Snowflake Contracts

Snowflake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Snowflake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Snowflake over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 206 411
Rank change year-on-year -12 +205 +76
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 380 495 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.14% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 3.46% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 404 217
10th Percentile £408 £425 £429
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £738 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +28.26% -
75th Percentile £740 £850 £700
90th Percentile £870 £888 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £575
% change year-on-year - -17.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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 11,999 14,291 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.67% 33.00% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,029 10,038 14,945
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 355 347
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.41 £16.06 £19.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.22 £47.47 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.38 £70.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £27.00
% change year-on-year -10.08% -22.28% +40.30%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Snowflake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Snowflake.

Daily rate trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Snowflake.

Hourly rate trend for Snowflake in the UK

Snowflake
Top 16 Contract 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 6 July 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 -1 347 £558 -30.31% 558
London -12 235 £625 -21.88% 403
Work from Home -40 159 £625 -21.88% 285
UK excluding London +44 127 £475 - 211
South West +64 29 £513 -10.87% 24
Midlands +28 24 £488 +4.56% 22
Scotland +3 22 £463 +2.10% 24
North of England -19 22 £500 +5.26% 55
South East +24 19 £475 +2.70% 62
West Midlands +20 18 £500 +7.24% 12
East of England +37 16 £580 +13.17% 14
North West -17 11 £555 +13.85% 26
Yorkshire +7 8 £475 +7.04% 29
East Midlands +2 5 £420 - 10
North East 0 3 £425 -42.37%
Wales +5 1 £650 +18.18% 2

Snowflake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 110 (28.95%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (17.89%) Apache
3 32 (8.42%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.05%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) Luigi
Applications
1 7 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Maple
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.79%) Endur
3 3 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 238 (62.63%) AWS
2 142 (37.37%) Azure
3 135 (35.53%) dbt
4 92 (24.21%) Power Platform
5 76 (20.00%) GCP
6 29 (7.63%) Amazon S3
7 26 (6.84%) Serverless
8 24 (6.32%) Matillion
9 20 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.21%) GitHub
11 13 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (1.84%) Dagster
16 6 (1.58%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.53%) Network Security
1 2 (0.53%) SMS
2 1 (0.26%) DHCP
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.26%) NAS
2 1 (0.26%) SAN
2 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (33.42%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (23.95%) Power BI
3 71 (18.68%) Data Lake
4 66 (17.37%) Amazon Athena
5 51 (13.42%) Apache Arrow
5 51 (13.42%) Apache Iceberg
5 51 (13.42%) Dremio
6 35 (9.21%) Apache Ignite
6 35 (9.21%) Tableau
7 31 (8.16%) BigQuery
8 30 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (7.37%) Snowflake Schema
10 20 (5.26%) NoSQL
11 18 (4.74%) Big Data
11 18 (4.74%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.42%) Relational Database
13 12 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (2.89%) Data Vault
14 11 (2.89%) MongoDB
15 9 (2.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (3.68%) Git
2 11 (2.89%) ERwin
3 9 (2.37%) GitLab
4 5 (1.32%) JIRA
5 4 (1.05%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.05%) JUnit
5 4 (1.05%) Liquibase
5 4 (1.05%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.53%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.53%) MLflow
7 2 (0.53%) Postman
7 2 (0.53%) Selenium
7 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.26%) Ant
8 1 (0.26%) Gradle
8 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.26%) JMeter
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
General
1 138 (36.32%) Finance
2 85 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 65 (17.11%) Banking
4 57 (15.00%) Investment Banking
5 53 (13.95%) Front Office
6 40 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.74%) Marketing
8 15 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.89%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.37%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.11%) Retail
14 6 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.32%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.79%) Local Government
17 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (30.79%) Data Engineer
2 85 (22.37%) Senior
3 68 (17.89%) Snowflake Engineer
4 67 (17.63%) Architect
5 66 (17.37%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (13.42%) AWS Software Engineer
6 51 (13.42%) Software Engineer
7 48 (12.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 45 (11.84%) Data Architect
9 44 (11.58%) Python Engineer
10 43 (11.32%) Java Engineer
10 43 (11.32%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
12 35 (9.21%) Analyst
13 33 (8.68%) Senior Java Engineer
13 33 (8.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 33 (8.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 31 (8.16%) Developer
14 31 (8.16%) Lead
15 27 (7.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.53%) Pandas
2 35 (9.21%) gRPC
2 35 (9.21%) Kafka
2 35 (9.21%) NumPy
2 35 (9.21%) Protocol Buffers
2 35 (9.21%) SciPy
3 25 (6.58%) PySpark
4 5 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (1.32%) Spring
4 5 (1.32%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.05%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.05%) Great Expectations
5 4 (1.05%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.79%) ADO
6 3 (0.79%) pytest
7 2 (0.53%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.53%) Flask
7 2 (0.53%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 2 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 53 (13.95%) Equities
1 53 (13.95%) Fixed Income
1 53 (13.95%) Hedge funds
2 51 (13.42%) Derivative
2 51 (13.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (7.89%) Pricing Data
4 23 (6.05%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.63%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.11%) Replication
8 7 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.58%) Life Science
9 6 (1.58%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.79%) FMCG
12 3 (0.79%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.32%) Linux
1 5 (1.32%) Unix
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.26%) Solaris
2 1 (0.26%) Windows
2 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (31.32%) ETL
2 110 (28.95%) Analytics
3 108 (28.42%) Data Modelling
4 99 (26.05%) Agile
5 94 (24.74%) Data Pipeline
6 91 (23.95%) Business Intelligence
7 74 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (17.37%) Migration
9 64 (16.84%) Asset Management
10 63 (16.58%) Data Engineering
11 61 (16.05%) Data Governance
12 56 (14.74%) Software Engineering
13 53 (13.95%) CI/CD
14 49 (12.89%) Data Transformation
14 49 (12.89%) Decision-Making
15 48 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence
16 44 (11.58%) Visualisation
17 41 (10.79%) Data Architecture
18 39 (10.26%) Machine Learning
19 38 (10.00%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 200 (52.63%) SQL
2 194 (51.05%) Python
3 69 (18.16%) Java
4 39 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 35 (9.21%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.63%) Scala
7 8 (2.11%) R
7 8 (2.11%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.58%) Bash
9 5 (1.32%) C#
10 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Go
12 1 (0.26%) Korn
12 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (6.58%) Degree
2 14 (3.68%) Security Cleared
3 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.37%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.58%) SnowPro
6 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.79%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.26%) CSPO
9 1 (0.26%) ISEB
9 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) PMP
9 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (15.26%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.26%) GDPR
3 11 (2.89%) QA
4 8 (2.11%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.05%) PMO
7 2 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (4.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (8.42%) Terraform
2 12 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.26%) Netcool
3 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 44 (11.58%) Databricks
2 22 (5.79%) Oracle
3 20 (5.26%) Google
3 20 (5.26%) SAP
4 16 (4.21%) Microsoft
5 14 (3.68%) Informatica
5 14 (3.68%) Teradata
6 13 (3.42%) Talend
7 7 (1.84%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.58%) IBM
8 6 (1.58%) StreamSets
8 6 (1.58%) Virgin Media
9 5 (1.32%) Sybase
10 4 (1.05%) Ariba
10 4 (1.05%) Foundry
10 4 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.79%) Anaplan
11 3 (0.79%) Hyperion
11 3 (0.79%) Palantir
11 3 (0.79%) Sparx