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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 235 210
Rank change year-on-year +7 -25 +195
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 590 387 476
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.18% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 3.17% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 297 397
10th Percentile £400 £407 £417
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -31.25% +39.13%
75th Percentile £656 £788 £875
90th Percentile £750 £860 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £453
% change year-on-year +6.32% +4.86% -21.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £47.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.13 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 - £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 18,607 12,201 13,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.35% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,276 8,161 9,644
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £417 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 614 313 316
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.37 £18.87 £20.29
% change year-on-year +98.04% -6.98% -24.87%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -21 509 £574 -0.22% 252
London +7 366 £575 -8.00% 171
Work from Home -44 183 £594 -8.65% 118
UK excluding London -46 181 £505 +6.32% 110
Scotland +20 47 £430 -5.75% 7
North of England -52 41 £525 +7.69% 31
Midlands -45 34 £518 +6.15% 9
West Midlands -48 30 £563 +12.50% 7
North West -29 28 £525 -5.41% 18
South East -63 24 £550 +10.00% 45
South West -48 18 £574 +11.95% 14
East of England -31 10 £380 -34.48% 4
Yorkshire -47 10 £550 +15.79% 10
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 -
East Midlands -13 4 £466 +10.83% 2
North East -37 3 - - 3
Wales -16 1 £250 -61.54% 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
1 105 (17.80%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (7.46%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.92%) Apache
4 16 (2.71%) Confluence
5 10 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.85%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (3.90%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.85%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.85%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 293 (49.66%) AWS
2 220 (37.29%) Azure
3 170 (28.81%) Power Platform
4 143 (24.24%) dbt
5 131 (22.20%) GCP
6 86 (14.58%) Amazon S3
7 55 (9.32%) GitHub
8 51 (8.64%) Serverless
9 47 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (7.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 36 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.58%) Matillion
13 26 (4.41%) Fivetran
14 23 (3.90%) Dagster
15 21 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (3.05%) SaaS
17 16 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 16 (2.71%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Broadband
1 3 (0.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (29.32%) Data Warehouse
2 167 (28.31%) Power BI
3 83 (14.07%) Tableau
4 75 (12.71%) BigQuery
5 73 (12.37%) Data Lake
6 70 (11.86%) Snowflake Schema
7 51 (8.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.63%) Big Data
9 44 (7.46%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.76%) Relational Database
11 32 (5.42%) Metadata
11 32 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.41%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.07%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.56%) Looker
14 21 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (2.37%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (2.20%) MySQL
17 12 (2.03%) Delta Lake
17 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 62 (10.51%) Git
2 33 (5.59%) JIRA
3 26 (4.41%) GitLab
4 18 (3.05%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.02%) MLflow
6 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.51%) Snyk
8 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.34%) Toad
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) ERwin
10 1 (0.17%) GCC
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
General
1 203 (34.41%) Finance
2 162 (27.46%) Social Skills
3 82 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (13.56%) Banking
5 49 (8.31%) Retail
6 28 (4.75%) Marketing
7 22 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.39%) Financial Institution
9 20 (3.39%) Investment Banking
10 16 (2.71%) Front Office
11 14 (2.37%) Legal
12 12 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.36%) Back Office
14 8 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.19%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (34.41%) Data Engineer
2 103 (17.46%) Snowflake Engineer
3 102 (17.29%) Architect
4 94 (15.93%) Senior
5 77 (13.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 66 (11.19%) Analyst
7 56 (9.49%) Data Architect
8 47 (7.97%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (7.46%) Lead
10 40 (6.78%) Data Analyst
11 37 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (4.75%) Developer
12 28 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (4.07%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (3.73%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.22%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 17 (2.88%) Python Engineer
17 16 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (2.71%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.17%) Kafka
2 24 (4.07%) REST
3 18 (3.05%) PySpark
4 10 (1.69%) .NET
4 10 (1.69%) React
4 10 (1.69%) Spring
4 10 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.53%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.19%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (1.19%) OAuth
6 7 (1.19%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.19%) Vue
7 6 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.02%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.02%) JSON
7 6 (1.02%) XML
7 6 (1.02%) YAML
8 5 (0.85%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.85%) Playwright
8 5 (0.85%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.42%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.69%) Equities
10 9 (1.53%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.36%) Clustering
12 7 (1.19%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.02%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.02%) Replication
14 5 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.86%) Unix
2 10 (1.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (46.10%) Analytics
2 235 (39.83%) Data Engineering
3 213 (36.10%) Data Pipeline
4 210 (35.59%) Data Modelling
5 202 (34.24%) ETL
6 196 (33.22%) Business Intelligence
7 193 (32.71%) CI/CD
8 164 (27.80%) AI
9 135 (22.88%) Agile
10 116 (19.66%) Data Governance
11 108 (18.31%) Migration
12 106 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 104 (17.63%) DevOps
14 97 (16.44%) Data Architecture
14 97 (16.44%) Validation
15 80 (13.56%) Machine Learning
16 74 (12.54%) Data Transformation
17 68 (11.53%) Data Science
17 68 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
18 67 (11.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 330 (55.93%) SQL
2 295 (50.00%) Python
3 55 (9.32%) Java
4 15 (2.54%) R
5 13 (2.20%) Bash
6 10 (1.69%) C#
6 10 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.19%) Scala
7 7 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.68%) Bicep
9 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.51%) Cypher
10 3 (0.51%) Delphi
10 3 (0.51%) SHACL
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
11 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (7.97%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.80%) Degree
3 28 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.37%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.51%) CSPO
12 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.17%) CBAP
13 1 (0.17%) CISSP
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (25.59%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.29%) GDPR
3 29 (4.92%) QA
4 12 (2.03%) SLA
5 7 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) EMIR
7 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) MiFID
7 3 (0.51%) PMO
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (6.27%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (13.39%) Terraform
2 36 (6.10%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.24%) Grafana
4 9 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.68%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 170 (28.81%) Databricks
2 68 (11.53%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.59%) Informatica
4 32 (5.42%) Google
5 29 (4.92%) Oracle
5 29 (4.92%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.90%) SAP
7 12 (2.03%) Talend
8 11 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.69%) Charles River
10 9 (1.53%) Denodo
10 9 (1.53%) Teradata
10 9 (1.53%) Workday
11 8 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.36%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.36%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.19%) FactSet
12 7 (1.19%) Splunk
13 6 (1.02%) Foundry
14 5 (0.85%) Amplitude