 3 (0.60%) Selenium
8 3 (0.60%) Snyk
8 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.60%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.60%) Toad
9 2 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.20%) GCC
10 1 (0.20%) LSMW
10 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 165 (33.13%) Finance
2 128 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 67 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.24%) Banking
5 36 (7.23%) Retail
6 27 (5.42%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 20 (4.02%) Marketing
9 13 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.61%) Front Office
12 7 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.20%) Back Office
13 6 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.20%) Legal
14 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (35.14%) Data Engineer
2 95 (19.08%) Snowflake Engineer
3 83 (16.67%) Architect
4 82 (16.47%) Senior
5 74 (14.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 56 (11.24%) Analyst
7 45 (9.04%) Data Architect
8 42 (8.43%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (7.83%) Lead
10 37 (7.43%) Data Analyst
11 33 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (5.62%) Developer
13 24 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (4.42%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (3.82%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.61%) Snowflake Architect
17 17 (3.41%) Business Analyst
18 14 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
19 13 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.64%) Kafka
2 17 (3.41%) PySpark
3 13 (2.61%) REST
4 11 (2.21%) Playwright
4 11 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.01%) PyTorch
5 10 (2.01%) Spring
6 9 (1.81%) .NET
7 8 (1.61%) React
7 8 (1.61%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.41%) Vue
9 6 (1.20%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.00%) OAuth
10 5 (1.00%) OpenID
11 4 (0.80%) JSON
11 4 (0.80%) XML
12 3 (0.60%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.60%) Middleware
12 3 (0.60%) Snowpark
12 3 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.85%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.82%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.82%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.41%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.01%) Clustering
6 10 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (2.01%) Equities
6 10 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.61%) Replication
8 8 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (1.00%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.01%) Unix
2 8 (1.61%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (45.38%) Analytics
2 187 (37.55%) Data Engineering
3 174 (34.94%) Data Modelling
4 164 (32.93%) Business Intelligence
5 162 (32.53%) Data Pipeline
6 161 (32.33%) ETL
7 157 (31.53%) CI/CD
8 136 (27.31%) AI
9 110 (22.09%) Agile
10 92 (18.47%) Migration
11 91 (18.27%) Data Governance
11 91 (18.27%) DevOps
12 75 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (15.06%) Validation
13 71 (14.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (14.06%) Machine Learning
15 67 (13.45%) Data Architecture
16 59 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 54 (10.84%) Decision-Making
17 54 (10.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 275 (55.22%) SQL
2 251 (50.40%) Python
3 54 (10.84%) Java
4 15 (3.01%) C#
5 13 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.41%) Bash
6 12 (2.41%) R
7 10 (2.01%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.20%) Scala
9 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.60%) Bicep
10 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.40%) Korn
12 1 (0.20%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.20%) SOQL
12 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (8.63%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.63%) Degree
3 23 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.01%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.81%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.40%) PhD
10 2 (0.40%) SAS Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ACCA
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) CIMA
11 1 (0.20%) CSPO
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (22.69%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.82%) GDPR
2 29 (5.82%) QA
3 9 (1.81%) SLA
4 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.40%) EMIR
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.40%) MiFID
6 2 (0.40%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.20%) FATCA
7 1 (0.20%) GAAP
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (6.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (13.05%) Terraform
2 27 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.41%) Grafana
4 8 (1.61%) Ansible
5 7 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 144 (28.92%) Databricks
2 50 (10.04%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.82%) Oracle
4 28 (5.62%) Informatica
5 19 (3.82%) Google
6 15 (3.01%) SAP
7 14 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.81%) Talend
8 11 (2.21%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.81%) Teradata
10 8 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.41%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.41%) Denodo
11 7 (1.41%) Greenplum
12 6 (1.20%) Charles River
12 6 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.20%) Splunk
13 5 (1.00%) FactSet
13 5 (1.00%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.00%) Workday