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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 223 217
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +158
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 610 392 460
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 1.19% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% 3.20% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 301 389
10th Percentile £400 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
75th Percentile £650 £800 £875
90th Percentile £750 £850 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -21.74%
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 18,704 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,355 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £621 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.87 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +90.30% -10.14% -20.75%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -11 528 £571 -1.51% 258
London +3 380 £575 -8.00% 180
Work from Home -47 192 £588 -9.62% 129
UK excluding London -35 185 £500 +5.26% 121
Scotland +13 47 £430 -4.44% 7
North of England -49 43 £525 +7.69% 34
Midlands -44 34 £518 +21.76% 15
North West -33 30 £525 -5.41% 18
West Midlands -48 30 £563 +21.62% 11
South East -62 24 £575 +19.48% 42
South West -45 20 £574 +11.95% 16
East of England -24 10 £380 -34.48% 2
Yorkshire -45 10 £550 +15.79% 13
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 2
East Midlands -12 4 £466 +10.83% 4
North East -44 3 - - 3
Wales -15 1 £250 -61.54% 3

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
1 112 (18.36%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (6.89%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.08%) Apache
4 18 (2.95%) Confluence
5 10 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.82%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.61%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.82%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.82%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 306 (50.16%) AWS
2 231 (37.87%) Azure
3 171 (28.03%) Power Platform
4 152 (24.92%) dbt
5 129 (21.15%) GCP
6 84 (13.77%) Amazon S3
7 58 (9.51%) GitHub
8 50 (8.20%) Serverless
9 49 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (7.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 46 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
12 38 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.43%) Fivetran
14 25 (4.10%) Matillion
15 24 (3.93%) Dagster
16 21 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.95%) Prefect
18 17 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 17 (2.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) Broadband
1 3 (0.49%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.16%) DNS
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (29.51%) Data Warehouse
2 168 (27.54%) Power BI
3 84 (13.77%) Tableau
4 76 (12.46%) BigQuery
4 76 (12.46%) Data Lake
5 69 (11.31%) Snowflake Schema
6 54 (8.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 45 (7.38%) SQL Server
8 43 (7.05%) Big Data
9 34 (5.57%) Relational Database
10 32 (5.25%) Metadata
10 32 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (4.43%) NoSQL
12 26 (4.26%) Data Vault
13 23 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (3.61%) Looker
15 18 (2.95%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (2.13%) MySQL
17 12 (1.97%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 65 (10.66%) Git
2 35 (5.74%) JIRA
3 28 (4.59%) GitLab
4 20 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.15%) MLflow
6 4 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.66%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.49%) Snyk
7 3 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.49%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.33%) Selenium
8 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.16%) GCC
9 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.16%) Toad
General
1 213 (34.92%) Finance
2 170 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 91 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (14.10%) Banking
5 51 (8.36%) Retail
6 29 (4.75%) Marketing
7 25 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.44%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.95%) Front Office
11 14 (2.30%) Legal
11 14 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.15%) Back Office
16 7 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (33.93%) Data Engineer
2 106 (17.38%) Architect
3 104 (17.05%) Snowflake Engineer
4 98 (16.07%) Senior
5 78 (12.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 70 (11.48%) Analyst
7 61 (10.00%) Data Architect
8 49 (8.03%) Lead
8 49 (8.03%) Senior Data Engineer
9 42 (6.89%) Data Analyst
10 40 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (4.59%) Developer
12 27 (4.43%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (3.93%) Business Analyst
14 23 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.28%) Python Engineer
16 19 (3.11%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 18 (2.95%) Snowflake Architect
18 16 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.67%) Kafka
2 25 (4.10%) REST
3 19 (3.11%) PySpark
4 10 (1.64%) .NET
4 10 (1.64%) PyTorch
5 9 (1.48%) React
5 9 (1.48%) Spring
5 9 (1.48%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.31%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.15%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.15%) OAuth
8 6 (0.98%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.98%) AWS CDK
8 6 (0.98%) JSON
8 6 (0.98%) Vue
8 6 (0.98%) XML
8 6 (0.98%) YAML
9 5 (0.82%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.82%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.25%) Data Structures
3 26 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.13%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (1.64%) Equities
10 9 (1.48%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.15%) Clustering
11 7 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.98%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.98%) Replication
13 5 (0.82%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.80%) Unix
2 10 (1.64%) Linux
3 2 (0.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (45.57%) Analytics
2 245 (40.16%) Data Engineering
3 217 (35.57%) Data Pipeline
4 216 (35.41%) Data Modelling
5 203 (33.28%) CI/CD
6 202 (33.11%) ETL
7 199 (32.62%) Business Intelligence
8 171 (28.03%) AI
9 141 (23.11%) Agile
10 119 (19.51%) Data Governance
10 119 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 107 (17.54%) DevOps
11 107 (17.54%) Migration
12 103 (16.89%) Data Architecture
13 100 (16.39%) Validation
14 82 (13.44%) Data Transformation
15 81 (13.28%) Machine Learning
16 76 (12.46%) Decision-Making
17 72 (11.80%) Data Science
18 71 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 339 (55.57%) SQL
2 300 (49.18%) Python
3 53 (8.69%) Java
4 14 (2.30%) R
5 13 (2.13%) Bash
6 10 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.48%) C#
8 7 (1.15%) Scala
9 6 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (0.98%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.66%) Bicep
11 3 (0.49%) Cypher
11 3 (0.49%) Delphi
11 3 (0.49%) SHACL
11 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.33%) C++
12 2 (0.33%) Korn
12 2 (0.33%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.54%) Degree
3 30 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.97%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.66%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.49%) CSPO
14 2 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.16%) CISSP
15 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (26.07%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.89%) GDPR
3 31 (5.08%) QA
4 12 (1.97%) SLA
5 6 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.49%) EMIR
8 3 (0.49%) MiFID
8 3 (0.49%) PMO
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.16%) CDISC
10 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 40 (6.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (13.44%) Terraform
2 37 (6.07%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.10%) Grafana
4 9 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 184 (30.16%) Databricks
2 69 (11.31%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.41%) Google
3 33 (5.41%) Informatica
4 31 (5.08%) Oracle
4 31 (5.08%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.77%) SAP
6 11 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.64%) Workday
8 9 (1.48%) Charles River
8 9 (1.48%) Denodo
8 9 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.31%) PagerDuty
9 8 (1.31%) Talend
10 7 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.15%) Splunk
10 7 (1.15%) Teradata
11 6 (0.98%) FactSet
11 6 (0.98%) Foundry
11 6 (0.98%) MicroStrategy