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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 241 304
Rank change year-on-year -6 +63 +163
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 480 322 324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.10% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 2.89% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 233 245
10th Percentile £363 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £738
90th Percentile £750 £875 £858
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £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 16,614 11,151 14,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.74% 38.13% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,333 7,820 10,103
10th Percentile £313 £313 £296
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.31% -2.76% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 226 346
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.43 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -25.43%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.66 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.72 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.83% -21.27%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -27 401 £525 -12.50% 171
London +17 302 £525 -20.45% 99
Work from Home -13 154 £525 -19.23% 70
UK excluding London -76 129 £500 +5.26% 112
Scotland +27 43 £450 +2.86% 8
North of England -69 25 £513 +1.99% 27
Midlands -63 23 £550 +22.91% 11
West Midlands -50 20 £510 -7.27% 8
South West -25 17 £475 -15.56% 14
North West -39 17 £400 -27.93% 13
South East -59 14 £525 +43.84% 37
Yorkshire -49 7 £525 +10.53% 8
East of England -35 5 - - 10
East Midlands -34 3 £575 +36.90% 3
Wales - 2 £413 - 3
North East -15 1 £575 -11.54% 6

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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.38%) Apache
4 8 (1.67%) Confluence
5 5 (1.04%) SAS
6 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (5.00%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.83%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 241 (50.21%) AWS
2 214 (44.58%) Azure
3 126 (26.25%) Power Platform
4 113 (23.54%) dbt
5 90 (18.75%) GCP
6 64 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 51 (10.63%) Serverless
8 42 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 32 (6.67%) Matillion
11 26 (5.42%) GitHub
12 20 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (3.96%) Dagster
14 18 (3.75%) Prefect
15 17 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (3.13%) SaaS
17 13 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (30.21%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (24.79%) Power BI
3 55 (11.46%) Snowflake Schema
3 55 (11.46%) Tableau
4 41 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 38 (7.92%) BigQuery
6 34 (7.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (6.25%) Metadata
9 26 (5.42%) Data Vault
9 26 (5.42%) SQL Server
10 23 (4.79%) Big Data
11 22 (4.58%) NoSQL
12 16 (3.33%) Relational Database
13 12 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (2.29%) Looker
15 9 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.88%) Star Schema
16 8 (1.67%) DynamoDB
17 7 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 50 (10.42%) Git
2 21 (4.38%) GitLab
3 19 (3.96%) JIRA
4 15 (3.13%) SpecFlow
5 10 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.67%) ERwin
7 7 (1.46%) ER Studio
8 6 (1.25%) MLflow
9 4 (0.83%) DBeaver
10 3 (0.63%) Selenium
10 3 (0.63%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.63%) Toad
11 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.42%) Snyk
11 2 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.21%) GCC
12 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (28.33%) Finance
2 132 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 70 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.71%) Banking
5 26 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.79%) Retail
7 16 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.50%) Marketing
10 10 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.46%) Front Office
12 7 (1.46%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Legal
14 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.63%) Back Office
15 3 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 178 (37.08%) Data Engineer
2 86 (17.92%) Snowflake Engineer
3 71 (14.79%) Architect
3 71 (14.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 60 (12.50%) Analyst
4 60 (12.50%) Senior
5 46 (9.58%) Data Analyst
6 42 (8.75%) Data Architect
7 41 (8.54%) Lead
8 33 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
9 30 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (5.63%) Developer
11 25 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
13 20 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (3.75%) AWS Data Engineer
14 18 (3.75%) Snowflake Architect
15 17 (3.54%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.96%) Kafka
2 20 (4.17%) PyTorch
3 18 (3.75%) TensorFlow
4 17 (3.54%) PySpark
5 16 (3.33%) Playwright
6 13 (2.71%) Pandas
7 10 (2.08%) React
8 9 (1.88%) NumPy
8 9 (1.88%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.67%) Spring
10 6 (1.25%) .NET
10 6 (1.25%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.25%) REST
10 6 (1.25%) Vue
11 5 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.04%) JSON
11 5 (1.04%) OAuth
11 5 (1.04%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.83%) ARM Templates
13 3 (0.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.50%) Clustering
5 12 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.50%) Replication
6 11 (2.29%) Equities
6 11 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.04%) Derivative
9 5 (1.04%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.08%) Unix
2 6 (1.25%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (43.33%) Analytics
2 180 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 165 (34.38%) Data Engineering
4 158 (32.92%) ETL
5 145 (30.21%) Business Intelligence
6 144 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 138 (28.75%) Data Pipeline
8 109 (22.71%) AI
9 103 (21.46%) Agile
10 96 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 80 (16.67%) Migration
12 78 (16.25%) DevOps
12 78 (16.25%) Machine Learning
13 77 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (14.17%) Data Architecture
15 61 (12.71%) Performance Tuning
16 57 (11.88%) Decision-Making
17 56 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 55 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
19 49 (10.21%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 276 (57.50%) SQL
2 247 (51.46%) Python
3 41 (8.54%) Java
4 21 (4.38%) C#
4 21 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.92%) Bash
7 8 (1.67%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.67%) Scala
8 7 (1.46%) R
9 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.04%) Korn
9 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.83%) Bicep
10 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.21%) C
12 1 (0.21%) Ruby
12 1 (0.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (8.75%) Degree
2 38 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.46%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
9 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) CSPO
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (25.83%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.42%) GDPR
3 19 (3.96%) QA
4 9 (1.88%) SLA
5 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (7.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (14.17%) Terraform
2 25 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.29%) Ansible
4 8 (1.67%) Grafana
4 8 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.83%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 141 (29.38%) Databricks
2 54 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.63%) Oracle
4 24 (5.00%) Informatica
5 19 (3.96%) Talend
6 18 (3.75%) Google
7 16 (3.33%) SAP
8 13 (2.71%) Teradata
9 11 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.08%) Greenplum
11 9 (1.88%) Charles River
11 9 (1.88%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
12 8 (1.67%) OpenAI
13 7 (1.46%) Ab Initio
13 7 (1.46%) Denodo
14 6 (1.25%) ServiceNow
15 5 (1.04%) SimCorp
15 5 (1.04%) Splunk
15 5 (1.04%) Virgin Media