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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 236 294
Rank change year-on-year -7 +58 +154
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 475 320 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.10% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 2.89% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 231 239
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £738
90th Percentile £750 £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 16,559 11,085 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.91% 38.12% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,284 7,774 10,164
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £495
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.84% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 219 343
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.61 £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 £42.49 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.44 £61.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.48%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -20 395 £525 -12.50% 171
London +13 296 £525 -19.23% 99
Work from Home -18 152 £525 -19.23% 70
UK excluding London -77 129 £500 +5.26% 112
Scotland +28 43 £450 +2.86% 8
North of England -62 25 £513 +1.99% 27
Midlands -60 22 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -59 19 £530 -3.64% 8
South West -29 17 £475 -15.56% 14
North West -44 17 £400 -27.93% 13
South East -56 15 £525 +43.84% 37
Yorkshire -57 7 £525 +10.53% 8
East of England -41 5 - - 10
East Midlands -31 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -14 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 94 (19.79%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.58%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.42%) Apache
4 8 (1.68%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) 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 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.68%) 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 24 (5.05%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.11%) 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 (49.89%) AWS
2 213 (44.84%) Azure
3 125 (26.32%) Power Platform
4 109 (22.95%) dbt
5 90 (18.95%) GCP
6 63 (13.26%) Amazon S3
7 50 (10.53%) Serverless
8 41 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (6.74%) Matillion
11 31 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (5.47%) GitHub
13 20 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (3.79%) Dagster
15 17 (3.58%) Cloud Computing
15 17 (3.58%) Prefect
16 15 (3.16%) SaaS
17 13 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (29.89%) Data Warehouse
2 118 (24.84%) Power BI
3 54 (11.37%) Snowflake Schema
3 54 (11.37%) Tableau
4 41 (8.63%) Data Lake
5 38 (8.00%) BigQuery
6 33 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (6.32%) Metadata
9 26 (5.47%) Data Vault
10 25 (5.26%) SQL Server
11 23 (4.84%) Big Data
11 23 (4.84%) NoSQL
12 15 (3.16%) Relational Database
13 11 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (2.11%) Looker
15 9 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.89%) Star Schema
16 8 (1.68%) DynamoDB
16 8 (1.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 49 (10.32%) Git
2 21 (4.42%) GitLab
3 19 (4.00%) JIRA
4 15 (3.16%) SpecFlow
5 10 (2.11%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.68%) ERwin
7 7 (1.47%) ER Studio
8 6 (1.26%) MLflow
9 4 (0.84%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.63%) Selenium
10 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.63%) Toad
11 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.42%) Snyk
11 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) GCC
12 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (28.63%) Finance
2 130 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 70 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.79%) Banking
5 26 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.05%) Retail
7 16 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.74%) Marketing
9 12 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.47%) Front Office
12 7 (1.47%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.26%) 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
1 174 (36.63%) Data Engineer
2 83 (17.47%) Snowflake Engineer
3 70 (14.74%) Architect
4 68 (14.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 62 (13.05%) Analyst
6 59 (12.42%) Senior
7 47 (9.89%) Data Analyst
8 42 (8.84%) Data Architect
9 40 (8.42%) Lead
10 31 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
11 29 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
12 27 (5.68%) Developer
13 25 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
15 19 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (3.79%) Snowflake Architect
17 17 (3.58%) Business Analyst
17 17 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
18 16 (3.37%) AWS Data Engineer
18 16 (3.37%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.05%) Kafka
2 20 (4.21%) PyTorch
3 18 (3.79%) TensorFlow
4 17 (3.58%) PySpark
5 16 (3.37%) Playwright
6 13 (2.74%) Pandas
7 9 (1.89%) NumPy
7 9 (1.89%) React
7 9 (1.89%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.68%) Spring
9 6 (1.26%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.26%) REST
10 5 (1.05%) .NET
10 5 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.05%) JSON
10 5 (1.05%) OAuth
10 5 (1.05%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.05%) Vue
11 4 (0.84%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.63%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.53%) Clustering
5 12 (2.53%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.53%) Replication
6 11 (2.32%) Equities
6 11 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.68%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.05%) Derivative
10 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.11%) Unix
2 6 (1.26%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (43.37%) Analytics
2 178 (37.47%) Data Modelling
3 162 (34.11%) Data Engineering
4 156 (32.84%) ETL
5 144 (30.32%) Business Intelligence
6 142 (29.89%) CI/CD
7 136 (28.63%) Data Pipeline
8 107 (22.53%) AI
9 103 (21.68%) Agile
10 96 (20.21%) Data Governance
11 80 (16.84%) Migration
12 77 (16.21%) DevOps
12 77 (16.21%) Machine Learning
12 77 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (14.11%) Data Architecture
14 60 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
15 56 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 55 (11.58%) Decision-Making
17 54 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
18 49 (10.32%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 274 (57.68%) SQL
2 244 (51.37%) Python
3 40 (8.42%) Java
4 21 (4.42%) C#
4 21 (4.42%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.79%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.16%) Bash
7 8 (1.68%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.68%) Scala
8 7 (1.47%) R
9 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.05%) Korn
9 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.84%) Bicep
10 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (8.84%) Degree
2 38 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.47%) SnowPro
8 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.63%) PhD
8 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) ACCA
10 1 (0.21%) CFA
10 1 (0.21%) CIMA
10 1 (0.21%) CSPO
10 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (25.68%) Data Quality
2 24 (5.05%) GDPR
3 19 (4.00%) QA
4 9 (1.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (7.79%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (14.11%) Terraform
2 25 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.32%) Ansible
4 8 (1.68%) Grafana
4 8 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.84%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 141 (29.68%) Databricks
2 54 (11.37%) Microsoft
3 26 (5.47%) Oracle
4 24 (5.05%) Informatica
5 19 (4.00%) Talend
6 18 (3.79%) Google
7 16 (3.37%) SAP
8 13 (2.74%) Teradata
9 11 (2.32%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.11%) Greenplum
11 9 (1.89%) Charles River
11 9 (1.89%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
12 8 (1.68%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.47%) Ab Initio
13 7 (1.47%) Denodo
14 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.05%) SimCorp
15 5 (1.05%) Splunk
15 5 (1.05%) Virgin Media