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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 257 311
Rank change year-on-year +27 +54 +139
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 459 312 299
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.19% 0.99% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 2.68% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 199 224
10th Percentile £338 £379 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £888 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £511
% change year-on-year - -7.09% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 14,631 11,646 14,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.02% 36.99% 33.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,078 7,737 10,540
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 169 304
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +17.40% -0.32%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +31.79% +17.43% +7.69%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +1 373 £525 -16.00% 262
London +33 283 £538 -17.31% 98
Work from Home +23 155 £550 -17.91% 175
UK excluding London -10 122 £475 - 231
Scotland +36 44 £450 -5.26% 13
North of England -57 20 £375 -15.49% 37
South East -18 18 £500 +21.21% 102
North West -19 17 £347 -20.80% 22
South West -8 15 £488 +9.86% 19
Midlands -63 15 £550 +10.00% 21
East of England -7 11 £580 +16.00% 29
West Midlands -38 11 £525 +5.00% 13
East Midlands -31 4 £575 -7.93% 8
North East -14 2 £575 -11.54% 6
Yorkshire -53 1 £488 +8.33% 9
Wales - 1 £575 - 9

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 (19.83%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 30 (6.54%) Apache
4 6 (1.31%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.87%) SAS
6 3 (0.65%) Confluence
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (4.58%) Aladdin
2 13 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 236 (51.42%) AWS
2 217 (47.28%) Azure
3 112 (24.40%) Power Platform
4 107 (23.31%) dbt
5 84 (18.30%) GCP
6 50 (10.89%) Serverless
7 44 (9.59%) Amazon S3
8 36 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (6.10%) Matillion
11 22 (4.79%) GitHub
12 21 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (3.49%) Fivetran
13 16 (3.49%) SaaS
14 14 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (2.18%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (31.81%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (23.31%) Power BI
3 62 (13.51%) Data Lake
4 51 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
5 43 (9.37%) Tableau
6 42 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (7.19%) BigQuery
8 30 (6.54%) Metadata
9 27 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 26 (5.66%) Big Data
11 25 (5.45%) Data Vault
12 24 (5.23%) Relational Database
13 23 (5.01%) NoSQL
14 22 (4.79%) SQL Server
15 16 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
15 16 (3.49%) RDBMS
16 14 (3.05%) Star Schema
17 12 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
18 11 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
18 11 (2.40%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 47 (10.24%) Git
2 22 (4.79%) GitLab
3 18 (3.92%) JIRA
4 17 (3.70%) ERwin
5 15 (3.27%) ER Studio
6 13 (2.83%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.96%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (1.74%) DBeaver
9 6 (1.31%) Jenkins
10 5 (1.09%) MLflow
11 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.65%) Selenium
11 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.44%) TestRail
12 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.22%) Deequ
13 1 (0.22%) Toad
General
1 132 (28.76%) Finance
2 118 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.06%) Banking
5 21 (4.58%) Investment Banking
6 20 (4.36%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.92%) Front Office
7 18 (3.92%) Retail
8 14 (3.05%) Marketing
8 14 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 13 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.09%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.65%) Law
15 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (32.24%) Data Engineer
2 74 (16.12%) Snowflake Engineer
3 62 (13.51%) Analyst
4 58 (12.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 55 (11.98%) Architect
6 50 (10.89%) Data Analyst
7 47 (10.24%) Senior
8 35 (7.63%) Developer
9 34 (7.41%) Lead
10 30 (6.54%) Data Architect
11 28 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (6.10%) Python Engineer
12 24 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (5.01%) Data Modeller
14 20 (4.36%) Snowflake Architect
15 18 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
16 17 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 17 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.49%) Business Analyst
18 15 (3.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.66%) Pandas
2 24 (5.23%) Kafka
3 21 (4.58%) PySpark
4 20 (4.36%) NumPy
5 18 (3.92%) PyTorch
6 16 (3.49%) Playwright
7 14 (3.05%) TensorFlow
8 11 (2.40%) gRPC
8 11 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
8 11 (2.40%) React
8 11 (2.40%) REST
8 11 (2.40%) SciPy
9 10 (2.18%) JSON
10 8 (1.74%) Node.js
11 7 (1.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 7 (1.53%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.31%) .NET
12 6 (1.31%) Spring
13 5 (1.09%) LangChain
13 5 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.10%) Data Structures
3 24 (5.23%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (3.92%) Equities
4 18 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 15 (3.27%) Replication
6 14 (3.05%) Derivative
7 13 (2.83%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.61%) Clustering
8 12 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (2.40%) Pricing Data
10 10 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.53%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.31%) Reinsurance
14 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.74%) Unix
2 7 (1.53%) Linux
3 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (40.52%) Analytics
2 175 (38.13%) Data Modelling
3 159 (34.64%) ETL
4 129 (28.10%) Data Engineering
5 119 (25.93%) CI/CD
6 118 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
7 116 (25.27%) Agile
8 107 (23.31%) Data Pipeline
9 102 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 94 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (18.74%) AI
12 71 (15.47%) Migration
13 68 (14.81%) DevOps
13 68 (14.81%) Machine Learning
14 61 (13.29%) Data Transformation
15 59 (12.85%) Data Architecture
16 56 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
17 52 (11.33%) Asset Management
18 48 (10.46%) Data Integration
18 48 (10.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 274 (59.69%) SQL
2 240 (52.29%) Python
3 47 (10.24%) Java
4 35 (7.63%) TypeScript
5 33 (7.19%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.70%) C#
7 13 (2.83%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.96%) Bash
9 8 (1.74%) R
9 8 (1.74%) Scala
10 7 (1.53%) Korn
11 6 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.87%) Bicep
12 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (7.41%) Degree
2 24 (5.23%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.27%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.05%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.53%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.65%) ACCA
9 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.65%) CIMA
9 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.65%) PhD
9 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (23.31%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.14%) QA
3 14 (3.05%) GDPR
4 7 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) FATCA
6 1 (0.22%) GAAP
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (8.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (12.20%) Terraform
2 30 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.70%) Ansible
4 5 (1.09%) Grafana
4 5 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 117 (25.49%) Databricks
2 45 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.75%) Oracle
4 21 (4.58%) SAP
5 19 (4.14%) Talend
6 15 (3.27%) Greenplum
6 15 (3.27%) Informatica
7 11 (2.40%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.96%) Google
9 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.74%) Teradata
10 6 (1.31%) Charles River
10 6 (1.31%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.31%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.31%) Sparx
11 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.87%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.87%) Murex
13 3 (0.65%) Ab Initio