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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 231 224
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +195
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 553 356 454
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.19% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.07% 3.15% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 274 366
10th Percentile £389 £409 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £713
Median % change year-on-year - -22.89% +24.04%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £850
90th Percentile £741 £834 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £80.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 - £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 18,016 11,318 14,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.77% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 7,621 9,986
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 281 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -21.62%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -20 478 £550 -4.35% 135
London +7 350 £550 -10.20% 81
Work from Home -25 169 £575 -8.00% 71
UK excluding London -58 166 £525 +10.53% 95
Scotland +11 47 £440 -4.86% 10
Midlands -39 34 £550 +12.82% 12
West Midlands -41 32 £550 +10.00% 6
North of England -62 32 £550 +15.79% 24
North West -29 23 £525 -5.41% 19
South East -59 21 £575 +24.32% 30
South West -41 17 £550 +4.76% 6
East of England -32 9 £390 -32.76% 5
Yorkshire -52 6 £550 +18.92% 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £334 - 10
North East -35 3 £575 +35.29% 2
East Midlands -20 2 £654 +55.65% 6
Wales -14 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 98 (17.72%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (8.14%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.98%) Apache
4 11 (1.99%) Confluence
5 8 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.08%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.80%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.72%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.72%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.54%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 282 (50.99%) AWS
2 212 (38.34%) Azure
3 158 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 127 (22.97%) dbt
5 116 (20.98%) GCP
6 83 (15.01%) Amazon S3
7 49 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (8.86%) GitHub
8 45 (8.14%) Serverless
9 43 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (6.33%) Matillion
12 28 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (3.98%) Dagster
13 22 (3.98%) Fivetran
14 19 (3.44%) SaaS
15 18 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.89%) Prefect
17 15 (2.71%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) DNS
2 1 (0.18%) DSL
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Intranet
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (27.12%) Power BI
2 148 (26.76%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (14.29%) Tableau
4 73 (13.20%) Snowflake Schema
5 59 (10.67%) BigQuery
6 55 (9.95%) Data Lake
7 42 (7.59%) Big Data
8 40 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (6.87%) SQL Server
10 36 (6.51%) Relational Database
11 31 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.88%) Metadata
13 26 (4.70%) Data Vault
14 23 (4.16%) NoSQL
15 19 (3.44%) Looker
16 17 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (2.35%) MySQL
18 11 (1.99%) Semantic Layer
19 10 (1.81%) Delta Lake
19 10 (1.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 54 (9.76%) Git
2 27 (4.88%) GitLab
3 26 (4.70%) JIRA
4 14 (2.53%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.27%) MLflow
5 7 (1.27%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.54%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.54%) Snyk
6 3 (0.54%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.54%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.54%) Toad
7 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.18%) ERwin
8 1 (0.18%) GCC
8 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 187 (33.82%) Finance
2 137 (24.77%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.75%) Banking
5 44 (7.96%) Retail
6 26 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 25 (4.52%) Marketing
8 22 (3.98%) Investment Banking
9 18 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.53%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.81%) Front Office
13 9 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.63%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.45%) Back Office
14 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.27%) Legal
16 6 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 200 (36.17%) Data Engineer
2 106 (19.17%) Snowflake Engineer
3 93 (16.82%) Architect
4 92 (16.64%) Senior
5 81 (14.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 56 (10.13%) Analyst
7 49 (8.86%) Data Architect
7 49 (8.86%) Senior Data Engineer
8 43 (7.78%) Lead
9 38 (6.87%) AWS Engineer
10 35 (6.33%) Data Analyst
11 28 (5.06%) Developer
12 27 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (4.52%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (3.62%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.44%) Site Engineer
15 19 (3.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 18 (3.25%) Snowflake Architect
17 17 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.76%) Kafka
2 18 (3.25%) PySpark
3 17 (3.07%) REST
4 12 (2.17%) Spring
4 12 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.81%) .NET
6 9 (1.63%) React
7 8 (1.45%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.27%) Playwright
8 7 (1.27%) Vue
9 6 (1.08%) AWS CDK
9 6 (1.08%) OAuth
9 6 (1.08%) TensorFlow
10 5 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.90%) JSON
10 5 (0.90%) OpenID
10 5 (0.90%) Snowpark
10 5 (0.90%) XML
10 5 (0.90%) YAML
11 4 (0.72%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.24%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (2.17%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.99%) Clustering
8 10 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.81%) Equities
8 10 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.45%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.45%) Replication
10 6 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.90%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.81%) Unix
2 7 (1.27%) Linux
3 2 (0.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (45.75%) Analytics
2 215 (38.88%) Data Engineering
3 190 (34.36%) Data Modelling
3 190 (34.36%) Data Pipeline
4 181 (32.73%) Business Intelligence
5 178 (32.19%) ETL
6 177 (32.01%) CI/CD
7 159 (28.75%) AI
8 118 (21.34%) Agile
9 105 (18.99%) Migration
10 102 (18.44%) Data Governance
11 101 (18.26%) DevOps
12 88 (15.91%) Validation
13 85 (15.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 79 (14.29%) Data Architecture
15 75 (13.56%) Machine Learning
16 71 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 65 (11.75%) Data Transformation
17 65 (11.75%) Observability
17 65 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 296 (53.53%) SQL
2 272 (49.19%) Python
3 59 (10.67%) Java
4 13 (2.35%) Bash
4 13 (2.35%) R
5 11 (1.99%) C#
6 9 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.08%) Bicep
9 6 (1.08%) Scala
10 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.36%) Cypher
12 2 (0.36%) Korn
12 2 (0.36%) SHACL
12 2 (0.36%) SOQL
12 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (8.50%) Security Cleared
2 39 (7.05%) Degree
3 25 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.53%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.72%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.54%) CSPO
11 1 (0.18%) ACCA
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.18%) CIMA
11 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (24.59%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.51%) GDPR
3 27 (4.88%) QA
4 9 (1.63%) SLA
5 7 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.54%) EMIR
6 3 (0.54%) MiFID
7 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.36%) PMO
7 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.18%) CDISC
8 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.18%) GAAP
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) IFRS
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (7.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (14.10%) Terraform
2 38 (6.87%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.80%) Grafana
4 9 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.08%) Ansible
6 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 152 (27.49%) Databricks
2 63 (11.39%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.24%) Oracle
4 28 (5.06%) Informatica
5 26 (4.70%) Salesforce
6 24 (4.34%) Google
7 19 (3.44%) SAP
8 13 (2.35%) Talend
9 9 (1.63%) Teradata
10 8 (1.45%) Denodo
10 8 (1.45%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.27%) Charles River
11 7 (1.27%) FactSet
11 7 (1.27%) Splunk
12 6 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.08%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.90%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.90%) Greenplum
13 5 (0.90%) Workday