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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 220 329
Rank change year-on-year +1 +109 +136
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 465 400 305
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.12% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 3.13% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 278 243
10th Percentile £363 £396 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £579
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +12.35% +0.62%
75th Percentile £663 £869 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Cloud 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 13,815 12,799 15,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 35.73% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,383 8,453 11,352
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 185 294
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -16.49% +28.07% +13.14%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -10 386 £550 -15.38% 152
London +2 290 £575 -21.18% 75
Work from Home -10 170 £575 -28.13% 168
UK excluding London +10 122 £450 - 134
Scotland +30 38 £450 - 16
North of England -46 22 £400 -9.35% 29
South West +11 17 £475 +18.75% 8
South East +9 16 £500 +9.59% 60
North West -29 16 £375 -15.01% 27
East of England -7 15 £525 -4.55% 6
Midlands -35 15 £463 -7.50% 11
West Midlands -32 11 £425 -10.05% 7
Yorkshire -27 5 £488 - 2
East Midlands -20 4 £575 -7.93% 4
North East -6 1 - -
Wales - 1 £575 -

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
1 117 (25.16%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (12.26%) Apache
3 36 (7.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.72%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.86%) Confluence
6 3 (0.65%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Maple
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.44%) Aladdin
2 15 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 255 (54.84%) AWS
2 218 (46.88%) Azure
3 132 (28.39%) dbt
4 106 (22.80%) Power Platform
5 92 (19.78%) GCP
6 54 (11.61%) Serverless
7 45 (9.68%) Amazon S3
8 39 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (4.52%) GitHub
11 20 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.09%) Matillion
13 18 (3.87%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (3.23%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.80%) SaaS
17 10 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (1.94%) Prefect
19 8 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (33.55%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (22.80%) Power BI
3 82 (17.63%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.03%) BigQuery
4 42 (9.03%) Tableau
5 39 (8.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (8.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 36 (7.74%) Amazon Athena
6 36 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (6.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 32 (6.88%) Metadata
8 30 (6.45%) Apache Arrow
8 30 (6.45%) Apache Ignite
8 30 (6.45%) Dremio
9 28 (6.02%) NoSQL
10 25 (5.38%) Big Data
11 24 (5.16%) Relational Database
12 23 (4.95%) SQL Server
13 22 (4.73%) Data Vault
14 17 (3.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (9.89%) Git
2 21 (4.52%) ERwin
3 18 (3.87%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.87%) JIRA
4 16 (3.44%) GitLab
5 11 (2.37%) PowerDesigner
6 10 (2.15%) DBeaver
7 8 (1.72%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.51%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.08%) MLflow
10 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.65%) Selenium
11 2 (0.43%) TestRail
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.22%) Deequ
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
12 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 145 (31.18%) Finance
2 127 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 70 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.97%) Banking
5 37 (7.96%) Front Office
5 37 (7.96%) Investment Banking
6 16 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (3.44%) Marketing
6 16 (3.44%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (2.15%) Retail
9 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.43%) iGaming
13 2 (0.43%) Law
13 2 (0.43%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (28.82%) Data Engineer
2 71 (15.27%) Senior
3 60 (12.90%) Architect
4 58 (12.47%) Analyst
5 53 (11.40%) Snowflake Engineer
6 49 (10.54%) Python Engineer
7 47 (10.11%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (9.46%) Data Analyst
9 40 (8.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 32 (6.88%) Developer
10 32 (6.88%) Lead
10 32 (6.88%) Software Engineer
11 31 (6.67%) Data Architect
11 31 (6.67%) Java Engineer
12 30 (6.45%) AWS Software Engineer
12 30 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
12 30 (6.45%) Python Software Engineer
13 29 (6.24%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (6.24%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 29 (6.24%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.54%) Pandas
2 39 (8.39%) NumPy
3 30 (6.45%) gRPC
3 30 (6.45%) Protocol Buffers
3 30 (6.45%) SciPy
4 28 (6.02%) Kafka
5 16 (3.44%) PySpark
6 15 (3.23%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.37%) React
7 11 (2.37%) REST
7 11 (2.37%) TensorFlow
8 10 (2.15%) Playwright
9 8 (1.72%) Node.js
9 8 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 7 (1.51%) JSON
11 6 (1.29%) .NET
11 6 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.29%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.08%) LangChain
12 5 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.53%) Equities
2 35 (7.53%) Fixed Income
3 33 (7.10%) Derivative
3 33 (7.10%) Hedge funds
4 30 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 30 (6.45%) Pricing Data
5 28 (6.02%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.87%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.15%) Replication
10 9 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.72%) Clustering
11 8 (1.72%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.29%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.51%) Linux
1 7 (1.51%) Unix
2 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (38.49%) Data Modelling
2 171 (36.77%) Analytics
3 162 (34.84%) ETL
4 134 (28.82%) Agile
5 121 (26.02%) Data Engineering
6 111 (23.87%) Data Governance
7 110 (23.66%) CI/CD
8 109 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
8 109 (23.44%) Data Pipeline
9 84 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
10 82 (17.63%) Migration
11 77 (16.56%) AI
12 68 (14.62%) Asset Management
13 67 (14.41%) Data Transformation
13 67 (14.41%) Machine Learning
14 62 (13.33%) DevOps
15 60 (12.90%) Data Integration
16 59 (12.69%) Software Engineering
17 58 (12.47%) Data Architecture
18 51 (10.97%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 271 (58.28%) SQL
2 258 (55.48%) Python
3 58 (12.47%) Java
4 49 (10.54%) JavaScript
4 49 (10.54%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.58%) C#
6 9 (1.94%) Bash
6 9 (1.94%) PL/SQL
6 9 (1.94%) Scala
7 8 (1.72%) Korn
7 8 (1.72%) R
8 7 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.22%) Bicep
10 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (6.45%) Degree
2 20 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.44%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.29%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.08%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.43%) ACCA
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (23.87%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.66%) QA
3 16 (3.44%) GDPR
4 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.43%) DICOM
6 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.22%) LOINC
7 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (10.54%) Terraform
2 24 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.80%) Ansible
4 6 (1.29%) Grafana
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 108 (23.23%) Databricks
2 38 (8.17%) Oracle
3 37 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.95%) SAP
5 13 (2.80%) Informatica
6 12 (2.58%) Google
6 12 (2.58%) Talend
7 11 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.15%) Greenplum
8 10 (2.15%) Teradata
9 9 (1.94%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.51%) Sparx
12 6 (1.29%) Charles River
12 6 (1.29%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
13 5 (1.08%) Foundry
13 5 (1.08%) StreamSets
13 5 (1.08%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.86%) MuleSoft