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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 221 290
Rank change year-on-year -29 +69 +155
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 464 350 339
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.19% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.76% 3.13% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 256 263
10th Percentile £363 £404 £425
25th Percentile £439 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £756 £788
90th Percentile £750 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £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 16,796 11,169 14,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 37.93% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,432 7,781 9,965
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.84% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 248 344
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.78 £27.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% +31.57% -37.31%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £61.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -26.25%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -46 390 £525 -12.50% 195
London -5 286 £525 -19.23% 105
Work from Home -40 138 £525 -19.23% 116
UK excluding London -70 134 £505 +6.32% 136
Scotland +23 44 £450 - 12
North of England -59 25 £525 +10.53% 28
Midlands -59 24 £550 +15.79% 20
West Midlands -54 21 £510 -7.27% 15
North West -46 17 £525 +1.94% 21
South East -58 17 £575 +49.84% 38
South West -33 16 £488 -7.14% 11
East of England -33 7 £400 -31.03% 15
Yorkshire -60 7 £525 +10.53% 4
East Midlands -34 3 £575 +36.90% 5
North East -16 1 £575 +6.98% 3
Wales - 1 £250 - 5

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 90 (19.40%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.09%) Apache
4 7 (1.51%) Confluence
5 4 (0.86%) SAS
6 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (5.39%) Aladdin
2 9 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.08%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.65%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 233 (50.22%) AWS
2 197 (42.46%) Azure
3 120 (25.86%) Power Platform
4 105 (22.63%) dbt
5 87 (18.75%) GCP
6 70 (15.09%) Amazon S3
7 49 (10.56%) Serverless
8 43 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (7.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (6.68%) Matillion
12 26 (5.60%) GitHub
13 24 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (4.96%) Dagster
15 20 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (4.09%) Prefect
17 14 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
18 13 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 12 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) Firewall
1 1 (0.22%) Internet
1 1 (0.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (28.23%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (24.35%) Power BI
3 59 (12.72%) Snowflake Schema
4 58 (12.50%) Tableau
5 38 (8.19%) BigQuery
5 38 (8.19%) Data Lake
6 35 (7.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (6.47%) SQL Server
8 29 (6.25%) Metadata
9 25 (5.39%) Big Data
9 25 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (4.74%) Data Vault
11 20 (4.31%) NoSQL
12 19 (4.09%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (2.80%) Looker
15 8 (1.72%) DynamoDB
15 8 (1.72%) MySQL
15 8 (1.72%) Star Schema
16 7 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 41 (8.84%) Git
2 19 (4.09%) GitLab
2 19 (4.09%) JIRA
3 16 (3.45%) SpecFlow
4 7 (1.51%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.51%) ERwin
4 7 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.29%) MLflow
6 3 (0.65%) Selenium
6 3 (0.65%) Snyk
6 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.65%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.65%) Toad
7 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.22%) GCC
8 1 (0.22%) LSMW
8 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 142 (30.60%) Finance
2 123 (26.51%) Social Skills
3 64 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.33%) Banking
5 26 (5.60%) Retail
6 25 (5.39%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.80%) Marketing
8 11 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.51%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Front Office
13 5 (1.08%) Legal
14 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (36.42%) Data Engineer
2 86 (18.53%) Snowflake Engineer
3 74 (15.95%) Architect
4 71 (15.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 62 (13.36%) Senior
6 54 (11.64%) Analyst
7 42 (9.05%) Lead
8 41 (8.84%) Data Architect
9 38 (8.19%) Data Analyst
10 34 (7.33%) Senior Data Engineer
11 32 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (5.17%) Developer
13 22 (4.74%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (4.09%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (4.09%) Lead Data Engineer
15 17 (3.66%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.66%) Snowflake Architect
16 16 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
17 14 (3.02%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.05%) Kafka
2 18 (3.88%) PySpark
3 17 (3.66%) Playwright
4 16 (3.45%) PyTorch
5 14 (3.02%) TensorFlow
6 11 (2.37%) React
7 9 (1.94%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.72%) Spring
9 7 (1.51%) OAuth
9 7 (1.51%) Pandas
9 7 (1.51%) Vue
10 6 (1.29%) .NET
10 6 (1.29%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.29%) REST
11 5 (1.08%) NumPy
11 5 (1.08%) OpenID
11 5 (1.08%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.86%) ARM Templates
12 4 (0.86%) JSON
12 4 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.74%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.37%) Clustering
6 11 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 10 (2.16%) Equities
7 10 (2.16%) Replication
7 10 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.59%) Unix
2 9 (1.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (43.97%) Analytics
2 177 (38.15%) Data Modelling
3 161 (34.70%) Data Engineering
4 155 (33.41%) ETL
5 141 (30.39%) Business Intelligence
6 140 (30.17%) Data Pipeline
7 137 (29.53%) CI/CD
8 106 (22.84%) AI
9 105 (22.63%) Agile
10 97 (20.91%) Data Governance
11 79 (17.03%) DevOps
12 77 (16.59%) Migration
13 74 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (14.87%) Machine Learning
15 65 (14.01%) Data Architecture
16 63 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
17 55 (11.85%) Decision-Making
17 55 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 55 (11.85%) Performance Tuning
18 48 (10.34%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 261 (56.25%) SQL
2 235 (50.65%) Python
3 40 (8.62%) Java
4 20 (4.31%) C#
5 19 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.59%) Bash
8 7 (1.51%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.51%) R
8 7 (1.51%) Scala
9 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.86%) Bicep
10 4 (0.86%) Korn
10 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (8.41%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.19%) Degree
3 22 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.94%) SnowPro
7 5 (1.08%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.65%) PhD
8 3 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.22%) ACCA
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.22%) CFA
10 1 (0.22%) CIMA
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (23.92%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.60%) GDPR
3 19 (4.09%) QA
4 9 (1.94%) SLA
5 4 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) FATCA
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (13.79%) Terraform
2 22 (4.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.16%) Grafana
4 9 (1.94%) Ansible
5 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.86%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 141 (30.39%) Databricks
2 50 (10.78%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.39%) Oracle
4 24 (5.17%) Informatica
5 18 (3.88%) Google
6 16 (3.45%) SAP
7 15 (3.23%) Talend
8 13 (2.80%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.37%) Teradata
10 9 (1.94%) Denodo
10 9 (1.94%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.72%) Charles River
11 8 (1.72%) Greenplum
12 7 (1.51%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.29%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 5 (1.08%) SimCorp
14 5 (1.08%) Splunk
14 5 (1.08%) Workday