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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 246 329
Rank change year-on-year +18 +83 +128
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 446 313 282
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 0.99% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 2.71% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 201 218
10th Percentile £344 £375 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +3.06% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,073 11,553 14,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.07% 36.55% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,677 7,681 10,395
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 172 255
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.61 £27.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +19.57% +2.22%
75th Percentile £57.25 £43.94 £53.63
90th Percentile £80.50 £68.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year - +27.59% +8.40%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +2 359 £525 -16.00% 178
London +18 276 £550 -15.38% 83
Work from Home +26 154 £550 -17.91% 126
UK excluding London -4 116 £464 +3.06% 145
Scotland +35 45 £450 +12.50% 4
North of England -51 20 £375 -14.29% 20
North West -24 17 £347 -20.80% 16
South East -10 16 £500 +21.21% 74
South West -14 14 £500 +25.00% 15
East of England -8 12 £565 +13.00% 18
Midlands -51 10 £550 +10.00% 8
West Midlands -40 7 £550 +10.00% 7
East Midlands -28 3 £575 -7.93% 1
Yorkshire -45 2 £469 - 2
North East -11 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £575 - 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 97 (21.75%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.52%) Apache
3 32 (7.17%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.90%) Confluence
6 3 (0.67%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (4.71%) Aladdin
2 13 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.45%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 230 (51.57%) AWS
2 212 (47.53%) Azure
3 107 (23.99%) dbt
4 106 (23.77%) Power Platform
5 81 (18.16%) GCP
6 50 (11.21%) Serverless
7 42 (9.42%) Amazon S3
8 35 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 27 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (5.16%) GitHub
11 22 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.26%) Matillion
13 16 (3.59%) SaaS
14 15 (3.36%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.14%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (2.24%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (31.61%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (23.09%) Power BI
3 72 (16.14%) Data Lake
4 45 (10.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 40 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (8.74%) Tableau
7 33 (7.40%) BigQuery
8 28 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 27 (6.05%) Metadata
10 25 (5.61%) Big Data
11 24 (5.38%) SQL Server
12 23 (5.16%) Relational Database
13 22 (4.93%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (4.71%) Data Vault
14 21 (4.71%) NoSQL
15 19 (4.26%) Apache Iceberg
16 17 (3.81%) Apache Arrow
16 17 (3.81%) Apache Ignite
16 17 (3.81%) Dremio
17 16 (3.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (10.54%) Git
2 20 (4.48%) GitLab
3 19 (4.26%) JIRA
4 18 (4.04%) ERwin
5 15 (3.36%) ER Studio
6 12 (2.69%) SpecFlow
7 10 (2.24%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (1.79%) DBeaver
9 7 (1.57%) Jenkins
10 5 (1.12%) MLflow
11 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.67%) Selenium
12 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.45%) TestRail
12 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.22%) Deequ
13 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 137 (30.72%) Finance
2 113 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.19%) Banking
5 25 (5.61%) Investment Banking
6 24 (5.38%) Front Office
7 20 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.14%) Marketing
8 14 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.69%) Retail
11 11 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.67%) Law
15 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.45%) Digital Health
16 2 (0.45%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 136 (30.49%) Data Engineer
2 63 (14.13%) Snowflake Engineer
3 59 (13.23%) Analyst
4 51 (11.43%) Senior
5 48 (10.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 47 (10.54%) Data Analyst
7 46 (10.31%) Architect
8 36 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
8 36 (8.07%) Python Engineer
9 34 (7.62%) Developer
10 30 (6.73%) Lead
11 25 (5.61%) Data Architect
11 25 (5.61%) Data Modeller
12 23 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (4.26%) Software Engineer
14 18 (4.04%) Java Engineer
15 17 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.81%) AWS Software Engineer
15 17 (3.81%) Python Data Engineer
15 17 (3.81%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.40%) Pandas
2 26 (5.83%) NumPy
3 21 (4.71%) Kafka
3 21 (4.71%) PySpark
4 18 (4.04%) PyTorch
5 17 (3.81%) gRPC
5 17 (3.81%) Protocol Buffers
5 17 (3.81%) SciPy
6 15 (3.36%) Playwright
7 14 (3.14%) TensorFlow
8 13 (2.91%) REST
9 11 (2.47%) React
10 9 (2.02%) JSON
11 8 (1.79%) Node.js
12 6 (1.35%) .NET
12 6 (1.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 5 (1.12%) RESTful
13 5 (1.12%) scikit-learn
13 5 (1.12%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.28%) Data Structures
3 24 (5.38%) Equities
3 24 (5.38%) Fixed Income
4 22 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (4.48%) Derivative
6 19 (4.26%) Hedge funds
7 17 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (3.81%) Pricing Data
8 14 (3.14%) Replication
9 12 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.69%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.24%) Clustering
10 10 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.79%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.35%) Reinsurance
14 5 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.02%) Linux
2 7 (1.57%) Unix
3 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (38.57%) Analytics
2 167 (37.44%) Data Modelling
3 150 (33.63%) ETL
4 124 (27.80%) Data Engineering
5 119 (26.68%) Agile
6 112 (25.11%) CI/CD
7 111 (24.89%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (22.65%) Data Governance
9 97 (21.75%) Data Pipeline
10 87 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
11 79 (17.71%) AI
12 68 (15.25%) Migration
13 67 (15.02%) Machine Learning
14 66 (14.80%) DevOps
15 58 (13.00%) Asset Management
15 58 (13.00%) Data Transformation
16 55 (12.33%) Data Architecture
17 54 (12.11%) Performance Tuning
18 50 (11.21%) Data Integration
19 48 (10.76%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 264 (59.19%) SQL
2 236 (52.91%) Python
3 46 (10.31%) Java
4 40 (8.97%) TypeScript
5 38 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.59%) C#
7 13 (2.91%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.24%) Bash
9 9 (2.02%) R
10 7 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.57%) Korn
10 7 (1.57%) Scala
11 4 (0.90%) Bicep
11 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (7.40%) Degree
2 23 (5.16%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.36%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.91%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.12%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.67%) PhD
11 2 (0.45%) ACCA
11 2 (0.45%) CIMA
11 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.45%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) CBAP
12 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (21.97%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.59%) GDPR
2 16 (3.59%) QA
3 7 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.45%) DICOM
4 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.45%) MiFID
5 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.22%) GRC
5 1 (0.22%) HL7
5 1 (0.22%) IFRS
5 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.22%) LOINC
5 1 (0.22%) PMO
5 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (8.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (11.88%) Terraform
2 28 (6.28%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.81%) Ansible
4 6 (1.35%) Grafana
5 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 115 (25.78%) Databricks
2 42 (9.42%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.73%) Oracle
4 21 (4.71%) SAP
5 14 (3.14%) Greenplum
5 14 (3.14%) Informatica
5 14 (3.14%) Talend
6 13 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.24%) Google
8 9 (2.02%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.79%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.57%) Sparx
11 6 (1.35%) Charles River
11 6 (1.35%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.12%) Teradata
12 5 (1.12%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.90%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.67%) StreamSets