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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 225 238
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +185
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 532 351 432
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.20% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 3.15% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 269 348
10th Percentile £367 £410 £414
25th Percentile £450 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -17.86% +21.74%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £850
90th Percentile £741 £845 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £41.73 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 - £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 17,713 11,130 14,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.50% 37.89% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,857 7,532 9,982
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 270 357
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.84 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £19.09
% change year-on-year +95.98% +0.26% -30.60%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -28 458 £550 -5.17% 158
London +1 337 £550 -12.00% 100
Work from Home -42 162 £550 -12.00% 84
UK excluding London -54 161 £525 +10.53% 94
Scotland +12 48 £440 -6.13% 5
Midlands -48 34 £550 +12.82% 13
West Midlands -39 32 £550 - 10
North of England -69 29 £550 +15.79% 26
North West -34 21 £525 -5.41% 19
South East -56 21 £575 +24.32% 37
South West -30 17 £520 -0.95% 5
East of England -30 8 £400 -31.03% 6
Yorkshire -52 6 £550 +18.92% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £334 - 4
East Midlands -29 2 £654 +55.65% 3
North East -29 2 £575 +35.29% 3
Wales -12 1 £250 -61.54%

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 93 (17.48%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (8.27%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.76%) Apache
4 10 (1.88%) Confluence
5 6 (1.13%) SAS
5 6 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.76%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.94%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.56%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.38%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.38%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 273 (51.32%) AWS
2 198 (37.22%) Azure
3 148 (27.82%) Power Platform
4 118 (22.18%) dbt
5 106 (19.92%) GCP
6 80 (15.04%) Amazon S3
7 47 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (8.46%) GitHub
8 45 (8.46%) Serverless
9 43 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (6.58%) Matillion
12 26 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (4.14%) Dagster
14 19 (3.57%) Fivetran
15 18 (3.38%) SaaS
16 17 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (3.01%) Prefect
18 15 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) DNS
2 1 (0.19%) DSL
2 1 (0.19%) Firewall
2 1 (0.19%) Intranet
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (26.32%) Power BI
2 136 (25.56%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (14.10%) Tableau
4 71 (13.35%) Snowflake Schema
5 52 (9.77%) BigQuery
6 48 (9.02%) Data Lake
7 43 (8.08%) Big Data
8 38 (7.14%) SQL Server
9 37 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 33 (6.20%) Relational Database
11 27 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
12 26 (4.89%) Data Vault
13 25 (4.70%) Metadata
14 22 (4.14%) NoSQL
15 17 (3.20%) Looker
16 16 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (2.26%) MySQL
18 10 (1.88%) Star Schema
19 9 (1.69%) Delta Lake
19 9 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 53 (9.96%) Git
2 30 (5.64%) GitLab
3 25 (4.70%) JIRA
4 14 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.50%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.13%) MLflow
7 3 (0.56%) Snyk
7 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.56%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.56%) Toad
8 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.38%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) ERwin
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 179 (33.65%) Finance
2 134 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.47%) Banking
5 41 (7.71%) Retail
6 28 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.32%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.32%) Marketing
8 15 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.69%) Retail Banking
12 8 (1.50%) Back Office
12 8 (1.50%) Front Office
12 8 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.13%) Legal
14 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 187 (35.15%) Data Engineer
2 99 (18.61%) Snowflake Engineer
3 89 (16.73%) Senior
4 88 (16.54%) Architect
5 76 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 60 (11.28%) Analyst
7 48 (9.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 47 (8.83%) Data Architect
9 42 (7.89%) Lead
10 39 (7.33%) AWS Engineer
10 39 (7.33%) Data Analyst
11 29 (5.45%) Developer
12 25 (4.70%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.57%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.57%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 17 (3.20%) Snowflake Architect
16 15 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
17 14 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.59%) Kafka
2 17 (3.20%) REST
3 15 (2.82%) PySpark
4 11 (2.07%) Spring
4 11 (2.07%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.69%) .NET
5 9 (1.69%) React
6 8 (1.50%) Playwright
6 8 (1.50%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.32%) Vue
8 6 (1.13%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.13%) OAuth
8 6 (1.13%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.94%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.94%) OpenID
9 5 (0.94%) YAML
10 4 (0.75%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.75%) JSON
10 4 (0.75%) Snowpark
10 4 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.26%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.88%) Clustering
8 10 (1.88%) Equities
8 10 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.32%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.13%) Replication
11 5 (0.94%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.88%) Unix
2 8 (1.50%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (45.68%) Analytics
2 201 (37.78%) Data Engineering
3 183 (34.40%) Data Modelling
4 180 (33.83%) Data Pipeline
5 174 (32.71%) ETL
6 171 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
7 170 (31.95%) CI/CD
8 145 (27.26%) AI
9 113 (21.24%) Agile
10 101 (18.98%) Migration
11 97 (18.23%) DevOps
12 94 (17.67%) Data Governance
13 83 (15.60%) Validation
14 79 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 76 (14.29%) Data Architecture
16 71 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
17 69 (12.97%) Machine Learning
18 67 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
19 60 (11.28%) Observability
20 58 (10.90%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 287 (53.95%) SQL
2 259 (48.68%) Python
3 57 (10.71%) Java
4 14 (2.63%) R
5 13 (2.44%) Bash
5 13 (2.44%) C#
6 11 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.13%) Scala
10 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.75%) Bicep
11 4 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.38%) Korn
13 2 (0.38%) SOQL
13 2 (0.38%) VBScript
14 1 (0.19%) Cypher
14 1 (0.19%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 46 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 36 (6.77%) Degree
3 25 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.07%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.75%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.56%) CSPO
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) ACCA
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.19%) CFA
12 1 (0.19%) CIMA
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (24.06%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.02%) GDPR
3 29 (5.45%) QA
4 9 (1.69%) SLA
5 5 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.56%) PMO
7 2 (0.38%) EMIR
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.19%) CDISC
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%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (6.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (13.72%) Terraform
2 35 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 20 (3.76%) Grafana
4 8 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.94%) Ansible
6 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 149 (28.01%) Databricks
2 57 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.45%) Oracle
4 27 (5.08%) Informatica
5 23 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.95%) Google
7 17 (3.20%) SAP
8 11 (2.07%) Talend
9 10 (1.88%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.69%) Teradata
11 8 (1.50%) Denodo
11 8 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.32%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.32%) Splunk
13 6 (1.13%) Charles River
13 6 (1.13%) FactSet
13 6 (1.13%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (0.94%) SimCorp
14 5 (0.94%) Workday
15 4 (0.75%) Greenplum