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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 221 289
Rank change year-on-year -30 +68 +149
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 466 352 345
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.19% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 3.15% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 259 269
10th Percentile £363 £406 £425
25th Percentile £440 £466 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £603 £750 £850
90th Percentile £745 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £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 16,843 11,171 14,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.28% 37.83% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,468 7,766 10,039
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 251 345
10th Percentile £15.43 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.22% +30.95% -37.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £75.00 £61.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -26.25%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -47 394 £525 -12.50% 152
London +1 288 £525 -19.23% 85
Work from Home -39 143 £525 -19.23% 77
UK excluding London -76 134 £510 +7.37% 106
Scotland +23 42 £450 -0.11% 9
North of England -60 26 £525 +7.69% 21
Midlands -54 25 £550 +15.79% 17
West Midlands -53 21 £510 -7.27% 14
North West -34 18 £525 +1.94% 17
South East -55 17 £575 +49.84% 38
South West -35 16 £488 -7.14% 9
East of England -28 7 £400 -31.03% 7
Yorkshire -49 7 £525 +10.53% 2
East Midlands -33 4 £575 +36.90% 3
North East -21 1 £575 +6.98% 2
Wales - 1 £250 - 2

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 90 (19.31%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.51%) Apache Spark
3 20 (4.29%) Apache
4 8 (1.72%) Confluence
5 4 (0.86%) SAS
6 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.72%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (5.15%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.07%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 235 (50.43%) AWS
2 199 (42.70%) Azure
3 122 (26.18%) Power Platform
4 105 (22.53%) dbt
5 88 (18.88%) GCP
6 68 (14.59%) Amazon S3
7 49 (10.52%) Serverless
8 43 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (6.65%) Matillion
12 28 (6.01%) GitHub
13 24 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (4.94%) Dagster
15 22 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (4.08%) Prefect
17 15 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
19 12 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 12 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Firewall
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (27.90%) Data Warehouse
2 114 (24.46%) Power BI
3 58 (12.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 57 (12.23%) Tableau
5 40 (8.58%) Data Lake
6 38 (8.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (7.94%) BigQuery
8 30 (6.44%) SQL Server
9 28 (6.01%) Big Data
10 25 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (5.15%) Metadata
12 22 (4.72%) Data Vault
13 20 (4.29%) NoSQL
14 19 (4.08%) Relational Database
15 14 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (2.79%) Looker
17 8 (1.72%) DynamoDB
17 8 (1.72%) MySQL
17 8 (1.72%) Star Schema
18 7 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 42 (9.01%) Git
2 21 (4.51%) GitLab
3 20 (4.29%) JIRA
4 15 (3.22%) SpecFlow
5 8 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.50%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.50%) ERwin
7 6 (1.29%) MLflow
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 3 (0.64%) Snyk
8 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.64%) Toad
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.21%) GCC
10 1 (0.21%) LSMW
10 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 143 (30.69%) Finance
2 122 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 63 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.30%) Banking
5 26 (5.58%) Retail
6 25 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.79%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.79%) Marketing
8 11 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.50%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) Front Office
13 5 (1.07%) Legal
14 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (36.27%) Data Engineer
2 86 (18.45%) Snowflake Engineer
3 75 (16.09%) Architect
4 71 (15.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 65 (13.95%) Senior
6 51 (10.94%) Analyst
7 44 (9.44%) Lead
8 41 (8.80%) Data Architect
9 35 (7.51%) Data Analyst
9 35 (7.51%) Senior Data Engineer
10 32 (6.87%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (4.94%) Developer
12 22 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (4.08%) AWS Data Engineer
13 19 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (3.65%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.65%) Snowflake Architect
15 16 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
16 14 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.01%) Kafka
2 19 (4.08%) PySpark
3 16 (3.43%) Playwright
3 16 (3.43%) PyTorch
4 14 (3.00%) TensorFlow
5 9 (1.93%) React
5 9 (1.93%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.72%) Spring
7 7 (1.50%) .NET
7 7 (1.50%) Pandas
7 7 (1.50%) REST
7 7 (1.50%) Vue
8 6 (1.29%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.29%) OAuth
9 5 (1.07%) NumPy
9 5 (1.07%) OpenID
9 5 (1.07%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.86%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.86%) JSON
10 4 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (12.02%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.86%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.36%) Clustering
7 10 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 10 (2.15%) Replication
7 10 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.93%) Equities
9 8 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.72%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.15%) Unix
2 9 (1.93%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (44.21%) Analytics
2 174 (37.34%) Data Modelling
3 164 (35.19%) Data Engineering
4 154 (33.05%) ETL
5 147 (31.55%) Data Pipeline
6 141 (30.26%) CI/CD
7 139 (29.83%) Business Intelligence
8 107 (22.96%) AI
9 105 (22.53%) Agile
10 94 (20.17%) Data Governance
11 82 (17.60%) DevOps
12 78 (16.74%) Migration
13 76 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (15.02%) Machine Learning
15 65 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 63 (13.52%) Data Architecture
17 57 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
18 56 (12.02%) Decision-Making
19 55 (11.80%) Performance Tuning
20 52 (11.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 261 (56.01%) SQL
2 234 (50.21%) Python
3 41 (8.80%) Java
4 20 (4.29%) C#
5 18 (3.86%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.22%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.58%) Bash
8 8 (1.72%) R
9 7 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.50%) Scala
10 5 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.86%) Bicep
11 4 (0.86%) Korn
11 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.15%) Degree
3 21 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.93%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.64%) PhD
8 3 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.21%) ACCA
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (23.82%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.58%) GDPR
3 21 (4.51%) QA
4 9 (1.93%) SLA
5 4 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (7.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (14.16%) Terraform
2 24 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.15%) Grafana
4 9 (1.93%) Ansible
5 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.86%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 143 (30.69%) Databricks
2 49 (10.52%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.15%) Informatica
4 22 (4.72%) Oracle
5 18 (3.86%) Google
6 16 (3.43%) SAP
7 15 (3.22%) Talend
8 13 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.93%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.72%) Denodo
10 8 (1.72%) Greenplum
10 8 (1.72%) Teradata
11 7 (1.50%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.50%) Charles River
11 7 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.29%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.07%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.07%) Splunk
13 5 (1.07%) Workday