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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 224 199
Rank change year-on-year 0 -25 +160
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 675 409 469
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.24% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.57% 3.24% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 302 365
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £537 £765
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -29.77% +30.77%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £875
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £43.58 £32.85 -
25th Percentile - £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £58.30 £37.35 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year +23.61% - -

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 18,886 12,619 13,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.18% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,525 8,413 8,640
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +10 591 £575 +4.55% 877
London +5 435 £575 -4.17% 624
Work from Home -40 200 £600 - 424
UK excluding London -31 195 £550 +15.79% 314
Scotland +3 46 £428 -5.00% 49
North of England -41 38 £488 +14.71% 117
South East -52 31 £616 +18.75% 44
Midlands -34 30 £500 +8.11% 36
North West -27 27 £500 +21.95% 71
West Midlands -29 26 £520 +4.00% 25
South West -33 25 £650 +36.84% 25
East of England -37 16 £380 -24.00% 17
Northern Ireland - 9 £334 - 26
Yorkshire -32 8 £400 -15.79% 28
East Midlands -11 4 £466 +12.85% 11
North East -39 3 - - 18
Wales -7 1 £650 - 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
1 143 (21.19%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (8.74%) Apache Spark
3 50 (7.41%) Apache
4 18 (2.67%) Confluence
5 15 (2.22%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.37%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.74%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.74%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.74%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.15%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 348 (51.56%) AWS
2 295 (43.70%) Azure
3 205 (30.37%) dbt
4 184 (27.26%) Power Platform
5 148 (21.93%) GCP
6 92 (13.63%) GitHub
7 72 (10.67%) Amazon S3
8 65 (9.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 63 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (8.15%) Serverless
11 53 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (4.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 31 (4.59%) SaaS
15 29 (4.30%) Fivetran
16 21 (3.11%) Collibra
17 20 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.67%) Amazon EventBridge
19 17 (2.52%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.44%) Broadband
2 2 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (0.30%) DSL
2 2 (0.30%) Firewall
2 2 (0.30%) Internet
2 2 (0.30%) Network Security
2 2 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.15%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.15%) SSH
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (32.15%) Data Warehouse
2 180 (26.67%) Power BI
3 95 (14.07%) Data Lake
4 78 (11.56%) Tableau
5 77 (11.41%) BigQuery
6 72 (10.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 68 (10.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (7.85%) Metadata
9 44 (6.52%) SQL Server
10 39 (5.78%) Big Data
11 38 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
12 32 (4.74%) Relational Database
13 27 (4.00%) Data Vault
13 27 (4.00%) NoSQL
14 20 (2.96%) Delta Lake
14 20 (2.96%) Looker
15 18 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (2.52%) Semantic Layer
17 15 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
17 15 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 84 (12.44%) Git
2 35 (5.19%) JIRA
3 31 (4.59%) GitLab
4 21 (3.11%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.04%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.74%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.74%) Snyk
6 5 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.59%) MLflow
8 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.30%) ERwin
9 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 221 (32.74%) Finance
2 208 (30.81%) Social Skills
3 123 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.74%) Banking
5 54 (8.00%) Retail
6 29 (4.30%) Marketing
7 25 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 20 (2.96%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (2.52%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.52%) Legal
11 17 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.37%) Front Office
13 12 (1.78%) Billing
13 12 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.04%) Automotive
17 6 (0.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 238 (35.26%) Data Engineer
2 132 (19.56%) Senior
3 112 (16.59%) Architect
4 110 (16.30%) Snowflake Engineer
5 83 (12.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 77 (11.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 74 (10.96%) Analyst
8 72 (10.67%) Data Architect
9 42 (6.22%) Data Analyst
10 41 (6.07%) Lead
11 38 (5.63%) Developer
12 36 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
13 30 (4.44%) AWS Data Engineer
14 25 (3.70%) Business Analyst
14 25 (3.70%) Python Engineer
15 22 (3.26%) Consultant
15 22 (3.26%) Snowflake Architect
16 18 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 15 (2.22%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (15.26%) Terraform
2 76 (11.26%) Kafka
3 42 (6.22%) REST
4 38 (5.63%) PySpark
5 17 (2.52%) .NET
6 12 (1.78%) FastAPI
7 11 (1.63%) JSON
7 11 (1.63%) YAML
8 9 (1.33%) OAuth
9 8 (1.19%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.19%) LangChain
9 8 (1.19%) React
10 7 (1.04%) OpenID
11 6 (0.89%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.89%) LangGraph
11 6 (0.89%) Pandas
11 6 (0.89%) pytest
11 6 (0.89%) Spring
11 6 (0.89%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (12.74%) Cloud Native
2 45 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.07%) Data Structures
4 31 (4.59%) AI Agents
5 23 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.67%) Life Science
8 15 (2.22%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.93%) Taxonomies
11 10 (1.48%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.19%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.19%) Replication
12 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.37%) Linux
2 9 (1.33%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (45.48%) Analytics
2 275 (40.74%) Data Engineering
2 275 (40.74%) Data Modelling
3 257 (38.07%) Data Pipeline
4 247 (36.59%) CI/CD
5 235 (34.81%) ETL
6 227 (33.63%) AI
7 204 (30.22%) Business Intelligence
8 180 (26.67%) Agile
9 157 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 138 (20.44%) Data Governance
10 138 (20.44%) DevOps
11 129 (19.11%) Data Architecture
12 113 (16.74%) Data Transformation
13 112 (16.59%) Migration
14 111 (16.44%) Validation
15 100 (14.81%) Decision-Making
16 91 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
17 90 (13.33%) Machine Learning
18 88 (13.04%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 411 (60.89%) SQL
2 346 (51.26%) Python
3 46 (6.81%) Java
4 21 (3.11%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.22%) Scala
6 13 (1.93%) Bash
6 13 (1.93%) R
7 12 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.48%) C#
9 8 (1.19%) Bicep
9 8 (1.19%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.59%) C++
10 4 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.44%) Cypher
11 3 (0.44%) Delphi
11 3 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.44%) LookML
11 3 (0.44%) SHACL
12 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.07%) Degree
3 25 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 12 (1.78%) AWS Certification
4 12 (1.78%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.63%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.63%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.19%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.59%) SAS Certification
9 3 (0.44%) CSPO
9 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.30%) ACCA
10 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.30%) CIMA
10 2 (0.30%) CISM
10 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.48%) GDPR
3 34 (5.04%) QA
4 6 (0.89%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.59%) GRC
6 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.59%) MiFID
7 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.44%) EMIR
7 3 (0.44%) PMO
7 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.15%) CDISC
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (7.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.11%) Grafana
3 8 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.04%) Ansible
5 5 (0.74%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 218 (32.30%) Databricks
2 102 (15.11%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.48%) Google
4 34 (5.04%) Informatica
4 34 (5.04%) Salesforce
5 31 (4.59%) Oracle
6 19 (2.81%) SAP
7 13 (1.93%) Talend
8 11 (1.63%) Workday
9 10 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.33%) Foundry
10 9 (1.33%) MicroStrategy
10 9 (1.33%) Teradata
11 8 (1.19%) Denodo
11 8 (1.19%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.04%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.74%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.74%) Sage