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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 229 206
Rank change year-on-year -7 -23 +204
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 580 387 497
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 3.19% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 297 408
10th Percentile £400 £408 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £738
Median % change year-on-year - -25.42% +28.26%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £850
90th Percentile £750 £860 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £47.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.13 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 - £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 18,639 12,146 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.42% 37.53% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,383 8,129 10,044
10th Percentile £329 £313 £305
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 313 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £48.11
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -20.69%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -10 504 £550 -1.79% 173
London +9 368 £574 -8.20% 114
Work from Home -35 177 £575 -8.00% 83
UK excluding London -78 174 £525 +10.53% 86
Scotland +11 47 £435 -5.95% 11
North of England -68 36 £550 +10.00% 19
Midlands -45 34 £550 +12.82% 8
West Midlands -52 32 £550 +10.00% 6
North West -28 26 £525 -5.41% 13
South East -52 26 £550 +15.79% 33
South West -45 15 £550 +7.32% 11
East of England -39 9 £390 -32.76% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 2
Yorkshire -50 6 £550 +15.79% 5
North East -36 4 £575 +35.29% 1
East Midlands -17 2 £654 +55.65% 2
Wales -13 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 99 (17.07%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (7.76%) Apache Spark
3 23 (3.97%) Apache
4 16 (2.76%) Confluence
5 10 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.03%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (3.97%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.86%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.86%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.52%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 290 (50.00%) AWS
2 220 (37.93%) Azure
3 167 (28.79%) Power Platform
4 132 (22.76%) dbt
5 124 (21.38%) GCP
6 87 (15.00%) Amazon S3
7 51 (8.79%) GitHub
8 49 (8.45%) Serverless
9 47 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (5.17%) Matillion
14 24 (4.14%) Fivetran
15 22 (3.79%) Dagster
16 19 (3.28%) SaaS
17 18 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 17 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
19 16 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 16 (2.76%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (27.93%) Data Warehouse
2 161 (27.76%) Power BI
3 81 (13.97%) Tableau
4 72 (12.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 68 (11.72%) BigQuery
6 65 (11.21%) Data Lake
7 48 (8.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.76%) Big Data
9 41 (7.07%) SQL Server
10 36 (6.21%) Relational Database
11 34 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (5.00%) Metadata
13 26 (4.48%) Data Vault
14 25 (4.31%) NoSQL
15 21 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (3.45%) Looker
17 14 (2.41%) MySQL
18 12 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 11 (1.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (9.83%) Git
2 32 (5.52%) JIRA
3 29 (5.00%) GitLab
4 14 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.21%) MLflow
6 6 (1.03%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.52%) Snyk
7 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.52%) Toad
8 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
8 2 (0.34%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) ERwin
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 206 (35.52%) Finance
2 156 (26.90%) Social Skills
3 77 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (13.28%) Banking
4 52 (8.97%) Retail
5 27 (4.66%) Marketing
6 25 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 22 (3.79%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 19 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.41%) Front Office
11 12 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.90%) Legal
13 10 (1.72%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.55%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.38%) Back Office
15 8 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 204 (35.17%) Data Engineer
2 105 (18.10%) Snowflake Engineer
3 102 (17.59%) Architect
4 94 (16.21%) Senior
5 80 (13.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 63 (10.86%) Analyst
7 57 (9.83%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 44 (7.59%) Lead
10 38 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (6.21%) Data Analyst
12 29 (5.00%) Developer
13 28 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (4.31%) AWS Data Engineer
15 24 (4.14%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.28%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (3.10%) Snowflake Architect
18 17 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
19 16 (2.76%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.17%) Kafka
2 20 (3.45%) REST
3 18 (3.10%) PySpark
4 13 (2.24%) Spring
4 13 (2.24%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.72%) .NET
5 10 (1.72%) React
6 9 (1.55%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.21%) OAuth
7 7 (1.21%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.21%) Vue
8 6 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.03%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.03%) Playwright
8 6 (1.03%) YAML
9 5 (0.86%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.86%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.86%) OpenID
9 5 (0.86%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.24%) Fixed Income
5 13 (2.24%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.24%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.90%) Equities
7 11 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.55%) Clustering
8 9 (1.55%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.21%) Replication
10 6 (1.03%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.86%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.72%) Unix
2 7 (1.21%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (46.21%) Analytics
2 223 (38.45%) Data Engineering
3 203 (35.00%) Data Modelling
3 203 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
4 191 (32.93%) Business Intelligence
4 191 (32.93%) ETL
5 188 (32.41%) CI/CD
6 165 (28.45%) AI
7 129 (22.24%) Agile
8 108 (18.62%) Data Governance
9 106 (18.28%) Migration
10 101 (17.41%) DevOps
11 98 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 92 (15.86%) Validation
13 88 (15.17%) Data Architecture
14 80 (13.79%) Machine Learning
15 68 (11.72%) Data Transformation
15 68 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
16 67 (11.55%) Decision-Making
16 67 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 317 (54.66%) SQL
2 288 (49.66%) Python
3 60 (10.34%) Java
4 15 (2.59%) R
5 13 (2.24%) Bash
6 11 (1.90%) C#
7 9 (1.55%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.38%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.38%) Scala
8 8 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.86%) Bicep
10 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.52%) Cypher
11 3 (0.52%) SHACL
12 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.34%) SOQL
12 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.34%) VBScript
13 1 (0.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (8.10%) Security Cleared
2 43 (7.41%) Degree
3 27 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.41%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.69%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.52%) CSPO
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.17%) ACCA
13 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (23.79%) Data Quality
2 41 (7.07%) GDPR
3 27 (4.66%) QA
4 11 (1.90%) SLA
5 7 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.52%) EMIR
6 3 (0.52%) MiFID
7 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.34%) PMO
7 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.17%) CDISC
8 1 (0.17%) FATCA
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 40 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (13.45%) Terraform
2 39 (6.72%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.97%) Grafana
4 10 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.86%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 166 (28.62%) Databricks
2 65 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.17%) Informatica
4 29 (5.00%) Oracle
5 28 (4.83%) Salesforce
6 26 (4.48%) Google
7 20 (3.45%) SAP
8 12 (2.07%) Talend
9 10 (1.72%) Teradata
10 9 (1.55%) Charles River
10 9 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.38%) Denodo
11 8 (1.38%) FactSet
12 7 (1.21%) Splunk
12 7 (1.21%) Workday
13 6 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (1.03%) Murex
13 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.03%) PagerDuty