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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 222 200
Rank change year-on-year -1 -22 +160
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 682 405 478
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.22% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 3.21% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 301 375
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £463 £463 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £800
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -32.81% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £43.58 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £58.30 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 19,011 12,605 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 38.03% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,612 8,423 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 295 189
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £49.13 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -2 599 £575 +4.55% 1,002
London +15 439 £575 -5.58% 677
Work from Home -32 200 £600 - 611
UK excluding London -41 197 £550 +15.79% 508
Scotland -4 45 £428 -7.57% 97
North of England -56 38 £500 +17.65% 145
South East -48 33 £616 +20.20% 90
Midlands -32 32 £500 +8.11% 55
West Midlands -23 28 £520 +4.00% 40
North West -34 27 £525 +28.05% 86
South West -34 24 £650 +36.84% 29
East of England -27 16 £380 -24.00% 30
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 42
Yorkshire -35 8 £400 -15.79% 35
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +12.85% 15
North East -45 3 - - 24
Wales -12 1 £650 - 21

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
1 146 (21.41%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (8.94%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.33%) Apache
4 18 (2.64%) Confluence
5 15 (2.20%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.73%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (2.49%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.73%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.73%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.29%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.29%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.29%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 353 (51.76%) AWS
2 295 (43.26%) Azure
3 207 (30.35%) dbt
4 185 (27.13%) Power Platform
5 150 (21.99%) GCP
6 90 (13.20%) GitHub
7 75 (11.00%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 63 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (8.50%) Serverless
11 52 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 30 (4.40%) SaaS
15 29 (4.25%) Fivetran
16 20 (2.93%) Collibra
17 19 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.64%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.29%) DSL
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
2 2 (0.29%) Internet
2 2 (0.29%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (32.26%) Data Warehouse
2 182 (26.69%) Power BI
3 96 (14.08%) Data Lake
4 81 (11.88%) Tableau
5 80 (11.73%) BigQuery
6 72 (10.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 69 (10.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (7.48%) Metadata
9 46 (6.74%) SQL Server
10 42 (6.16%) Big Data
11 41 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
12 35 (5.13%) Relational Database
13 28 (4.11%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.67%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.08%) Looker
15 21 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (2.93%) Delta Lake
17 16 (2.35%) Apache Iceberg
17 16 (2.35%) Semantic Layer
18 15 (2.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 85 (12.46%) Git
2 35 (5.13%) JIRA
3 31 (4.55%) GitLab
4 22 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.03%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.73%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.73%) Snyk
6 5 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.59%) MLflow
8 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) ERwin
9 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 222 (32.55%) Finance
2 209 (30.65%) Social Skills
3 120 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.61%) Banking
5 55 (8.06%) Retail
6 29 (4.25%) Marketing
7 24 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.93%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (2.49%) Front Office
11 17 (2.49%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.49%) Legal
11 17 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.76%) Billing
12 12 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.03%) Automotive
15 7 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 241 (35.34%) Data Engineer
2 132 (19.35%) Senior
3 113 (16.57%) Architect
4 112 (16.42%) Snowflake Engineer
5 85 (12.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 76 (11.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 75 (11.00%) Analyst
8 70 (10.26%) Data Architect
9 45 (6.60%) Lead
10 42 (6.16%) Data Analyst
11 39 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (5.57%) Developer
13 33 (4.84%) AWS Data Engineer
14 26 (3.81%) Business Analyst
15 24 (3.52%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.23%) Snowflake Architect
17 21 (3.08%) Consultant
18 19 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
19 16 (2.35%) Databricks Engineer
20 15 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (14.96%) Terraform
2 77 (11.29%) Kafka
3 41 (6.01%) REST
4 37 (5.43%) PySpark
5 18 (2.64%) .NET
6 11 (1.61%) FastAPI
7 10 (1.47%) JSON
7 10 (1.47%) React
7 10 (1.47%) YAML
8 8 (1.17%) AWS CDK
8 8 (1.17%) OAuth
8 8 (1.17%) Spring
8 8 (1.17%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.03%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.03%) LangChain
10 6 (0.88%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.88%) OpenID
10 6 (0.88%) Pandas
10 6 (0.88%) pytest
10 6 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.16%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.25%) AI Agents
5 23 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.64%) Life Science
8 15 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.20%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.76%) Taxonomies
11 11 (1.61%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.47%) Data Fabric
13 9 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.17%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.17%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.35%) Linux
2 11 (1.61%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (45.16%) Analytics
2 276 (40.47%) Data Engineering
3 271 (39.74%) Data Modelling
4 254 (37.24%) Data Pipeline
5 249 (36.51%) CI/CD
6 241 (35.34%) ETL
7 226 (33.14%) AI
8 207 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
9 182 (26.69%) Agile
10 158 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 137 (20.09%) DevOps
12 135 (19.79%) Data Governance
13 128 (18.77%) Data Architecture
14 119 (17.45%) Migration
15 113 (16.57%) Data Transformation
16 111 (16.28%) Validation
17 101 (14.81%) Decision-Making
18 91 (13.34%) Infrastructure as Code
19 90 (13.20%) Machine Learning
20 89 (13.05%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 413 (60.56%) SQL
2 349 (51.17%) Python
3 50 (7.33%) Java
4 20 (2.93%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.20%) Scala
6 13 (1.91%) Bash
6 13 (1.91%) R
7 11 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.47%) C#
9 8 (1.17%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.03%) Bicep
11 4 (0.59%) C++
11 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.44%) Cypher
12 3 (0.44%) Delphi
12 3 (0.44%) LookML
12 3 (0.44%) SHACL
13 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 45 (6.60%) Security Cleared
2 40 (5.87%) Degree
3 26 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (3.67%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.76%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.76%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.76%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.17%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.59%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.44%) CSPO
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (28.89%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.43%) GDPR
3 34 (4.99%) QA
4 5 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.73%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.59%) GRC
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.59%) MiFID
6 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.44%) EMIR
6 3 (0.44%) PMO
6 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.15%) CDISC
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (7.77%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.23%) Grafana
3 8 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.03%) Ansible
5 5 (0.73%) Control-M
6 2 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 217 (31.82%) Databricks
2 98 (14.37%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.43%) Google
4 35 (5.13%) Informatica
5 34 (4.99%) Salesforce
6 31 (4.55%) Oracle
7 20 (2.93%) SAP
8 13 (1.91%) Talend
9 11 (1.61%) Teradata
9 11 (1.61%) Workday
10 10 (1.47%) MicroStrategy
10 10 (1.47%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.32%) Foundry
11 9 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.17%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.03%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.03%) Denodo
13 7 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.73%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.73%) Sage