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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 255 324
Rank change year-on-year +31 +69 +140
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 463 302 309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 0.97% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 2.60% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 191 230
10th Percentile £336 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £588 £558
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +5.38% +1.36%
75th Percentile £600 £685 £675
90th Percentile £735 £875 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £488 £510
% change year-on-year -5.13% -4.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £38.80 - -
25th Percentile £43.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £59.63 - £53.75
90th Percentile £65.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £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 14,798 11,611 15,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.91% 37.34% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,163 7,737 10,787
10th Percentile £309 £313 £281
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 £632
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% -0.95% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 171 325
10th Percentile £14.45 £16.75 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.98 £21.46 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% +22.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £50.25
90th Percentile £79.63 £73.75 £72.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £24.18 £20.97
% change year-on-year +53.02% +15.31% +4.85%

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 7 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 7 February 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 7 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 +2 372 £520 -13.33% 166
London +42 285 £525 -19.23% 93
Work from Home +24 154 £525 -16.00% 96
UK excluding London -25 123 £463 -5.13% 119
Scotland +43 47 £450 -5.26% 11
South West -11 18 £475 -11.63% 8
North of England -60 18 £347 -21.92% 31
South East -18 17 £513 +28.13% 48
North West -27 15 £344 -21.37% 19
Midlands -56 14 £550 +4.76% 16
West Midlands -50 10 £500 -9.09% 16
East of England -17 9 £550 +4.76% 4
East Midlands -27 4 £575 +49.35%
North East -14 2 £575 -11.54% 4
Wales - 2 £413 -
Yorkshire -54 1 £488 +8.33% 8

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 88 (19.01%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.34%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.83%) Apache
4 6 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.86%) SAS
6 3 (0.65%) Confluence
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.75%) Aladdin
2 11 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 239 (51.62%) AWS
2 220 (47.52%) Azure
3 112 (24.19%) Power Platform
4 104 (22.46%) dbt
5 87 (18.79%) GCP
6 52 (11.23%) Serverless
7 48 (10.37%) Amazon S3
8 38 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (6.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (6.05%) Matillion
11 24 (5.18%) GitHub
12 21 (4.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.46%) SaaS
14 15 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (3.02%) Fivetran
16 13 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (2.16%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (31.75%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (22.89%) Power BI
3 56 (12.10%) Data Lake
4 54 (11.66%) Snowflake Schema
5 43 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (9.29%) Tableau
6 33 (7.13%) BigQuery
7 30 (6.48%) Metadata
8 26 (5.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (5.62%) Big Data
9 25 (5.40%) Data Vault
10 24 (5.18%) NoSQL
10 24 (5.18%) Relational Database
11 20 (4.32%) SQL Server
12 16 (3.46%) RDBMS
13 13 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (2.59%) Star Schema
15 10 (2.16%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (1.94%) Looker
17 8 (1.73%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 47 (10.15%) Git
2 22 (4.75%) GitLab
3 18 (3.89%) JIRA
4 17 (3.67%) ERwin
5 15 (3.24%) ER Studio
6 13 (2.81%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.94%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (1.73%) DBeaver
9 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
10 5 (1.08%) MLflow
11 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.65%) Selenium
11 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.43%) TestRail
12 2 (0.43%) Toad
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.22%) Deequ
General
1 127 (27.43%) Finance
2 116 (25.05%) Social Skills
3 70 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.56%) Banking
5 20 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.89%) Investment Banking
6 18 (3.89%) Retail
7 15 (3.24%) Front Office
8 13 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.81%) Marketing
9 12 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.65%) Law
16 2 (0.43%) iGaming
16 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (32.83%) Data Engineer
2 78 (16.85%) Snowflake Engineer
3 61 (13.17%) Analyst
4 60 (12.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 56 (12.10%) Architect
6 48 (10.37%) Data Analyst
7 44 (9.50%) Senior
8 35 (7.56%) Developer
9 34 (7.34%) Lead
10 30 (6.48%) Data Architect
11 28 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (5.62%) Python Engineer
13 25 (5.40%) Data Modeller
14 21 (4.54%) Snowflake Architect
15 18 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 17 (3.67%) Senior Data Engineer
17 16 (3.46%) Python Data Engineer
17 16 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.62%) Kafka
2 23 (4.97%) Pandas
3 21 (4.54%) PySpark
4 18 (3.89%) PyTorch
5 17 (3.67%) NumPy
6 16 (3.46%) Playwright
7 14 (3.02%) TensorFlow
8 12 (2.59%) React
9 11 (2.38%) REST
10 10 (2.16%) JSON
11 8 (1.73%) gRPC
11 8 (1.73%) Node.js
11 8 (1.73%) Protocol Buffers
11 8 (1.73%) SciPy
11 8 (1.73%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.51%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 7 (1.51%) Spring
13 5 (1.08%) .NET
13 5 (1.08%) LangChain
13 5 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.15%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.05%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.97%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (3.24%) Equities
4 15 (3.24%) Fixed Income
4 15 (3.24%) Replication
5 13 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.59%) Clustering
6 12 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.38%) Derivative
8 10 (2.16%) Hedge funds
8 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.73%) Pricing Data
10 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.51%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.30%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.73%) Unix
2 7 (1.51%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (42.98%) Analytics
2 181 (39.09%) Data Modelling
3 162 (34.99%) ETL
4 139 (30.02%) Data Engineering
5 125 (27.00%) Business Intelligence
5 125 (27.00%) CI/CD
6 114 (24.62%) Agile
7 111 (23.97%) Data Pipeline
8 97 (20.95%) Data Governance
9 95 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (20.09%) AI
11 68 (14.69%) DevOps
11 68 (14.69%) Machine Learning
12 67 (14.47%) Migration
13 61 (13.17%) Data Architecture
14 57 (12.31%) Data Transformation
14 57 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
15 53 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 51 (11.02%) Data Science
17 48 (10.37%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 281 (60.69%) SQL
2 247 (53.35%) Python
3 44 (9.50%) Java
4 32 (6.91%) TypeScript
5 30 (6.48%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.67%) C#
7 13 (2.81%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.59%) Bash
9 8 (1.73%) R
9 8 (1.73%) Scala
10 7 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.51%) Korn
11 4 (0.86%) Bicep
11 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (7.56%) Degree
2 25 (5.40%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.46%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.51%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.65%) PhD
10 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.43%) ACCA
11 2 (0.43%) CIMA
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.22%) CBAP
12 1 (0.22%) CSPO
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (24.19%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.10%) QA
3 14 (3.02%) GDPR
4 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) FATCA
6 1 (0.22%) GAAP
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (8.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (12.96%) Terraform
2 31 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.67%) Ansible
4 5 (1.08%) Grafana
4 5 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 122 (26.35%) Databricks
2 46 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.91%) Oracle
4 20 (4.32%) Talend
5 18 (3.89%) SAP
6 15 (3.24%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.24%) Informatica
7 11 (2.38%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.94%) Google
8 9 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.94%) Teradata
9 8 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.51%) Charles River
10 7 (1.51%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.30%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.30%) Sparx
12 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.86%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.86%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.86%) SimCorp