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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 225 241
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +193
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 522 348 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.19% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.95% 3.14% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 270 343
10th Percentile £369 £412 £413
25th Percentile £449 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -14.81% +17.39%
75th Percentile £627 £747 £850
90th Percentile £725 £841 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £44.50 - -
25th Percentile £47.25 - £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 17,667 11,096 14,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.56% 37.90% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 7,514 9,919
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 270 353
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%
75th Percentile £68.33 £47.41 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% +1.42% -31.73%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -33 450 £550 -5.58% 146
London +12 330 £550 -12.00% 96
UK excluding London -58 157 £525 +10.53% 87
Work from Home -49 156 £550 -12.00% 77
Scotland +14 46 £440 -6.13% 5
Midlands -43 34 £550 +12.82% 8
West Midlands -38 32 £550 - 8
North of England -64 29 £550 +15.79% 23
North West -26 21 £525 -5.41% 17
South East -54 21 £575 +24.32% 36
South West -34 17 £520 -0.95% 5
East of England -38 7 £544 -6.25% 6
Yorkshire -59 6 £550 +18.92% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 5
North East -26 2 £575 +35.29% 3
East Midlands -30 2 £654 +55.65%
Wales -11 1 £250 -61.54%

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 94 (18.01%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (8.24%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.83%) Apache
4 9 (1.72%) Confluence
5 6 (1.15%) SAS
6 5 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.02%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.96%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.57%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.57%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.38%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 267 (51.15%) AWS
2 195 (37.36%) Azure
3 146 (27.97%) Power Platform
4 120 (22.99%) dbt
5 105 (20.11%) GCP
6 77 (14.75%) Amazon S3
7 49 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (8.62%) GitHub
9 44 (8.43%) Serverless
10 42 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 34 (6.51%) Matillion
13 26 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (4.21%) Dagster
15 19 (3.64%) Fivetran
16 17 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (3.26%) SaaS
17 16 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (3.07%) Prefect
17 16 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) DNS
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Intranet
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (26.44%) Power BI
2 137 (26.25%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (14.37%) Tableau
4 70 (13.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 52 (9.96%) BigQuery
6 44 (8.43%) Data Lake
7 41 (7.85%) Big Data
8 39 (7.47%) SQL Server
9 38 (7.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (5.94%) Relational Database
11 26 (4.98%) Data Vault
12 25 (4.79%) Metadata
12 25 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (4.02%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.26%) Looker
14 17 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (2.30%) MySQL
16 10 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.92%) Star Schema
17 9 (1.72%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 52 (9.96%) Git
2 28 (5.36%) GitLab
3 24 (4.60%) JIRA
4 14 (2.68%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.72%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.15%) MLflow
7 3 (0.57%) Snyk
7 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.57%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.57%) Toad
8 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.38%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.38%) ERwin
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) LSMW
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 176 (33.72%) Finance
2 131 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.11%) Banking
5 41 (7.85%) Retail
6 28 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.41%) Marketing
8 16 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.92%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.72%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.53%) Back Office
11 8 (1.53%) Front Office
12 7 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
12 7 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.15%) Legal
13 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 187 (35.82%) Data Engineer
2 99 (18.97%) Snowflake Engineer
3 89 (17.05%) Senior
4 86 (16.48%) Architect
5 76 (14.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 57 (10.92%) Analyst
7 49 (9.39%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (8.62%) Data Architect
9 40 (7.66%) Lead
10 38 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (6.90%) Data Analyst
12 28 (5.36%) Developer
13 25 (4.79%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (3.64%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.45%) Business Analyst
17 17 (3.26%) Snowflake Architect
18 14 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.58%) Kafka
2 16 (3.07%) PySpark
3 15 (2.87%) REST
4 10 (1.92%) Spring
4 10 (1.92%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.72%) .NET
5 9 (1.72%) Playwright
6 8 (1.53%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.53%) React
7 7 (1.34%) Vue
8 6 (1.15%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.15%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.96%) OAuth
9 5 (0.96%) OpenID
10 4 (0.77%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.77%) YAML
11 3 (0.57%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.57%) JSON
11 3 (0.57%) Middleware
11 3 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.79%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.92%) Clustering
8 10 (1.92%) Equities
8 10 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.34%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.96%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.96%) Replication
13 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.92%) Unix
2 8 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (45.79%) Analytics
2 198 (37.93%) Data Engineering
3 180 (34.48%) Data Modelling
4 176 (33.72%) Data Pipeline
5 171 (32.76%) CI/CD
6 169 (32.38%) Business Intelligence
7 167 (31.99%) ETL
8 141 (27.01%) AI
9 114 (21.84%) Agile
10 98 (18.77%) DevOps
11 97 (18.58%) Migration
12 95 (18.20%) Data Governance
13 82 (15.71%) Validation
14 80 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 73 (13.98%) Data Architecture
16 71 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
17 67 (12.84%) Machine Learning
18 65 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
19 58 (11.11%) Observability
20 57 (10.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 286 (54.79%) SQL
2 256 (49.04%) Python
3 56 (10.73%) Java
4 14 (2.68%) C#
5 13 (2.49%) Bash
6 12 (2.30%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.30%) R
7 9 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.15%) Scala
10 5 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.77%) Bicep
11 4 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.38%) Korn
13 2 (0.38%) SOQL
13 2 (0.38%) VBScript
14 1 (0.19%) C
14 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (8.81%) Security Cleared
2 35 (6.70%) Degree
3 25 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.92%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.72%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.77%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.57%) CSPO
10 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) ACCA
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) CFA
11 1 (0.19%) CIMA
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.94%) GDPR
3 29 (5.56%) QA
4 9 (1.72%) SLA
5 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.57%) PMO
7 2 (0.38%) EMIR
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) CDISC
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 36 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (13.79%) Terraform
2 34 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.64%) Grafana
4 8 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.77%) Ansible
6 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 147 (28.16%) Databricks
2 54 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.56%) Oracle
4 27 (5.17%) Informatica
5 20 (3.83%) Google
5 20 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.07%) SAP
7 10 (1.92%) MuleSoft
7 10 (1.92%) Talend
8 9 (1.72%) Teradata
9 8 (1.53%) Denodo
9 8 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.34%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.34%) Splunk
11 6 (1.15%) Charles River
11 6 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (0.96%) FactSet
12 5 (0.96%) SimCorp
12 5 (0.96%) Workday
13 4 (0.77%) Murex