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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 249 323
Rank change year-on-year +17 +74 +124
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 460 314 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 0.99% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.18% 2.70% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 201 219
10th Percentile £344 £375 £425
25th Percentile £414 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £614 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £510
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.31% -2.86%
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 14,478 11,621 14,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 36.76% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,985 7,717 10,638
10th Percentile £306 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
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 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 168 299
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.61
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +8.34%
75th Percentile £58.65 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +6.80% +22.62% +7.69%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +2 374 £525 -16.00% 253
London +31 284 £550 -15.38% 82
Work from Home +9 158 £550 -17.91% 186
UK excluding London -7 122 £475 +2.70% 234
Scotland +35 44 £450 +12.50% 14
North of England -57 20 £375 -15.49% 37
South East -13 18 £500 +21.21% 100
North West -26 17 £347 -20.80% 20
South West -9 15 £488 +9.86% 16
Midlands -52 15 £550 +10.00% 21
East of England -10 11 £580 +16.00% 34
West Midlands -50 11 £525 +5.00% 12
East Midlands -30 4 £575 -7.93% 9
North East -12 2 £575 -11.54% 7
Yorkshire -59 1 £488 +8.33% 10
Wales - 1 £575 - 11

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 (20.43%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (6.96%) Apache
2 32 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (0.87%) SAS
5 3 (0.65%) Confluence
6 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (4.35%) Aladdin
2 14 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.43%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.43%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.43%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 237 (51.52%) AWS
2 216 (46.96%) Azure
3 110 (23.91%) Power Platform
4 109 (23.70%) dbt
5 81 (17.61%) GCP
6 52 (11.30%) Serverless
7 46 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 38 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (5.87%) Matillion
11 23 (5.00%) GitHub
12 22 (4.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.48%) SaaS
14 15 (3.26%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.04%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (2.17%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (31.52%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (22.83%) Power BI
3 66 (14.35%) Data Lake
4 50 (10.87%) Snowflake Schema
5 42 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (8.70%) Tableau
7 33 (7.17%) BigQuery
8 30 (6.52%) Metadata
9 28 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 25 (5.43%) Big Data
10 25 (5.43%) Relational Database
11 23 (5.00%) Data Vault
11 23 (5.00%) SQL Server
12 22 (4.78%) NoSQL
13 19 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (3.70%) RDBMS
15 15 (3.26%) Apache Iceberg
16 14 (3.04%) Apache Arrow
16 14 (3.04%) Apache Ignite
16 14 (3.04%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 47 (10.22%) Git
2 22 (4.78%) GitLab
3 18 (3.91%) ERwin
3 18 (3.91%) JIRA
4 15 (3.26%) ER Studio
5 12 (2.61%) SpecFlow
6 10 (2.17%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (1.74%) DBeaver
8 6 (1.30%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.09%) MLflow
10 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.65%) Selenium
10 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.43%) TestRail
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.22%) Deequ
12 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 136 (29.57%) Finance
2 119 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 72 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.13%) Banking
5 24 (5.22%) Investment Banking
6 21 (4.57%) Front Office
7 20 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.48%) Retail
9 14 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.83%) Marketing
11 10 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.09%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.65%) Law
15 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (32.17%) Data Engineer
2 74 (16.09%) Snowflake Engineer
3 61 (13.26%) Analyst
4 58 (12.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 52 (11.30%) Architect
6 51 (11.09%) Senior
7 49 (10.65%) Data Analyst
8 35 (7.61%) Developer
9 33 (7.17%) Lead
10 32 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (6.74%) Python Engineer
12 30 (6.52%) Data Architect
13 24 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (5.22%) Data Modeller
14 18 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (3.91%) Snowflake Architect
15 17 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 17 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.48%) Business Analyst
16 16 (3.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.52%) Pandas
2 24 (5.22%) Kafka
3 23 (5.00%) NumPy
4 21 (4.57%) PySpark
5 18 (3.91%) PyTorch
6 15 (3.26%) Playwright
7 14 (3.04%) gRPC
7 14 (3.04%) Protocol Buffers
7 14 (3.04%) SciPy
7 14 (3.04%) TensorFlow
8 11 (2.39%) React
8 11 (2.39%) REST
9 10 (2.17%) JSON
10 8 (1.74%) Node.js
11 7 (1.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 7 (1.52%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.30%) .NET
12 6 (1.30%) Spring
13 5 (1.09%) scikit-learn
13 5 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.09%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (4.57%) Equities
4 21 (4.57%) Fixed Income
5 17 (3.70%) Derivative
6 16 (3.48%) Hedge funds
7 15 (3.26%) Replication
8 14 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (3.04%) Pricing Data
9 12 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.61%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.39%) Clustering
11 10 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.74%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.30%) Reinsurance
14 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.74%) Unix
2 7 (1.52%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (39.78%) Analytics
2 175 (38.04%) Data Modelling
3 157 (34.13%) ETL
4 129 (28.04%) Data Engineering
5 120 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 116 (25.22%) Agile
7 115 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 106 (23.04%) Data Pipeline
9 103 (22.39%) Data Governance
10 95 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
11 84 (18.26%) AI
12 71 (15.43%) Migration
13 69 (15.00%) DevOps
13 69 (15.00%) Machine Learning
14 61 (13.26%) Data Transformation
15 57 (12.39%) Data Architecture
16 55 (11.96%) Performance Tuning
17 54 (11.74%) Asset Management
18 48 (10.43%) Data Science
19 47 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 272 (59.13%) SQL
2 241 (52.39%) Python
3 47 (10.22%) Java
4 37 (8.04%) TypeScript
5 35 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.48%) C#
7 13 (2.83%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.17%) Bash
9 8 (1.74%) Scala
10 7 (1.52%) Korn
10 7 (1.52%) R
11 6 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.87%) Bicep
13 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (7.17%) Degree
2 24 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.48%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.04%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.04%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.83%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.09%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.65%) ACCA
9 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.65%) CIMA
9 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.65%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) CSPO
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (23.04%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.91%) QA
3 14 (3.04%) GDPR
4 7 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) FATCA
6 1 (0.22%) GAAP
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (8.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (11.96%) Terraform
2 31 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.91%) Ansible
4 6 (1.30%) Grafana
4 6 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 115 (25.00%) Databricks
2 44 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.96%) Oracle
4 22 (4.78%) SAP
5 16 (3.48%) Talend
6 14 (3.04%) Greenplum
6 14 (3.04%) Informatica
7 12 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.17%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.74%) Google
9 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.52%) Sparx
10 7 (1.52%) Teradata
11 6 (1.30%) Charles River
11 6 (1.30%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.30%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.87%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.87%) Murex
13 4 (0.87%) StreamSets