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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 226 256
Rank change year-on-year -15 +30 +195
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 475 359 374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.22% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 3.25% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 274 300
10th Percentile £381 £411 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -10.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -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 17,040 11,045 13,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.53% 37.58% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,500 7,589 9,860
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £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 515 252 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.43 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +35.35% +28.33% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.63 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +87.00% +20.71% -31.49%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -37 399 £525 -10.64% 174
London -6 293 £525 -19.23% 114
UK excluding London -66 146 £525 +10.53% 91
Work from Home -38 144 £525 -16.00% 78
Scotland +32 54 £449 -2.92% 5
Midlands -53 29 £525 +7.69% 11
West Midlands -44 27 £525 -4.55% 10
North of England -77 22 £563 +18.42% 22
South East -61 19 £575 +33.33% 31
South West -29 15 £475 -9.52% 17
North West -39 15 £563 +9.22% 15
East of England -36 6 £400 -31.03% 5
Yorkshire -57 6 £550 +15.79% 5
East Midlands -29 2 £654 +55.65% 1
Wales -11 1 £250 -61.54% 1
North East -23 1 £575 +35.29% 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 80 (16.84%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.37%) Apache
4 7 (1.47%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.42%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.05%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 242 (50.95%) AWS
2 184 (38.74%) Azure
3 131 (27.58%) Power Platform
4 103 (21.68%) dbt
5 95 (20.00%) GCP
6 67 (14.11%) Amazon S3
7 43 (9.05%) Serverless
8 40 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (7.16%) GitHub
11 31 (6.53%) Matillion
12 21 (4.42%) Dagster
13 19 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (3.37%) Prefect
16 15 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (2.74%) SaaS
18 12 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (25.89%) Power BI
2 118 (24.84%) Data Warehouse
3 65 (13.68%) Tableau
4 61 (12.84%) Snowflake Schema
5 43 (9.05%) BigQuery
6 37 (7.79%) Big Data
7 35 (7.37%) Data Lake
8 34 (7.16%) SQL Server
9 31 (6.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
11 28 (5.89%) Relational Database
12 23 (4.84%) Data Vault
13 21 (4.42%) Metadata
14 16 (3.37%) NoSQL
14 16 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (3.16%) Looker
16 12 (2.53%) MySQL
17 9 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.89%) Star Schema
18 8 (1.68%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (9.89%) Git
2 21 (4.42%) GitLab
2 21 (4.42%) JIRA
3 11 (2.32%) SpecFlow
4 9 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.26%) MLflow
6 5 (1.05%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.05%) ERwin
7 3 (0.63%) Selenium
7 3 (0.63%) Snyk
7 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.63%) Toad
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) GCC
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 152 (32.00%) Finance
2 118 (24.84%) Social Skills
3 58 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.95%) Banking
5 32 (6.74%) Retail
6 24 (5.05%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.37%) Marketing
9 10 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.68%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.26%) Front Office
13 5 (1.05%) Back Office
13 5 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Legal
14 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (35.58%) Data Engineer
2 93 (19.58%) Snowflake Engineer
3 81 (17.05%) Architect
4 73 (15.37%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 72 (15.16%) Senior
6 51 (10.74%) Analyst
7 42 (8.84%) Data Architect
8 40 (8.42%) Lead
8 40 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
9 34 (7.16%) Data Analyst
10 33 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
11 25 (5.26%) Developer
12 24 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (4.42%) AWS Data Engineer
14 18 (3.79%) Site Engineer
14 18 (3.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (3.79%) Snowflake Architect
15 16 (3.37%) Business Analyst
16 15 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.95%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.89%) Kafka
2 16 (3.37%) PySpark
3 12 (2.53%) Playwright
4 11 (2.32%) PyTorch
4 11 (2.32%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.11%) REST
5 10 (2.11%) Spring
6 9 (1.89%) TensorFlow
7 8 (1.68%) React
8 7 (1.47%) .NET
8 7 (1.47%) Vue
9 6 (1.26%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.05%) OAuth
10 5 (1.05%) OpenID
11 4 (0.84%) JSON
11 4 (0.84%) Pandas
11 4 (0.84%) scikit-learn
12 3 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.63%) Middleware
12 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.05%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.32%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.11%) Clustering
7 9 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.89%) Equities
7 9 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (1.68%) Replication
8 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.05%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.11%) Unix
2 8 (1.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (44.21%) Analytics
2 171 (36.00%) Data Engineering
3 169 (35.58%) Data Modelling
4 154 (32.42%) Business Intelligence
5 149 (31.37%) ETL
6 147 (30.95%) Data Pipeline
7 143 (30.11%) CI/CD
8 124 (26.11%) AI
9 103 (21.68%) Agile
10 87 (18.32%) Migration
11 85 (17.89%) Data Governance
12 78 (16.42%) DevOps
13 70 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (14.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 67 (14.11%) Machine Learning
16 66 (13.89%) Validation
17 63 (13.26%) Data Architecture
18 57 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
19 54 (11.37%) Decision-Making
20 52 (10.95%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 256 (53.89%) SQL
2 233 (49.05%) Python
3 45 (9.47%) Java
4 15 (3.16%) C#
5 14 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.32%) Bash
6 11 (2.32%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.11%) R
8 6 (1.26%) Scala
9 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) Bicep
11 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.42%) Korn
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
13 1 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (6.53%) Degree
3 18 (3.79%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.11%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.63%) PhD
9 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) ACCA
11 1 (0.21%) CFA
11 1 (0.21%) CIMA
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (22.32%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.47%) QA
3 25 (5.26%) GDPR
4 9 (1.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) EMIR
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) MiFID
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (12.84%) Terraform
2 24 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.16%) Grafana
4 9 (1.89%) Ansible
5 6 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (29.05%) Databricks
2 49 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.68%) Informatica
3 27 (5.68%) Oracle
4 19 (4.00%) Google
5 14 (2.95%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.95%) SAP
5 14 (2.95%) Talend
6 10 (2.11%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.68%) Greenplum
7 8 (1.68%) Teradata
8 7 (1.47%) Ab Initio
8 7 (1.47%) Denodo
8 7 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.26%) Charles River
10 5 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.05%) SimCorp
10 5 (1.05%) Workday
11 4 (0.84%) Guidewire