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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 223 252
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 +189
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 514 342 403
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.18% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.93% 3.13% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 265 324
10th Percentile £382 £413 £416
25th Percentile £450 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -10.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £860 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -15.56%
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 17,533 10,917 13,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 37.81% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 7,438 9,909
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 253 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £70.75 £68.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -35.21%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -25 439 £550 -6.18% 175
London +17 326 £525 -19.23% 122
Work from Home -49 152 £550 -12.00% 74
UK excluding London -56 151 £525 +10.53% 88
Scotland +25 52 £445 -3.89% 4
Midlands -44 33 £550 +12.82% 7
West Midlands -49 31 £550 - 4
North of England -72 24 £575 +15.00% 30
South East -62 20 £575 +24.32% 33
North West -41 17 £588 +5.86% 18
South West -44 15 £475 -9.52% 7
East of England -38 7 £544 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire -62 6 £550 +15.79% 8
East Midlands -25 2 £654 +55.65% 3
Wales -12 1 £250 -61.54%
North East -26 1 £575 +35.29% 4

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 91 (17.70%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (7.98%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.70%) Apache
4 7 (1.36%) Confluence
5 5 (0.97%) SAS
6 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.09%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.97%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.58%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.39%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 260 (50.58%) AWS
2 201 (39.11%) Azure
3 144 (28.02%) Power Platform
4 117 (22.76%) dbt
5 103 (20.04%) GCP
6 72 (14.01%) Amazon S3
7 51 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (8.56%) GitHub
8 44 (8.56%) Serverless
9 40 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 34 (6.61%) Matillion
12 25 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (4.28%) Dagster
14 18 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (3.11%) Fivetran
15 16 (3.11%) Prefect
15 16 (3.11%) SaaS
16 15 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) DNS
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Intranet
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (26.46%) Power BI
2 133 (25.88%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (14.20%) Snowflake Schema
3 73 (14.20%) Tableau
4 48 (9.34%) BigQuery
5 43 (8.37%) Data Lake
6 40 (7.78%) Big Data
7 39 (7.59%) SQL Server
8 34 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (6.03%) Relational Database
10 28 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
11 25 (4.86%) Data Vault
12 24 (4.67%) Metadata
13 21 (4.09%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (3.11%) Looker
16 12 (2.33%) MySQL
17 10 (1.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.95%) Star Schema
18 9 (1.75%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (10.51%) Git
2 26 (5.06%) GitLab
3 22 (4.28%) JIRA
4 14 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.75%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.17%) MLflow
7 3 (0.58%) Selenium
7 3 (0.58%) Snyk
7 3 (0.58%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.58%) Toad
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.39%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) LSMW
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 175 (34.05%) Finance
2 131 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.89%) Banking
5 38 (7.39%) Retail
6 28 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.28%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.89%) Marketing
9 14 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.56%) Front Office
12 8 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.56%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.36%) Back Office
14 6 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.17%) Legal
15 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (35.21%) Data Engineer
2 100 (19.46%) Snowflake Engineer
3 87 (16.93%) Senior
4 85 (16.54%) Architect
5 77 (14.98%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 56 (10.89%) Analyst
7 46 (8.95%) Data Architect
7 46 (8.95%) Senior Data Engineer
8 40 (7.78%) Lead
9 37 (7.20%) Data Analyst
10 35 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (5.45%) Developer
12 25 (4.86%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.70%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.50%) Snowflake Architect
16 17 (3.31%) Business Analyst
17 14 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.53%) Kafka
2 17 (3.31%) PySpark
3 15 (2.92%) REST
4 10 (1.95%) Playwright
4 10 (1.95%) PyTorch
4 10 (1.95%) Spring
4 10 (1.95%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.75%) .NET
6 8 (1.56%) React
6 8 (1.56%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.36%) Vue
8 6 (1.17%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.97%) OAuth
9 5 (0.97%) OpenID
10 4 (0.78%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.78%) JSON
10 4 (0.78%) XML
10 4 (0.78%) YAML
11 3 (0.58%) Middleware
11 3 (0.58%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.67%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.95%) Clustering
7 10 (1.95%) Equities
7 10 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.56%) Replication
9 8 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.36%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.97%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.95%) Unix
2 9 (1.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (45.33%) Analytics
2 194 (37.74%) Data Engineering
3 177 (34.44%) Data Modelling
4 168 (32.68%) Data Pipeline
5 167 (32.49%) ETL
6 166 (32.30%) Business Intelligence
6 166 (32.30%) CI/CD
7 139 (27.04%) AI
8 111 (21.60%) Agile
9 99 (19.26%) Migration
10 96 (18.68%) DevOps
11 94 (18.29%) Data Governance
12 78 (15.18%) Validation
13 75 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
15 72 (14.01%) Data Architecture
16 69 (13.42%) Machine Learning
17 62 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (10.70%) Decision-Making
18 55 (10.70%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 284 (55.25%) SQL
2 254 (49.42%) Python
3 55 (10.70%) Java
4 14 (2.72%) Bash
4 14 (2.72%) C#
5 12 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.33%) R
6 9 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.17%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.17%) Scala
8 5 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.78%) Bicep
9 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.19%) C
12 1 (0.19%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) SOQL
12 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 34 (6.61%) Degree
3 24 (4.67%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.95%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.58%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) ACCA
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) CFA
11 1 (0.19%) CIMA
11 1 (0.19%) CSPO
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (22.96%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.84%) QA
3 29 (5.64%) GDPR
4 9 (1.75%) SLA
5 4 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.58%) PMO
7 2 (0.39%) EMIR
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (6.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (13.23%) Terraform
2 29 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.50%) Grafana
4 9 (1.75%) Ansible
5 8 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 146 (28.40%) Databricks
2 51 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.84%) Oracle
4 28 (5.45%) Informatica
5 19 (3.70%) Google
6 16 (3.11%) SAP
7 13 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.53%) Talend
8 10 (1.95%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.75%) Teradata
10 8 (1.56%) Denodo
10 8 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.36%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.36%) Greenplum
12 6 (1.17%) Charles River
12 6 (1.17%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.17%) Splunk
13 5 (0.97%) FactSet
13 5 (0.97%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.97%) Workday