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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 224 247
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 +191
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 491 344 396
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.20% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 3.19% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 264 318
10th Percentile £374 £413 £419
25th Percentile £441 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -10.00% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £728 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 17,224 10,782 13,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.70% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,578 7,386 9,881
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 241 345
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.37 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -40.64%
75th Percentile £66.25 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.08 £72.50 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -39 414 £525 -12.50% 197
London -8 306 £525 -19.23% 137
UK excluding London -75 148 £523 +10.00% 89
Work from Home -44 145 £525 -16.00% 85
Scotland +30 54 £445 -3.89% 7
Midlands -50 31 £550 +12.82% 6
West Midlands -46 29 £550 - 4
North of England -72 23 £575 +15.00% 30
South East -59 19 £575 +43.75% 30
North West -34 16 £588 +5.86% 19
South West -37 15 £475 -9.52% 10
East of England -43 6 £400 -31.03% 5
Yorkshire -54 6 £550 +15.79% 8
East Midlands -31 2 £654 +55.65% 2
Wales -11 1 £250 -61.54%
North East -25 1 £575 +35.29% 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 87 (17.72%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (7.94%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.46%) Apache
4 7 (1.43%) Confluence
5 4 (0.81%) SAS
6 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.28%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.02%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.61%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (51.73%) AWS
2 194 (39.51%) Azure
3 137 (27.90%) Power Platform
4 110 (22.40%) dbt
5 99 (20.16%) GCP
6 71 (14.46%) Amazon S3
7 47 (9.57%) Serverless
8 46 (9.37%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (8.15%) GitHub
11 38 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 30 (6.11%) Matillion
13 22 (4.48%) Dagster
13 22 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (3.46%) Prefect
16 15 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (3.05%) SaaS
17 13 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (26.27%) Power BI
2 123 (25.05%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (14.05%) Snowflake Schema
4 67 (13.65%) Tableau
5 45 (9.16%) BigQuery
6 40 (8.15%) Data Lake
7 38 (7.74%) Big Data
8 37 (7.54%) SQL Server
9 32 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (6.11%) Relational Database
11 29 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (5.09%) Data Vault
13 23 (4.68%) Metadata
14 18 (3.67%) NoSQL
15 17 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (3.05%) Looker
17 12 (2.44%) MySQL
18 9 (1.83%) Delta Lake
18 9 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 9 (1.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (10.18%) Git
2 23 (4.68%) GitLab
3 22 (4.48%) JIRA
4 11 (2.24%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.04%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.22%) MLflow
7 4 (0.81%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.81%) ERwin
8 3 (0.61%) Selenium
8 3 (0.61%) Snyk
8 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.61%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.61%) Toad
9 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.20%) GCC
10 1 (0.20%) LSMW
10 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 162 (32.99%) Finance
2 127 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 64 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.59%) Banking
5 35 (7.13%) Retail
6 26 (5.30%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.89%) Investment Banking
8 17 (3.46%) Marketing
9 12 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.63%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.43%) Front Office
12 7 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.22%) Back Office
13 6 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.22%) Legal
14 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (35.44%) Data Engineer
2 95 (19.35%) Snowflake Engineer
3 82 (16.70%) Architect
4 81 (16.50%) Senior
5 74 (15.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 55 (11.20%) Analyst
7 44 (8.96%) Data Architect
8 42 (8.55%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.74%) Lead
10 36 (7.33%) Data Analyst
11 33 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.50%) Developer
13 24 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (4.48%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (3.87%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.67%) Snowflake Architect
17 17 (3.46%) Business Analyst
18 14 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
19 13 (2.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.98%) Kafka
2 17 (3.46%) PySpark
3 12 (2.44%) REST
4 11 (2.24%) Playwright
4 11 (2.24%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.04%) PyTorch
5 10 (2.04%) Spring
6 9 (1.83%) .NET
7 8 (1.63%) React
7 8 (1.63%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.43%) Vue
9 6 (1.22%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.02%) OAuth
10 5 (1.02%) OpenID
11 4 (0.81%) JSON
11 4 (0.81%) XML
12 3 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.61%) Middleware
12 3 (0.61%) Pandas
12 3 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.04%) Clustering
6 10 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (2.04%) Equities
6 10 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.63%) Replication
8 8 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.02%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.02%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.04%) Unix
2 8 (1.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (45.01%) Analytics
2 182 (37.07%) Data Engineering
3 172 (35.03%) Data Modelling
4 161 (32.79%) Business Intelligence
5 157 (31.98%) ETL
6 156 (31.77%) Data Pipeline
7 155 (31.57%) CI/CD
8 131 (26.68%) AI
9 106 (21.59%) Agile
10 93 (18.94%) Migration
11 91 (18.53%) Data Governance
12 89 (18.13%) DevOps
13 73 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (14.87%) Validation
14 69 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 66 (13.44%) Data Architecture
15 66 (13.44%) Machine Learning
16 60 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 54 (11.00%) Decision-Making
17 54 (11.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 268 (54.58%) SQL
2 245 (49.90%) Python
3 52 (10.59%) Java
4 15 (3.05%) C#
5 13 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.44%) Bash
7 11 (2.24%) R
8 10 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.22%) Scala
10 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.02%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.61%) Bicep
12 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.41%) Korn
14 1 (0.20%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.20%) Ruby
14 1 (0.20%) SOQL
14 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.72%) Degree
3 22 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.04%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.83%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.41%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) SAS Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ACCA
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) CIMA
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (22.81%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.70%) GDPR
2 28 (5.70%) QA
3 9 (1.83%) SLA
4 4 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.41%) EMIR
6 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) MiFID
6 2 (0.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.20%) FATCA
7 1 (0.20%) GAAP
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 33 (6.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (13.44%) Terraform
2 27 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.46%) Grafana
4 9 (1.83%) Ansible
5 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 141 (28.72%) Databricks
2 50 (10.18%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.91%) Oracle
4 27 (5.50%) Informatica
5 19 (3.87%) Google
6 14 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.85%) SAP
6 14 (2.85%) Talend
7 11 (2.24%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.83%) Teradata
9 8 (1.63%) Greenplum
9 8 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.43%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.43%) Denodo
11 6 (1.22%) Charles River
11 6 (1.22%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.22%) Splunk
12 5 (1.02%) FactSet
12 5 (1.02%) SimCorp
12 5 (1.02%) Workday