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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 224 245
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 +194
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 487 348 396
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.21% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.84% 3.21% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 268 318
10th Percentile £371 £412 £419
25th Percentile £444 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -10.00% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £734 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 17,157 10,856 13,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 37.70% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,543 7,447 9,883
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 536 240 345
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.41 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £27.88 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% +30.46% -40.64%
75th Percentile £64.00 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -42 410 £525 -12.50% 149
London -3 301 £525 -19.23% 106
UK excluding London -70 149 £525 +10.53% 71
Work from Home -38 146 £525 -16.00% 65
Scotland +32 54 £445 -3.89% 5
Midlands -50 31 £550 +12.82% 6
West Midlands -48 29 £550 - 5
North of England -79 23 £575 +15.00% 23
South East -56 19 £575 +43.75% 24
South West -36 16 £498 -5.24% 9
North West -40 16 £588 +5.86% 16
East of England -39 6 £400 -31.03% 3
Yorkshire -59 6 £550 +15.79% 6
East Midlands -26 2 £654 +55.65% 1
Wales -10 1 £250 -61.54% 1
North East -28 1 £575 +35.29% 1

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 85 (17.45%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (7.80%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.49%) Apache
4 7 (1.44%) Confluence
5 4 (0.82%) SAS
6 3 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.52%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.03%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.62%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (51.54%) AWS
2 190 (39.01%) Azure
3 134 (27.52%) Power Platform
4 108 (22.18%) dbt
5 97 (19.92%) GCP
6 71 (14.58%) Amazon S3
7 47 (9.65%) Serverless
8 45 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (7.80%) GitHub
11 37 (7.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (6.37%) Matillion
13 22 (4.52%) Dagster
14 21 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (3.49%) Prefect
17 15 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (2.87%) SaaS
19 13 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (25.87%) Power BI
2 122 (25.05%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (13.76%) Snowflake Schema
4 66 (13.55%) Tableau
5 43 (8.83%) BigQuery
6 38 (7.80%) Data Lake
6 38 (7.80%) SQL Server
7 37 (7.60%) Big Data
8 31 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 30 (6.16%) Relational Database
10 29 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
11 24 (4.93%) Data Vault
12 22 (4.52%) Metadata
13 17 (3.49%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (3.08%) Looker
15 12 (2.46%) MySQL
16 9 (1.85%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (10.06%) Git
2 23 (4.72%) GitLab
3 21 (4.31%) JIRA
4 11 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.26%) SpecFlow
5 6 (1.23%) MLflow
6 4 (0.82%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.82%) ERwin
7 3 (0.62%) Selenium
7 3 (0.62%) Snyk
7 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.62%) Toad
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) GCC
9 1 (0.21%) LSMW
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
General
1 160 (32.85%) Finance
2 124 (25.46%) Social Skills
3 62 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.68%) Banking
5 34 (6.98%) Retail
6 26 (5.34%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.93%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.29%) Marketing
9 12 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.64%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.44%) Front Office
11 7 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.23%) Back Office
12 6 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.23%) Legal
13 5 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (35.11%) Data Engineer
2 94 (19.30%) Snowflake Engineer
3 82 (16.84%) Architect
4 78 (16.02%) Senior
5 73 (14.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 54 (11.09%) Analyst
7 44 (9.03%) Data Architect
8 41 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.80%) Lead
10 35 (7.19%) Data Analyst
11 33 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.54%) Developer
13 24 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (4.52%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (3.90%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.70%) Snowflake Architect
17 17 (3.49%) Business Analyst
18 14 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
19 13 (2.67%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.06%) Kafka
2 16 (3.29%) PySpark
3 12 (2.46%) Playwright
3 12 (2.46%) REST
4 11 (2.26%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.05%) PyTorch
5 10 (2.05%) Spring
6 9 (1.85%) .NET
7 8 (1.64%) React
7 8 (1.64%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.44%) Vue
9 6 (1.23%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.03%) OAuth
10 5 (1.03%) OpenID
11 4 (0.82%) JSON
12 3 (0.62%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.62%) Middleware
12 3 (0.62%) Pandas
12 3 (0.62%) Snowpark
12 3 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.93%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.46%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.05%) Clustering
5 10 (2.05%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (2.05%) Equities
5 10 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 9 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.64%) Replication
7 8 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.03%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.03%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.05%) Unix
2 8 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (44.35%) Analytics
2 179 (36.76%) Data Engineering
3 169 (34.70%) Data Modelling
4 159 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
5 155 (31.83%) ETL
6 153 (31.42%) CI/CD
7 152 (31.21%) Data Pipeline
8 128 (26.28%) AI
9 104 (21.36%) Agile
10 94 (19.30%) Migration
11 89 (18.28%) Data Governance
12 88 (18.07%) DevOps
13 72 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (14.78%) Validation
14 69 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (13.14%) Data Architecture
15 64 (13.14%) Machine Learning
16 59 (12.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 53 (10.88%) Decision-Making
17 53 (10.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 263 (54.00%) SQL
2 242 (49.69%) Python
3 51 (10.47%) Java
4 16 (3.29%) C#
5 14 (2.87%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.46%) Bash
7 11 (2.26%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.05%) R
9 6 (1.23%) Scala
10 5 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.62%) Bicep
12 3 (0.62%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) Korn
14 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.21%) Ruby
14 1 (0.21%) SOQL
14 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.78%) Degree
3 22 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.05%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.41%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) SAS Certification
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) CFA
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (21.97%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.54%) QA
3 26 (5.34%) GDPR
4 9 (1.85%) SLA
5 4 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.41%) EMIR
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) MiFID
7 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
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%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (13.35%) Terraform
2 26 (5.34%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.49%) Grafana
4 9 (1.85%) Ansible
5 7 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 140 (28.75%) Databricks
2 48 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.95%) Oracle
4 28 (5.75%) Informatica
5 19 (3.90%) Google
6 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.87%) SAP
6 14 (2.87%) Talend
7 11 (2.26%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.85%) Teradata
9 8 (1.64%) Greenplum
9 8 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.44%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.44%) Denodo
11 6 (1.23%) Charles River
11 6 (1.23%) Splunk
12 5 (1.03%) FactSet
12 5 (1.03%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.03%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.03%) Workday