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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 221 265
Rank change year-on-year -27 +44 +183
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 474 353 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.22% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 3.24% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 269 299
10th Percentile £381 £410 £425
25th Percentile £450 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -6.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £604 £750 £850
90th Percentile £725 £875 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £54.13 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £90.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - £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 16,950 10,887 13,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.63% 37.57% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,444 7,495 9,847
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 245 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £35.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £64.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +99.56% +20.71% -28.58%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -50 397 £525 -12.50% 163
London -12 292 £525 -19.23% 106
UK excluding London -66 146 £525 +10.53% 84
Work from Home -38 145 £525 -16.00% 109
Scotland +37 54 £449 -1.59% 5
Midlands -50 29 £525 +7.69% 11
West Midlands -43 27 £525 -4.55% 9
North of England -67 22 £563 +15.38% 18
South East -57 19 £575 +33.33% 26
North West -36 15 £563 +6.13% 13
South West -37 15 £475 -9.52% 19
East of England -39 6 £400 -31.03% 4
Yorkshire -52 6 £550 +15.79% 3
East Midlands -32 2 £654 +55.65% 2
North East -20 1 £575 +35.29% 2
Wales - 1 £250 - 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 80 (16.88%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (8.02%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.38%) Apache
4 8 (1.69%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 16 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.64%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.05%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 237 (50.00%) AWS
2 188 (39.66%) Azure
3 130 (27.43%) Power Platform
4 105 (22.15%) dbt
5 92 (19.41%) GCP
6 67 (14.14%) Amazon S3
7 43 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (9.07%) Serverless
8 37 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 34 (7.17%) GitHub
11 31 (6.54%) Matillion
12 21 (4.43%) Dagster
13 20 (4.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 20 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (3.38%) Prefect
15 13 (2.74%) SaaS
16 12 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) Internet
1 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (25.74%) Power BI
2 119 (25.11%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (12.87%) Snowflake Schema
3 61 (12.87%) Tableau
4 40 (8.44%) BigQuery
5 36 (7.59%) Big Data
6 35 (7.38%) Data Lake
7 33 (6.96%) SQL Server
8 32 (6.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (5.91%) Relational Database
11 23 (4.85%) Data Vault
12 21 (4.43%) Metadata
13 16 (3.38%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (3.16%) Looker
15 12 (2.53%) MySQL
16 9 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.90%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.69%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 45 (9.49%) Git
2 22 (4.64%) JIRA
3 21 (4.43%) GitLab
4 12 (2.53%) SpecFlow
5 9 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.27%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.27%) ERwin
6 6 (1.27%) MLflow
7 3 (0.63%) Selenium
7 3 (0.63%) Snyk
7 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.63%) Toad
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) GCC
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 152 (32.07%) Finance
2 116 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.34%) Banking
5 30 (6.33%) Retail
6 23 (4.85%) Investment Banking
6 23 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.74%) Marketing
8 11 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.48%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.27%) Front Office
11 6 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Legal
13 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (35.44%) Data Engineer
2 92 (19.41%) Snowflake Engineer
3 81 (17.09%) Architect
4 72 (15.19%) Senior
4 72 (15.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 51 (10.76%) Analyst
6 40 (8.44%) Data Architect
6 40 (8.44%) Lead
6 40 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
7 34 (7.17%) Data Analyst
8 30 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (5.06%) Developer
9 24 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
10 18 (3.80%) Site Engineer
10 18 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (3.80%) Snowflake Architect
11 16 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (2.95%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.70%) Kafka
2 17 (3.59%) PySpark
3 13 (2.74%) Playwright
4 11 (2.32%) PyTorch
4 11 (2.32%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.11%) Spring
6 9 (1.90%) TensorFlow
7 8 (1.69%) React
8 7 (1.48%) .NET
8 7 (1.48%) REST
8 7 (1.48%) Vue
9 6 (1.27%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.05%) OAuth
10 5 (1.05%) OpenID
11 4 (0.84%) JSON
11 4 (0.84%) Pandas
11 4 (0.84%) scikit-learn
12 3 (0.63%) AngularJS
12 3 (0.63%) Middleware
12 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.43%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.53%) Fixed Income
6 11 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.11%) Clustering
7 10 (2.11%) Equities
8 9 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.90%) Replication
9 8 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.05%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.11%) Unix
2 8 (1.69%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (44.51%) Analytics
2 173 (36.50%) Data Engineering
3 170 (35.86%) Data Modelling
4 153 (32.28%) Business Intelligence
5 149 (31.43%) ETL
6 148 (31.22%) Data Pipeline
7 146 (30.80%) CI/CD
8 121 (25.53%) AI
9 105 (22.15%) Agile
10 87 (18.35%) Data Governance
11 86 (18.14%) Migration
12 81 (17.09%) DevOps
13 72 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (14.35%) Machine Learning
15 67 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 65 (13.71%) Validation
17 61 (12.87%) Data Architecture
18 58 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
19 52 (10.97%) Decision-Making
19 52 (10.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 257 (54.22%) SQL
2 235 (49.58%) Python
3 44 (9.28%) Java
4 16 (3.38%) C#
5 15 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.53%) Bash
6 12 (2.53%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.11%) R
8 6 (1.27%) Scala
9 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.84%) Bicep
10 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.42%) Korn
13 1 (0.21%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (6.54%) Degree
3 18 (3.80%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.11%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.63%) PhD
10 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.21%) ACCA
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.21%) CSPO
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (22.36%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.49%) QA
3 25 (5.27%) GDPR
4 9 (1.90%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.42%) EMIR
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.42%) MiFID
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (13.29%) Terraform
2 24 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.95%) Grafana
4 9 (1.90%) Ansible
5 6 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 138 (29.11%) Databricks
2 50 (10.55%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.70%) Informatica
3 27 (5.70%) Oracle
4 17 (3.59%) Google
5 15 (3.16%) SAP
6 14 (2.95%) Talend
7 11 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.90%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.69%) Greenplum
9 8 (1.69%) Teradata
10 7 (1.48%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.48%) Charles River
10 7 (1.48%) Denodo
10 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.05%) SimCorp
11 5 (1.05%) Workday
12 4 (0.84%) FactSet