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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 204 350
Rank change year-on-year -14 +146 +131
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 428 453 299
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.22% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 3.48% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 343 238
10th Percentile £378 £401 £416
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £700 £579
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% +20.99% +0.62%
75th Percentile £675 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +1.39% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.85 - -
25th Percentile £33.38 - -
Median hourly rate £35.50 - -
75th Percentile £37.13 - -
90th Percentile £37.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Cloud 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 12,866 13,000 16,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.41% 34.88% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,605 8,589 12,110
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 175 323
10th Percentile £15.17 £17.44 £14.68
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.19%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £34.47 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.97% +53.18% +16.88%

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 22 October 2025.

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
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 22 October 2025. 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 -24 366 £550 -26.67% 349
London -17 268 £600 -25.00% 227
Work from Home -48 159 £600 -25.00% 194
UK excluding London +27 122 £456 +1.39% 236
Scotland +23 31 £450 - 17
South West +26 21 £475 -17.39% 11
South East +26 19 £506 +26.56% 159
East of England +7 19 £500 -4.76% 6
North of England -31 19 £400 -10.11% 31
Midlands -41 14 £463 -6.33% 10
North West -16 12 £388 -12.92% 19
West Midlands -25 11 £500 +2.56% 8
Yorkshire -21 5 £450 +1.41% 10
East Midlands -23 2 £413 -33.95% 2
North East - 2 £413 - 2
Wales - 2 £613 - 2

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
1 114 (26.64%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (14.49%) Apache
3 32 (7.48%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.87%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Maple
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.34%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.47%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.47%) Endur
4 2 (0.47%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.47%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 250 (58.41%) AWS
2 166 (38.79%) Azure
3 131 (30.61%) dbt
4 104 (24.30%) Power Platform
5 84 (19.63%) GCP
6 51 (11.92%) Serverless
7 44 (10.28%) Amazon S3
8 33 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (4.67%) Matillion
11 17 (3.97%) Fivetran
12 16 (3.74%) Amazon EMR
12 16 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (3.50%) GitHub
14 14 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (2.34%) SaaS
16 9 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
19 6 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) SMS
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (33.88%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (24.07%) Power BI
3 83 (19.39%) Data Lake
4 51 (11.92%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (9.81%) Apache Iceberg
6 40 (9.35%) Apache Arrow
6 40 (9.35%) Apache Ignite
6 40 (9.35%) Dremio
7 38 (8.88%) BigQuery
8 37 (8.64%) Tableau
9 36 (8.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 34 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (7.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (6.07%) Metadata
12 26 (6.07%) Relational Database
12 26 (6.07%) SQL Server
13 25 (5.84%) NoSQL
14 24 (5.61%) Big Data
15 22 (5.14%) Data Vault
16 19 (4.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (9.58%) Git
2 19 (4.44%) JIRA
3 16 (3.74%) ERwin
4 13 (3.04%) ER Studio
5 12 (2.80%) GitLab
6 11 (2.57%) PowerDesigner
7 10 (2.34%) DBeaver
8 8 (1.87%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.17%) MLflow
10 4 (0.93%) Selenium
11 3 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.70%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.47%) Postman
12 2 (0.47%) TestRail
12 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.23%) Deequ
13 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 138 (32.24%) Finance
2 110 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 60 (14.02%) Banking
4 53 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (10.98%) Front Office
6 46 (10.75%) Investment Banking
7 20 (4.67%) Marketing
8 16 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.10%) Retail
11 8 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.70%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.47%) Digital Health
16 2 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (25.70%) Data Engineer
2 78 (18.22%) Senior
3 66 (15.42%) Architect
4 56 (13.08%) Python Engineer
5 53 (12.38%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (11.92%) Analyst
7 44 (10.28%) Snowflake Engineer
8 42 (9.81%) Software Engineer
9 41 (9.58%) Java Engineer
10 40 (9.35%) AWS Software Engineer
10 40 (9.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 40 (9.35%) Python Software Engineer
11 39 (9.11%) Senior Java Engineer
11 39 (9.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 39 (9.11%) Senior Software Engineer
12 38 (8.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 37 (8.64%) Data Analyst
14 35 (8.18%) Lead
15 32 (7.48%) Data Architect
16 27 (6.31%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (12.62%) Pandas
2 45 (10.51%) NumPy
3 40 (9.35%) gRPC
3 40 (9.35%) Protocol Buffers
3 40 (9.35%) SciPy
4 28 (6.54%) Kafka
5 10 (2.34%) PySpark
5 10 (2.34%) PyTorch
5 10 (2.34%) React
6 9 (2.10%) REST
7 8 (1.87%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 7 (1.64%) .NET
8 7 (1.64%) JSON
8 7 (1.64%) Node.js
9 6 (1.40%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.40%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.17%) LangChain
10 5 (1.17%) Streamlit
11 4 (0.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.28%) Equities
1 44 (10.28%) Fixed Income
2 43 (10.05%) Derivative
3 42 (9.81%) Hedge funds
4 40 (9.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 40 (9.35%) Pricing Data
5 33 (7.71%) Cloud Native
6 23 (5.37%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.57%) Replication
11 8 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.87%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.40%) Clustering
12 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.40%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.40%) Unix
2 4 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (35.51%) Data Modelling
2 149 (34.81%) Analytics
3 143 (33.41%) ETL
4 132 (30.84%) Agile
5 112 (26.17%) Business Intelligence
6 99 (23.13%) Data Engineering
7 93 (21.73%) Data Governance
8 87 (20.33%) Data Pipeline
9 84 (19.63%) CI/CD
10 79 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (18.22%) Migration
12 67 (15.65%) Asset Management
13 64 (14.95%) AI
14 63 (14.72%) Software Engineering
15 62 (14.49%) Data Transformation
16 56 (13.08%) Data Integration
17 54 (12.62%) Machine Learning
18 51 (11.92%) Visualisation
19 49 (11.45%) Data Architecture
19 49 (11.45%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 231 (53.97%) Python
2 230 (53.74%) SQL
3 67 (15.65%) Java
4 53 (12.38%) JavaScript
4 53 (12.38%) TypeScript
5 8 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (1.87%) Scala
6 7 (1.64%) Bash
6 7 (1.64%) C#
6 7 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 7 (1.64%) R
7 4 (0.93%) Korn
8 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.23%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.23%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (4.91%) Degree
2 13 (3.04%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.57%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.64%) SnowPro
6 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.40%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.47%) ACCA
9 2 (0.47%) CIMA
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.47%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) CBAP
10 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (22.43%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.74%) GDPR
3 13 (3.04%) QA
4 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.47%) DICOM
5 2 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.23%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.23%) LOINC
6 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (6.54%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (8.64%) Terraform
2 22 (5.14%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.10%) Ansible
4 4 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (17.76%) Databricks
2 35 (8.18%) Oracle
3 31 (7.24%) Microsoft
4 22 (5.14%) SAP
5 14 (3.27%) Teradata
6 12 (2.80%) Talend
7 11 (2.57%) Informatica
8 9 (2.10%) Cloudera
8 9 (2.10%) StreamSets
9 8 (1.87%) Google
9 8 (1.87%) Greenplum
10 7 (1.64%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.64%) Sparx
11 6 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.17%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.17%) Charles River
13 4 (0.93%) Foundry
13 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.70%) Palantir