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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 237 308
Rank change year-on-year -11 +71 +148
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 475 312 301
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.07% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 2.81% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 226 221
10th Percentile £352 £381 £415
25th Percentile £414 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £719 £725
90th Percentile £731 £875 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -12.66%
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 16,302 11,104 14,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.07% 38.21% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,118 7,791 10,229
10th Percentile £313 £313 £291
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £490
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.19% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 212 355
10th Percentile £15.54 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.47 £25.98 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.93% +23.69% -18.64%
75th Percentile £64.00 £41.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.88 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -23 392 £525 -12.50% 171
London +24 295 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -19 153 £550 -15.38% 70
UK excluding London -65 130 £475 - 112
Scotland +36 45 £449 -5.47% 8
North of England -62 24 £500 -0.50% 27
Midlands -57 22 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -55 19 £530 -3.64% 8
North West -37 18 £400 -27.93% 13
South West -27 17 £475 -15.56% 14
South East -55 14 £513 +40.41% 37
East of England -32 6 £500 -13.79% 10
Yorkshire -51 5 £500 +5.26% 8
East Midlands -35 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -13 1 £575 -11.54% 6

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 92 (19.37%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.16%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.42%) Apache
4 8 (1.68%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (5.47%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 242 (50.95%) AWS
2 214 (45.05%) Azure
3 122 (25.68%) Power Platform
4 107 (22.53%) dbt
5 88 (18.53%) GCP
6 58 (12.21%) Amazon S3
7 53 (11.16%) Serverless
8 40 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (6.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 33 (6.95%) Matillion
10 32 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (5.68%) GitHub
12 21 (4.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (3.37%) Prefect
15 15 (3.16%) SaaS
16 14 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (2.74%) Dagster
18 11 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
2 115 (24.21%) Power BI
3 55 (11.58%) Tableau
4 53 (11.16%) Snowflake Schema
5 43 (9.05%) Data Lake
6 35 (7.37%) BigQuery
6 35 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (6.74%) Metadata
8 28 (5.89%) SQL Server
9 24 (5.05%) Data Vault
10 23 (4.84%) Big Data
11 22 (4.63%) NoSQL
12 19 (4.00%) Relational Database
13 12 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (2.11%) Looker
14 10 (2.11%) Star Schema
15 9 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.68%) RDBMS
17 7 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (9.68%) Git
2 25 (5.26%) GitLab
3 19 (4.00%) JIRA
4 15 (3.16%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.89%) ERwin
5 9 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.68%) ER Studio
7 7 (1.47%) MLflow
8 4 (0.84%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.63%) Toad
10 2 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.42%) Selenium
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.21%) GCC
11 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.21%) Snyk
11 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 133 (28.00%) Finance
1 133 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 68 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (7.58%) Banking
4 26 (5.47%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.63%) Retail
6 16 (3.37%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.53%) Marketing
9 11 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.68%) Front Office
13 7 (1.47%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.63%) Back Office
15 3 (0.63%) Law
15 3 (0.63%) Legal
15 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (35.37%) Data Engineer
2 80 (16.84%) Snowflake Engineer
3 66 (13.89%) Architect
4 64 (13.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 62 (13.05%) Analyst
6 53 (11.16%) Senior
7 47 (9.89%) Data Analyst
8 44 (9.26%) Lead
9 39 (8.21%) Data Architect
10 32 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (5.68%) Developer
12 26 (5.47%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
14 20 (4.21%) Snowflake Architect
15 19 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 18 (3.79%) Business Analyst
17 17 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
18 16 (3.37%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.00%) Kafka
2 23 (4.84%) PyTorch
3 21 (4.42%) PySpark
4 19 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.37%) Playwright
6 15 (3.16%) Pandas
7 10 (2.11%) NumPy
8 8 (1.68%) React
8 8 (1.68%) REST
9 7 (1.47%) scikit-learn
10 6 (1.26%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.26%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.05%) JSON
11 5 (1.05%) OAuth
11 5 (1.05%) Spring
11 5 (1.05%) Vue
12 4 (0.84%) .NET
12 4 (0.84%) FastAPI
13 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.05%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (3.58%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.95%) Equities
5 14 (2.95%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.53%) Replication
7 11 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.32%) Clustering
8 10 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.68%) Derivative
11 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.05%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.84%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.47%) Unix
2 5 (1.05%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (44.00%) Analytics
2 183 (38.53%) Data Modelling
3 167 (35.16%) Data Engineering
4 161 (33.89%) ETL
5 143 (30.11%) Business Intelligence
6 142 (29.89%) CI/CD
7 137 (28.84%) Data Pipeline
8 111 (23.37%) AI
9 102 (21.47%) Agile
10 101 (21.26%) Data Governance
11 85 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
12 80 (16.84%) DevOps
12 80 (16.84%) Migration
13 79 (16.63%) Machine Learning
14 67 (14.11%) Data Architecture
15 60 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
16 58 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
17 57 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (11.16%) Data Transformation
19 52 (10.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 284 (59.79%) SQL
2 250 (52.63%) Python
3 33 (6.95%) Java
4 20 (4.21%) C#
4 20 (4.21%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.79%) Bash
5 18 (3.79%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.89%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.68%) Scala
8 7 (1.47%) R
9 6 (1.26%) Korn
10 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.84%) Bicep
11 4 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (8.63%) Degree
2 38 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.16%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.26%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
9 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (26.74%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.84%) GDPR
3 19 (4.00%) QA
4 9 (1.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (8.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (14.53%) Terraform
2 26 (5.47%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.16%) Ansible
4 9 (1.89%) Grafana
5 8 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.84%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 136 (28.63%) Databricks
2 52 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.89%) Oracle
4 25 (5.26%) Informatica
5 20 (4.21%) Talend
6 18 (3.79%) Google
7 15 (3.16%) SAP
8 13 (2.74%) Greenplum
9 12 (2.53%) Charles River
10 11 (2.32%) Salesforce
10 11 (2.32%) Teradata
11 10 (2.11%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
12 8 (1.68%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.47%) Murex
14 6 (1.26%) Denodo
14 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.05%) Ab Initio
15 5 (1.05%) SimCorp
15 5 (1.05%) Virgin Media