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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 253 336
Rank change year-on-year +28 +83 +115
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 446 329 280
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.00% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 2.77% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 214 222
10th Percentile £346 £375 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £607 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +5.57% -
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £765 £888 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +3.06% -12.20% -2.38%
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 14,137 11,897 14,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.12% 36.22% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,707 7,925 10,706
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £414
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 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 174 266
10th Percentile £14.70 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.19
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +9.17% +11.96%
75th Percentile £57.25 £44.58 £56.88
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.93 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.86 £25.34 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.98% +20.67% +8.64%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +1 359 £538 -14.00% 126
London +21 277 £553 -15.00% 87
Work from Home +18 159 £563 -16.04% 72
UK excluding London -4 115 £464 +3.06% 70
Scotland +41 45 £450 +12.50%
North of England -32 22 £388 -11.43% 15
North West -27 18 £347 -20.80% 14
South East -6 16 £500 +21.21% 38
South West -6 12 £500 +25.00% 7
East of England -11 12 £565 +13.00% 6
Midlands -50 9 £550 +10.00% 4
West Midlands -45 6 £483 -3.50% 4
East Midlands -25 3 £575 -7.93%
Yorkshire -47 3 £488 -
North East -7 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £575 -

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
1 103 (23.09%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (9.42%) Apache
3 31 (6.95%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.90%) Confluence
6 3 (0.67%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (4.26%) Aladdin
2 14 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.45%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 232 (52.02%) AWS
2 209 (46.86%) Azure
3 114 (25.56%) dbt
4 107 (23.99%) Power Platform
5 84 (18.83%) GCP
6 50 (11.21%) Serverless
7 40 (8.97%) Amazon S3
8 35 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (5.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (5.16%) GitHub
12 16 (3.59%) Matillion
13 15 (3.36%) Amazon EMR
13 15 (3.36%) Fivetran
14 14 (3.14%) SaaS
15 11 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.24%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (32.96%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (23.77%) Power BI
3 75 (16.82%) Data Lake
4 47 (10.54%) Snowflake Schema
5 40 (8.97%) Tableau
6 38 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (7.85%) BigQuery
8 31 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (6.28%) Metadata
10 26 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
11 25 (5.61%) Big Data
12 23 (5.16%) SQL Server
13 22 (4.93%) Apache Iceberg
13 22 (4.93%) Relational Database
14 21 (4.71%) Data Vault
14 21 (4.71%) NoSQL
15 20 (4.48%) Apache Arrow
15 20 (4.48%) Apache Ignite
15 20 (4.48%) Dremio
16 15 (3.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (10.76%) Git
2 19 (4.26%) GitLab
3 18 (4.04%) ERwin
3 18 (4.04%) JIRA
4 15 (3.36%) ER Studio
5 11 (2.47%) SpecFlow
6 10 (2.24%) PowerDesigner
7 8 (1.79%) DBeaver
8 7 (1.57%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.90%) MLflow
10 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.67%) Selenium
11 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.45%) TestRail
11 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.22%) Deequ
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 136 (30.49%) Finance
2 120 (26.91%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.87%) Banking
5 28 (6.28%) Investment Banking
6 27 (6.05%) Front Office
7 18 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (2.69%) Marketing
9 12 (2.69%) Retail
10 11 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.35%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.67%) Law
15 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.45%) iGaming
16 2 (0.45%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 129 (28.92%) Data Engineer
2 59 (13.23%) Analyst
2 59 (13.23%) Snowflake Engineer
3 55 (12.33%) Senior
4 51 (11.43%) Architect
5 47 (10.54%) Data Analyst
6 45 (10.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 39 (8.74%) Python Engineer
8 37 (8.30%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (7.62%) Developer
10 29 (6.50%) Lead
11 28 (6.28%) Data Architect
12 25 (5.61%) Data Modeller
13 22 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (4.93%) Software Engineer
14 21 (4.71%) Java Engineer
15 20 (4.48%) AWS Software Engineer
15 20 (4.48%) Java Software Engineer
15 20 (4.48%) Python Software Engineer
16 19 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.52%) Pandas
2 29 (6.50%) NumPy
3 21 (4.71%) Kafka
4 20 (4.48%) gRPC
4 20 (4.48%) Protocol Buffers
4 20 (4.48%) PySpark
4 20 (4.48%) SciPy
5 17 (3.81%) PyTorch
6 14 (3.14%) Playwright
7 13 (2.91%) REST
7 13 (2.91%) TensorFlow
8 11 (2.47%) React
9 10 (2.24%) JSON
10 8 (1.79%) Node.js
11 6 (1.35%) .NET
11 6 (1.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (1.35%) XML
12 5 (1.12%) LangChain
12 5 (1.12%) RESTful
12 5 (1.12%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.28%) Data Structures
3 25 (5.61%) Equities
3 25 (5.61%) Fixed Income
4 23 (5.16%) Derivative
5 22 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (4.93%) Hedge funds
6 20 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (4.48%) Pricing Data
7 14 (3.14%) Replication
8 10 (2.24%) Clustering
8 10 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.24%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.79%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.35%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.02%) Linux
2 7 (1.57%) Unix
3 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (38.79%) Data Modelling
2 166 (37.22%) Analytics
3 153 (34.30%) ETL
4 122 (27.35%) Data Engineering
5 121 (27.13%) Agile
6 111 (24.89%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (24.22%) CI/CD
8 103 (23.09%) Data Governance
9 99 (22.20%) Data Pipeline
10 84 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (16.59%) AI
12 72 (16.14%) Migration
13 65 (14.57%) Machine Learning
14 62 (13.90%) DevOps
15 61 (13.68%) Data Transformation
16 60 (13.45%) Asset Management
17 57 (12.78%) Data Architecture
18 55 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
19 54 (12.11%) Data Integration
20 52 (11.66%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 268 (60.09%) SQL
2 243 (54.48%) Python
3 46 (10.31%) Java
4 42 (9.42%) JavaScript
4 42 (9.42%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.36%) C#
6 13 (2.91%) PL/SQL
7 10 (2.24%) Bash
8 9 (2.02%) R
9 7 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.57%) Korn
10 6 (1.35%) Scala
11 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.22%) Bicep
13 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (7.17%) Degree
2 21 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.59%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.69%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.35%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.67%) PhD
11 2 (0.45%) ACCA
11 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.45%) CIMA
11 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.45%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) CBAP
12 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (22.65%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.04%) QA
3 15 (3.36%) GDPR
4 7 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.45%) DICOM
6 2 (0.45%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) GRC
7 1 (0.22%) HL7
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.22%) LOINC
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (7.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (10.76%) Terraform
2 24 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.81%) Ansible
4 6 (1.35%) Grafana
5 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 115 (25.78%) Databricks
2 41 (9.19%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.73%) Oracle
4 22 (4.93%) SAP
5 15 (3.36%) Informatica
6 14 (3.14%) Greenplum
6 14 (3.14%) Talend
7 12 (2.69%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.47%) Google
9 9 (2.02%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.79%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.57%) Sparx
12 6 (1.35%) Charles River
12 6 (1.35%) Teradata
13 5 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.12%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.90%) Guidewire
15 3 (0.67%) StreamSets