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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 231 191
Rank change year-on-year +7 -40 +165
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 665 371 485
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.14% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 3.05% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 281 398
10th Percentile £400 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £530 £800
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% -33.75% +35.71%
75th Percentile £671 £725 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £470 £452
% change year-on-year +14.36% +4.10% -24.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £43.58 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £72.00 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 18,877 12,179 13,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.69% 37.52% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,526 8,111 8,851
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 297 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.65 £52.50 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +2 582 £575 +4.55% 1,160
London +22 433 £575 -6.12% 816
Work from Home -21 206 £600 -2.04% 686
UK excluding London -47 181 £538 +14.36% 587
Scotland +2 42 £425 -8.11% 80
North of England -51 39 £500 +14.29% 167
South East -46 31 £616 +17.33% 87
Midlands -36 27 £513 +21.30% 74
North West -30 25 £513 +25.00% 106
West Midlands -41 23 £588 +17.50% 55
South West -51 19 £625 +31.58% 65
East of England -32 14 £380 -24.00% 24
Yorkshire -28 11 £450 -5.26% 20
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 83
East Midlands -12 4 £466 +10.83% 19
North East -38 3 - - 41
Wales -12 1 £650 - 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
1 142 (21.35%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.02%) Apache
4 15 (2.26%) Confluence
4 15 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.60%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.15%) JBoss
6 1 (0.15%) Luigi
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.26%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.75%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.30%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 342 (51.43%) AWS
2 283 (42.56%) Azure
3 188 (28.27%) dbt
4 182 (27.37%) Power Platform
5 148 (22.26%) GCP
6 84 (12.63%) GitHub
7 76 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 67 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
9 58 (8.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 54 (8.12%) Serverless
11 49 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 27 (4.06%) Fivetran
14 27 (4.06%) SaaS
15 22 (3.31%) Dagster
16 18 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (2.71%) Matillion
17 17 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (2.56%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) Broadband
1 3 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) DSL
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) Intranet
3 1 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (31.73%) Data Warehouse
2 180 (27.07%) Power BI
3 90 (13.53%) Data Lake
4 81 (12.18%) Tableau
5 79 (11.88%) BigQuery
6 75 (11.28%) Snowflake Schema
7 65 (9.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (7.22%) SQL Server
9 45 (6.77%) Big Data
10 43 (6.47%) Metadata
11 40 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
12 38 (5.71%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.36%) NoSQL
14 25 (3.76%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.16%) Looker
15 21 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (2.71%) Delta Lake
16 18 (2.71%) Semantic Layer
17 15 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (2.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 78 (11.73%) Git
2 29 (4.36%) JIRA
3 27 (4.06%) GitLab
4 23 (3.46%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.05%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.75%) MLflow
6 5 (0.75%) Snyk
6 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) LSMW
9 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 219 (32.93%) Finance
2 197 (29.62%) Social Skills
3 109 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.78%) Banking
5 56 (8.42%) Retail
6 31 (4.66%) Marketing
7 26 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.31%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.56%) Front Office
9 17 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 17 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (2.56%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.41%) Investment Banking
11 15 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.11%) Legal
13 10 (1.50%) Billing
13 10 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 235 (35.34%) Data Engineer
2 126 (18.95%) Senior
3 115 (17.29%) Architect
4 108 (16.24%) Snowflake Engineer
5 80 (12.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 73 (10.98%) Senior Data Engineer
7 71 (10.68%) Data Architect
8 70 (10.53%) Analyst
9 50 (7.52%) Lead
10 43 (6.47%) Data Analyst
11 37 (5.56%) Developer
12 33 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (4.06%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (3.61%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.46%) Snowflake Architect
16 22 (3.31%) Business Analyst
17 20 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
18 17 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
18 17 (2.56%) Consultant
19 15 (2.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (14.74%) Terraform
2 74 (11.13%) Kafka
3 38 (5.71%) REST
4 35 (5.26%) PySpark
5 18 (2.71%) .NET
6 11 (1.65%) React
7 9 (1.35%) Spring
7 9 (1.35%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.20%) OAuth
8 8 (1.20%) YAML
9 7 (1.05%) JSON
9 7 (1.05%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.90%) FastAPI
10 6 (0.90%) LangChain
10 6 (0.90%) XML
11 5 (0.75%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.75%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.75%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 89 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 40 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.06%) AI Agents
5 20 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.41%) Life Science
8 14 (2.11%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.50%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.50%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.20%) Replication
13 8 (1.20%) Taxonomies
14 7 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.11%) Linux
2 11 (1.65%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (44.81%) Analytics
2 264 (39.70%) Data Engineering
3 247 (37.14%) Data Modelling
4 239 (35.94%) CI/CD
5 238 (35.79%) Data Pipeline
6 235 (35.34%) ETL
7 217 (32.63%) AI
8 206 (30.98%) Business Intelligence
9 172 (25.86%) Agile
10 154 (23.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 137 (20.60%) DevOps
12 127 (19.10%) Data Governance
13 122 (18.35%) Data Architecture
14 115 (17.29%) Migration
15 109 (16.39%) Validation
16 103 (15.49%) Data Transformation
17 91 (13.68%) Machine Learning
18 89 (13.38%) Decision-Making
19 86 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
20 81 (12.18%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 388 (58.35%) SQL
2 334 (50.23%) Python
3 56 (8.42%) Java
4 19 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 13 (1.95%) Bash
5 13 (1.95%) R
6 11 (1.65%) C#
6 11 (1.65%) Scala
7 10 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.75%) Bicep
10 4 (0.60%) C++
10 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.45%) Cypher
11 3 (0.45%) Delphi
11 3 (0.45%) SHACL
11 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.30%) LookML
12 2 (0.30%) SOQL
12 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 39 (5.86%) Degree
3 27 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.26%) SnowPro
5 11 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.60%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) CSPO
12 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.15%) CISSP
14 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (27.22%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.26%) QA
3 33 (4.96%) GDPR
4 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) GRC
6 4 (0.60%) MiFID
6 4 (0.60%) PMO
7 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.45%) EMIR
7 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.45%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (7.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.31%) Grafana
3 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.90%) Ansible
5 4 (0.60%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 206 (30.98%) Databricks
2 93 (13.98%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.71%) Google
4 37 (5.56%) Informatica
5 36 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 30 (4.51%) Oracle
7 22 (3.31%) SAP
8 14 (2.11%) Talend
9 12 (1.80%) Teradata
10 11 (1.65%) Foundry
11 10 (1.50%) MicroStrategy
11 10 (1.50%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.20%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.20%) PagerDuty
13 8 (1.20%) Workday
14 7 (1.05%) Denodo
15 6 (0.90%) Bloomberg
16 5 (0.75%) Amplitude
16 5 (0.75%) Sage