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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 218 207
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +199
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 587 387 493
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 1.19% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 3.18% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 297 409
10th Percentile £400 £407 £424
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £656 £750 £863
90th Percentile £750 £860 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £47.25 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.13 - £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 18,606 12,157 14,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.38% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,329 8,147 9,841
10th Percentile £329 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
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 611 312 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.41 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.23%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -24 509 £560 +0.45% 187
London +6 367 £575 -8.00% 97
UK excluding London -50 181 £525 +10.53% 130
Work from Home -40 180 £575 -8.00% 123
Scotland +16 48 £430 -7.03% 10
North of England -56 41 £538 +7.50% 32
Midlands -46 35 £525 +7.69% 8
West Midlands -44 33 £550 +10.00% 6
North West -33 27 £525 -5.41% 21
South East -58 25 £550 +15.79% 48
South West -55 16 £574 +11.95% 14
Yorkshire -41 10 £550 +15.79% 11
East of England -29 9 £390 -32.76% 11
Northern Ireland - 7 £334 - 5
North East -36 4 £575 +35.29%
East Midlands -17 2 £423 +0.60% 2
Wales -12 1 £250 -61.54% 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
1 104 (17.72%) Apache Airflow
2 44 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.94%) Apache
4 16 (2.73%) Confluence
5 10 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.02%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (3.75%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.85%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.85%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.51%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 288 (49.06%) AWS
2 214 (36.46%) Azure
3 171 (29.13%) Power Platform
4 142 (24.19%) dbt
5 127 (21.64%) GCP
6 85 (14.48%) Amazon S3
7 53 (9.03%) GitHub
8 49 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (8.18%) Serverless
10 46 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 45 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (5.45%) Matillion
14 26 (4.43%) Fivetran
15 23 (3.92%) Dagster
16 19 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (3.07%) SaaS
18 17 (2.90%) Collibra
19 16 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Broadband
1 3 (0.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (28.62%) Data Warehouse
2 166 (28.28%) Power BI
3 82 (13.97%) Tableau
4 73 (12.44%) BigQuery
5 72 (12.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 67 (11.41%) Data Lake
7 49 (8.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (7.67%) Big Data
9 44 (7.50%) SQL Server
10 35 (5.96%) Relational Database
11 34 (5.79%) Metadata
12 31 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.09%) Data Vault
13 24 (4.09%) NoSQL
14 21 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (3.41%) Looker
16 13 (2.21%) MySQL
16 13 (2.21%) Semantic Layer
17 12 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 59 (10.05%) Git
2 31 (5.28%) JIRA
3 27 (4.60%) GitLab
4 18 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.02%) MLflow
6 5 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.51%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.51%) Snyk
9 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 2 (0.34%) Toad
10 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.17%) ERwin
10 1 (0.17%) GCC
10 1 (0.17%) LSMW
10 1 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 202 (34.41%) Finance
2 159 (27.09%) Social Skills
3 82 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (13.29%) Banking
5 51 (8.69%) Retail
6 27 (4.60%) Marketing
7 23 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.75%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.41%) Financial Institution
9 20 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.73%) Front Office
11 12 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.87%) Legal
13 10 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.70%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.53%) Retail Banking
15 8 (1.36%) Back Office
16 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 206 (35.09%) Data Engineer
2 107 (18.23%) Snowflake Engineer
3 103 (17.55%) Architect
4 94 (16.01%) Senior
5 80 (13.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 66 (11.24%) Analyst
7 57 (9.71%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.18%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (6.98%) Lead
10 39 (6.64%) Data Analyst
11 37 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.94%) Developer
13 28 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (4.09%) AWS Data Engineer
15 23 (3.92%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.24%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 17 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
17 17 (2.90%) Python Engineer
17 17 (2.90%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.22%) Kafka
2 24 (4.09%) REST
3 18 (3.07%) PySpark
4 11 (1.87%) Spring
4 11 (1.87%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.70%) .NET
5 10 (1.70%) React
6 9 (1.53%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.19%) OAuth
7 7 (1.19%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.19%) Vue
8 6 (1.02%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.02%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.02%) JSON
8 6 (1.02%) XML
8 6 (1.02%) YAML
9 5 (0.85%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.85%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.85%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.28%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.39%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.87%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.70%) Equities
11 9 (1.53%) Clustering
11 9 (1.53%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.19%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.19%) Replication
13 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.53%) Unix
2 7 (1.19%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (45.83%) Analytics
2 231 (39.35%) Data Engineering
3 211 (35.95%) Data Pipeline
4 209 (35.60%) Data Modelling
5 197 (33.56%) Business Intelligence
5 197 (33.56%) ETL
6 190 (32.37%) CI/CD
7 164 (27.94%) AI
8 134 (22.83%) Agile
9 111 (18.91%) Data Governance
10 108 (18.40%) Migration
11 102 (17.38%) DevOps
12 100 (17.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 95 (16.18%) Validation
14 94 (16.01%) Data Architecture
15 81 (13.80%) Machine Learning
16 73 (12.44%) Data Transformation
17 69 (11.75%) Decision-Making
18 67 (11.41%) Data Integration
18 67 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 326 (55.54%) SQL
2 293 (49.91%) Python
3 56 (9.54%) Java
4 15 (2.56%) R
5 13 (2.21%) Bash
6 10 (1.70%) C#
6 10 (1.70%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.36%) Scala
8 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.19%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.68%) Bicep
11 3 (0.51%) Cypher
11 3 (0.51%) SHACL
12 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.34%) SOQL
12 2 (0.34%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.34%) VBScript
13 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (8.35%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.98%) Degree
3 29 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.39%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.36%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.51%) CSPO
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.17%) ACCA
13 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (25.04%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.81%) GDPR
3 28 (4.77%) QA
4 12 (2.04%) SLA
5 7 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.68%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) EMIR
7 3 (0.51%) MiFID
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) PMO
8 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) CDISC
9 1 (0.17%) FATCA
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 38 (6.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (13.12%) Terraform
2 38 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.92%) Grafana
4 10 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 168 (28.62%) Databricks
2 66 (11.24%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.62%) Informatica
4 31 (5.28%) Google
5 29 (4.94%) Oracle
6 27 (4.60%) Salesforce
7 21 (3.58%) SAP
8 11 (1.87%) Talend
9 9 (1.53%) Charles River
9 9 (1.53%) Denodo
9 9 (1.53%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.53%) Teradata
10 7 (1.19%) FactSet
10 7 (1.19%) Splunk
10 7 (1.19%) Workday
11 6 (1.02%) Murex
11 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.02%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.85%) MicroStrategy