Snowflake Contract Job Trends

Snowflake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Snowflake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 198 348
Rank change year-on-year -39 +150 +140
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 379 485 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.27% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 3.70% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 398 254
10th Percentile £404 £425 £450
25th Percentile £463 £541 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £800 £595
Median % change year-on-year -32.84% +34.57% +3.39%
75th Percentile £725 £875 £688
90th Percentile £825 £888 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £452 £600
% change year-on-year +5.20% -24.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.85 - -
25th Percentile £33.38 - -
Median hourly rate £35.50 - -
75th Percentile £37.13 - -
90th Percentile £37.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 - -

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 12,359 13,112 17,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 34.29% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 8,846 12,789
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 197 342
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.25 £62.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.30%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Snowflake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake 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 September 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
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 September 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 -28 343 £550 -31.25% 246
London -38 249 £619 -22.66% 176
Work from Home -78 151 £613 -23.44% 133
UK excluding London +40 112 £475 +5.20% 153
Scotland +3 23 £463 +2.10% 17
South West +37 21 £475 -17.39% 10
North of England -12 20 £438 -1.69% 27
Midlands -13 19 £423 -18.55% 7
East of England +14 17 £500 +5.26% 3
South East +33 14 £525 +31.25% 88
West Midlands -8 13 £500 +2.56% 2
North West -18 10 £410 -3.53% 22
Yorkshire -8 7 £475 +7.04% 2
East Midlands -10 5 £420 -32.75% 5
North East -2 3 £419 -43.22% 3
Wales - 1 £650 - 2

Snowflake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 120 (31.66%) Apache Airflow
2 72 (19.00%) Apache
3 28 (7.39%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.58%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Maple
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (1.85%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.79%) Endur
5 2 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.53%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.53%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.53%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 225 (59.37%) AWS
2 137 (36.15%) Azure
3 135 (35.62%) dbt
4 95 (25.07%) Power Platform
5 73 (19.26%) GCP
6 35 (9.23%) Serverless
7 33 (8.71%) Amazon S3
8 27 (7.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 22 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.49%) Amazon EMR
11 16 (4.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (3.96%) GitHub
12 15 (3.96%) Matillion
13 14 (3.69%) Fivetran
14 10 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (1.58%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (1.58%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (1.58%) Collibra
17 5 (1.32%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) SMS
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (31.66%) Data Warehouse
2 94 (24.80%) Power BI
3 86 (22.69%) Data Lake
4 59 (15.57%) Amazon Athena
5 49 (12.93%) Apache Iceberg
6 48 (12.66%) Apache Arrow
6 48 (12.66%) Apache Ignite
6 48 (12.66%) Dremio
7 41 (10.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 36 (9.50%) BigQuery
9 34 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (8.71%) Tableau
11 24 (6.33%) NoSQL
12 19 (5.01%) Data Vault
13 18 (4.75%) Big Data
13 18 (4.75%) SQL Server
14 16 (4.22%) Relational Database
15 14 (3.69%) Metadata
16 13 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
17 10 (2.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (6.86%) Git
2 16 (4.22%) ERwin
3 15 (3.96%) JIRA
4 11 (2.90%) ER Studio
5 9 (2.37%) GitLab
5 9 (2.37%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (1.06%) DBeaver
6 4 (1.06%) Liquibase
6 4 (1.06%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.79%) Selenium
8 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.53%) JUnit
8 2 (0.53%) Postman
8 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.53%) TestRail
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) MLflow
General
1 133 (35.09%) Finance
2 96 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 64 (16.89%) Banking
4 54 (14.25%) Front Office
5 52 (13.72%) Investment Banking
6 43 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (5.28%) Marketing
8 14 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.32%) Retail
13 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Local Government
14 3 (0.79%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.53%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 104 (27.44%) Data Engineer
2 89 (23.48%) Senior
3 64 (16.89%) AWS Engineer
4 63 (16.62%) Architect
5 60 (15.83%) Python Engineer
6 49 (12.93%) Analyst
6 49 (12.93%) Software Engineer
7 48 (12.66%) AWS Software Engineer
7 48 (12.66%) Java Engineer
7 48 (12.66%) Java Software Engineer
7 48 (12.66%) Python Software Engineer
7 48 (12.66%) Senior Java Engineer
7 48 (12.66%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 48 (12.66%) Senior Software Engineer
8 39 (10.29%) Snowflake Engineer
9 37 (9.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 33 (8.71%) Data Analyst
10 33 (8.71%) Data Architect
11 25 (6.60%) Lead
11 25 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.51%) Pandas
2 50 (13.19%) NumPy
3 48 (12.66%) gRPC
3 48 (12.66%) Protocol Buffers
3 48 (12.66%) SciPy
4 25 (6.60%) Kafka
5 6 (1.58%) Great Expectations
5 6 (1.58%) PySpark
5 6 (1.58%) React
6 5 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (1.32%) Node.js
7 4 (1.06%) .NET
7 4 (1.06%) Flask
7 4 (1.06%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.06%) JSON
7 4 (1.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 4 (1.06%) REST
7 4 (1.06%) RESTful
8 3 (0.79%) CSS
8 3 (0.79%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.93%) Hedge funds
2 48 (12.66%) Derivative
2 48 (12.66%) Equities
2 48 (12.66%) Fixed Income
2 48 (12.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 48 (12.66%) Pricing Data
3 19 (5.01%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.49%) Data Structures
5 16 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.11%) Replication
9 6 (1.58%) Clustering
9 6 (1.58%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.32%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.79%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.53%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.53%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.58%) Linux
1 6 (1.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (34.56%) ETL
2 128 (33.77%) Data Modelling
3 126 (33.25%) Analytics
4 118 (31.13%) Agile
5 101 (26.65%) Business Intelligence
6 85 (22.43%) Data Pipeline
7 81 (21.37%) Data Governance
8 73 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (19.00%) Data Engineering
10 70 (18.47%) Asset Management
11 63 (16.62%) Data Transformation
12 62 (16.36%) Migration
13 61 (16.09%) Software Engineering
14 58 (15.30%) Investment Management
15 57 (15.04%) Visualisation
16 56 (14.78%) CI/CD
17 55 (14.51%) Data Integration
18 46 (12.14%) Data Architecture
19 43 (11.35%) Decision-Making
20 41 (10.82%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 193 (50.92%) Python
2 187 (49.34%) SQL
3 69 (18.21%) Java
4 57 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 57 (15.04%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.58%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.58%) Scala
7 5 (1.32%) R
8 4 (1.06%) C#
8 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.53%) Korn
10 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Bash
10 1 (0.26%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (4.49%) Degree
2 11 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.64%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.11%) SnowPro
5 6 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.53%) ACCA
8 2 (0.53%) CIMA
8 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.53%) PMP
9 1 (0.26%) CBAP
9 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (19.53%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.49%) GDPR
3 12 (3.17%) QA
4 6 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) DICOM
7 1 (0.26%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.26%) LOINC
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (5.01%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (7.39%) Terraform
2 7 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.53%) Ansible
3 2 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (15.04%) Databricks
2 23 (6.07%) Oracle
3 21 (5.54%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.01%) SAP
5 16 (4.22%) Google
6 14 (3.69%) Informatica
7 13 (3.43%) Teradata
8 11 (2.90%) Talend
9 9 (2.37%) StreamSets
10 8 (2.11%) Sparx
11 7 (1.85%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.58%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.58%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 5 (1.32%) IBM
14 4 (1.06%) Foundry
14 4 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
15 3 (0.79%) Citrix
15 3 (0.79%) Palantir
15 3 (0.79%) Workday