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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 233 318
Rank change year-on-year -14 +85 +140
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 486 321 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.08% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 2.85% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 222 217
10th Percentile £347 £375 £413
25th Percentile £423 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +7.95% -
75th Percentile £594 £719 £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 16,143 11,274 14,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.33% 37.93% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,015 7,803 10,302
10th Percentile £313 £313 £286
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 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 199 356
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%
75th Percentile £61.63 £43.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.15 £23.50 £17.80
% change year-on-year +83.61% +32.02% -19.09%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -17 398 £525 -12.50% 159
London +29 299 £525 -19.23% 86
Work from Home -2 157 £550 -15.38% 72
UK excluding London -47 133 £475 -1.30% 104
Scotland +37 45 £450 -5.37% 7
North of England -63 23 £525 -0.94% 31
Midlands -55 22 £550 +10.00% 14
North West -29 19 £463 -16.67% 20
South East -50 19 £500 +36.99% 39
West Midlands -62 19 £530 +6.00% 11
South West -30 18 £475 -20.83% 10
East of England -32 4 £525 -9.48% 3
East Midlands -30 3 £575 +21.05% 3
Yorkshire -55 3 £544 +17.57% 7
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -13 1 £575 -11.54% 4

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 (18.93%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.00%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.73%) Apache
4 8 (1.65%) Confluence
5 5 (1.03%) SAS
6 4 (0.82%) 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 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (5.56%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.65%) 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
4 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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
Cloud Services
1 253 (52.06%) AWS
2 226 (46.50%) Azure
3 121 (24.90%) Power Platform
4 107 (22.02%) dbt
5 91 (18.72%) GCP
6 58 (11.93%) Amazon S3
7 56 (11.52%) Serverless
8 43 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (7.00%) Matillion
11 33 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (5.56%) GitHub
13 23 (4.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (3.09%) SaaS
18 14 (2.88%) Prefect
19 12 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 12 (2.47%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (31.89%) Data Warehouse
2 114 (23.46%) Power BI
3 54 (11.11%) Tableau
4 50 (10.29%) Snowflake Schema
5 46 (9.47%) Data Lake
6 42 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (7.20%) BigQuery
8 34 (7.00%) Metadata
9 32 (6.58%) SQL Server
10 31 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (5.56%) Big Data
12 25 (5.14%) Data Vault
13 24 (4.94%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.94%) Relational Database
14 13 (2.67%) RDBMS
15 11 (2.26%) Looker
15 11 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.26%) Star Schema
16 10 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
17 9 (1.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (9.88%) Git
2 26 (5.35%) GitLab
3 20 (4.12%) JIRA
4 15 (3.09%) SpecFlow
5 12 (2.47%) ERwin
6 11 (2.26%) ER Studio
6 11 (2.26%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.85%) MLflow
8 6 (1.23%) DBeaver
9 5 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.62%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.62%) Toad
11 2 (0.41%) Selenium
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.21%) Deequ
12 1 (0.21%) GCC
12 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 134 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 131 (26.95%) Finance
3 75 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.20%) Banking
5 28 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.53%) Retail
7 17 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.67%) Marketing
9 10 (2.06%) Front Office
9 10 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.44%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.62%) Back Office
14 3 (0.62%) Law
14 3 (0.62%) Legal
14 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 78 (16.05%) Snowflake Engineer
3 65 (13.37%) Architect
4 63 (12.96%) Analyst
5 61 (12.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 48 (9.88%) Senior
7 47 (9.67%) Data Analyst
8 42 (8.64%) Lead
9 37 (7.61%) Data Architect
10 34 (7.00%) Developer
11 32 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 19 (3.91%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (3.91%) Snowflake Architect
16 18 (3.70%) Data Modeller
16 18 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.00%) Kafka
2 25 (5.14%) PyTorch
3 20 (4.12%) PySpark
4 19 (3.91%) TensorFlow
5 17 (3.50%) Pandas
5 17 (3.50%) Playwright
6 11 (2.26%) NumPy
7 9 (1.85%) React
7 9 (1.85%) REST
7 9 (1.85%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.65%) Spring
9 7 (1.44%) JSON
9 7 (1.44%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.03%) .NET
10 5 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.03%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.03%) Node.js
10 5 (1.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (0.82%) FastAPI
11 4 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
3 22 (4.53%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.09%) Equities
4 15 (3.09%) Fixed Income
4 15 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.88%) Replication
6 11 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.06%) Clustering
7 10 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.85%) Derivative
9 8 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.23%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.44%) Unix
2 5 (1.03%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (43.00%) Analytics
2 189 (38.89%) Data Modelling
3 162 (33.33%) ETL
4 159 (32.72%) Data Engineering
5 146 (30.04%) CI/CD
6 138 (28.40%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (27.57%) Data Pipeline
8 110 (22.63%) Agile
9 108 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 106 (21.81%) AI
11 92 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (16.67%) DevOps
13 78 (16.05%) Machine Learning
13 78 (16.05%) Migration
14 68 (13.99%) Data Architecture
15 57 (11.73%) Data Transformation
15 57 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (11.52%) Performance Tuning
16 56 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
17 52 (10.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 298 (61.32%) SQL
2 258 (53.09%) Python
3 35 (7.20%) Java
4 22 (4.53%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.12%) C#
5 20 (4.12%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.50%) Bash
7 9 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 9 (1.85%) R
7 9 (1.85%) Scala
8 6 (1.23%) Korn
9 4 (0.82%) Bicep
9 4 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (8.44%) Degree
2 35 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.82%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.62%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) CFA
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
1 130 (26.75%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.32%) GDPR
3 19 (3.91%) QA
4 9 (1.85%) SLA
5 6 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.82%) 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 (9.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (13.99%) Terraform
2 33 (6.79%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.29%) Ansible
4 9 (1.85%) Grafana
5 8 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.82%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (28.40%) Databricks
2 51 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.79%) Oracle
4 21 (4.32%) Informatica
5 19 (3.91%) Talend
6 16 (3.29%) SAP
7 15 (3.09%) Google
8 14 (2.88%) Greenplum
9 12 (2.47%) Charles River
10 11 (2.26%) MuleSoft
10 11 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.06%) OpenAI
11 10 (2.06%) Teradata
12 7 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
12 7 (1.44%) Murex
13 5 (1.03%) Ab Initio
13 5 (1.03%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.03%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.03%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.82%) FactSet