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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 218 286
Rank change year-on-year -33 +68 +162
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 469 353 347
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.21% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 3.21% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 263 272
10th Percentile £383 £408 £415
25th Percentile £447 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £850
90th Percentile £734 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +6.32% - -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 16,954 10,983 13,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.01% 37.65% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,525 7,638 9,929
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 250 346
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.88 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -39 391 £525 -12.50% 141
London -16 287 £525 -19.23% 82
Work from Home -39 143 £525 -19.23% 70
UK excluding London -51 141 £505 +6.32% 88
Scotland +32 51 £450 -0.11% 6
Midlands -55 27 £510 +4.62% 16
West Midlands -50 23 £500 -9.09% 13
North of England -74 22 £563 +15.38% 17
South East -61 17 £575 +49.84% 31
South West -34 16 £488 -7.14% 10
North West -34 15 £563 +9.22% 13
East of England -38 7 £400 -31.03% 4
Yorkshire -58 6 £550 +15.79% 2
East Midlands -38 4 £575 +36.90% 3
North East -17 1 £575 +6.98% 2
Wales - 1 £250 - 2

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 87 (18.55%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.10%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.05%) Apache
4 8 (1.71%) Confluence
5 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 22 (4.69%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.07%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
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
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 234 (49.89%) AWS
2 197 (42.00%) Azure
3 128 (27.29%) Power Platform
4 100 (21.32%) dbt
5 92 (19.62%) GCP
6 67 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 48 (10.23%) Serverless
8 42 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (6.61%) Matillion
12 30 (6.40%) GitHub
13 22 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (4.48%) Dagster
15 18 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (3.41%) Prefect
17 12 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Firewall
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (26.65%) Data Warehouse
2 120 (25.59%) Power BI
3 59 (12.58%) Tableau
4 57 (12.15%) Snowflake Schema
5 41 (8.74%) Data Lake
6 39 (8.32%) BigQuery
7 36 (7.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (7.04%) Big Data
9 31 (6.61%) SQL Server
10 26 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (5.33%) Data Vault
12 23 (4.90%) Metadata
13 22 (4.69%) Relational Database
14 17 (3.62%) NoSQL
15 14 (2.99%) Looker
15 14 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (1.92%) MySQL
17 8 (1.71%) DynamoDB
17 8 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
17 8 (1.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (9.38%) Git
2 22 (4.69%) JIRA
3 21 (4.48%) GitLab
4 13 (2.77%) SpecFlow
5 8 (1.71%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.49%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.49%) ERwin
7 6 (1.28%) MLflow
8 3 (0.64%) Selenium
8 3 (0.64%) Snyk
8 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.64%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.64%) Toad
9 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.21%) GCC
10 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (31.13%) Finance
2 123 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (9.17%) Banking
5 28 (5.97%) Retail
6 23 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.77%) Marketing
9 9 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.71%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Front Office
12 5 (1.07%) Legal
13 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 170 (36.25%) Data Engineer
2 85 (18.12%) Snowflake Engineer
3 74 (15.78%) Architect
4 69 (14.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 68 (14.50%) Senior
6 53 (11.30%) Analyst
7 43 (9.17%) Lead
8 39 (8.32%) Data Architect
9 36 (7.68%) Senior Data Engineer
10 35 (7.46%) Data Analyst
11 33 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (4.90%) Developer
13 22 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (4.26%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
16 18 (3.84%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.84%) Lead Data Engineer
17 17 (3.62%) Snowflake Architect
18 14 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
19 13 (2.77%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.23%) Kafka
2 17 (3.62%) PySpark
3 14 (2.99%) Playwright
3 14 (2.99%) PyTorch
4 12 (2.56%) TensorFlow
5 11 (2.35%) Spring Boot
6 10 (2.13%) Spring
7 9 (1.92%) React
8 7 (1.49%) .NET
8 7 (1.49%) Pandas
8 7 (1.49%) REST
8 7 (1.49%) Vue
9 6 (1.28%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.07%) NumPy
10 5 (1.07%) OAuth
10 5 (1.07%) OpenID
10 5 (1.07%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.85%) JSON
12 3 (0.64%) Middleware
12 3 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (2.77%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.13%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.92%) Clustering
7 9 (1.92%) Equities
7 9 (1.92%) Replication
8 8 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.07%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.92%) Unix
2 8 (1.71%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (44.99%) Analytics
2 173 (36.89%) Data Modelling
3 164 (34.97%) Data Engineering
4 153 (32.62%) ETL
5 149 (31.77%) Data Pipeline
6 145 (30.92%) CI/CD
7 144 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
8 113 (24.09%) AI
9 105 (22.39%) Agile
10 91 (19.40%) Data Governance
11 86 (18.34%) DevOps
12 81 (17.27%) Migration
13 74 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (15.14%) Machine Learning
15 64 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
16 62 (13.22%) Data Architecture
17 59 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
18 56 (11.94%) Decision-Making
18 56 (11.94%) Validation
19 53 (11.30%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 258 (55.01%) SQL
2 237 (50.53%) Python
3 43 (9.17%) Java
4 18 (3.84%) C#
5 16 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.77%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.56%) Bash
8 8 (1.71%) R
9 7 (1.49%) Scala
10 6 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.85%) Bicep
12 4 (0.85%) Korn
12 4 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (7.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (7.25%) Degree
3 18 (3.84%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.35%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.71%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) PhD
9 3 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (23.03%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.97%) GDPR
3 23 (4.90%) QA
4 9 (1.92%) SLA
5 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) EMIR
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) MiFID
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
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%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (7.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (14.29%) Terraform
2 26 (5.54%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.99%) Grafana
4 9 (1.92%) Ansible
5 8 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.85%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 142 (30.28%) Databricks
2 49 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.12%) Informatica
4 23 (4.90%) Oracle
5 18 (3.84%) Google
6 16 (3.41%) SAP
7 15 (3.20%) Talend
8 13 (2.77%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.92%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.71%) Greenplum
10 8 (1.71%) Teradata
11 7 (1.49%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.49%) Charles River
11 7 (1.49%) Denodo
11 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.28%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.07%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.07%) Splunk
13 5 (1.07%) Workday