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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 224 209
Rank change year-on-year -3 -15 +194
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 592 389 477
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.19% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.18% 3.19% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 298 394
10th Percentile £400 £407 £419
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £783
Median % change year-on-year - -29.71% +36.09%
75th Percentile £656 £784 £875
90th Percentile £750 £858 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £453
% change year-on-year +6.32% +4.86% -21.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £47.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.13 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 - £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 18,608 12,192 13,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.28% 37.37% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,309 8,153 9,694
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 312 318
10th Percentile £16.61 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.56 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.19
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.93%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -21 512 £568 -1.30% 246
London +4 366 £575 -8.00% 165
Work from Home -35 184 £594 -8.65% 116
UK excluding London -61 184 £505 +6.32% 110
Scotland +7 47 £430 -5.75% 6
North of England -56 40 £525 +7.69% 31
Midlands -41 37 £510 +4.62% 10
West Midlands -40 33 £550 +10.00% 8
North West -32 27 £525 -5.41% 18
South East -55 25 £575 +15.00% 47
South West -47 18 £574 +11.95% 13
East of England -27 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -46 10 £550 +15.79% 10
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 -
East Midlands -13 4 £466 +10.83% 2
North East -35 3 - - 3
Wales -16 1 £250 -61.54% 1

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
1 105 (17.74%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (7.43%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.90%) Apache
4 16 (2.70%) Confluence
5 10 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.01%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (3.89%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.84%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.84%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 293 (49.49%) AWS
2 221 (37.33%) Azure
3 171 (28.89%) Power Platform
4 146 (24.66%) dbt
5 132 (22.30%) GCP
6 87 (14.70%) Amazon S3
7 55 (9.29%) GitHub
8 51 (8.61%) Serverless
9 48 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 47 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.56%) Matillion
13 26 (4.39%) Fivetran
14 23 (3.89%) Dagster
15 21 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (3.04%) SaaS
17 16 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Broadband
1 3 (0.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (29.56%) Data Warehouse
2 167 (28.21%) Power BI
3 83 (14.02%) Tableau
4 75 (12.67%) BigQuery
5 71 (11.99%) Data Lake
6 70 (11.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 51 (8.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (7.77%) Big Data
9 44 (7.43%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.74%) Relational Database
11 33 (5.57%) Metadata
11 33 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.39%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.05%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.55%) Looker
14 21 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (2.20%) MySQL
17 12 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 62 (10.47%) Git
2 33 (5.57%) JIRA
3 26 (4.39%) GitLab
4 18 (3.04%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.01%) MLflow
6 5 (0.84%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.51%) Snyk
8 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.34%) Toad
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) ERwin
10 1 (0.17%) GCC
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 202 (34.12%) Finance
2 163 (27.53%) Social Skills
3 82 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (13.51%) Banking
5 50 (8.45%) Retail
6 28 (4.73%) Marketing
7 22 (3.72%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.55%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.38%) Financial Institution
10 16 (2.70%) Front Office
11 14 (2.36%) Legal
12 12 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.35%) Back Office
14 8 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (34.46%) Data Engineer
2 105 (17.74%) Architect
3 103 (17.40%) Snowflake Engineer
4 94 (15.88%) Senior
5 77 (13.01%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 66 (11.15%) Analyst
7 59 (9.97%) Data Architect
8 47 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
9 43 (7.26%) Lead
10 40 (6.76%) Data Analyst
11 37 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.90%) Developer
13 28 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
15 22 (3.72%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.21%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (3.04%) Snowflake Architect
18 17 (2.87%) Python Engineer
19 16 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.14%) Kafka
2 24 (4.05%) REST
3 18 (3.04%) PySpark
4 11 (1.86%) Spring
4 11 (1.86%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.69%) .NET
5 10 (1.69%) React
6 9 (1.52%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.18%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.18%) OAuth
7 7 (1.18%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.18%) Vue
8 6 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.01%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.01%) JSON
8 6 (1.01%) XML
8 6 (1.01%) YAML
9 5 (0.84%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.24%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.36%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.69%) Equities
10 9 (1.52%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.35%) Clustering
12 7 (1.18%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.01%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.01%) Replication
14 5 (0.84%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.86%) Unix
2 10 (1.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (46.28%) Analytics
2 237 (40.03%) Data Engineering
3 216 (36.49%) Data Pipeline
4 211 (35.64%) Data Modelling
5 203 (34.29%) ETL
6 196 (33.11%) Business Intelligence
7 195 (32.94%) CI/CD
8 164 (27.70%) AI
9 136 (22.97%) Agile
10 118 (19.93%) Data Governance
11 108 (18.24%) Migration
12 106 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 105 (17.74%) DevOps
14 98 (16.55%) Data Architecture
15 97 (16.39%) Validation
16 80 (13.51%) Machine Learning
17 75 (12.67%) Data Transformation
18 69 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
19 68 (11.49%) Data Science
20 67 (11.32%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 331 (55.91%) SQL
2 299 (50.51%) Python
3 56 (9.46%) Java
4 15 (2.53%) R
5 13 (2.20%) Bash
6 10 (1.69%) C#
6 10 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.18%) Scala
7 7 (1.18%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.68%) Bicep
9 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.51%) Cypher
10 3 (0.51%) Delphi
10 3 (0.51%) SHACL
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
11 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (7.94%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.77%) Degree
3 28 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.36%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.51%) CSPO
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) CISSP
13 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (25.68%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.26%) GDPR
3 29 (4.90%) QA
4 12 (2.03%) SLA
5 7 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) EMIR
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) MiFID
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) PMO
8 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (6.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (13.34%) Terraform
2 37 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.22%) Grafana
4 12 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.68%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 168 (28.38%) Databricks
2 66 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.57%) Informatica
4 32 (5.41%) Google
5 29 (4.90%) Oracle
5 29 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.89%) SAP
7 11 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.86%) Talend
8 10 (1.69%) Charles River
8 10 (1.69%) Teradata
9 9 (1.52%) Denodo
9 9 (1.52%) Workday
10 8 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.35%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.18%) FactSet
11 7 (1.18%) Splunk
12 6 (1.01%) Foundry
13 5 (0.84%) Amplitude