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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 215 344
Rank change year-on-year -16 +129 +103
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 447 420 312
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.14% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.31% 3.25% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 307 245
10th Percentile £363 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £579
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +16.67% +0.62%
75th Percentile £675 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% -15.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.25 - -

All Cloud 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 13,497 12,923 16,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.61% 35.18% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,103 8,517 11,887
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 167 321
10th Percentile £15.12 £18.98 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +35.87%
75th Percentile £43.92 £64.61 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.89 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.93 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.11% +50.80% +15.38%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -26 379 £550 -21.43% 697
London -13 275 £600 -25.00% 392
Work from Home -29 162 £613 -23.44% 410
UK excluding London +15 128 £450 -7.69% 516
Scotland +33 32 £450 - 37
South West +15 22 £475 -17.39% 10
North of England -28 22 £388 -12.18% 61
South East +19 19 £506 +35.00% 357
East of England 0 18 £500 -9.09% 12
Midlands -32 16 £463 -6.33% 24
North West -25 15 £361 -18.93% 44
West Midlands -34 11 £425 -12.82% 13
Yorkshire -24 6 £469 +7.14% 15
East Midlands -26 4 £575 -7.93% 11
Wales - 2 £613 - 2
North East - 1 - - 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
1 115 (25.73%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (13.20%) Apache
3 33 (7.38%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.79%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.67%) Confluence
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) Luigi
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Maple
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (2.91%) Aladdin
1 13 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.45%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 251 (56.15%) AWS
2 188 (42.06%) Azure
3 128 (28.64%) dbt
4 106 (23.71%) Power Platform
5 88 (19.69%) GCP
6 52 (11.63%) Serverless
7 44 (9.84%) Amazon S3
8 34 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (4.47%) Matillion
11 18 (4.03%) Amazon EMR
11 18 (4.03%) GitHub
12 17 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.58%) Fivetran
14 12 (2.68%) SaaS
15 10 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.79%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) SMS
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
2 1 (0.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (23.71%) Power BI
3 81 (18.12%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.40%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (9.17%) BigQuery
5 41 (9.17%) Tableau
6 40 (8.95%) Snowflake Schema
7 38 (8.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 36 (8.05%) Apache Arrow
8 36 (8.05%) Apache Ignite
8 36 (8.05%) Dremio
9 34 (7.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (6.71%) Metadata
12 27 (6.04%) NoSQL
13 25 (5.59%) Big Data
13 25 (5.59%) Relational Database
14 23 (5.15%) SQL Server
15 22 (4.92%) Data Vault
16 18 (4.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (10.07%) Git
2 19 (4.25%) JIRA
3 16 (3.58%) ERwin
4 14 (3.13%) GitLab
5 13 (2.91%) ER Studio
6 11 (2.46%) PowerDesigner
7 10 (2.24%) DBeaver
8 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
9 6 (1.34%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.12%) MLflow
11 4 (0.89%) Selenium
12 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.45%) Postman
13 2 (0.45%) TestRail
13 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.22%) Deequ
14 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
14 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 145 (32.44%) Finance
2 121 (27.07%) Social Skills
3 62 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (12.53%) Banking
5 43 (9.62%) Front Office
6 41 (9.17%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.25%) Marketing
8 17 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.91%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.24%) Retail
12 8 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.67%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.45%) Digital Health
17 2 (0.45%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 119 (26.62%) Data Engineer
2 74 (16.55%) Senior
3 64 (14.32%) Architect
4 57 (12.75%) Analyst
5 53 (11.86%) Python Engineer
6 48 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (10.51%) Snowflake Engineer
8 42 (9.40%) Data Analyst
9 39 (8.72%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 38 (8.50%) Software Engineer
11 37 (8.28%) Java Engineer
12 36 (8.05%) AWS Software Engineer
12 36 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
12 36 (8.05%) Lead
12 36 (8.05%) Python Software Engineer
13 35 (7.83%) Senior Java Engineer
13 35 (7.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 35 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (7.16%) Data Architect
15 28 (6.26%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (11.41%) Pandas
2 42 (9.40%) NumPy
3 36 (8.05%) gRPC
3 36 (8.05%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (8.05%) SciPy
4 28 (6.26%) Kafka
5 13 (2.91%) PyTorch
6 12 (2.68%) PySpark
7 10 (2.24%) React
8 9 (2.01%) REST
8 9 (2.01%) TensorFlow
9 8 (1.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 7 (1.57%) .NET
10 7 (1.57%) JSON
10 7 (1.57%) Node.js
10 7 (1.57%) Playwright
11 6 (1.34%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.12%) LangChain
13 4 (0.89%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.95%) Equities
1 40 (8.95%) Fixed Income
2 39 (8.72%) Derivative
3 38 (8.50%) Hedge funds
4 36 (8.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 36 (8.05%) Pricing Data
5 31 (6.94%) Cloud Native
6 24 (5.37%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.58%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.68%) Replication
9 11 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.79%) Clustering
10 8 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.79%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.34%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.57%) Unix
2 6 (1.34%) Linux
3 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (36.02%) Data Modelling
2 157 (35.12%) Analytics
3 149 (33.33%) ETL
4 136 (30.43%) Agile
5 113 (25.28%) Business Intelligence
6 111 (24.83%) Data Engineering
7 99 (22.15%) Data Governance
8 95 (21.25%) CI/CD
9 92 (20.58%) Data Pipeline
10 80 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
11 77 (17.23%) Migration
12 68 (15.21%) AI
13 67 (14.99%) Asset Management
14 66 (14.77%) Data Transformation
15 63 (14.09%) Software Engineering
16 60 (13.42%) Data Integration
17 56 (12.53%) Machine Learning
18 53 (11.86%) DevOps
19 52 (11.63%) Data Architecture
20 51 (11.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 251 (56.15%) SQL
2 233 (52.13%) Python
3 63 (14.09%) Java
4 52 (11.63%) JavaScript
4 52 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 10 (2.24%) C#
6 9 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (2.01%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.79%) Scala
8 7 (1.57%) Bash
8 7 (1.57%) R
9 6 (1.34%) Korn
10 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (6.04%) Degree
2 14 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 13 (2.91%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.34%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.45%) ACCA
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.45%) CIMA
9 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.45%) PMP
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) CBAP
10 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (23.94%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.58%) GDPR
2 16 (3.58%) QA
3 6 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.45%) DICOM
5 2 (0.45%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) HL7
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.22%) LOINC
6 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (7.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (9.17%) Terraform
2 25 (5.59%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.01%) Ansible
4 6 (1.34%) Grafana
5 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (20.13%) Databricks
2 35 (7.83%) Oracle
3 32 (7.16%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.92%) SAP
5 15 (3.36%) Teradata
6 11 (2.46%) Informatica
6 11 (2.46%) Talend
7 9 (2.01%) Cloudera
7 9 (2.01%) Google
7 9 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.79%) StreamSets
9 7 (1.57%) Greenplum
9 7 (1.57%) Sparx
10 6 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.12%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.12%) Charles River
11 5 (1.12%) Foundry
11 5 (1.12%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.89%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.89%) Palantir