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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 225 243
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 +190
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 538 354 436
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.20% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 3.18% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 272 353
10th Percentile £369 £410 £416
25th Percentile £447 £467 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £558 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -20.36% +21.74%
75th Percentile £638 £741 £850
90th Percentile £736 £838 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £41.73 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 - £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 17,731 11,129 14,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.81% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 7,522 9,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £635
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 270 355
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £28.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.02% +32.79% -39.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.17
% change year-on-year +94.60% +0.52% -29.26%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -17 464 £550 -5.17% 138
London +12 342 £550 -12.00% 91
Work from Home -39 165 £563 -10.00% 66
UK excluding London -44 162 £525 +10.53% 80
Scotland +15 48 £440 -6.13% 3
Midlands -46 34 £550 +12.82% 9
West Midlands -38 32 £550 - 7
North of England -63 29 £550 +15.79% 22
South East -68 22 £575 +24.32% 34
North West -22 21 £525 -5.41% 13
South West -31 17 £520 -0.95% 4
East of England -28 8 £400 -31.03% 5
Yorkshire -52 6 £550 +18.92% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £334 - 5
East Midlands -24 2 £654 +55.65% 2
North East -35 2 £575 +35.29% 4
Wales -15 1 £250 -61.54%

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 (17.47%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (8.18%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.72%) Apache
4 10 (1.86%) Confluence
5 6 (1.12%) SAS
5 6 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.90%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.93%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.74%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.56%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.56%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 276 (51.30%) AWS
2 202 (37.55%) Azure
3 150 (27.88%) Power Platform
4 118 (21.93%) dbt
5 109 (20.26%) GCP
6 80 (14.87%) Amazon S3
7 47 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (8.55%) GitHub
9 45 (8.36%) Serverless
10 43 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 36 (6.69%) Matillion
13 27 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (4.09%) Dagster
15 20 (3.72%) Fivetran
16 18 (3.35%) SaaS
17 17 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 16 (2.97%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) DNS
2 1 (0.19%) DSL
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Intranet
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (26.39%) Power BI
2 139 (25.84%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (13.94%) Tableau
4 71 (13.20%) Snowflake Schema
5 54 (10.04%) BigQuery
6 50 (9.29%) Data Lake
7 43 (7.99%) Big Data
8 39 (7.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (7.06%) SQL Server
10 34 (6.32%) Relational Database
11 27 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.83%) Data Vault
13 25 (4.65%) Metadata
14 22 (4.09%) NoSQL
15 17 (3.16%) Looker
16 16 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (2.23%) MySQL
18 10 (1.86%) Semantic Layer
18 10 (1.86%) Star Schema
19 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (9.85%) Git
2 30 (5.58%) GitLab
3 25 (4.65%) JIRA
4 14 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.49%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.12%) MLflow
7 3 (0.56%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.56%) Snyk
7 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.56%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.56%) Toad
8 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 180 (33.46%) Finance
2 134 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 65 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.71%) Banking
5 43 (7.99%) Retail
6 28 (5.20%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.28%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.28%) Marketing
8 16 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.86%) Retail Banking
11 9 (1.67%) Front Office
11 9 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.49%) Back Office
12 8 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.12%) Legal
14 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 189 (35.13%) Data Engineer
2 100 (18.59%) Snowflake Engineer
3 90 (16.73%) Architect
3 90 (16.73%) Senior
4 77 (14.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 60 (11.15%) Analyst
6 49 (9.11%) Data Architect
6 49 (9.11%) Senior Data Engineer
7 42 (7.81%) Lead
8 39 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 39 (7.25%) Data Analyst
9 28 (5.20%) Developer
10 25 (4.65%) AWS Data Engineer
10 25 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (3.53%) Business Analyst
11 19 (3.53%) Site Engineer
11 19 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (3.35%) Snowflake Architect
13 15 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 14 (2.60%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.48%) Kafka
2 17 (3.16%) REST
3 16 (2.97%) PySpark
4 11 (2.04%) Spring
4 11 (2.04%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.67%) .NET
5 9 (1.67%) React
6 8 (1.49%) Playwright
6 8 (1.49%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.30%) Vue
8 6 (1.12%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.12%) OAuth
8 6 (1.12%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.93%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.93%) OpenID
9 5 (0.93%) Snowpark
9 5 (0.93%) YAML
10 4 (0.74%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.74%) JSON
10 4 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.20%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.23%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.04%) Clustering
7 11 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.86%) Equities
8 10 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.30%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.30%) Replication
10 6 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.93%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.74%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.86%) Unix
2 8 (1.49%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (45.72%) Analytics
2 202 (37.55%) Data Engineering
3 185 (34.39%) Data Modelling
4 182 (33.83%) Data Pipeline
5 176 (32.71%) ETL
6 174 (32.34%) Business Intelligence
7 170 (31.60%) CI/CD
8 149 (27.70%) AI
9 115 (21.38%) Agile
10 104 (19.33%) Migration
11 97 (18.03%) DevOps
12 95 (17.66%) Data Governance
13 84 (15.61%) Validation
14 83 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 79 (14.68%) Data Architecture
16 71 (13.20%) Machine Learning
17 70 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
18 68 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (11.52%) Observability
20 61 (11.34%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 288 (53.53%) SQL
2 260 (48.33%) Python
3 57 (10.59%) Java
4 14 (2.60%) R
5 13 (2.42%) Bash
5 13 (2.42%) C#
6 11 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.12%) Scala
10 5 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.74%) Bicep
11 4 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.37%) Korn
13 2 (0.37%) SOQL
13 2 (0.37%) VBScript
14 1 (0.19%) Cypher
14 1 (0.19%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 47 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 36 (6.69%) Degree
3 25 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.23%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.74%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.56%) CSPO
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ACCA
12 1 (0.19%) CFA
12 1 (0.19%) CIMA
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) PhD
12 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (23.79%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.13%) GDPR
3 29 (5.39%) QA
4 9 (1.67%) SLA
5 6 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.56%) EMIR
6 3 (0.56%) MiFID
6 3 (0.56%) PMO
7 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.19%) CDISC
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (6.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (13.75%) Terraform
2 35 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.72%) Grafana
4 8 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.93%) Ansible
6 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 152 (28.25%) Databricks
2 58 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.39%) Oracle
4 28 (5.20%) Informatica
5 25 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.90%) Google
7 18 (3.35%) SAP
8 12 (2.23%) Talend
9 10 (1.86%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.67%) Teradata
11 8 (1.49%) Denodo
11 8 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.30%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.30%) Charles River
12 7 (1.30%) FactSet
12 7 (1.30%) Splunk
13 6 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (1.12%) SimCorp
14 5 (0.93%) Workday
15 4 (0.74%) Bloomberg