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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 227 254
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 +184
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 507 340 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.18% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 3.13% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 263 323
10th Percentile £377 £413 £416
25th Percentile £449 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -10.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £868 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -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 17,432 10,854 13,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.64% 37.75% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 7,409 9,915
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 250 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -40.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.15 £71.38 £67.53
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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -34 434 £544 -7.25% 183
London +4 322 £525 -19.23% 127
Work from Home -24 152 £538 -14.00% 81
UK excluding London -62 149 £525 +10.53% 90
Scotland +25 51 £445 -3.89% 5
Midlands -43 32 £550 +12.82% 8
West Midlands -42 30 £550 - 5
North of England -68 24 £575 +15.00% 30
South East -49 20 £575 +24.32% 35
North West -28 17 £588 +5.86% 18
South West -39 15 £475 -9.52% 7
East of England -35 7 £544 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire -52 6 £550 +15.79% 8
East Midlands -28 2 £654 +55.65% 3
Wales -12 1 £250 -61.54%
North East -29 1 £575 +35.29% 4

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 89 (17.55%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (8.09%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.55%) Apache
4 7 (1.38%) Confluence
5 4 (0.79%) SAS
6 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.39%) 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 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.14%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.99%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.39%) 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
1 257 (50.69%) AWS
2 198 (39.05%) Azure
3 144 (28.40%) Power Platform
4 116 (22.88%) dbt
5 101 (19.92%) GCP
6 72 (14.20%) Amazon S3
7 50 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (8.68%) Serverless
9 43 (8.48%) GitHub
10 40 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 34 (6.71%) Matillion
13 24 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (4.34%) Dagster
15 18 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (3.35%) Prefect
17 16 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (3.16%) Fivetran
17 16 (3.16%) SaaS
18 15 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) DNS
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
2 1 (0.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (26.82%) Power BI
2 132 (26.04%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (14.40%) Tableau
4 72 (14.20%) Snowflake Schema
5 48 (9.47%) BigQuery
6 43 (8.48%) Data Lake
7 40 (7.89%) Big Data
8 39 (7.69%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (6.11%) Relational Database
11 28 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (4.93%) Data Vault
13 23 (4.54%) Metadata
14 21 (4.14%) NoSQL
15 17 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (3.16%) Looker
17 12 (2.37%) MySQL
18 10 (1.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 9 (1.78%) Delta Lake
19 9 (1.78%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 53 (10.45%) Git
2 26 (5.13%) GitLab
3 22 (4.34%) JIRA
4 14 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.78%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.18%) MLflow
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
7 3 (0.59%) Snyk
7 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.59%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.59%) Toad
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.39%) ERwin
9 1 (0.20%) GCC
9 1 (0.20%) LSMW
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 172 (33.93%) Finance
2 128 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 66 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (10.65%) Banking
5 37 (7.30%) Retail
6 27 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.34%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.94%) Marketing
9 14 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.97%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.58%) Front Office
12 8 (1.58%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.38%) Back Office
13 7 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.18%) Legal
15 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 180 (35.50%) Data Engineer
2 98 (19.33%) Snowflake Engineer
3 86 (16.96%) Senior
4 84 (16.57%) Architect
5 76 (14.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 56 (11.05%) Analyst
7 46 (9.07%) Data Architect
7 46 (9.07%) Senior Data Engineer
8 39 (7.69%) Lead
9 37 (7.30%) Data Analyst
10 34 (6.71%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (5.52%) Developer
12 24 (4.73%) AWS Data Engineer
12 24 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.75%) Site Engineer
13 19 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (3.55%) Snowflake Architect
15 17 (3.35%) Business Analyst
16 14 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
17 13 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.47%) Kafka
2 17 (3.35%) PySpark
3 15 (2.96%) REST
4 10 (1.97%) Playwright
4 10 (1.97%) PyTorch
4 10 (1.97%) Spring
4 10 (1.97%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.78%) .NET
6 8 (1.58%) React
6 8 (1.58%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.38%) Vue
8 6 (1.18%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.99%) OAuth
9 5 (0.99%) OpenID
10 4 (0.79%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.79%) JSON
10 4 (0.79%) XML
11 3 (0.59%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.59%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.59%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.02%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.54%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.37%) Fixed Income
6 10 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.97%) Clustering
6 10 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (1.97%) Equities
6 10 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.78%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.58%) Replication
8 8 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.38%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.99%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.97%) Unix
2 9 (1.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (45.17%) Analytics
2 192 (37.87%) Data Engineering
3 176 (34.71%) Data Modelling
4 166 (32.74%) Data Pipeline
5 165 (32.54%) Business Intelligence
5 165 (32.54%) ETL
6 163 (32.15%) CI/CD
7 137 (27.02%) AI
8 111 (21.89%) Agile
9 94 (18.54%) DevOps
9 94 (18.54%) Migration
10 90 (17.75%) Data Governance
11 76 (14.99%) Validation
12 74 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (13.81%) Data Architecture
15 69 (13.61%) Machine Learning
16 61 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 55 (10.85%) Observability
18 54 (10.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 282 (55.62%) SQL
2 251 (49.51%) Python
3 55 (10.85%) Java
4 14 (2.76%) C#
5 13 (2.56%) Bash
6 12 (2.37%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.37%) R
7 9 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.18%) Scala
9 5 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.59%) Bicep
11 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.39%) Korn
13 1 (0.20%) C
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) SOQL
13 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (8.68%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.51%) Degree
3 23 (4.54%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.97%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.97%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) SAS Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ACCA
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) CIMA
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PhD
11 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (22.49%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.92%) QA
3 29 (5.72%) GDPR
4 9 (1.78%) SLA
5 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.39%) EMIR
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) MiFID
7 2 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (6.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (13.21%) Terraform
2 28 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.55%) Grafana
4 9 (1.78%) Ansible
5 8 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 144 (28.40%) Databricks
2 51 (10.06%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.72%) Oracle
4 28 (5.52%) Informatica
5 19 (3.75%) Google
6 16 (3.16%) SAP
7 13 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.56%) Talend
8 10 (1.97%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.78%) Teradata
10 8 (1.58%) Denodo
10 8 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.38%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.38%) Greenplum
12 6 (1.18%) Charles River
12 6 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.18%) Splunk
13 5 (0.99%) FactSet
13 5 (0.99%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.99%) Workday