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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 241 193
Rank change year-on-year +19 -48 +159
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 668 377 495
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.23% 1.15% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.55% 3.06% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 284 400
10th Percentile £400 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £470 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +36.75%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £453
% change year-on-year +15.79% +4.86% -24.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £43.58 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £72.00 £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 18,793 12,329 13,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.58% 37.75% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,470 8,218 8,841
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 291 194
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.64
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -11.81% -9.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.13 £63.44
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.14 £30.44
% change year-on-year +69.85% -37.13% +17.07%

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 21 September 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 21 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 17 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 21 September 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 +16 583 £575 +4.55% 1,178
London +17 433 £575 -8.00% 835
Work from Home -23 207 £600 -2.04% 682
UK excluding London -39 183 £550 +15.79% 568
Scotland -6 44 £425 -8.11% 89
North of England -49 37 £500 +17.65% 164
South East -46 31 £616 +17.33% 83
Midlands -37 27 £513 +20.59% 70
North West -34 25 £513 +25.00% 101
West Midlands -36 23 £588 +17.50% 53
South West -37 21 £644 +35.53% 63
East of England -31 14 £380 -24.00% 19
Yorkshire -36 9 £400 -15.79% 24
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 74
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +11.83% 17
North East -40 3 - - 39
Wales -12 1 £650 - 7

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
1 136 (20.36%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (8.53%) Apache Spark
3 40 (5.99%) Apache
4 16 (2.40%) Confluence
5 15 (2.25%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.54%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.75%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.30%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 341 (51.05%) AWS
2 286 (42.81%) Azure
3 191 (28.59%) dbt
4 177 (26.50%) Power Platform
5 147 (22.01%) GCP
6 85 (12.72%) GitHub
7 73 (10.93%) Amazon S3
8 68 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (8.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 56 (8.38%) Serverless
11 50 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (4.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (3.89%) SaaS
15 25 (3.74%) Fivetran
16 21 (3.14%) Dagster
17 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (2.69%) Collibra
18 17 (2.54%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.54%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) Broadband
1 3 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) DSL
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) Network Security
2 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) Intranet
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (31.29%) Data Warehouse
2 175 (26.20%) Power BI
3 92 (13.77%) Data Lake
4 80 (11.98%) Tableau
5 78 (11.68%) BigQuery
6 73 (10.93%) Snowflake Schema
7 63 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (7.19%) SQL Server
9 45 (6.74%) Big Data
9 45 (6.74%) Metadata
10 40 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
11 37 (5.54%) Relational Database
12 29 (4.34%) NoSQL
13 26 (3.89%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.14%) Looker
15 20 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (2.84%) Delta Lake
17 16 (2.40%) Semantic Layer
18 15 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (2.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 79 (11.83%) Git
2 32 (4.79%) JIRA
3 27 (4.04%) GitLab
4 23 (3.44%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.05%) Terragrunt
6 6 (0.90%) Snyk
7 5 (0.75%) Claude Code
7 5 (0.75%) MLflow
7 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.30%) Selenium
9 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) ERwin
10 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 221 (33.08%) Finance
2 198 (29.64%) Social Skills
3 114 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.57%) Banking
5 56 (8.38%) Retail
6 31 (4.64%) Marketing
7 26 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 19 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.54%) Front Office
10 17 (2.54%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 15 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.10%) Legal
13 11 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.50%) Billing
15 9 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 233 (34.88%) Data Engineer
2 132 (19.76%) Senior
3 117 (17.51%) Architect
4 110 (16.47%) Snowflake Engineer
5 82 (12.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 74 (11.08%) Data Architect
6 74 (11.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 73 (10.93%) Analyst
8 44 (6.59%) Lead
9 43 (6.44%) Data Analyst
10 38 (5.69%) Developer
11 36 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (4.49%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (3.59%) Python Engineer
13 24 (3.59%) Snowflake Architect
14 23 (3.44%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.69%) Consultant
17 17 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (2.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (15.12%) Terraform
2 72 (10.78%) Kafka
3 40 (5.99%) REST
4 34 (5.09%) PySpark
5 17 (2.54%) .NET
6 10 (1.50%) React
7 9 (1.35%) FastAPI
7 9 (1.35%) Spring
7 9 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.35%) YAML
8 8 (1.20%) JSON
8 8 (1.20%) OAuth
9 7 (1.05%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.90%) LangChain
10 6 (0.90%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.90%) XML
11 5 (0.75%) Langfuse
11 5 (0.75%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.75%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.17%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.99%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.40%) Life Science
8 15 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.10%) Reinsurance
10 13 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.65%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.50%) Data Fabric
14 9 (1.35%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.20%) Reference Data
15 8 (1.20%) Replication
16 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.10%) Linux
2 11 (1.65%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (44.46%) Analytics
2 263 (39.37%) Data Engineering
3 250 (37.43%) Data Modelling
4 240 (35.93%) Data Pipeline
5 238 (35.63%) CI/CD
6 229 (34.28%) ETL
7 215 (32.19%) AI
8 200 (29.94%) Business Intelligence
9 177 (26.50%) Agile
10 156 (23.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 136 (20.36%) DevOps
12 130 (19.46%) Data Governance
13 123 (18.41%) Data Architecture
14 116 (17.37%) Migration
15 107 (16.02%) Validation
16 103 (15.42%) Data Transformation
17 92 (13.77%) Decision-Making
18 89 (13.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 89 (13.32%) Machine Learning
19 84 (12.57%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 394 (58.98%) SQL
2 336 (50.30%) Python
3 53 (7.93%) Java
4 19 (2.84%) PowerShell
5 13 (1.95%) Bash
5 13 (1.95%) R
6 11 (1.65%) C#
6 11 (1.65%) Scala
7 10 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.90%) Bicep
10 4 (0.60%) C++
10 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.45%) Cypher
11 3 (0.45%) Delphi
11 3 (0.45%) SHACL
11 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.30%) LookML
12 2 (0.30%) SOQL
12 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (7.49%) Security Cleared
2 39 (5.84%) Degree
3 28 (4.19%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.95%) SnowPro
6 12 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.60%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.45%) CSPO
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.15%) CISSP
15 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (27.10%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.24%) GDPR
2 35 (5.24%) QA
3 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.60%) GRC
5 4 (0.60%) MiFID
5 4 (0.60%) PMO
5 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.45%) EMIR
6 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.45%) SLA
7 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 50 (7.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (8.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.29%) Grafana
3 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.90%) Ansible
5 4 (0.60%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 214 (32.04%) Databricks
2 94 (14.07%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.39%) Google
3 36 (5.39%) Salesforce
4 35 (5.24%) Informatica
5 30 (4.49%) Oracle
6 20 (2.99%) SAP
7 13 (1.95%) Talend
8 12 (1.80%) Teradata
9 11 (1.65%) Foundry
10 10 (1.50%) MicroStrategy
10 10 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.20%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.20%) Workday
13 7 (1.05%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.05%) Denodo
13 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.75%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.75%) Sage