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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 225 238
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +185
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 523 351 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.20% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 3.15% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 269 348
10th Percentile £375 £410 £414
25th Percentile £450 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -17.86% +21.74%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £845 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £44.50 - -
25th Percentile £47.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 17,544 11,129 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 7,531 9,982
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 270 357
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.06 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +93.68% +0.26% -30.60%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -26 452 £550 -5.17% 157
London -1 332 £550 -12.00% 101
Work from Home -35 159 £550 -12.00% 83
UK excluding London -52 157 £525 +10.53% 93
Scotland +10 46 £440 -6.13% 8
Midlands -46 34 £550 +12.82% 8
West Midlands -32 32 £550 - 8
North of England -66 29 £550 +15.79% 25
North West -29 21 £525 -5.41% 19
South East -66 21 £575 +24.32% 36
South West -29 17 £520 -0.95% 5
East of England -31 7 £544 -6.25% 8
Yorkshire -55 6 £550 +18.92% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £334 - 4
North East -24 2 £575 +35.29% 3
East Midlands -29 2 £654 +55.65%
Wales -13 1 £250 -61.54%

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 93 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (8.22%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.82%) Apache
4 10 (1.91%) Confluence
5 6 (1.15%) SAS
5 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.82%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.96%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.57%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.57%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.38%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 270 (51.63%) AWS
2 193 (36.90%) Azure
3 145 (27.72%) Power Platform
4 118 (22.56%) dbt
5 104 (19.89%) GCP
6 79 (15.11%) Amazon S3
7 47 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (8.60%) GitHub
8 45 (8.60%) Serverless
9 43 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 34 (6.50%) Matillion
12 26 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (4.21%) Dagster
14 19 (3.63%) Fivetran
15 17 (3.25%) SaaS
15 17 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (3.06%) Prefect
17 15 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) DNS
2 1 (0.19%) DSL
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Intranet
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (26.20%) Power BI
2 135 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (14.15%) Tableau
4 70 (13.38%) Snowflake Schema
5 52 (9.94%) BigQuery
6 45 (8.60%) Data Lake
7 42 (8.03%) Big Data
8 38 (7.27%) SQL Server
9 37 (7.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (5.93%) Relational Database
11 26 (4.97%) Data Vault
12 25 (4.78%) Metadata
12 25 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
13 21 (4.02%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.25%) Looker
15 16 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (2.29%) MySQL
17 10 (1.91%) Star Schema
18 9 (1.72%) Delta Lake
18 9 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 53 (10.13%) Git
2 30 (5.74%) GitLab
3 25 (4.78%) JIRA
4 14 (2.68%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.53%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.15%) MLflow
7 3 (0.57%) Snyk
7 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.57%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.57%) Toad
8 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.19%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 177 (33.84%) Finance
2 131 (25.05%) Social Skills
3 65 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.47%) Banking
5 41 (7.84%) Retail
6 28 (5.35%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.40%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.40%) Marketing
8 15 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.72%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.53%) Back Office
11 8 (1.53%) Front Office
12 7 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
12 7 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.15%) Legal
13 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 187 (35.76%) Data Engineer
2 99 (18.93%) Snowflake Engineer
3 88 (16.83%) Senior
4 86 (16.44%) Architect
5 76 (14.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 57 (10.90%) Analyst
7 48 (9.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (8.60%) Data Architect
9 41 (7.84%) Lead
10 39 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (6.88%) Data Analyst
12 28 (5.35%) Developer
13 25 (4.78%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (3.63%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.44%) Business Analyst
17 17 (3.25%) Snowflake Architect
18 15 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
19 14 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.56%) Kafka
2 16 (3.06%) REST
3 15 (2.87%) PySpark
4 10 (1.91%) Spring
4 10 (1.91%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.72%) .NET
5 9 (1.72%) React
6 8 (1.53%) Playwright
6 8 (1.53%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.34%) Vue
8 6 (1.15%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.15%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.96%) OAuth
9 5 (0.96%) OpenID
9 5 (0.96%) YAML
10 4 (0.76%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.76%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.57%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.57%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.97%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.29%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.10%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.91%) Clustering
8 10 (1.91%) Equities
8 10 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.34%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.96%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.76%) Data Fabric
13 4 (0.76%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.91%) Unix
2 8 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (45.70%) Analytics
2 199 (38.05%) Data Engineering
3 179 (34.23%) Data Modelling
4 177 (33.84%) Data Pipeline
5 170 (32.50%) CI/CD
6 168 (32.12%) Business Intelligence
7 167 (31.93%) ETL
8 143 (27.34%) AI
9 112 (21.41%) Agile
10 98 (18.74%) Migration
11 97 (18.55%) DevOps
12 93 (17.78%) Data Governance
13 83 (15.87%) Validation
14 78 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 74 (14.15%) Data Architecture
16 70 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
17 67 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
17 67 (12.81%) Machine Learning
18 60 (11.47%) Observability
19 58 (11.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 284 (54.30%) SQL
2 256 (48.95%) Python
3 56 (10.71%) Java
4 13 (2.49%) Bash
4 13 (2.49%) C#
4 13 (2.49%) R
5 11 (2.10%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.34%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.15%) Scala
9 5 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.76%) Bicep
10 4 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.38%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) SOQL
12 2 (0.38%) VBScript
13 1 (0.19%) Cypher
13 1 (0.19%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 46 (8.80%) Security Cleared
2 35 (6.69%) Degree
3 25 (4.78%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.91%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.53%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.76%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.57%) CSPO
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ACCA
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.19%) CFA
12 1 (0.19%) CIMA
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (24.28%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.93%) GDPR
3 29 (5.54%) QA
4 9 (1.72%) SLA
5 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.57%) PMO
7 2 (0.38%) EMIR
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) CDISC
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (7.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (13.96%) Terraform
2 35 (6.69%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.82%) Grafana
4 8 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 145 (27.72%) Databricks
2 55 (10.52%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.35%) Oracle
4 26 (4.97%) Informatica
5 21 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.82%) Google
7 16 (3.06%) SAP
8 10 (1.91%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.91%) Talend
9 9 (1.72%) Teradata
10 8 (1.53%) Denodo
10 8 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.34%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.34%) Splunk
12 6 (1.15%) Charles River
12 6 (1.15%) FactSet
12 6 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (0.96%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.96%) Workday
14 4 (0.76%) Murex