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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 238 328
Rank change year-on-year -2 +90 +133
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 491 331 292
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.08% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 2.85% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 221 213
10th Percentile £344 £369 £413
25th Percentile £417 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £695 £675
90th Percentile £725 £875 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £71.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £82.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.75 - £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 16,017 11,619 14,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.50% 37.91% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,958 7,942 10,484
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £635
90th Percentile £700 £726 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £495
% change year-on-year -4.23% +0.20% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 415 187 359
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.15 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.45 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £18.00
% change year-on-year +76.53% +34.33% -18.18%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -18 405 £525 -12.50% 152
London +29 304 £525 -19.23% 81
Work from Home +3 155 £525 -19.23% 81
UK excluding London -43 134 £469 -1.32% 102
Scotland +42 45 £450 -5.26% 8
North of England -66 23 £400 -24.53% 28
Midlands -67 20 £550 +10.00% 19
South East -31 19 £500 +37.93% 34
North West -36 19 £347 -37.57% 17
South West -25 17 £475 -15.56% 12
West Midlands -56 17 £525 - 14
East of England -24 8 £525 -9.48% 1
East Midlands -31 3 £575 +33.72% 5
Yorkshire -59 3 £544 +17.57% 7
Wales - 2 £413 -
North East -12 1 £575 -11.54% 4

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 96 (19.55%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (6.72%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.68%) Apache
4 8 (1.63%) Confluence
5 5 (1.02%) SAS
6 4 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Luigi
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.63%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (5.70%) Aladdin
2 8 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.61%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.61%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.41%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 259 (52.75%) AWS
2 229 (46.64%) Azure
3 121 (24.64%) Power Platform
4 111 (22.61%) dbt
5 93 (18.94%) GCP
6 59 (12.02%) Serverless
7 57 (11.61%) Amazon S3
8 44 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (7.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (6.72%) Matillion
12 27 (5.50%) GitHub
13 23 (4.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (3.46%) SaaS
15 16 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (3.26%) Prefect
16 14 (2.85%) Fivetran
17 12 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (31.98%) Data Warehouse
2 114 (23.22%) Power BI
3 58 (11.81%) Snowflake Schema
4 55 (11.20%) Tableau
5 50 (10.18%) Data Lake
6 43 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (7.74%) BigQuery
8 35 (7.13%) Metadata
9 32 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (6.11%) SQL Server
11 26 (5.30%) Big Data
12 25 (5.09%) Data Vault
12 25 (5.09%) NoSQL
12 25 (5.09%) Relational Database
13 14 (2.85%) RDBMS
14 13 (2.65%) Looker
15 12 (2.44%) Star Schema
16 11 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 10 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
18 9 (1.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (9.78%) Git
2 25 (5.09%) GitLab
3 21 (4.28%) JIRA
4 15 (3.05%) SpecFlow
5 14 (2.85%) ERwin
6 13 (2.65%) ER Studio
7 9 (1.83%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.83%) MLflow
8 7 (1.43%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (1.22%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.61%) Selenium
10 3 (0.61%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.61%) Toad
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.20%) Deequ
12 1 (0.20%) GCC
General
1 134 (27.29%) Finance
2 133 (27.09%) Social Skills
3 73 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.33%) Banking
5 26 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.48%) Retail
7 17 (3.46%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.85%) Marketing
9 13 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.04%) Front Office
10 10 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.61%) Back Office
15 3 (0.61%) Law
15 3 (0.61%) Legal
15 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 159 (32.38%) Data Engineer
2 79 (16.09%) Snowflake Engineer
3 67 (13.65%) Architect
4 64 (13.03%) Analyst
5 62 (12.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 48 (9.78%) Data Analyst
6 48 (9.78%) Senior
7 40 (8.15%) Lead
8 36 (7.33%) Data Architect
9 35 (7.13%) Developer
10 33 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
11 26 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (4.48%) Snowflake Architect
14 21 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (4.07%) Data Modeller
15 20 (4.07%) Python Engineer
16 19 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
17 18 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 18 (3.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.31%) Kafka
2 23 (4.68%) PyTorch
3 19 (3.87%) PySpark
4 18 (3.67%) Pandas
4 18 (3.67%) Playwright
5 17 (3.46%) TensorFlow
6 12 (2.44%) NumPy
7 9 (1.83%) JSON
7 9 (1.83%) REST
7 9 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.63%) React
8 8 (1.63%) Spring
9 7 (1.43%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.02%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.02%) Node.js
10 5 (1.02%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (0.81%) FastAPI
11 4 (0.81%) gRPC
11 4 (0.81%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.09%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (4.89%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.05%) Equities
4 15 (3.05%) Fixed Income
4 15 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.85%) Replication
6 13 (2.65%) Clustering
7 12 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.24%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.04%) Derivative
9 10 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.43%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.22%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.43%) Unix
2 5 (1.02%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (43.18%) Analytics
2 195 (39.71%) Data Modelling
3 168 (34.22%) ETL
4 155 (31.57%) Data Engineering
5 142 (28.92%) CI/CD
6 139 (28.31%) Business Intelligence
7 132 (26.88%) Data Pipeline
8 109 (22.20%) Agile
9 105 (21.38%) Data Governance
10 103 (20.98%) AI
11 95 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
12 81 (16.50%) DevOps
12 81 (16.50%) Migration
13 75 (15.27%) Machine Learning
14 70 (14.26%) Data Architecture
15 63 (12.83%) Data Transformation
16 59 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 59 (12.02%) Performance Tuning
17 55 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (10.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 305 (62.12%) SQL
2 263 (53.56%) Python
3 38 (7.74%) Java
4 25 (5.09%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.89%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.07%) C#
7 17 (3.46%) Bash
8 12 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.83%) R
9 9 (1.83%) Scala
10 6 (1.22%) Korn
11 4 (0.81%) Bicep
11 4 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.61%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.20%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.20%) C
13 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (8.15%) Degree
2 35 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.81%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.61%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.20%) ACCA
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) CIMA
11 1 (0.20%) CSPO
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (27.09%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.07%) QA
3 19 (3.87%) GDPR
4 9 (1.83%) SLA
5 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (9.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (14.26%) Terraform
2 34 (6.92%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.46%) Ansible
4 8 (1.63%) Grafana
4 8 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.81%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 135 (27.49%) Databricks
2 52 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.92%) Oracle
4 20 (4.07%) Informatica
5 19 (3.87%) Talend
6 16 (3.26%) SAP
7 15 (3.05%) Greenplum
8 14 (2.85%) Google
9 12 (2.44%) Charles River
10 11 (2.24%) MuleSoft
10 11 (2.24%) Salesforce
11 10 (2.04%) Teradata
12 8 (1.63%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
13 7 (1.43%) Murex
14 5 (1.02%) Ab Initio
14 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.02%) SimCorp
14 5 (1.02%) Virgin Media
15 4 (0.81%) FactSet