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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 234 198
Rank change year-on-year +14 -36 +157
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 688 394 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.19% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 3.13% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 294 381
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £544 £800
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -32.03% +38.10%
75th Percentile £675 £693 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £457
% change year-on-year +15.79% +4.05% -23.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £42.65 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £50.16 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 19,068 12,578 12,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.73% 38.05% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,647 8,397 8,617
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 296 185
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.50 £16.12
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.25 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.14 £33.00
% change year-on-year +56.78% -42.02% +42.00%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +13 603 £575 +4.55% 820
London +17 439 £575 -6.12% 566
Work from Home -18 207 £600 - 476
UK excluding London -16 201 £550 +15.79% 368
Scotland +3 45 £428 -7.57% 61
North of England -52 40 £500 +17.65% 109
South East -43 35 £616 +20.20% 51
Midlands -33 32 £500 +8.11% 43
West Midlands -22 28 £520 +4.00% 31
North West -31 27 £525 +28.05% 74
South West -32 24 £650 +36.84% 43
East of England -28 16 £380 -24.00% 15
Yorkshire -36 10 £400 -15.79% 23
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 42
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +12.85% 12
North East -37 3 - - 12
Wales -14 1 £650 - 5

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
1 147 (21.37%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (8.87%) Apache Spark
3 49 (7.12%) Apache
4 18 (2.62%) Confluence
5 15 (2.18%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.58%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (2.47%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.73%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.29%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.29%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 356 (51.74%) AWS
2 295 (42.88%) Azure
3 209 (30.38%) dbt
4 185 (26.89%) Power Platform
5 148 (21.51%) GCP
6 89 (12.94%) GitHub
7 78 (11.34%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 65 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (8.43%) Serverless
10 52 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (4.22%) Fivetran
13 29 (4.22%) SaaS
14 21 (3.05%) Collibra
15 19 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (2.76%) Dagster
16 18 (2.62%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (2.47%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.29%) DSL
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
2 2 (0.29%) Internet
2 2 (0.29%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (31.83%) Data Warehouse
2 182 (26.45%) Power BI
3 95 (13.81%) Data Lake
4 81 (11.77%) Tableau
5 78 (11.34%) BigQuery
6 73 (10.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 68 (9.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (7.27%) Metadata
9 46 (6.69%) SQL Server
10 43 (6.25%) Big Data
11 41 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
12 36 (5.23%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.22%) NoSQL
14 27 (3.92%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.05%) Looker
16 20 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (2.76%) Delta Lake
18 16 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
18 16 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
19 15 (2.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 85 (12.35%) Git
2 34 (4.94%) JIRA
3 31 (4.51%) GitLab
4 23 (3.34%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.02%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.73%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.73%) Snyk
6 5 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.58%) MLflow
8 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) ERwin
9 2 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 223 (32.41%) Finance
2 206 (29.94%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (12.65%) Banking
5 56 (8.14%) Retail
6 29 (4.22%) Marketing
7 24 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.05%) Financial Institution
9 19 (2.76%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (2.47%) Front Office
11 17 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.33%) Legal
13 12 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.60%) Billing
15 10 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.02%) Automotive
17 7 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 246 (35.76%) Data Engineer
2 135 (19.62%) Senior
3 116 (16.86%) Architect
4 115 (16.72%) Snowflake Engineer
5 88 (12.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 78 (11.34%) Senior Data Engineer
7 75 (10.90%) Analyst
8 73 (10.61%) Data Architect
9 45 (6.54%) Lead
10 43 (6.25%) Data Analyst
11 40 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (5.38%) Developer
13 34 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.63%) Business Analyst
15 24 (3.49%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.20%) Snowflake Architect
17 20 (2.91%) Consultant
18 19 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
19 17 (2.47%) Databricks Engineer
20 16 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (14.97%) Terraform
2 78 (11.34%) Kafka
3 40 (5.81%) REST
4 37 (5.38%) PySpark
5 18 (2.62%) .NET
6 10 (1.45%) FastAPI
6 10 (1.45%) JSON
6 10 (1.45%) React
6 10 (1.45%) YAML
7 9 (1.31%) OAuth
7 9 (1.31%) Spring
7 9 (1.31%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.02%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.02%) LangChain
9 6 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.87%) Model Context Protocol
9 6 (0.87%) OpenID
9 6 (0.87%) XML
10 5 (0.73%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.73%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 88 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.81%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 23 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.62%) Life Science
8 15 (2.18%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.60%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.60%) Taxonomies
13 10 (1.45%) Data Fabric
13 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.16%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.16%) Reference Data
15 8 (1.16%) Replication
16 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.03%) Linux
2 10 (1.45%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (44.33%) Analytics
2 276 (40.12%) Data Engineering
3 271 (39.39%) Data Modelling
4 253 (36.77%) Data Pipeline
5 247 (35.90%) CI/CD
6 241 (35.03%) ETL
7 224 (32.56%) AI
8 206 (29.94%) Business Intelligence
9 182 (26.45%) Agile
10 158 (22.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 136 (19.77%) DevOps
12 134 (19.48%) Data Governance
13 129 (18.75%) Data Architecture
14 119 (17.30%) Migration
15 112 (16.28%) Data Transformation
16 111 (16.13%) Validation
17 100 (14.53%) Decision-Making
18 90 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
18 90 (13.08%) Machine Learning
19 89 (12.94%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 415 (60.32%) SQL
2 348 (50.58%) Python
3 53 (7.70%) Java
4 20 (2.91%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.18%) Scala
6 13 (1.89%) Bash
6 13 (1.89%) R
7 10 (1.45%) C#
7 10 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.16%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.02%) Bicep
10 4 (0.58%) C++
10 4 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.44%) Cypher
11 3 (0.44%) Delphi
11 3 (0.44%) LookML
11 3 (0.44%) SHACL
11 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.29%) SOQL
12 2 (0.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 45 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 40 (5.81%) Degree
3 26 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (3.63%) SC Cleared
5 12 (1.74%) Azure Certification
5 12 (1.74%) SnowPro
6 11 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.73%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.58%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.44%) CSPO
11 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.15%) ACCA
13 1 (0.15%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (28.20%) Data Quality
2 36 (5.23%) GDPR
3 34 (4.94%) QA
4 5 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.73%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.58%) GRC
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.58%) MiFID
5 4 (0.58%) PMO
6 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.44%) EMIR
6 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 53 (7.70%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (8.72%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.05%) Grafana
3 7 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.87%) Ansible
5 4 (0.58%) Control-M
6 2 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 218 (31.69%) Databricks
2 96 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.38%) Google
4 35 (5.09%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.94%) Informatica
6 30 (4.36%) Oracle
7 21 (3.05%) SAP
8 12 (1.74%) Talend
9 11 (1.60%) Teradata
9 11 (1.60%) Workday
10 10 (1.45%) Foundry
10 10 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
10 10 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.16%) Denodo
12 8 (1.16%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.02%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.73%) Confluent
14 5 (0.73%) Sage