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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 238 296
Rank change year-on-year -7 +58 +159
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 484 327 324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.12% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 2.94% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 239 245
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £763 £738
90th Percentile £738 £875 £858
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 16,787 11,126 14,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.70% 38.07% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,459 7,792 10,102
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 231 346
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -27.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.97 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.25 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +96.65% +29.83% -22.13%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -24 406 £525 -12.50% 171
London +16 304 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -14 154 £525 -19.23% 70
UK excluding London -66 132 £500 +5.26% 112
Scotland +26 44 £450 -0.11% 8
North of England -57 26 £525 +4.48% 27
Midlands -55 24 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -57 21 £530 -3.64% 8
North West -29 18 £463 -16.67% 13
South West -34 17 £475 -9.52% 14
South East -48 14 £525 +43.84% 37
Yorkshire -48 7 £525 +10.53% 8
East of England -36 5 - - 10
East Midlands -30 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -18 1 £575 -11.54% 6

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 97 (20.04%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.44%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.55%) Apache
4 8 (1.65%) Confluence
5 5 (1.03%) SAS
6 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (4.96%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.83%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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
Cloud Services
1 242 (50.00%) AWS
2 213 (44.01%) Azure
3 130 (26.86%) Power Platform
4 114 (23.55%) dbt
5 90 (18.60%) GCP
6 65 (13.43%) Amazon S3
7 50 (10.33%) Serverless
8 42 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (6.82%) Matillion
11 32 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (5.37%) GitHub
13 20 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (3.93%) Dagster
15 18 (3.72%) Prefect
16 15 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (3.10%) SaaS
17 13 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (29.96%) Data Warehouse
2 123 (25.41%) Power BI
3 57 (11.78%) Tableau
4 55 (11.36%) Snowflake Schema
5 43 (8.88%) Data Lake
6 39 (8.06%) BigQuery
7 34 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (6.40%) Metadata
8 31 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (5.58%) SQL Server
10 26 (5.37%) Data Vault
11 24 (4.96%) Big Data
12 22 (4.55%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.51%) Relational Database
14 14 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.27%) Looker
16 9 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (1.86%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.65%) DynamoDB
18 7 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 47 (9.71%) Git
2 21 (4.34%) GitLab
3 20 (4.13%) JIRA
4 15 (3.10%) SpecFlow
5 10 (2.07%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.65%) ERwin
7 7 (1.45%) ER Studio
8 6 (1.24%) MLflow
9 4 (0.83%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.62%) Selenium
10 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.62%) Toad
11 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.41%) Snyk
11 2 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) GCC
12 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 138 (28.51%) Finance
2 132 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.64%) Banking
5 26 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.96%) Retail
7 16 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.48%) Marketing
10 11 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.45%) Front Office
12 7 (1.45%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Legal
14 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.62%) Back Office
15 3 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 179 (36.98%) Data Engineer
2 86 (17.77%) Snowflake Engineer
3 72 (14.88%) Architect
4 71 (14.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 62 (12.81%) Senior
6 61 (12.60%) Analyst
7 46 (9.50%) Data Analyst
8 43 (8.88%) Lead
9 42 (8.68%) Data Architect
10 33 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
12 27 (5.58%) Developer
13 23 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (4.34%) Lead Data Engineer
15 20 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (3.72%) Business Analyst
17 17 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
17 17 (3.51%) Snowflake Architect
18 16 (3.31%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.09%) Kafka
2 17 (3.51%) PySpark
3 16 (3.31%) Playwright
3 16 (3.31%) PyTorch
4 14 (2.89%) TensorFlow
5 13 (2.69%) Pandas
6 10 (2.07%) React
7 9 (1.86%) NumPy
7 9 (1.86%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.65%) Spring
9 6 (1.24%) .NET
9 6 (1.24%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.24%) REST
9 6 (1.24%) Vue
10 5 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.03%) JSON
10 5 (1.03%) OAuth
10 5 (1.03%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.83%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (4.13%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.48%) Clustering
5 12 (2.48%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.48%) Replication
6 11 (2.27%) Equities
7 10 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.03%) Derivative
10 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.07%) Unix
2 7 (1.45%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (43.60%) Analytics
2 182 (37.60%) Data Modelling
3 166 (34.30%) Data Engineering
4 161 (33.26%) ETL
5 149 (30.79%) Business Intelligence
6 140 (28.93%) CI/CD
7 139 (28.72%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (22.11%) AI
9 106 (21.90%) Agile
10 93 (19.21%) Data Governance
11 82 (16.94%) Migration
12 78 (16.12%) DevOps
12 78 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (15.50%) Machine Learning
14 69 (14.26%) Data Architecture
15 61 (12.60%) Performance Tuning
16 59 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 58 (11.98%) Decision-Making
18 54 (11.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 50 (10.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 278 (57.44%) SQL
2 246 (50.83%) Python
3 41 (8.47%) Java
4 21 (4.34%) C#
4 21 (4.34%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.72%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.89%) Bash
7 8 (1.65%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.65%) Scala
8 7 (1.45%) R
9 5 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.03%) Korn
9 5 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (8.26%) Degree
2 39 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.65%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.62%) PhD
9 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) CFA
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (25.62%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.37%) GDPR
3 19 (3.93%) QA
4 9 (1.86%) SLA
5 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
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%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (6.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (13.84%) Terraform
2 23 (4.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.07%) Ansible
4 9 (1.86%) Grafana
5 8 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.83%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 140 (28.93%) Databricks
2 55 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.79%) Oracle
4 25 (5.17%) Informatica
5 19 (3.93%) Talend
6 18 (3.72%) Google
7 17 (3.51%) SAP
8 13 (2.69%) Teradata
9 11 (2.27%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.86%) Charles River
10 9 (1.86%) Greenplum
10 9 (1.86%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.86%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.45%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.45%) Denodo
11 7 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.03%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.03%) Splunk
12 5 (1.03%) Virgin Media