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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 220 211
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +162
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 616 386 463
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.17% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.31% 3.15% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 297 391
10th Percentile £400 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +38.41%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £875
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -21.74%
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 18,613 12,245 13,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.22% 37.21% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,280 8,214 9,247
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £617 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 311 273
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +13.46% -31.00%
75th Percentile £69.79 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 August 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 August 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 4 August 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 -18 537 £571 -1.51% 409
London +13 390 £575 -11.54% 289
Work from Home -38 194 £594 -8.65% 190
UK excluding London -40 182 £525 +10.53% 167
Scotland +11 45 £430 -4.44% 11
North of England -37 43 £525 +7.69% 43
Midlands -37 34 £518 +21.76% 31
North West -33 30 £525 -5.41% 23
West Midlands -40 30 £563 +21.62% 25
South East -58 25 £575 +12.20% 50
South West -51 18 £600 +23.08% 19
East of England -26 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -40 10 £550 +15.79% 17
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 8
East Midlands -9 4 £466 +10.83% 6
North East -39 3 - - 3
Wales -13 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
1 119 (19.32%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (6.98%) Apache Spark
3 34 (5.52%) Apache
4 18 (2.92%) Confluence
5 10 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.81%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.57%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.81%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.81%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 313 (50.81%) AWS
2 233 (37.82%) Azure
3 171 (27.76%) Power Platform
4 159 (25.81%) dbt
5 132 (21.43%) GCP
6 83 (13.47%) Amazon S3
7 61 (9.90%) GitHub
8 51 (8.28%) Serverless
9 50 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (4.55%) Fivetran
14 26 (4.22%) Matillion
15 25 (4.06%) Dagster
16 20 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (3.08%) Prefect
18 18 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 17 (2.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) Broadband
1 3 (0.49%) Internet
2 2 (0.32%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (29.87%) Data Warehouse
2 168 (27.27%) Power BI
3 83 (13.47%) Tableau
4 78 (12.66%) BigQuery
5 77 (12.50%) Data Lake
6 70 (11.36%) Snowflake Schema
7 55 (8.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.31%) SQL Server
9 43 (6.98%) Big Data
10 35 (5.68%) Metadata
11 34 (5.52%) Relational Database
12 33 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
13 27 (4.38%) Data Vault
13 27 (4.38%) NoSQL
14 23 (3.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (3.41%) Looker
16 19 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
17 13 (2.11%) Delta Lake
17 13 (2.11%) MySQL
18 12 (1.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 66 (10.71%) Git
2 35 (5.68%) JIRA
3 29 (4.71%) GitLab
4 22 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.14%) MLflow
6 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.65%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.65%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.49%) Snyk
7 3 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.32%) Selenium
8 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.16%) GCC
9 1 (0.16%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 218 (35.39%) Finance
2 173 (28.08%) Social Skills
3 95 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (14.12%) Banking
5 51 (8.28%) Retail
6 29 (4.71%) Marketing
7 25 (4.06%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.41%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.25%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.08%) Front Office
11 15 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.27%) Legal
13 12 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.62%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.14%) Back Office
17 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 210 (34.09%) Data Engineer
2 106 (17.21%) Architect
3 105 (17.05%) Snowflake Engineer
4 102 (16.56%) Senior
5 79 (12.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 72 (11.69%) Analyst
7 61 (9.90%) Data Architect
8 52 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
9 50 (8.12%) Lead
10 43 (6.98%) Data Analyst
11 40 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
12 28 (4.55%) Developer
13 24 (3.90%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.41%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.92%) Site Engineer
16 18 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (2.92%) Snowflake Architect
17 15 (2.44%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.58%) Kafka
2 26 (4.22%) REST
3 20 (3.25%) PySpark
4 10 (1.62%) .NET
4 10 (1.62%) PyTorch
5 9 (1.46%) React
5 9 (1.46%) Spring
5 9 (1.46%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.30%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.14%) OAuth
8 6 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.97%) JSON
8 6 (0.97%) Vue
8 6 (0.97%) XML
8 6 (0.97%) YAML
9 5 (0.81%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.81%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.81%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 79 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.19%) Data Structures
3 28 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (1.62%) Equities
10 9 (1.46%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.30%) Clustering
12 7 (1.14%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.97%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.97%) Replication
14 5 (0.81%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.11%) Unix
2 10 (1.62%) Linux
3 2 (0.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (45.13%) Analytics
2 247 (40.10%) Data Engineering
3 222 (36.04%) Data Modelling
4 221 (35.88%) Data Pipeline
5 207 (33.60%) ETL
6 206 (33.44%) CI/CD
7 198 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
8 171 (27.76%) AI
9 146 (23.70%) Agile
10 124 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 121 (19.64%) Data Governance
12 112 (18.18%) DevOps
13 109 (17.69%) Migration
14 106 (17.21%) Data Architecture
15 100 (16.23%) Validation
16 86 (13.96%) Data Transformation
17 81 (13.15%) Decision-Making
17 81 (13.15%) Machine Learning
18 72 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
19 70 (11.36%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 342 (55.52%) SQL
2 304 (49.35%) Python
3 54 (8.77%) Java
4 13 (2.11%) R
5 12 (1.95%) Bash
6 11 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.46%) C#
8 7 (1.14%) Scala
9 6 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.97%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.65%) Bicep
11 3 (0.49%) Cypher
11 3 (0.49%) Delphi
11 3 (0.49%) SHACL
11 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.32%) Korn
12 2 (0.32%) SOQL
12 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 47 (7.63%) Degree
3 30 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.95%) SnowPro
5 11 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.65%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.49%) CSPO
11 3 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (26.30%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.66%) GDPR
3 32 (5.19%) QA
4 11 (1.79%) SLA
5 6 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.65%) PMO
8 3 (0.49%) EMIR
8 3 (0.49%) MiFID
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.16%) CDISC
10 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (6.98%) Docker
2 3 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (13.31%) Terraform
2 39 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.06%) Grafana
4 9 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.65%) Ansible
5 4 (0.65%) Control-M
6 2 (0.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 185 (30.03%) Databricks
2 72 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.68%) Google
3 35 (5.68%) Informatica
4 30 (4.87%) Oracle
4 30 (4.87%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.73%) SAP
6 12 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.79%) Workday
8 10 (1.62%) Teradata
9 9 (1.46%) Charles River
9 9 (1.46%) Denodo
9 9 (1.46%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.30%) PagerDuty
10 8 (1.30%) Talend
11 7 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.14%) Splunk
12 6 (0.97%) FactSet
12 6 (0.97%) Foundry
12 6 (0.97%) MicroStrategy