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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 234 325
Rank change year-on-year +13 +91 +145
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 483 325 291
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.08% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.05% 2.86% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 215 211
10th Percentile £344 £365 £413
25th Percentile £417 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £691 £675
90th Percentile £725 £875 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £71.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £82.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.75 - £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 15,854 11,372 14,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.62% 37.85% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,873 7,763 10,354
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £634
90th Percentile £700 £733 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £495
% change year-on-year -4.23% +0.20% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 178 348
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.83 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.47 £27.13 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.49% +26.93% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.56 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.28 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +86.10% +34.33% -16.88%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -18 397 £525 -12.50% 257
London +18 298 £525 -19.23% 104
Work from Home +13 151 £525 -19.23% 119
UK excluding London -51 133 £463 -2.63% 190
Scotland +36 45 £450 -5.26% 9
North of England -60 23 £400 -24.53% 47
South East -27 19 £500 +37.93% 57
North West -38 19 £347 -37.57% 26
Midlands -66 18 £550 +10.00% 32
South West -26 17 £475 -20.83% 25
West Midlands -59 15 £500 -4.76% 19
East of England -24 9 £550 -5.17% 18
East Midlands -31 3 £575 +33.72% 12
Yorkshire -60 3 £544 +17.57% 15
Wales - 2 £413 - 1
North East -14 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 (19.25%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (6.83%) Apache Spark
3 24 (4.97%) Apache
4 7 (1.45%) Confluence
5 4 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.83%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Luigi
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (5.18%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.41%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 256 (53.00%) AWS
2 231 (47.83%) Azure
3 116 (24.02%) Power Platform
4 108 (22.36%) dbt
5 93 (19.25%) GCP
6 59 (12.22%) Serverless
7 58 (12.01%) Amazon S3
8 44 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (6.63%) Matillion
12 27 (5.59%) GitHub
13 23 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (3.52%) SaaS
15 16 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (2.69%) Fivetran
16 13 (2.69%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (32.09%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (22.57%) Power BI
3 57 (11.80%) Snowflake Schema
4 51 (10.56%) Data Lake
5 48 (9.94%) Tableau
6 43 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (7.25%) Metadata
8 34 (7.04%) BigQuery
9 30 (6.21%) SQL Server
10 29 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (5.38%) Big Data
11 26 (5.38%) Data Vault
11 26 (5.38%) NoSQL
12 25 (5.18%) Relational Database
13 15 (3.11%) RDBMS
14 11 (2.28%) Star Schema
15 10 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (1.86%) Looker
16 9 (1.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (9.73%) Git
2 25 (5.18%) GitLab
3 20 (4.14%) JIRA
4 15 (3.11%) ERwin
4 15 (3.11%) SpecFlow
5 14 (2.90%) ER Studio
6 9 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.86%) MLflow
7 8 (1.66%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (1.24%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.62%) Selenium
9 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.62%) Toad
10 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.21%) Deequ
General
1 129 (26.71%) Finance
2 127 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 72 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.83%) Banking
5 26 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.14%) Retail
7 14 (2.90%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.90%) Marketing
8 11 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.86%) Front Office
11 8 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.04%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.62%) Back Office
14 3 (0.62%) Law
15 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 161 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 81 (16.77%) Snowflake Engineer
3 66 (13.66%) Architect
4 64 (13.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 58 (12.01%) Analyst
6 47 (9.73%) Senior
7 44 (9.11%) Data Analyst
8 40 (8.28%) Lead
9 36 (7.45%) Data Architect
10 35 (7.25%) Developer
11 34 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (4.55%) Python Engineer
13 22 (4.55%) Snowflake Architect
13 22 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (4.35%) Data Modeller
15 20 (4.14%) Senior Data Engineer
16 19 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
17 18 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 18 (3.73%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.42%) Kafka
2 23 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 21 (4.35%) PySpark
4 19 (3.93%) Pandas
5 18 (3.73%) Playwright
6 17 (3.52%) TensorFlow
7 13 (2.69%) NumPy
8 10 (2.07%) React
9 9 (1.86%) JSON
9 9 (1.86%) REST
9 9 (1.86%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.66%) Spring
11 7 (1.45%) scikit-learn
12 6 (1.24%) Node.js
13 5 (1.04%) .NET
13 5 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (1.04%) AWS CDK
13 5 (1.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
14 4 (0.83%) FastAPI
14 4 (0.83%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.59%) Data Structures
3 25 (5.18%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.90%) Replication
6 13 (2.69%) Clustering
6 13 (2.69%) Equities
6 13 (2.69%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.66%) Derivative
10 8 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.24%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.45%) Unix
2 5 (1.04%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (43.48%) Analytics
2 190 (39.34%) Data Modelling
3 164 (33.95%) ETL
4 151 (31.26%) Data Engineering
5 140 (28.99%) CI/CD
6 132 (27.33%) Business Intelligence
7 128 (26.50%) Data Pipeline
8 105 (21.74%) Agile
9 104 (21.53%) Data Governance
10 102 (21.12%) AI
11 92 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (16.36%) Migration
13 78 (16.15%) DevOps
14 76 (15.73%) Machine Learning
15 68 (14.08%) Data Architecture
16 63 (13.04%) Data Transformation
17 59 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (12.22%) Performance Tuning
18 53 (10.97%) Data Science
19 51 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 296 (61.28%) SQL
2 258 (53.42%) Python
3 40 (8.28%) Java
4 25 (5.18%) JavaScript
4 25 (5.18%) TypeScript
5 20 (4.14%) C#
6 17 (3.52%) Bash
7 13 (2.69%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.86%) R
8 9 (1.86%) Scala
9 6 (1.24%) Korn
10 4 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (7.25%) Degree
1 35 (7.25%) Security Cleared
2 20 (4.14%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.11%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.28%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.07%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.83%) SnowPro
7 4 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.62%) PhD
9 2 (0.41%) ACCA
9 2 (0.41%) CIMA
9 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.93%) QA
3 16 (3.31%) GDPR
4 8 (1.66%) SLA
5 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (14.49%) Terraform
2 34 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.52%) Ansible
4 8 (1.66%) Grafana
4 8 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.83%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 131 (27.12%) Databricks
2 52 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 34 (7.04%) Oracle
4 19 (3.93%) Informatica
4 19 (3.93%) Talend
5 17 (3.52%) SAP
6 15 (3.11%) Greenplum
7 14 (2.90%) Google
8 11 (2.28%) MuleSoft
9 10 (2.07%) Charles River
9 10 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.07%) Teradata
10 8 (1.66%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.04%) Ab Initio
12 5 (1.04%) Murex
12 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.04%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.83%) Denodo
13 4 (0.83%) Sparx