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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 223 246
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 +172
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 510 343 409
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.19% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.93% 3.15% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 264 330
10th Percentile £384 £411 £415
25th Percentile £449 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £578 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -11.15% +13.04%
75th Percentile £626 £741 £850
90th Percentile £725 £864 £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 17,388 10,875 13,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.60% 37.80% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,663 7,407 9,934
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 £610 £619 £634
90th Percentile £706 £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 557 260 348
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -42.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.22 £41.19
90th Percentile £81.65 £71.38 £69.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £19.97 £17.80
% change year-on-year +85.28% +12.19% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -35 438 £550 -5.98% 253
London +2 322 £538 -17.31% 176
UK excluding London -62 152 £525 +10.53% 118
Work from Home -37 151 £550 -12.00% 130
Scotland +24 49 £445 -5.17% 6
Midlands -39 33 £550 +12.82% 10
West Midlands -38 31 £550 - 8
North of England -70 27 £563 +18.42% 33
North West -27 20 £550 -0.90% 23
South East -59 20 £575 +24.32% 42
South West -35 16 £498 -5.24% 10
East of England -37 7 £544 -6.25% 9
Yorkshire -59 6 £550 +18.92% 6
East Midlands -29 2 £654 +55.65% 2
Wales -12 1 £250 -61.54%
North East -32 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 (17.84%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (8.04%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.73%) Apache
4 7 (1.37%) Confluence
5 5 (0.98%) SAS
6 3 (0.59%) 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 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (4.12%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.98%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.98%) 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 (50.59%) AWS
2 196 (38.43%) Azure
3 142 (27.84%) Power Platform
4 118 (23.14%) dbt
5 102 (20.00%) GCP
6 72 (14.12%) Amazon S3
7 51 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (8.63%) GitHub
9 43 (8.43%) Serverless
10 41 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (6.47%) Matillion
13 25 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (4.31%) Dagster
15 19 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (3.53%) SaaS
17 17 (3.33%) Fivetran
18 16 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (3.14%) Prefect
19 15 (2.94%) 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
1 136 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 134 (26.27%) Power BI
3 73 (14.31%) Snowflake Schema
4 72 (14.12%) Tableau
5 47 (9.22%) BigQuery
6 43 (8.43%) Data Lake
7 40 (7.84%) Big Data
8 39 (7.65%) SQL Server
9 33 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (6.08%) Relational Database
11 25 (4.90%) Data Vault
11 25 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (4.71%) Metadata
13 21 (4.12%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (2.94%) Looker
16 12 (2.35%) MySQL
17 10 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 10 (1.96%) Star Schema
18 9 (1.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (10.59%) Git
2 25 (4.90%) GitLab
3 22 (4.31%) JIRA
4 14 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.76%) 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
1 173 (33.92%) Finance
2 129 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 65 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.78%) Banking
5 39 (7.65%) Retail
6 27 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.31%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.92%) Marketing
9 14 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.57%) Front Office
12 8 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.57%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.37%) Back Office
14 6 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.18%) Legal
14 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 183 (35.88%) Data Engineer
2 99 (19.41%) Snowflake Engineer
3 87 (17.06%) Senior
4 85 (16.67%) Architect
5 77 (15.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 55 (10.78%) Analyst
7 47 (9.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (9.02%) Data Architect
9 40 (7.84%) Lead
10 36 (7.06%) Data Analyst
11 34 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.29%) Developer
13 24 (4.71%) AWS Data Engineer
13 24 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.73%) Site Engineer
14 19 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 18 (3.53%) Snowflake Architect
16 17 (3.33%) Business Analyst
17 14 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
18 13 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.61%) Kafka
2 17 (3.33%) PySpark
3 14 (2.75%) REST
4 10 (1.96%) Playwright
4 10 (1.96%) PyTorch
4 10 (1.96%) Spring
4 10 (1.96%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.76%) .NET
6 8 (1.57%) React
6 8 (1.57%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.37%) Vue
8 6 (1.18%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.98%) OAuth
9 5 (0.98%) OpenID
10 4 (0.78%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.78%) JSON
10 4 (0.78%) XML
10 4 (0.78%) YAML
11 3 (0.59%) ADO
11 3 (0.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.90%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.35%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.96%) Clustering
6 10 (1.96%) Equities
6 10 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.57%) Replication
7 8 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.37%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.98%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.96%) Unix
2 9 (1.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (45.29%) Analytics
2 191 (37.45%) Data Engineering
3 179 (35.10%) Data Modelling
4 172 (33.73%) Data Pipeline
5 166 (32.55%) CI/CD
5 166 (32.55%) ETL
6 165 (32.35%) Business Intelligence
7 136 (26.67%) AI
8 111 (21.76%) Agile
9 98 (19.22%) Migration
10 96 (18.82%) DevOps
11 93 (18.24%) Data Governance
12 79 (15.49%) Validation
13 76 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 72 (14.12%) Data Architecture
15 71 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (13.14%) Machine Learning
17 60 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
18 54 (10.59%) Observability
19 53 (10.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 284 (55.69%) SQL
2 252 (49.41%) Python
3 55 (10.78%) Java
4 14 (2.75%) Bash
4 14 (2.75%) C#
5 12 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.35%) R
6 9 (1.76%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.18%) Scala
8 5 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.78%) Bicep
9 4 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.39%) Korn
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
12 1 (0.20%) SOQL
12 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (8.63%) Security Cleared
2 34 (6.67%) Degree
3 22 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.96%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.96%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.59%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) ACCA
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.20%) CFA
11 1 (0.20%) CIMA
11 1 (0.20%) CSPO
11 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.88%) QA
3 29 (5.69%) GDPR
4 9 (1.76%) SLA
5 4 (0.78%) 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 34 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (12.75%) Terraform
2 29 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.53%) Grafana
4 8 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 146 (28.63%) Databricks
2 51 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.69%) Informatica
4 28 (5.49%) Oracle
5 18 (3.53%) Google
6 16 (3.14%) SAP
7 13 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.35%) Talend
9 10 (1.96%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.76%) Teradata
11 8 (1.57%) Denodo
11 8 (1.57%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.37%) Ab Initio
13 6 (1.18%) Charles River
13 6 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (1.18%) Splunk
14 5 (0.98%) FactSet
14 5 (0.98%) Greenplum
14 5 (0.98%) SimCorp
14 5 (0.98%) Workday