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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 249 315
Rank change year-on-year +18 +66 +131
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 468 304 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.18% 0.99% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 2.64% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 193 226
10th Percentile £341 £375 £414
25th Percentile £413 £484 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £602 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -3.95% -6.86% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £50.98 - -
25th Percentile £52.44 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £64.44 - £53.75
90th Percentile £67.33 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.25 - £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 15,086 11,514 14,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.01% 37.41% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,363 7,692 10,630
10th Percentile £308 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 172 321
10th Percentile £14.47 £16.78 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.21% +21.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.94 £51.58
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +53.02% +16.42% +3.85%

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 11 February 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
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 11 February 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 +13 379 £525 -12.50% 129
London +34 290 £525 -19.23% 66
Work from Home +24 154 £525 -19.23% 74
UK excluding London -25 124 £456 -3.95% 99
Scotland +45 47 £450 -5.26% 11
South West -16 18 £475 -11.63% 9
South East -32 17 £513 +34.43% 36
North of England -58 17 £347 -21.92% 23
North West -25 15 £344 -21.37% 16
Midlands -66 14 £525 +5.00% 16
West Midlands -56 10 £488 -11.36% 14
East of England -15 9 £550 +4.76% 4
East Midlands -25 4 £575 +33.72% 2
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -14 1 £575 -11.54% 2
Yorkshire -58 1 £488 +8.33% 5

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 (19.02%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.26%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.77%) Apache
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.85%) SAS
6 3 (0.64%) Confluence
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Luigi
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (5.13%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 245 (52.35%) AWS
2 225 (48.08%) Azure
3 113 (24.15%) Power Platform
4 105 (22.44%) dbt
5 90 (19.23%) GCP
6 53 (11.32%) Serverless
7 49 (10.47%) Amazon S3
8 39 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (5.98%) Matillion
12 25 (5.34%) GitHub
13 21 (4.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.63%) SaaS
15 15 (3.21%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (2.99%) Fivetran
17 13 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (2.14%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (31.62%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (22.86%) Power BI
3 55 (11.75%) Data Lake
3 55 (11.75%) Snowflake Schema
4 44 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (8.97%) Tableau
6 34 (7.26%) BigQuery
7 30 (6.41%) Metadata
8 27 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (5.56%) Big Data
10 25 (5.34%) Data Vault
10 25 (5.34%) NoSQL
11 24 (5.13%) Relational Database
12 21 (4.49%) SQL Server
13 16 (3.42%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (2.78%) Star Schema
15 10 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (1.92%) Looker
16 9 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 46 (9.83%) Git
2 22 (4.70%) GitLab
3 19 (4.06%) JIRA
4 17 (3.63%) ERwin
5 15 (3.21%) ER Studio
6 13 (2.78%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.92%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (1.71%) DBeaver
9 6 (1.28%) Jenkins
10 5 (1.07%) MLflow
11 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.64%) Selenium
11 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.64%) Toad
12 2 (0.43%) TestRail
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.21%) Deequ
General
1 129 (27.56%) Finance
2 116 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 72 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.48%) Banking
5 21 (4.49%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 18 (3.85%) Retail
7 15 (3.21%) Front Office
8 13 (2.78%) Marketing
9 12 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.07%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.64%) Law
17 2 (0.43%) Back Office
17 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 155 (33.12%) Data Engineer
2 80 (17.09%) Snowflake Engineer
3 62 (13.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 61 (13.03%) Analyst
5 59 (12.61%) Architect
6 48 (10.26%) Data Analyst
7 44 (9.40%) Senior
8 36 (7.69%) Developer
9 35 (7.48%) Lead
10 32 (6.84%) Data Architect
11 29 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.77%) Python Engineer
13 26 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (5.34%) Data Modeller
15 22 (4.70%) Snowflake Architect
16 18 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
17 17 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 17 (3.63%) Python Data Engineer
17 17 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.56%) Kafka
2 23 (4.91%) Pandas
3 21 (4.49%) PySpark
4 18 (3.85%) PyTorch
5 17 (3.63%) NumPy
6 16 (3.42%) Playwright
7 14 (2.99%) TensorFlow
8 12 (2.56%) React
9 11 (2.35%) REST
10 10 (2.14%) JSON
11 8 (1.71%) gRPC
11 8 (1.71%) Node.js
11 8 (1.71%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (1.71%) SciPy
11 8 (1.71%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (1.50%) Spring
13 5 (1.07%) .NET
13 5 (1.07%) LangChain
14 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.04%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.98%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (3.21%) Equities
4 15 (3.21%) Fixed Income
4 15 (3.21%) Replication
5 14 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.56%) Clustering
6 12 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.35%) Derivative
8 10 (2.14%) Hedge funds
8 10 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.71%) Pricing Data
10 7 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.50%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Unix
2 7 (1.50%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (42.95%) Analytics
2 188 (40.17%) Data Modelling
3 163 (34.83%) ETL
4 142 (30.34%) Data Engineering
5 127 (27.14%) Business Intelligence
6 126 (26.92%) CI/CD
7 116 (24.79%) Agile
8 113 (24.15%) Data Pipeline
9 99 (21.15%) Data Governance
10 96 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
11 94 (20.09%) AI
12 72 (15.38%) Migration
13 69 (14.74%) DevOps
13 69 (14.74%) Machine Learning
14 63 (13.46%) Data Architecture
15 60 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
16 59 (12.61%) Data Transformation
17 53 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (10.68%) Data Science
19 49 (10.47%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 285 (60.90%) SQL
2 248 (52.99%) Python
3 44 (9.40%) Java
4 32 (6.84%) TypeScript
5 30 (6.41%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.85%) C#
7 13 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.56%) Bash
9 8 (1.71%) Scala
10 7 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.50%) Korn
10 7 (1.50%) R
11 4 (0.85%) Bicep
11 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (7.48%) Degree
2 27 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.63%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.50%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.64%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMP
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (24.36%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.85%) QA
3 15 (3.21%) GDPR
4 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.21%) FATCA
6 1 (0.21%) GAAP
6 1 (0.21%) GRC
6 1 (0.21%) MiFID
6 1 (0.21%) PMO
6 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (8.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (13.03%) Terraform
2 31 (6.62%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.63%) Ansible
4 5 (1.07%) Grafana
4 5 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 125 (26.71%) Databricks
2 49 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.05%) Oracle
4 20 (4.27%) Talend
5 17 (3.63%) SAP
6 15 (3.21%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.21%) Informatica
7 11 (2.35%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.92%) Google
8 9 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.92%) Teradata
9 8 (1.71%) Charles River
9 8 (1.71%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.50%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.28%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.28%) Sparx
12 5 (1.07%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.07%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.85%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.85%) Murex