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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 219 282
Rank change year-on-year -29 +63 +183
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 473 359 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.22% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 3.26% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 274 284
10th Percentile £400 £410 £421
25th Percentile £450 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -4.10% +6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £769 £850
90th Percentile £731 £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 17,046 11,024 13,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.80% 37.60% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,541 7,640 9,911
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 253 342
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.92
Median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.75 £48.00 £34.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.50 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.69
% change year-on-year +120.67% +21.68% -28.15%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -58 392 £525 -11.58% 175
London +1 288 £525 -19.23% 100
UK excluding London -65 145 £523 +10.00% 111
Work from Home -47 144 £525 -19.23% 77
Scotland +34 55 £450 -0.11% 8
Midlands -62 27 £525 +7.69% 16
West Midlands -47 24 £518 -5.91% 13
North of England -62 22 £563 +18.42% 25
South East -53 18 £575 +49.84% 43
South West -37 15 £475 -9.52% 14
North West -43 15 £563 +9.22% 16
East of England -36 7 £400 -31.03% 3
Yorkshire -55 6 £550 +15.79% 2
East Midlands -30 3 £575 +36.90% 3
North East -22 1 £575 +35.29% 7
Wales - 1 £250 - 1

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 82 (17.34%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.02%) Apache
4 8 (1.69%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (4.65%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.06%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 237 (50.11%) AWS
2 193 (40.80%) Azure
3 130 (27.48%) Power Platform
4 102 (21.56%) dbt
5 94 (19.87%) GCP
6 69 (14.59%) Amazon S3
7 46 (9.73%) Serverless
8 42 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (7.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 33 (6.98%) GitHub
12 30 (6.34%) Matillion
13 21 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (4.44%) Dagster
14 19 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (3.38%) Prefect
16 13 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Firewall
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (25.79%) Power BI
2 121 (25.58%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (12.05%) Snowflake Schema
3 57 (12.05%) Tableau
4 39 (8.25%) BigQuery
4 39 (8.25%) Data Lake
5 35 (7.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 34 (7.19%) Big Data
7 32 (6.77%) SQL Server
8 28 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (5.29%) Relational Database
10 24 (5.07%) Data Vault
10 24 (5.07%) Metadata
11 17 (3.59%) NoSQL
12 15 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (2.96%) Looker
14 11 (2.33%) MySQL
15 8 (1.69%) DynamoDB
15 8 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (9.73%) Git
2 22 (4.65%) JIRA
3 21 (4.44%) GitLab
4 12 (2.54%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.48%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.48%) ERwin
7 6 (1.27%) MLflow
8 3 (0.63%) Selenium
8 3 (0.63%) Snyk
8 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.63%) Toad
9 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.21%) GCC
10 1 (0.21%) LSMW
10 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 149 (31.50%) Finance
2 119 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.73%) Banking
5 29 (6.13%) Retail
6 22 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.96%) Marketing
9 9 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.69%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.27%) Front Office
13 5 (1.06%) Legal
13 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 169 (35.73%) Data Engineer
2 90 (19.03%) Snowflake Engineer
3 79 (16.70%) Architect
4 72 (15.22%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 70 (14.80%) Senior
6 51 (10.78%) Analyst
7 41 (8.67%) Lead
8 40 (8.46%) Data Architect
9 38 (8.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 33 (6.98%) Data Analyst
11 32 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (4.86%) Developer
12 23 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (4.02%) AWS Data Engineer
14 18 (3.81%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.81%) Snowflake Architect
15 16 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.38%) Site Engineer
15 16 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 15 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.94%) Kafka
2 19 (4.02%) PySpark
3 13 (2.75%) Playwright
4 12 (2.54%) PyTorch
5 11 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 10 (2.11%) Spring
6 10 (2.11%) TensorFlow
7 9 (1.90%) React
8 7 (1.48%) .NET
8 7 (1.48%) REST
8 7 (1.48%) Vue
9 6 (1.27%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.27%) Pandas
10 5 (1.06%) OAuth
10 5 (1.06%) OpenID
11 4 (0.85%) JSON
11 4 (0.85%) NumPy
11 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
12 3 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
2 20 (4.23%) Data Structures
3 13 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.11%) Equities
5 10 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.90%) Clustering
6 9 (1.90%) Replication
6 9 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.27%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.85%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.11%) Unix
2 9 (1.90%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) VMS
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (44.19%) Analytics
2 174 (36.79%) Data Modelling
3 169 (35.73%) Data Engineering
4 152 (32.14%) ETL
5 149 (31.50%) Business Intelligence
6 148 (31.29%) Data Pipeline
7 146 (30.87%) CI/CD
8 118 (24.95%) AI
9 107 (22.62%) Agile
10 91 (19.24%) Data Governance
11 85 (17.97%) DevOps
11 85 (17.97%) Migration
12 73 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (15.01%) Machine Learning
14 67 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (13.53%) Data Architecture
16 60 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
16 60 (12.68%) Validation
17 53 (11.21%) Decision-Making
18 52 (10.99%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 256 (54.12%) SQL
2 236 (49.89%) Python
3 44 (9.30%) Java
4 16 (3.38%) C#
5 15 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.75%) Bash
7 12 (2.54%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.69%) R
9 7 (1.48%) Scala
10 5 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.85%) Bicep
11 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.63%) Korn
12 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (8.03%) Security Cleared
2 32 (6.77%) Degree
3 18 (3.81%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.69%) SnowPro
7 7 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
9 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (22.20%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.50%) GDPR
2 26 (5.50%) QA
3 9 (1.90%) SLA
4 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.42%) EMIR
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) MiFID
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (6.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (13.95%) Terraform
2 25 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.96%) Grafana
4 9 (1.90%) Ansible
5 7 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (29.18%) Databricks
2 52 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.50%) Informatica
3 26 (5.50%) Oracle
4 17 (3.59%) Google
5 16 (3.38%) SAP
6 14 (2.96%) Talend
7 13 (2.75%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.90%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.69%) Greenplum
9 8 (1.69%) Teradata
10 7 (1.48%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.48%) Charles River
10 7 (1.48%) Denodo
10 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.27%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.06%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.06%) Splunk
12 5 (1.06%) Workday