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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 249 329
Rank change year-on-year +22 +80 +130
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 439 315 283
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 0.99% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 2.71% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 202 220
10th Percentile £344 £375 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +4.87% +0.44%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £506
% change year-on-year +3.06% -11.11% -3.57%
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 13,956 11,603 14,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.12% 36.37% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 7,712 10,520
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £417
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 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.30% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 169 254
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.35 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £56.69 £43.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £79.63 £65.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +7.35% +16.42% +6.51%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -2 352 £525 -16.00% 235
London +24 269 £550 -15.38% 81
Work from Home +21 154 £550 -17.91% 121
UK excluding London -5 116 £464 +3.06% 205
Scotland +39 45 £450 +12.50% 4
North of England -38 20 £375 -14.29% 30
North West -26 17 £347 -20.80% 16
South East -14 16 £500 +21.21% 86
South West -12 14 £500 +25.00% 25
East of England -14 12 £565 +13.00% 30
Midlands -53 10 £550 +10.00% 20
West Midlands -42 7 £550 +10.00% 7
East Midlands -25 3 £575 -7.93% 12
Yorkshire -47 2 £469 - 10
North East -6 1 - - 4
Wales - 1 £575 - 8

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 (22.10%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.66%) Apache
3 30 (6.83%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.37%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.91%) Confluence
6 3 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (4.33%) Aladdin
2 13 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.46%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.46%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.46%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 226 (51.48%) AWS
2 205 (46.70%) Azure
3 107 (24.37%) dbt
4 104 (23.69%) Power Platform
5 79 (18.00%) GCP
6 49 (11.16%) Serverless
7 39 (8.88%) Amazon S3
8 34 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (5.24%) GitHub
11 22 (5.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (4.33%) Matillion
13 15 (3.42%) Fivetran
13 15 (3.42%) SaaS
14 14 (3.19%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.28%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (32.12%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (23.23%) Power BI
3 72 (16.40%) Data Lake
4 45 (10.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 39 (8.88%) Tableau
6 38 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (7.29%) BigQuery
8 27 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (6.15%) Metadata
9 25 (5.69%) Big Data
10 23 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
10 23 (5.24%) SQL Server
11 22 (5.01%) Relational Database
12 21 (4.78%) Data Vault
13 20 (4.56%) Apache Iceberg
14 19 (4.33%) NoSQL
15 18 (4.10%) Apache Arrow
15 18 (4.10%) Apache Ignite
15 18 (4.10%) Dremio
16 15 (3.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (10.48%) Git
2 19 (4.33%) GitLab
3 18 (4.10%) ERwin
3 18 (4.10%) JIRA
4 15 (3.42%) ER Studio
5 11 (2.51%) SpecFlow
6 10 (2.28%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (1.82%) DBeaver
8 7 (1.59%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.91%) MLflow
10 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.68%) Selenium
11 2 (0.46%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.46%) TestRail
11 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.23%) Deequ
General
1 134 (30.52%) Finance
2 113 (25.74%) Social Skills
3 70 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.57%) Banking
5 26 (5.92%) Investment Banking
6 25 (5.69%) Front Office
7 18 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.96%) Marketing
10 12 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.73%) Retail
11 11 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.37%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.68%) Law
15 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.46%) iGaming
16 2 (0.46%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 133 (30.30%) Data Engineer
2 63 (14.35%) Snowflake Engineer
3 59 (13.44%) Analyst
4 51 (11.62%) Senior
5 48 (10.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 47 (10.71%) Architect
6 47 (10.71%) Data Analyst
7 37 (8.43%) Python Engineer
8 35 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (7.74%) Developer
10 29 (6.61%) Lead
11 26 (5.92%) Data Architect
12 25 (5.69%) Data Modeller
13 23 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (4.56%) Software Engineer
15 19 (4.33%) Java Engineer
16 18 (4.10%) AWS Software Engineer
16 18 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
16 18 (4.10%) Python Software Engineer
17 17 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.74%) Pandas
2 27 (6.15%) NumPy
3 20 (4.56%) Kafka
3 20 (4.56%) PySpark
4 18 (4.10%) gRPC
4 18 (4.10%) Protocol Buffers
4 18 (4.10%) SciPy
5 17 (3.87%) PyTorch
6 14 (3.19%) Playwright
7 13 (2.96%) REST
7 13 (2.96%) TensorFlow
8 11 (2.51%) React
9 9 (2.05%) JSON
10 8 (1.82%) Node.js
11 6 (1.37%) .NET
11 6 (1.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 5 (1.14%) LangChain
12 5 (1.14%) RESTful
12 5 (1.14%) scikit-learn
12 5 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.74%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 24 (5.47%) Equities
3 24 (5.47%) Fixed Income
4 21 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.78%) Derivative
5 20 (4.56%) Hedge funds
6 18 (4.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (4.10%) Pricing Data
7 14 (3.19%) Replication
8 11 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.28%) Clustering
9 10 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.82%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.37%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.05%) Linux
2 7 (1.59%) Unix
3 2 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (38.04%) Analytics
2 166 (37.81%) Data Modelling
3 148 (33.71%) ETL
4 121 (27.56%) Data Engineering
5 117 (26.65%) Agile
6 110 (25.06%) Business Intelligence
7 107 (24.37%) CI/CD
8 100 (22.78%) Data Governance
9 96 (21.87%) Data Pipeline
10 82 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
11 75 (17.08%) AI
12 66 (15.03%) Migration
13 65 (14.81%) Machine Learning
14 63 (14.35%) DevOps
15 58 (13.21%) Data Transformation
16 57 (12.98%) Asset Management
17 54 (12.30%) Data Architecture
17 54 (12.30%) Performance Tuning
18 50 (11.39%) Data Integration
19 48 (10.93%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 259 (59.00%) SQL
2 234 (53.30%) Python
3 45 (10.25%) Java
4 40 (9.11%) TypeScript
5 38 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.42%) C#
7 13 (2.96%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.28%) Bash
9 9 (2.05%) R
10 7 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.59%) Korn
11 6 (1.37%) Scala
12 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.68%) Bicep
13 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.23%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.23%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (7.29%) Degree
2 21 (4.78%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.42%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.73%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.14%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.68%) PhD
10 2 (0.46%) ACCA
10 2 (0.46%) CIMA
10 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.46%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CBAP
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (22.10%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.64%) QA
3 15 (3.42%) GDPR
4 7 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.46%) DICOM
5 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.23%) LOINC
6 1 (0.23%) PMO
6 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.52%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (11.39%) Terraform
2 25 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.87%) Ansible
4 6 (1.37%) Grafana
5 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.46%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 111 (25.28%) Databricks
2 41 (9.34%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.83%) Oracle
4 21 (4.78%) SAP
5 14 (3.19%) Greenplum
5 14 (3.19%) Informatica
5 14 (3.19%) Talend
6 12 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.28%) Google
8 9 (2.05%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.82%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.59%) Sparx
11 6 (1.37%) Charles River
11 6 (1.37%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.14%) Teradata
12 5 (1.14%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.91%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.68%) StreamSets