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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 239 311
Rank change year-on-year -10 +72 +144
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 479 321 310
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.11% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 2.90% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 234 230
10th Percentile £363 £381 £424
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £747 £738
90th Percentile £738 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - £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 16,478 11,063 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.88% 38.10% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,241 7,764 10,218
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 217 352
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.04%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -27 396 £520 -13.33% 171
London +8 298 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -20 158 £550 -15.38% 70
UK excluding London -64 130 £500 +5.26% 112
Scotland +31 45 £449 +2.63% 8
North of England -65 25 £500 -0.50% 27
Midlands -67 22 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -52 19 £530 -3.64% 8
North West -39 18 £400 -27.93% 13
South West -27 17 £475 -15.56% 14
South East -57 13 £525 +43.84% 37
East of England -32 6 £500 -13.79% 10
Yorkshire -51 6 £500 +5.26% 8
East Midlands -34 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 (19.21%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (7.31%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.38%) Apache
4 8 (1.67%) Confluence
5 5 (1.04%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.67%) 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 23 (4.80%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
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
1 237 (49.48%) AWS
2 217 (45.30%) Azure
3 127 (26.51%) Power Platform
4 110 (22.96%) dbt
5 88 (18.37%) GCP
6 59 (12.32%) Amazon S3
7 50 (10.44%) Serverless
8 39 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (6.89%) Azure Data Factory
10 33 (6.89%) Matillion
11 27 (5.64%) GitHub
12 21 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (3.55%) Prefect
16 16 (3.34%) Dagster
17 15 (3.13%) SaaS
18 14 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
19 11 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (30.06%) Data Warehouse
2 120 (25.05%) Power BI
3 56 (11.69%) Tableau
4 52 (10.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 44 (9.19%) Data Lake
6 37 (7.72%) BigQuery
7 33 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (6.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 30 (6.26%) Metadata
10 27 (5.64%) SQL Server
11 24 (5.01%) Data Vault
12 23 (4.80%) Big Data
13 22 (4.59%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.55%) Relational Database
15 11 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (2.09%) Looker
17 9 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
17 9 (1.88%) Star Schema
18 8 (1.67%) MySQL
19 7 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 47 (9.81%) Git
2 22 (4.59%) GitLab
3 19 (3.97%) JIRA
4 15 (3.13%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.88%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.67%) ERwin
6 8 (1.67%) MLflow
7 7 (1.46%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.84%) DBeaver
9 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.63%) Toad
10 2 (0.42%) Selenium
10 2 (0.42%) Snyk
10 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.21%) Deequ
11 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 134 (27.97%) Finance
3 70 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.10%) Banking
5 27 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.22%) Retail
7 15 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.71%) Marketing
9 12 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.46%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.25%) Front Office
13 6 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Back Office
14 3 (0.63%) Law
14 3 (0.63%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (35.70%) Data Engineer
2 81 (16.91%) Snowflake Engineer
3 68 (14.20%) Architect
4 65 (13.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 63 (13.15%) Analyst
6 58 (12.11%) Senior
7 48 (10.02%) Data Analyst
8 41 (8.56%) Data Architect
8 41 (8.56%) Lead
9 31 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (5.85%) Developer
11 27 (5.64%) Senior Data Engineer
12 26 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (4.18%) Lead Data Engineer
14 19 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 18 (3.76%) Business Analyst
15 18 (3.76%) Snowflake Architect
16 17 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.34%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.35%) Kafka
2 23 (4.80%) PyTorch
3 19 (3.97%) PySpark
3 19 (3.97%) TensorFlow
4 16 (3.34%) Playwright
5 14 (2.92%) Pandas
6 10 (2.09%) NumPy
7 8 (1.67%) React
8 7 (1.46%) scikit-learn
8 7 (1.46%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.25%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.25%) REST
9 6 (1.25%) Spring
10 5 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.04%) JSON
10 5 (1.04%) Vue
11 4 (0.84%) .NET
11 4 (0.84%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.84%) FastAPI
11 4 (0.84%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.01%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.51%) Replication
6 11 (2.30%) Clustering
6 11 (2.30%) Equities
6 11 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.09%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.67%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.04%) Derivative
11 4 (0.84%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.67%) Unix
2 6 (1.25%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (44.26%) Analytics
2 182 (38.00%) Data Modelling
3 170 (35.49%) Data Engineering
4 157 (32.78%) ETL
5 146 (30.48%) Business Intelligence
6 145 (30.27%) CI/CD
7 138 (28.81%) Data Pipeline
8 112 (23.38%) AI
9 100 (20.88%) Agile
9 100 (20.88%) Data Governance
10 81 (16.91%) Machine Learning
11 80 (16.70%) Migration
11 80 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (16.28%) DevOps
13 68 (14.20%) Data Architecture
14 60 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 60 (12.53%) Performance Tuning
15 58 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 55 (11.48%) Decision-Making
17 52 (10.86%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 283 (59.08%) SQL
2 247 (51.57%) Python
3 35 (7.31%) Java
4 21 (4.38%) C#
5 20 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.55%) Bash
8 9 (1.88%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.67%) Scala
10 7 (1.46%) R
11 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.04%) Korn
11 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.84%) Bicep
12 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) Ruby
14 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (8.56%) Degree
2 39 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.92%) AWS Certification
4 14 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.09%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.46%) SnowPro
7 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.63%) PhD
7 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) ACCA
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) CIMA
9 1 (0.21%) CSPO
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (26.10%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.01%) GDPR
3 19 (3.97%) QA
4 9 (1.88%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) GAAP
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (8.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (14.61%) Terraform
2 27 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.71%) Ansible
4 10 (2.09%) Grafana
5 8 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.84%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 143 (29.85%) Databricks
2 55 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.43%) Oracle
4 24 (5.01%) Informatica
5 20 (4.18%) Talend
6 18 (3.76%) Google
7 15 (3.13%) SAP
8 11 (2.30%) Greenplum
8 11 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.30%) Teradata
9 10 (2.09%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.88%) Charles River
11 8 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
11 8 (1.67%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.25%) Denodo
12 6 (1.25%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.04%) Ab Initio
13 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
13 5 (1.04%) Splunk
13 5 (1.04%) Virgin Media