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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 240 209
Rank change year-on-year +20 -31 +158
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 647 375 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.15% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.45% 3.08% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 285 408
10th Percentile £400 £408 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -31.25% +34.68%
75th Percentile £656 £738 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -26.53%
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 £71.13 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £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 18,735 12,164 13,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.18% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,407 8,112 9,037
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 320 227
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.13 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%
75th Percentile £69.25 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.23% -14.23% -18.52%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +4 560 £575 +4.55% 217
London +9 409 £575 -6.12% 159
Work from Home -28 207 £600 -3.03% 132
UK excluding London -25 184 £525 +10.53% 130
Scotland +5 46 £428 -6.30% 14
North of England -52 42 £525 +10.53% 18
Midlands -38 35 £525 +25.00% 11
West Midlands -42 31 £575 +24.32% 6
North West -32 29 £525 +7.69% 9
South East -56 29 £616 +17.33% 18
South West -52 16 £575 +21.05% 50
East of England -31 10 £380 -34.48% 7
Yorkshire -35 10 £525 +10.53% 7
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 14
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +10.83% 5
North East -41 3 - - 2

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
1 136 (21.02%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (7.11%) Apache Spark
3 34 (5.26%) Apache
4 15 (2.32%) SharePoint
5 14 (2.16%) Confluence
6 5 (0.77%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.78%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.77%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.77%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 332 (51.31%) AWS
2 261 (40.34%) Azure
3 180 (27.82%) Power Platform
4 166 (25.66%) dbt
5 147 (22.72%) GCP
6 80 (12.36%) Amazon S3
7 70 (10.82%) GitHub
8 56 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
9 55 (8.50%) Serverless
10 51 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 42 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (4.17%) Fivetran
14 24 (3.71%) Dagster
14 24 (3.71%) Matillion
14 24 (3.71%) SaaS
15 23 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 19 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.94%) Prefect
17 18 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) Broadband
1 3 (0.46%) Internet
2 2 (0.31%) DSL
2 2 (0.31%) Firewall
2 2 (0.31%) 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
1 204 (31.53%) Data Warehouse
2 178 (27.51%) Power BI
3 86 (13.29%) Tableau
4 82 (12.67%) BigQuery
5 81 (12.52%) Data Lake
6 68 (10.51%) Snowflake Schema
7 67 (10.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 43 (6.65%) SQL Server
9 41 (6.34%) Big Data
10 38 (5.87%) Metadata
11 35 (5.41%) Relational Database
12 33 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (4.48%) NoSQL
14 26 (4.02%) Data Vault
15 23 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 22 (3.40%) Looker
17 20 (3.09%) Semantic Layer
18 14 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (2.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 13 (2.01%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (11.44%) Git
2 31 (4.79%) JIRA
3 30 (4.64%) GitLab
4 27 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.93%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.62%) MLflow
7 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.46%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.46%) Snyk
8 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.31%) Selenium
9 2 (0.31%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) ERwin
10 1 (0.15%) LSMW
10 1 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 221 (34.16%) Finance
2 192 (29.68%) Social Skills
3 100 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (13.76%) Banking
5 54 (8.35%) Retail
6 30 (4.64%) Marketing
7 22 (3.40%) Financial Institution
7 22 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.09%) Front Office
8 20 (3.09%) Investment Banking
9 16 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.32%) Legal
11 10 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.08%) Billing
13 7 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (34.16%) Data Engineer
2 116 (17.93%) Senior
3 114 (17.62%) Architect
4 104 (16.07%) Snowflake Engineer
5 78 (12.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 70 (10.82%) Analyst
7 65 (10.05%) Senior Data Engineer
8 64 (9.89%) Data Architect
9 52 (8.04%) Lead
10 42 (6.49%) Data Analyst
11 33 (5.10%) Developer
12 32 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (3.71%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.71%) Python Engineer
13 24 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (3.55%) AWS Data Engineer
15 21 (3.25%) Snowflake Architect
16 17 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 16 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (2.47%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (13.60%) Terraform
2 70 (10.82%) Kafka
3 35 (5.41%) REST
4 27 (4.17%) PySpark
5 15 (2.32%) .NET
6 11 (1.70%) React
7 9 (1.39%) Spring
7 9 (1.39%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.24%) OAuth
8 8 (1.24%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.24%) TensorFlow
8 8 (1.24%) YAML
9 7 (1.08%) JSON
9 7 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.93%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.93%) LangGraph
10 6 (0.93%) Vue
10 6 (0.93%) XML
11 5 (0.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 87 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 35 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.09%) AI Agents
5 19 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.01%) Fixed Income
9 13 (2.01%) Life Science
10 12 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
10 12 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.70%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.55%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.24%) Clustering
13 8 (1.24%) Equities
13 8 (1.24%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.24%) Replication
14 7 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.01%) Linux
2 12 (1.85%) Unix
3 3 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (42.66%) Analytics
2 253 (39.10%) Data Engineering
3 237 (36.63%) CI/CD
4 229 (35.39%) Data Pipeline
5 227 (35.09%) Data Modelling
6 226 (34.93%) ETL
7 202 (31.22%) Business Intelligence
8 186 (28.75%) AI
9 161 (24.88%) Agile
10 150 (23.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 131 (20.25%) DevOps
12 127 (19.63%) Data Governance
13 115 (17.77%) Migration
14 113 (17.47%) Data Architecture
15 101 (15.61%) Validation
16 93 (14.37%) Data Transformation
17 83 (12.83%) Decision-Making
17 83 (12.83%) Machine Learning
18 79 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
19 76 (11.75%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 360 (55.64%) SQL
2 323 (49.92%) Python
3 55 (8.50%) Java
4 13 (2.01%) PowerShell
5 12 (1.85%) R
6 11 (1.70%) Bash
7 7 (1.08%) C#
7 7 (1.08%) Scala
8 6 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.77%) Bicep
10 4 (0.62%) C++
10 4 (0.62%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.46%) Cypher
11 3 (0.46%) Delphi
11 3 (0.46%) SHACL
11 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (8.04%) Security Cleared
2 44 (6.80%) Degree
3 31 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.16%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.62%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.46%) CSPO
12 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.15%) CISSP
14 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (26.28%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.18%) GDPR
3 36 (5.56%) QA
4 9 (1.39%) SLA
5 6 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.62%) MiFID
7 4 (0.62%) PMO
7 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.46%) EMIR
8 3 (0.46%) GRC
8 3 (0.46%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.15%) CDISC
10 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (8.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.86%) Grafana
3 9 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.93%) Ansible
5 4 (0.62%) Control-M
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (30.14%) Databricks
2 77 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.03%) Google
3 39 (6.03%) Informatica
4 34 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.33%) Oracle
6 25 (3.86%) SAP
7 13 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.85%) Teradata
9 11 (1.70%) Foundry
9 11 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.70%) Talend
9 11 (1.70%) Workday
10 9 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
11 8 (1.24%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.24%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.08%) Denodo
12 7 (1.08%) Splunk
13 6 (0.93%) Charles River
14 5 (0.77%) Sage