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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 221 207
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +170
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 633 390 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 1.18% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 3.18% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 298 396
10th Percentile £407 £408 £422
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £553 £800
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -30.94% +38.27%
75th Percentile £650 £809 £875
90th Percentile £753 £833 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £80.75 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £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 18,763 12,249 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 37.16% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,394 8,203 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 315 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.19 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -10 550 £571 -0.65% 797
London +9 397 £575 -8.00% 517
Work from Home -44 195 £600 -7.69% 471
UK excluding London -44 187 £525 +10.53% 422
Scotland +17 45 £430 -4.44% 60
North of England -54 43 £525 +10.53% 138
Midlands -35 36 £518 +22.49% 80
West Midlands -29 32 £563 +21.62% 69
North West -30 30 £525 +1.94% 76
South East -55 30 £611 +17.81% 65
South West -49 17 £575 +21.05% 25
East of England -27 10 £380 -34.48% 5
Yorkshire -41 10 £550 +15.79% 22
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 46
East Midlands -7 4 £466 +10.83% 11
North East -42 3 - - 40

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
1 127 (20.06%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (6.95%) Apache Spark
3 36 (5.69%) Apache
4 18 (2.84%) Confluence
5 14 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.79%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.16%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.79%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.79%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.79%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 324 (51.18%) AWS
2 250 (39.49%) Azure
3 175 (27.65%) Power Platform
4 160 (25.28%) dbt
5 136 (21.48%) GCP
6 82 (12.95%) Amazon S3
7 67 (10.58%) GitHub
8 57 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
9 55 (8.69%) Serverless
10 51 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (4.42%) Fivetran
13 25 (3.95%) Matillion
14 24 (3.79%) Dagster
15 19 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (3.00%) Prefect
15 19 (3.00%) SaaS
16 18 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.47%) Broadband
1 3 (0.47%) Internet
2 2 (0.32%) DSL
2 2 (0.32%) Firewall
2 2 (0.32%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) SSH
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (30.49%) Data Warehouse
2 172 (27.17%) Power BI
3 84 (13.27%) Tableau
4 79 (12.48%) Data Lake
5 78 (12.32%) BigQuery
6 70 (11.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 56 (8.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.11%) SQL Server
9 42 (6.64%) Big Data
10 37 (5.85%) Metadata
11 34 (5.37%) Relational Database
12 31 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (4.58%) Data Vault
13 29 (4.58%) NoSQL
14 23 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (3.32%) Looker
16 20 (3.16%) Semantic Layer
17 16 (2.53%) Delta Lake
18 13 (2.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 13 (2.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 74 (11.69%) Git
2 35 (5.53%) JIRA
3 29 (4.58%) GitLab
4 25 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.11%) MLflow
6 5 (0.79%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.63%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.63%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.47%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.47%) Snyk
8 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.32%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.16%) ERwin
10 1 (0.16%) LSMW
10 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 215 (33.97%) Finance
2 190 (30.02%) Social Skills
3 100 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (14.06%) Banking
5 52 (8.21%) Retail
6 30 (4.74%) Marketing
7 25 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.48%) Financial Institution
9 21 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (3.16%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.00%) Front Office
12 15 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (2.21%) Legal
14 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.11%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.79%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (33.81%) Data Engineer
2 109 (17.22%) Architect
3 107 (16.90%) Senior
4 104 (16.43%) Snowflake Engineer
5 78 (12.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 68 (10.74%) Analyst
7 63 (9.95%) Data Architect
8 55 (8.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 54 (8.53%) Lead
10 40 (6.32%) Data Analyst
11 36 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (5.21%) Developer
13 27 (4.27%) AWS Data Engineer
14 23 (3.63%) Business Analyst
15 22 (3.48%) Python Engineer
16 21 (3.32%) Snowflake Architect
16 21 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 16 (2.53%) Site Engineer
18 16 (2.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (10.11%) Kafka
2 32 (5.06%) REST
3 23 (3.63%) PySpark
4 14 (2.21%) .NET
5 10 (1.58%) PyTorch
5 10 (1.58%) React
6 9 (1.42%) Spring
6 9 (1.42%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.26%) OAuth
7 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.11%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (0.95%) AWS CDK
9 6 (0.95%) JSON
9 6 (0.95%) Vue
9 6 (0.95%) XML
9 6 (0.95%) YAML
10 5 (0.79%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.79%) OpenID
10 5 (0.79%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.53%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.84%) AI Agents
6 17 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.21%) Fixed Income
9 13 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.90%) Life Science
10 12 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.58%) Equities
12 9 (1.42%) Reinsurance
13 8 (1.26%) Clustering
14 7 (1.11%) Reference Data
14 7 (1.11%) Replication
15 6 (0.95%) Data Fabric
15 6 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.05%) Linux
2 12 (1.90%) Unix
3 3 (0.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (43.60%) Analytics
2 251 (39.65%) Data Engineering
3 228 (36.02%) Data Pipeline
4 222 (35.07%) CI/CD
4 222 (35.07%) Data Modelling
5 213 (33.65%) ETL
6 199 (31.44%) Business Intelligence
7 183 (28.91%) AI
8 154 (24.33%) Agile
9 136 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 126 (19.91%) DevOps
11 125 (19.75%) Data Governance
12 108 (17.06%) Data Architecture
12 108 (17.06%) Migration
13 97 (15.32%) Validation
14 91 (14.38%) Data Transformation
15 86 (13.59%) Machine Learning
16 78 (12.32%) Decision-Making
17 76 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (11.37%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 350 (55.29%) SQL
2 317 (50.08%) Python
3 56 (8.85%) Java
4 14 (2.21%) R
5 11 (1.74%) Bash
5 11 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.42%) C#
7 7 (1.11%) Scala
8 6 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.95%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.63%) Bicep
9 4 (0.63%) C++
10 3 (0.47%) Cypher
10 3 (0.47%) Delphi
10 3 (0.47%) SHACL
10 3 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.32%) SOQL
11 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (8.69%) Security Cleared
2 47 (7.42%) Degree
3 32 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.05%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.26%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.63%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.47%) CSPO
12 3 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.16%) CISSP
14 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (26.54%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.32%) GDPR
3 36 (5.69%) QA
4 9 (1.42%) SLA
5 5 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.63%) PMO
7 3 (0.47%) EMIR
7 3 (0.47%) MiFID
8 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.32%) GRC
8 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (8.06%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (13.90%) Terraform
2 48 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.95%) Grafana
4 9 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.79%) Ansible
6 4 (0.63%) Control-M
7 2 (0.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 185 (29.23%) Databricks
2 74 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.69%) Google
3 36 (5.69%) Informatica
4 30 (4.74%) Salesforce
5 29 (4.58%) Oracle
6 24 (3.79%) SAP
7 13 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.74%) Workday
9 10 (1.58%) Foundry
9 10 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.42%) Denodo
10 9 (1.42%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.42%) Talend
10 9 (1.42%) Teradata
11 8 (1.26%) Charles River
11 8 (1.26%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.11%) Splunk
13 5 (0.79%) FactSet