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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 237 198
Rank change year-on-year +14 -39 +150
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 668 379 485
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.15% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 3.06% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 286 398
10th Percentile £400 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £537 £800
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -32.84% +34.57%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £452
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.20% -24.75%
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 £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £72.00 £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 19,002 12,378 13,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.77% 37.58% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,607 8,249 8,849
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 299 198
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.50 £14.52
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £52.50 £62.14
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +62.50% -33.33% +11.11%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -1 585 £575 +4.55% 1,022
London +11 435 £575 -7.07% 707
Work from Home -13 208 £600 -2.04% 594
UK excluding London -46 182 £550 +15.79% 505
Scotland -4 42 £425 -8.11% 64
North of England -60 39 £500 +14.29% 136
South East -53 31 £616 +17.33% 88
Midlands -40 27 £513 +21.30% 60
North West -26 25 £513 +25.00% 90
West Midlands -42 23 £588 +17.50% 44
South West -45 19 £631 +32.89% 64
East of England -31 15 £380 -24.00% 24
Yorkshire -42 11 £450 -5.26% 15
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 65
East Midlands -8 4 £466 +10.83% 16
North East -41 3 - - 31
Wales -13 1 £650 - 7

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
1 141 (21.11%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (8.53%) Apache Spark
3 40 (5.99%) Apache
4 16 (2.40%) Confluence
5 15 (2.25%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.60%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.40%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.75%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.30%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 341 (51.05%) AWS
2 284 (42.51%) Azure
3 190 (28.44%) dbt
4 181 (27.10%) Power Platform
5 146 (21.86%) GCP
6 85 (12.72%) GitHub
7 76 (11.38%) Amazon S3
8 68 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (8.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 54 (8.08%) Serverless
11 50 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (4.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 27 (4.04%) SaaS
15 26 (3.89%) Fivetran
16 23 (3.44%) Dagster
17 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.54%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.54%) Collibra
18 17 (2.54%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) Broadband
1 3 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) DSL
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) 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
1 210 (31.44%) Data Warehouse
2 179 (26.80%) Power BI
3 91 (13.62%) Data Lake
4 80 (11.98%) Tableau
5 79 (11.83%) BigQuery
6 76 (11.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 65 (9.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (7.19%) SQL Server
9 45 (6.74%) Big Data
10 43 (6.44%) Metadata
11 40 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
12 38 (5.69%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.34%) NoSQL
14 27 (4.04%) Data Vault
15 21 (3.14%) Looker
15 21 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (2.84%) Delta Lake
17 18 (2.69%) Semantic Layer
18 16 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
19 15 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 78 (11.68%) Git
2 30 (4.49%) JIRA
3 27 (4.04%) GitLab
4 23 (3.44%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.05%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.75%) MLflow
6 5 (0.75%) Snyk
6 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) LSMW
9 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 223 (33.38%) Finance
2 197 (29.49%) Social Skills
3 109 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (12.72%) Banking
5 56 (8.38%) Retail
6 31 (4.64%) Marketing
7 26 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.29%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.54%) Front Office
9 17 (2.54%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 17 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (2.54%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.10%) Legal
12 10 (1.50%) Billing
12 10 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 235 (35.18%) Data Engineer
2 129 (19.31%) Senior
3 116 (17.37%) Architect
4 107 (16.02%) Snowflake Engineer
5 79 (11.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 75 (11.23%) Senior Data Engineer
7 73 (10.93%) Data Architect
8 70 (10.48%) Analyst
9 50 (7.49%) Lead
10 43 (6.44%) Data Analyst
11 37 (5.54%) Developer
12 32 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (3.89%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (3.59%) Python Engineer
14 24 (3.59%) Snowflake Architect
15 22 (3.29%) Business Analyst
16 19 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
17 18 (2.69%) Consultant
18 17 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
19 15 (2.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (14.97%) Terraform
2 74 (11.08%) Kafka
3 38 (5.69%) REST
4 36 (5.39%) PySpark
5 17 (2.54%) .NET
6 10 (1.50%) React
7 9 (1.35%) OAuth
7 9 (1.35%) Spring
7 9 (1.35%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.20%) YAML
9 7 (1.05%) JSON
10 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.90%) FastAPI
10 6 (0.90%) LangChain
10 6 (0.90%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (0.90%) OpenID
10 6 (0.90%) XML
11 5 (0.75%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.75%) Langfuse
11 5 (0.75%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 88 (13.17%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.14%) Data Structures
3 40 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.40%) Life Science
8 14 (2.10%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 11 (1.65%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.50%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.20%) Reference Data
14 8 (1.20%) Replication
14 8 (1.20%) Taxonomies
15 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.10%) Linux
2 11 (1.65%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (44.46%) Analytics
2 264 (39.52%) Data Engineering
3 250 (37.43%) Data Modelling
4 239 (35.78%) Data Pipeline
5 238 (35.63%) CI/CD
6 236 (35.33%) ETL
7 215 (32.19%) AI
8 204 (30.54%) Business Intelligence
9 172 (25.75%) Agile
10 154 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 137 (20.51%) DevOps
12 128 (19.16%) Data Governance
13 124 (18.56%) Data Architecture
14 117 (17.51%) Migration
15 108 (16.17%) Validation
16 103 (15.42%) Data Transformation
17 91 (13.62%) Decision-Making
17 91 (13.62%) Machine Learning
18 87 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
19 83 (12.43%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 393 (58.83%) SQL
2 335 (50.15%) Python
3 55 (8.23%) Java
4 19 (2.84%) PowerShell
5 13 (1.95%) Bash
5 13 (1.95%) R
6 11 (1.65%) C#
6 11 (1.65%) Scala
7 10 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.90%) Bicep
10 4 (0.60%) C++
10 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.45%) Cypher
11 3 (0.45%) Delphi
11 3 (0.45%) SHACL
11 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.30%) Korn
12 2 (0.30%) LookML
12 2 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 49 (7.34%) Security Cleared
2 39 (5.84%) Degree
3 27 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.04%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.10%) SnowPro
5 11 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.60%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) CSPO
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.15%) CISM
14 1 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (27.10%) Data Quality
2 35 (5.24%) QA
3 34 (5.09%) GDPR
4 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.60%) GRC
6 4 (0.60%) MiFID
6 4 (0.60%) PMO
7 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.45%) EMIR
7 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.45%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (7.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.29%) Grafana
3 7 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.90%) Ansible
5 4 (0.60%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 208 (31.14%) Databricks
2 93 (13.92%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.54%) Google
4 36 (5.39%) Informatica
4 36 (5.39%) Salesforce
5 30 (4.49%) Oracle
6 22 (3.29%) SAP
7 14 (2.10%) Talend
8 12 (1.80%) Teradata
9 11 (1.65%) Foundry
10 10 (1.50%) MicroStrategy
10 10 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.20%) Denodo
12 8 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.20%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.20%) Workday
13 7 (1.05%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.75%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.75%) Sage