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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 229 329
Rank change year-on-year -1 +100 +127
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 458 369 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.08% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 2.98% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 245 231
10th Percentile £363 £382 £413
25th Percentile £429 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £653 £850 £675
90th Percentile £825 £888 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +2.78% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £33.55 - -
25th Percentile £35.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.81 - -
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 13,933 12,403 15,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.08% 36.28% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,519 8,250 11,053
10th Percentile £307 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £732 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 172 273
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.19 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £27.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.18 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.08 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.66% +26.19% +7.69%

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 18 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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 -6 372 £550 -15.38% 495
London +19 283 £575 -11.54% 91
Work from Home -11 164 £575 -28.13% 150
UK excluding London -3 119 £463 +2.78% 480
Scotland +32 42 £450 +12.50% 32
North of England -51 21 £400 -9.35% 100
South East -8 17 £513 +41.38% 133
North West -22 16 £375 -15.01% 62
South West +3 15 £488 +9.86% 55
East of England -9 15 £525 +5.00% 56
Midlands -52 10 £458 -8.50% 89
West Midlands -40 7 £415 -17.00% 52
Yorkshire -37 4 £506 - 31
East Midlands -21 3 £575 -7.93% 31
North East -6 1 - - 7
Wales - 1 £575 - 10

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
1 108 (23.58%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (10.26%) Apache
3 32 (6.99%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.75%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (0.87%) Confluence
6 3 (0.66%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (3.71%) Aladdin
2 15 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.44%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.44%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 245 (53.49%) AWS
2 214 (46.72%) Azure
3 123 (26.86%) dbt
4 109 (23.80%) Power Platform
5 86 (18.78%) GCP
6 54 (11.79%) Serverless
7 44 (9.61%) Amazon S3
8 39 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (5.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (4.80%) GitHub
12 18 (3.93%) Matillion
13 17 (3.71%) Amazon EMR
14 15 (3.28%) Fivetran
15 14 (3.06%) SaaS
16 11 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (1.97%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Firewall
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (33.84%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (23.80%) Power BI
3 79 (17.25%) Data Lake
4 44 (9.61%) Snowflake Schema
5 41 (8.95%) Tableau
6 38 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (7.86%) BigQuery
8 35 (7.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 30 (6.55%) Amazon Athena
10 29 (6.33%) Metadata
11 26 (5.68%) Apache Iceberg
12 24 (5.24%) Apache Arrow
12 24 (5.24%) Apache Ignite
12 24 (5.24%) Big Data
12 24 (5.24%) Dremio
13 23 (5.02%) Relational Database
13 23 (5.02%) SQL Server
14 22 (4.80%) NoSQL
15 21 (4.59%) Data Vault
16 17 (3.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (10.48%) Git
2 18 (3.93%) ERwin
2 18 (3.93%) GitLab
2 18 (3.93%) JIRA
3 15 (3.28%) ER Studio
4 10 (2.18%) DBeaver
4 10 (2.18%) PowerDesigner
5 9 (1.97%) SpecFlow
6 7 (1.53%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.09%) MLflow
8 3 (0.66%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.66%) Selenium
9 2 (0.44%) TestRail
9 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.22%) Deequ
10 1 (0.22%) Postman
10 1 (0.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 141 (30.79%) Finance
2 125 (27.29%) Social Skills
3 71 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.26%) Banking
5 32 (6.99%) Investment Banking
6 31 (6.77%) Front Office
7 17 (3.71%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.28%) Marketing
9 14 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.40%) Retail
11 8 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.66%) Law
14 3 (0.66%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.44%) iGaming
15 2 (0.44%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 129 (28.17%) Data Engineer
2 62 (13.54%) Senior
3 60 (13.10%) Analyst
4 59 (12.88%) Architect
5 55 (12.01%) Snowflake Engineer
6 46 (10.04%) Data Analyst
7 43 (9.39%) Python Engineer
8 42 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (9.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 33 (7.21%) Developer
10 31 (6.77%) Data Architect
11 30 (6.55%) Lead
12 26 (5.68%) Software Engineer
13 25 (5.46%) Data Modeller
13 25 (5.46%) Java Engineer
14 24 (5.24%) AWS Software Engineer
14 24 (5.24%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (5.24%) Python Software Engineer
15 23 (5.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 23 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.39%) Pandas
2 33 (7.21%) NumPy
3 24 (5.24%) gRPC
3 24 (5.24%) Kafka
3 24 (5.24%) Protocol Buffers
3 24 (5.24%) SciPy
4 20 (4.37%) PySpark
5 17 (3.71%) PyTorch
6 13 (2.84%) TensorFlow
7 12 (2.62%) Playwright
7 12 (2.62%) REST
8 11 (2.40%) React
9 8 (1.75%) JSON
9 8 (1.75%) Node.js
9 8 (1.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 6 (1.31%) .NET
11 5 (1.09%) LangChain
11 5 (1.09%) RESTful
11 5 (1.09%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.87%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.33%) Equities
2 29 (6.33%) Fixed Income
3 27 (5.90%) Derivative
4 26 (5.68%) Data Structures
4 26 (5.68%) Hedge funds
5 24 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (5.24%) Pricing Data
6 19 (4.15%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (3.06%) Replication
8 11 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.97%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.75%) Clustering
12 6 (1.31%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.75%) Linux
2 7 (1.53%) Unix
3 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (39.08%) Data Modelling
2 174 (37.99%) Analytics
3 156 (34.06%) ETL
4 124 (27.07%) Agile
4 124 (27.07%) Data Engineering
5 114 (24.89%) Business Intelligence
6 112 (24.45%) CI/CD
7 109 (23.80%) Data Governance
8 103 (22.49%) Data Pipeline
9 84 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (17.47%) Migration
11 75 (16.38%) AI
12 68 (14.85%) Machine Learning
13 65 (14.19%) DevOps
14 64 (13.97%) Asset Management
15 62 (13.54%) Data Transformation
16 60 (13.10%) Data Architecture
17 58 (12.66%) Data Integration
18 54 (11.79%) Performance Tuning
19 53 (11.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 273 (59.61%) SQL
2 252 (55.02%) Python
3 50 (10.92%) Java
4 44 (9.61%) JavaScript
4 44 (9.61%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.62%) C#
6 11 (2.40%) PL/SQL
7 10 (2.18%) Bash
8 8 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.75%) Korn
8 8 (1.75%) R
9 7 (1.53%) Scala
10 4 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.66%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.22%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.22%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (7.21%) Degree
2 20 (4.37%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.49%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.06%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.84%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.62%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.31%) SnowPro
8 5 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.66%) PhD
11 2 (0.44%) ACCA
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.44%) CIMA
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.44%) PMP
12 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.22%) CBAP
12 1 (0.22%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (23.36%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.49%) GDPR
2 16 (3.49%) QA
3 7 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.44%) DICOM
5 2 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.22%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) HL7
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.22%) LOINC
6 1 (0.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (7.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (10.48%) Terraform
2 24 (5.24%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.28%) Ansible
4 6 (1.31%) Grafana
5 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 114 (24.89%) Databricks
2 40 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.64%) Oracle
4 23 (5.02%) SAP
5 14 (3.06%) Informatica
6 12 (2.62%) Greenplum
6 12 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.62%) Talend
7 10 (2.18%) Google
8 9 (1.97%) Cloudera
9 8 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.53%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.53%) Sparx
10 7 (1.53%) Teradata
11 6 (1.31%) Charles River
11 6 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.09%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.09%) Foundry
12 5 (1.09%) StreamSets
12 5 (1.09%) Virgin Media