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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 239 309
Rank change year-on-year +1 +70 +142
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 482 320 295
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.09% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 2.87% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 221 216
10th Percentile £346 £375 £413
25th Percentile £417 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £588 £700 £713
90th Percentile £725 £875 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.44 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 - £52.50
75th Percentile £85.38 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
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 16,091 11,150 14,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.27% 37.97% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,986 7,737 10,304
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £633
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 200 356
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £19.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £61.81 £43.10 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.34 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £23.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +87.60% +29.21% -19.38%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -24 394 £525 -12.50% 171
London +23 295 £525 -19.23% 88
Work from Home +1 157 £550 -15.38% 68
UK excluding London -63 133 £475 -1.30% 119
Scotland +37 45 £450 -5.37% 11
North of England -67 23 £525 -0.94% 33
Midlands -54 22 £550 +10.00% 16
South West -22 19 £475 -20.83% 10
North West -32 19 £463 -16.67% 21
West Midlands -63 19 £530 +6.00% 12
South East -42 18 £500 +36.99% 42
East of England -34 4 £525 -9.48% 8
East Midlands -31 3 £575 +21.05% 4
Yorkshire -53 3 £544 +17.57% 7
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -12 1 £575 -11.54% 5

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 91 (18.88%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.05%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.56%) Apache
4 8 (1.66%) Confluence
5 5 (1.04%) SAS
6 4 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Luigi
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (5.39%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.62%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.41%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 252 (52.28%) AWS
2 223 (46.27%) Azure
3 122 (25.31%) Power Platform
4 105 (21.78%) dbt
5 89 (18.46%) GCP
6 59 (12.24%) Amazon S3
7 56 (11.62%) Serverless
8 43 (8.92%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 35 (7.26%) Matillion
11 32 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (5.60%) GitHub
13 23 (4.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (3.11%) Prefect
17 15 (3.11%) SaaS
18 12 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (2.49%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (32.57%) Data Warehouse
2 115 (23.86%) Power BI
3 55 (11.41%) Tableau
4 48 (9.96%) Snowflake Schema
5 44 (9.13%) Data Lake
6 42 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (7.05%) BigQuery
8 33 (6.85%) Metadata
9 32 (6.64%) SQL Server
10 31 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (5.60%) Big Data
12 24 (4.98%) NoSQL
12 24 (4.98%) Relational Database
13 23 (4.77%) Data Vault
14 13 (2.70%) RDBMS
15 11 (2.28%) Looker
15 11 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.28%) Star Schema
16 9 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (1.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (9.96%) Git
2 26 (5.39%) GitLab
3 18 (3.73%) JIRA
4 15 (3.11%) SpecFlow
5 11 (2.28%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.07%) ERwin
7 9 (1.87%) ER Studio
7 9 (1.87%) MLflow
8 6 (1.24%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.62%) Toad
10 2 (0.41%) Selenium
10 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.21%) Deequ
11 1 (0.21%) GCC
11 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 134 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 129 (26.76%) Finance
3 74 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.05%) Banking
5 28 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.36%) Retail
7 16 (3.32%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.49%) Marketing
10 10 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.87%) Front Office
12 8 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.45%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.62%) Back Office
16 3 (0.62%) Law
16 3 (0.62%) Legal
16 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 164 (34.02%) Data Engineer
2 79 (16.39%) Snowflake Engineer
3 65 (13.49%) Architect
4 63 (13.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 62 (12.86%) Analyst
6 47 (9.75%) Data Analyst
6 47 (9.75%) Senior
7 42 (8.71%) Lead
8 36 (7.47%) Data Architect
9 33 (6.85%) Developer
10 32 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.36%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 19 (3.94%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (3.94%) Snowflake Architect
14 17 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.53%) Python Engineer
14 17 (3.53%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.26%) Kafka
2 25 (5.19%) PyTorch
3 20 (4.15%) PySpark
4 19 (3.94%) TensorFlow
5 17 (3.53%) Playwright
6 16 (3.32%) Pandas
7 10 (2.07%) NumPy
7 10 (2.07%) React
8 9 (1.87%) REST
8 9 (1.87%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.66%) Spring
10 7 (1.45%) JSON
10 7 (1.45%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.24%) .NET
12 5 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (1.04%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.04%) Node.js
12 5 (1.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 5 (1.04%) Vue
13 4 (0.83%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.90%) Equities
5 14 (2.90%) Fixed Income
5 14 (2.90%) Replication
6 11 (2.28%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.07%) Clustering
7 10 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.87%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.87%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.66%) Derivative
10 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.04%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.45%) Unix
2 5 (1.04%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (42.95%) Analytics
2 186 (38.59%) Data Modelling
3 162 (33.61%) ETL
4 160 (33.20%) Data Engineering
5 146 (30.29%) CI/CD
6 140 (29.05%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (27.80%) Data Pipeline
8 108 (22.41%) AI
9 106 (21.99%) Agile
9 106 (21.99%) Data Governance
10 91 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (16.60%) DevOps
12 78 (16.18%) Machine Learning
12 78 (16.18%) Migration
13 67 (13.90%) Data Architecture
14 57 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (11.62%) Performance Tuning
15 56 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 55 (11.41%) Data Transformation
17 52 (10.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 296 (61.41%) SQL
2 258 (53.53%) Python
3 35 (7.26%) Java
4 21 (4.36%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.15%) C#
6 19 (3.94%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.53%) Bash
8 9 (1.87%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.87%) R
8 9 (1.87%) Scala
9 6 (1.24%) Korn
10 4 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (8.51%) Degree
2 35 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.15%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.11%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.28%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.04%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.62%) PhD
11 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.21%) ACCA
12 1 (0.21%) CFA
12 1 (0.21%) CIMA
12 1 (0.21%) CSPO
12 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (26.56%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.36%) GDPR
3 19 (3.94%) QA
4 9 (1.87%) SLA
5 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.83%) 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 (9.54%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (13.90%) Terraform
2 33 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.32%) Ansible
4 9 (1.87%) Grafana
5 8 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.83%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 134 (27.80%) Databricks
2 52 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.85%) Oracle
4 22 (4.56%) Informatica
5 19 (3.94%) Talend
6 16 (3.32%) Google
6 16 (3.32%) SAP
7 14 (2.90%) Greenplum
8 12 (2.49%) Charles River
9 11 (2.28%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.28%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.07%) OpenAI
10 10 (2.07%) Teradata
11 7 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
11 7 (1.45%) Murex
12 5 (1.04%) Ab Initio
12 5 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.04%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.83%) FactSet