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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 220 256
Rank change year-on-year -29 +36 +189
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 482 352 383
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.22% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 3.24% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 270 309
10th Percentile £370 £412 £425
25th Percentile £449 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -10.00% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £481 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.32% -17.39%
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 17,144 10,856 13,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.68% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,542 7,455 9,874
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £633
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 240 347
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.21 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.60 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% +33.83% -38.94%
75th Percentile £66.25 £48.19 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.65 £21.28 £17.72
% change year-on-year +81.60% +20.09% -29.12%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -41 406 £525 -12.50% 145
London -2 296 £525 -19.23% 100
UK excluding London -68 150 £525 +9.09% 83
Work from Home -40 145 £525 -16.00% 69
Scotland +28 54 £445 -3.89% 6
Midlands -55 31 £550 +12.82% 7
West Midlands -40 29 £550 - 6
North of England -68 24 £563 +12.50% 19
South East -55 19 £575 +24.32% 29
North West -40 17 £550 -0.90% 13
South West -33 16 £498 -5.24% 13
East of England -35 6 £400 -31.03% 4
Yorkshire -50 6 £550 +15.79% 5
East Midlands -26 2 £654 +55.65% 1
Wales -14 1 £250 -61.54% 2
North East -31 1 £575 +35.29% 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 83 (17.22%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (7.68%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.53%) Apache
4 7 (1.45%) Confluence
5 4 (0.83%) SAS
6 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.56%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.04%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 248 (51.45%) AWS
2 185 (38.38%) Azure
3 133 (27.59%) Power Platform
4 104 (21.58%) dbt
5 95 (19.71%) GCP
6 70 (14.52%) Amazon S3
7 46 (9.54%) Serverless
8 42 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (7.47%) GitHub
11 35 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (6.43%) Matillion
13 22 (4.56%) Dagster
14 19 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (3.32%) Prefect
17 15 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (2.70%) SaaS
20 12 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (25.93%) Power BI
2 119 (24.69%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (13.69%) Tableau
4 64 (13.28%) Snowflake Schema
5 42 (8.71%) BigQuery
6 38 (7.88%) SQL Server
7 36 (7.47%) Big Data
7 36 (7.47%) Data Lake
8 30 (6.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (6.22%) Relational Database
9 29 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (4.77%) Data Vault
11 22 (4.56%) Metadata
12 17 (3.53%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (3.11%) Looker
15 12 (2.49%) MySQL
16 9 (1.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.87%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.66%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 48 (9.96%) Git
2 21 (4.36%) GitLab
2 21 (4.36%) JIRA
3 11 (2.28%) SpecFlow
4 9 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.24%) MLflow
6 4 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.83%) ERwin
7 3 (0.62%) Selenium
7 3 (0.62%) Snyk
7 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.62%) Toad
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) GCC
9 1 (0.21%) LSMW
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 158 (32.78%) Finance
2 121 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 61 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.79%) Banking
5 32 (6.64%) Retail
6 26 (5.39%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.98%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.32%) Marketing
9 11 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.66%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.45%) Front Office
11 7 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.24%) Back Office
12 6 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.24%) Legal
13 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 170 (35.27%) Data Engineer
2 93 (19.29%) Snowflake Engineer
3 82 (17.01%) Architect
4 76 (15.77%) Senior
5 73 (15.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 54 (11.20%) Analyst
7 44 (9.13%) Data Architect
8 41 (8.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.88%) Lead
10 35 (7.26%) Data Analyst
11 33 (6.85%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.60%) Developer
13 24 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (4.56%) AWS Data Engineer
15 18 (3.73%) Site Engineer
15 18 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.73%) Snowflake Architect
16 17 (3.53%) Business Analyst
17 14 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
18 13 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.75%) Kafka
2 16 (3.32%) PySpark
3 12 (2.49%) Playwright
4 11 (2.28%) REST
4 11 (2.28%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.07%) PyTorch
5 10 (2.07%) Spring
6 8 (1.66%) .NET
6 8 (1.66%) React
6 8 (1.66%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.45%) Vue
8 6 (1.24%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.04%) OAuth
9 5 (1.04%) OpenID
10 4 (0.83%) JSON
11 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.62%) Middleware
11 3 (0.62%) Pandas
11 3 (0.62%) Snowpark
11 3 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.98%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (2.49%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.07%) Clustering
6 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (2.07%) Equities
6 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.66%) Replication
8 8 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.04%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.07%) Unix
2 8 (1.66%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (44.40%) Analytics
2 174 (36.10%) Data Engineering
3 169 (35.06%) Data Modelling
4 156 (32.37%) Business Intelligence
5 151 (31.33%) ETL
6 149 (30.91%) CI/CD
7 147 (30.50%) Data Pipeline
8 127 (26.35%) AI
9 103 (21.37%) Agile
10 92 (19.09%) Migration
11 88 (18.26%) Data Governance
12 84 (17.43%) DevOps
13 71 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (14.52%) Validation
15 69 (14.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 64 (13.28%) Machine Learning
17 63 (13.07%) Data Architecture
18 58 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
19 52 (10.79%) Decision-Making
19 52 (10.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 260 (53.94%) SQL
2 239 (49.59%) Python
3 50 (10.37%) Java
4 16 (3.32%) C#
5 14 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.28%) Bash
6 11 (2.28%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.07%) R
8 6 (1.24%) Scala
9 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.62%) Bicep
11 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) SOQL
13 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.85%) Degree
3 22 (4.56%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.07%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.66%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.41%) PhD
9 2 (0.41%) SAS Certification
10 1 (0.21%) ACCA
10 1 (0.21%) CFA
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (21.99%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.39%) GDPR
2 26 (5.39%) QA
3 9 (1.87%) SLA
4 4 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.41%) EMIR
6 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) MiFID
6 2 (0.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
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 31 (6.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (13.07%) Terraform
2 25 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.32%) Grafana
4 9 (1.87%) Ansible
5 6 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 139 (28.84%) Databricks
2 47 (9.75%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.02%) Oracle
4 27 (5.60%) Informatica
5 19 (3.94%) Google
6 14 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.90%) SAP
6 14 (2.90%) Talend
7 10 (2.07%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.87%) Teradata
9 8 (1.66%) Greenplum
9 8 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.45%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.45%) Denodo
11 6 (1.24%) Charles River
12 5 (1.04%) FactSet
12 5 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.04%) Splunk
12 5 (1.04%) Workday