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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 221 244
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 +178
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 507 347 417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.20% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 3.17% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 269 338
10th Percentile £382 £412 £418
25th Percentile £449 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £688
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -16.36% +19.57%
75th Percentile £626 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £845 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £56.60 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 - £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 17,474 10,963 13,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.58% 37.89% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,712 7,435 9,865
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £619 £634
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 262 347
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.40 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.41 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.38 £69.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £20.24 £17.80
% change year-on-year +83.44% +13.68% -35.27%

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 5 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 5 June 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 5 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 -25 440 £550 -5.98% 243
London +5 324 £544 -14.71% 160
Work from Home -37 150 £550 -12.00% 112
UK excluding London -73 149 £525 +10.53% 125
Scotland +17 46 £440 -6.13% 8
Midlands -35 33 £550 +12.82% 10
West Midlands -36 31 £550 - 7
North of England -72 27 £563 +18.42% 38
North West -28 20 £550 -0.90% 27
South East -63 20 £575 +24.32% 42
South West -37 16 £498 -5.24% 9
East of England -35 7 £544 -6.25% 9
Yorkshire -51 6 £550 +18.92% 7
East Midlands -26 2 £654 +55.65% 3
Wales -18 1 £250 -61.54%
North East -30 1 £575 +35.29% 4

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 91 (17.95%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.55%) Apache
4 7 (1.38%) Confluence
5 5 (0.99%) SAS
6 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.39%) 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 14 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.14%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.99%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.39%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 258 (50.89%) AWS
2 191 (37.67%) Azure
3 142 (28.01%) Power Platform
4 118 (23.27%) dbt
5 100 (19.72%) GCP
6 73 (14.40%) Amazon S3
7 49 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (8.48%) GitHub
8 43 (8.48%) Serverless
9 41 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 34 (6.71%) Matillion
12 24 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (4.34%) Dagster
14 18 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (3.55%) SaaS
15 17 (3.35%) Fivetran
16 16 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (3.16%) Prefect
17 15 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) DNS
2 1 (0.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
2 1 (0.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (26.43%) Data Warehouse
1 134 (26.43%) Power BI
2 72 (14.20%) Tableau
3 70 (13.81%) Snowflake Schema
4 47 (9.27%) BigQuery
5 41 (8.09%) Data Lake
6 40 (7.89%) Big Data
7 39 (7.69%) SQL Server
8 33 (6.51%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (6.11%) Relational Database
10 25 (4.93%) Data Vault
11 24 (4.73%) Metadata
11 24 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (4.14%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (2.96%) Looker
15 12 (2.37%) MySQL
16 10 (1.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.97%) Star Schema
17 9 (1.78%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (10.06%) Git
2 26 (5.13%) GitLab
3 22 (4.34%) JIRA
4 14 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.78%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.18%) MLflow
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
7 3 (0.59%) Snyk
7 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.59%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.59%) Toad
8 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.39%) ERwin
9 1 (0.20%) GCC
9 1 (0.20%) LSMW
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 172 (33.93%) Finance
2 127 (25.05%) Social Skills
3 64 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (11.05%) Banking
5 39 (7.69%) Retail
6 26 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.34%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.94%) Marketing
9 13 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.97%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.58%) Front Office
12 8 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.58%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.38%) Back Office
14 6 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.18%) Legal
14 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (35.70%) Data Engineer
2 99 (19.53%) Snowflake Engineer
3 87 (17.16%) Senior
4 85 (16.77%) Architect
5 76 (14.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 55 (10.85%) Analyst
7 47 (9.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (9.07%) Data Architect
9 40 (7.89%) Lead
10 36 (7.10%) Data Analyst
11 35 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.33%) Developer
13 24 (4.73%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.75%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.55%) Snowflake Architect
16 17 (3.35%) Business Analyst
17 14 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.37%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.66%) Kafka
2 17 (3.35%) PySpark
3 14 (2.76%) REST
4 10 (1.97%) Playwright
4 10 (1.97%) Spring
4 10 (1.97%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.78%) .NET
6 8 (1.58%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.58%) React
7 7 (1.38%) Vue
8 6 (1.18%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.18%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.99%) OAuth
9 5 (0.99%) OpenID
10 4 (0.79%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.79%) YAML
11 3 (0.59%) JSON
11 3 (0.59%) Middleware
11 3 (0.59%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.59%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 67 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.73%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.37%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.97%) Clustering
7 10 (1.97%) Equities
7 10 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.38%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.99%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.99%) Replication
13 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.97%) Unix
2 8 (1.58%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (45.76%) Analytics
2 190 (37.48%) Data Engineering
3 177 (34.91%) Data Modelling
4 170 (33.53%) Data Pipeline
5 165 (32.54%) Business Intelligence
6 164 (32.35%) CI/CD
6 164 (32.35%) ETL
7 136 (26.82%) AI
8 109 (21.50%) Agile
9 98 (19.33%) Migration
10 95 (18.74%) DevOps
11 91 (17.95%) Data Governance
12 79 (15.58%) Validation
13 76 (14.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (14.40%) Data Architecture
15 70 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
16 65 (12.82%) Machine Learning
17 61 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
18 55 (10.85%) Observability
19 53 (10.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 281 (55.42%) SQL
2 250 (49.31%) Python
3 55 (10.85%) Java
4 14 (2.76%) C#
5 13 (2.56%) Bash
6 12 (2.37%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.37%) R
7 9 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.18%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.18%) Scala
9 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.79%) Bicep
10 4 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.39%) Korn
13 1 (0.20%) C
13 1 (0.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) SOQL
13 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (8.48%) Security Cleared
2 33 (6.51%) Degree
3 22 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.97%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.78%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.59%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) ACCA
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.20%) CFA
12 1 (0.20%) CIMA
12 1 (0.20%) CSPO
12 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (23.87%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.92%) QA
3 29 (5.72%) GDPR
4 9 (1.78%) SLA
5 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.59%) PMO
7 2 (0.39%) EMIR
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) CDISC
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (6.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (13.02%) Terraform
2 30 (5.92%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.55%) Grafana
4 8 (1.58%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.79%) Ansible
6 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 142 (28.01%) Databricks
2 51 (10.06%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.52%) Oracle
4 27 (5.33%) Informatica
5 17 (3.35%) Google
6 16 (3.16%) SAP
7 14 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.97%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.97%) Talend
9 9 (1.78%) Teradata
10 8 (1.58%) Denodo
11 7 (1.38%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.18%) Charles River
12 6 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.18%) Splunk
13 5 (0.99%) FactSet
13 5 (0.99%) SimCorp
13 5 (0.99%) Workday
14 4 (0.79%) Murex