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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 222 197
Rank change year-on-year -1 -25 +157
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 692 416 460
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.25% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 3.27% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 306 356
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £460 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £730
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -27.35% +26.09%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £850
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile - £32.85 -
25th Percentile £44.50 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £45.20 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.32% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £57.00 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 19,177 12,735 13,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.39% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,727 8,519 8,599
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 646 288 181
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%
75th Percentile £67.80 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -44.94% +55.49%

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 October 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 October 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 14 October 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 +3 607 £575 +4.55% 711
London 0 446 £575 -4.17% 493
Work from Home -35 205 £600 - 356
UK excluding London -30 200 £525 +10.53% 259
Scotland -1 47 £423 -6.11% 36
North of England -49 42 £488 +18.18% 95
North West -31 31 £500 +23.46% 49
South East -51 31 £616 +20.20% 39
Midlands -37 30 £500 +8.11% 37
West Midlands -32 26 £520 +4.00% 26
South West -31 24 £650 +36.84% 16
East of England -30 17 £365 -27.00% 19
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 16
Yorkshire -31 8 £400 -15.79% 26
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +12.85% 11
North East -40 3 - - 20
Wales -13 1 £650 - 2

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
1 142 (20.52%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (8.67%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.23%) Apache
4 19 (2.75%) Confluence
5 15 (2.17%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.01%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.14%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Luigi
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (2.31%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.72%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.43%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.29%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 355 (51.30%) AWS
2 304 (43.93%) Azure
3 203 (29.34%) dbt
4 182 (26.30%) Power Platform
5 154 (22.25%) GCP
6 93 (13.44%) GitHub
7 72 (10.40%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 59 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (8.24%) Serverless
11 53 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (4.62%) SaaS
14 31 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 30 (4.34%) Fivetran
16 21 (3.03%) Collibra
17 20 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.43%) Broadband
1 3 (0.43%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.29%) DSL
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
2 2 (0.29%) Internet
2 2 (0.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.14%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.14%) SSH
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (31.79%) Data Warehouse
2 177 (25.58%) Power BI
3 98 (14.16%) Data Lake
4 82 (11.85%) Tableau
5 77 (11.13%) BigQuery
6 71 (10.26%) Snowflake Schema
7 70 (10.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (7.66%) Metadata
9 43 (6.21%) SQL Server
10 40 (5.78%) Big Data
10 40 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
11 31 (4.48%) Relational Database
12 27 (3.90%) NoSQL
13 26 (3.76%) Data Vault
14 20 (2.89%) Delta Lake
15 19 (2.75%) Looker
16 18 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (2.46%) MongoDB
17 17 (2.46%) Semantic Layer
18 16 (2.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 86 (12.43%) Git
2 39 (5.64%) JIRA
3 33 (4.77%) GitLab
4 21 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.01%) Terragrunt
6 6 (0.87%) Claude Code
7 5 (0.72%) Snyk
7 5 (0.72%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.58%) MLflow
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) ERwin
9 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 228 (32.95%) Finance
2 215 (31.07%) Social Skills
3 129 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (13.29%) Banking
5 54 (7.80%) Retail
6 35 (5.06%) Marketing
7 23 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.03%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.89%) Legal
9 20 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (2.46%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.31%) Front Office
13 13 (1.88%) Billing
14 12 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.01%) Automotive
18 6 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (34.10%) Data Engineer
2 133 (19.22%) Senior
3 113 (16.33%) Architect
4 107 (15.46%) Snowflake Engineer
5 81 (11.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 79 (11.42%) Analyst
7 76 (10.98%) Senior Data Engineer
8 73 (10.55%) Data Architect
9 46 (6.65%) Data Analyst
10 43 (6.21%) Lead
11 39 (5.64%) Developer
12 35 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
13 29 (4.19%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.61%) Python Engineer
15 24 (3.47%) Business Analyst
16 23 (3.32%) Consultant
17 22 (3.18%) Snowflake Architect
18 19 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
19 16 (2.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 15 (2.17%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (15.32%) Terraform
2 78 (11.27%) Kafka
3 43 (6.21%) REST
4 38 (5.49%) PySpark
5 17 (2.46%) .NET
6 14 (2.02%) FastAPI
7 11 (1.59%) JSON
7 11 (1.59%) YAML
8 10 (1.45%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.16%) LangChain
9 8 (1.16%) OAuth
9 8 (1.16%) pytest
9 8 (1.16%) React
10 7 (1.01%) OpenID
10 7 (1.01%) Pandas
11 6 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.87%) Snowpark
11 6 (0.87%) Spring
11 6 (0.87%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.21%) Data Structures
4 31 (4.48%) AI Agents
5 24 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.60%) Life Science
8 16 (2.31%) Reinsurance
9 15 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.88%) Taxonomies
12 11 (1.59%) Data Fabric
13 10 (1.45%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.45%) Replication
14 9 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.16%) Reference Data
15 8 (1.16%) Virtual Team
16 7 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.31%) Linux
2 8 (1.16%) Unix
3 3 (0.43%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Android
4 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (45.09%) Analytics
2 279 (40.32%) Data Engineering
3 278 (40.17%) Data Modelling
4 257 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
5 251 (36.27%) CI/CD
6 239 (34.54%) ETL
7 237 (34.25%) AI
8 204 (29.48%) Business Intelligence
9 184 (26.59%) Agile
10 166 (23.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 140 (20.23%) Data Governance
12 135 (19.51%) DevOps
13 133 (19.22%) Data Architecture
14 117 (16.91%) Migration
15 114 (16.47%) Data Transformation
16 113 (16.33%) Validation
17 104 (15.03%) Decision-Making
18 92 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
19 91 (13.15%) Machine Learning
20 90 (13.01%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 416 (60.12%) SQL
2 354 (51.16%) Python
3 45 (6.50%) Java
4 23 (3.32%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.17%) Scala
6 13 (1.88%) Bash
6 13 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (1.88%) R
7 10 (1.45%) C#
8 8 (1.16%) Bicep
8 8 (1.16%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.58%) C++
10 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.43%) Cypher
11 3 (0.43%) Delphi
11 3 (0.43%) LookML
11 3 (0.43%) SHACL
12 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 44 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 41 (5.92%) Degree
3 25 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.61%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 13 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.73%) SnowPro
7 11 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.01%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.58%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.43%) CSPO
11 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.29%) ACCA
12 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.29%) CIMA
12 2 (0.29%) CISM
12 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (30.06%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.35%) GDPR
3 33 (4.77%) QA
4 8 (1.16%) SOC 2
5 6 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.58%) GRC
6 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.58%) MiFID
7 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.43%) EMIR
7 3 (0.43%) PMO
7 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.43%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.14%) CDISC
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 53 (7.66%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.18%) Grafana
3 10 (1.45%) Ansible
4 9 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.72%) Control-M
6 2 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 222 (32.08%) Databricks
2 112 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.36%) Google
4 40 (5.78%) Salesforce
5 37 (5.35%) Informatica
6 33 (4.77%) Oracle
7 19 (2.75%) SAP
8 16 (2.31%) Talend
9 10 (1.45%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.45%) Workday
10 9 (1.30%) Foundry
10 9 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.30%) Teradata
11 8 (1.16%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.16%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.01%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.01%) Denodo
12 7 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.87%) Confluent
14 5 (0.72%) Amplitude