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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 237 295
Rank change year-on-year -15 +58 +159
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 481 327 326
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.12% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 2.94% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 238 247
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +3.26% +4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £769 £738
90th Percentile £750 £875 £855
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 16,801 11,109 14,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.70% 38.01% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 7,775 10,124
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 £634
90th Percentile £703 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.13% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 234 347
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £20.06 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.85% +30.60% -26.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £60.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -21.24%

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 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 9 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 9 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 -33 404 £525 -12.50% 171
London +24 303 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -25 148 £538 -17.31% 70
UK excluding London -65 132 £500 +5.26% 112
Scotland +30 45 £450 -0.11% 8
North of England -67 25 £525 +4.48% 27
Midlands -56 24 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -52 21 £530 -3.64% 8
South West -28 17 £475 -9.52% 14
North West -30 17 £525 -5.41% 13
South East -56 14 £525 +43.84% 37
Yorkshire -51 7 £525 +10.53% 8
East of England -40 5 - - 10
East Midlands -33 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -17 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 93 (19.33%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (6.86%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.37%) Apache
4 8 (1.66%) Confluence
5 5 (1.04%) SAS
6 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.08%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (4.99%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.04%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.42%) 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
1 241 (50.10%) AWS
2 212 (44.07%) Azure
3 130 (27.03%) Power Platform
4 111 (23.08%) dbt
5 90 (18.71%) GCP
6 65 (13.51%) Amazon S3
7 50 (10.40%) Serverless
8 42 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (6.86%) Matillion
11 27 (5.61%) GitHub
12 22 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (4.16%) Dagster
14 19 (3.95%) Prefect
15 15 (3.12%) SaaS
16 14 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (30.35%) Data Warehouse
2 123 (25.57%) Power BI
3 59 (12.27%) Tableau
4 57 (11.85%) Snowflake Schema
5 42 (8.73%) Data Lake
6 38 (7.90%) BigQuery
7 34 (7.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (6.44%) Metadata
10 28 (5.82%) SQL Server
11 25 (5.20%) Data Vault
12 24 (4.99%) Big Data
13 21 (4.37%) NoSQL
14 18 (3.74%) Relational Database
15 14 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (2.49%) Looker
17 9 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
17 9 (1.87%) Star Schema
18 8 (1.66%) DynamoDB
18 8 (1.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (9.56%) Git
2 20 (4.16%) GitLab
2 20 (4.16%) JIRA
3 15 (3.12%) SpecFlow
4 8 (1.66%) ERwin
4 8 (1.66%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.46%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.25%) MLflow
7 4 (0.83%) DBeaver
8 3 (0.62%) Selenium
8 3 (0.62%) Snyk
8 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.62%) Toad
9 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 140 (29.11%) Finance
2 131 (27.23%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.48%) Banking
5 26 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.99%) Retail
7 16 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.49%) Marketing
10 11 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.46%) Front Office
12 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.46%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (1.04%) Legal
15 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.62%) Law
16 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (37.01%) Data Engineer
2 88 (18.30%) Snowflake Engineer
3 72 (14.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 71 (14.76%) Architect
5 62 (12.89%) Analyst
5 62 (12.89%) Senior
6 46 (9.56%) Data Analyst
7 42 (8.73%) Lead
8 41 (8.52%) Data Architect
9 33 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (6.44%) Senior Data Engineer
11 25 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (4.99%) Developer
13 20 (4.16%) Lead Data Engineer
13 20 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.95%) Business Analyst
15 18 (3.74%) AWS Data Engineer
16 17 (3.53%) Azure Data Engineer
16 17 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.53%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.52%) Kafka
2 17 (3.53%) PySpark
3 16 (3.33%) Playwright
3 16 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 14 (2.91%) TensorFlow
5 13 (2.70%) Pandas
6 10 (2.08%) React
7 9 (1.87%) NumPy
7 9 (1.87%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.66%) Spring
9 6 (1.25%) .NET
9 6 (1.25%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.25%) REST
9 6 (1.25%) Vue
10 5 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.04%) JSON
10 5 (1.04%) OAuth
10 5 (1.04%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.83%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (11.23%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (4.16%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.49%) Clustering
5 12 (2.49%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.49%) Replication
6 11 (2.29%) Equities
6 11 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.04%) Derivative
11 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.04%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.29%) Unix
2 8 (1.66%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (44.49%) Analytics
2 182 (37.84%) Data Modelling
3 166 (34.51%) Data Engineering
4 161 (33.47%) ETL
5 150 (31.19%) Business Intelligence
6 141 (29.31%) CI/CD
7 139 (28.90%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (22.25%) AI
9 104 (21.62%) Agile
10 94 (19.54%) Data Governance
11 81 (16.84%) Migration
12 79 (16.42%) DevOps
12 79 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (14.97%) Machine Learning
14 69 (14.35%) Data Architecture
15 60 (12.47%) Performance Tuning
16 59 (12.27%) Decision-Making
17 58 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
19 51 (10.60%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 278 (57.80%) SQL
2 247 (51.35%) Python
3 40 (8.32%) Java
4 20 (4.16%) C#
4 20 (4.16%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.74%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.91%) Bash
7 8 (1.66%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.66%) Scala
8 7 (1.46%) R
9 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.04%) Korn
9 5 (1.04%) 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 39 (8.11%) Degree
1 39 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (4.57%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.87%) Azure Certification
5 9 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.66%) SnowPro
7 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.62%) PhD
8 3 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) ACCA
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.21%) CFA
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (25.57%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.61%) GDPR
3 20 (4.16%) QA
4 9 (1.87%) SLA
5 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) 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 32 (6.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (13.72%) Terraform
2 22 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.08%) Ansible
4 9 (1.87%) Grafana
5 8 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.83%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 141 (29.31%) Databricks
2 54 (11.23%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.82%) Oracle
4 25 (5.20%) Informatica
5 19 (3.95%) Talend
6 17 (3.53%) Google
7 15 (3.12%) SAP
8 13 (2.70%) Teradata
9 11 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.87%) Charles River
10 9 (1.87%) Greenplum
10 9 (1.87%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.87%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.46%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.46%) Denodo
11 7 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.04%) Splunk
12 5 (1.04%) Virgin Media