Snowflake Contract Job Trends in England

Snowflake
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Snowflake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 208 198
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 +163
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 547 359 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.30% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 3.50% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 286 370
10th Percentile £407 £407 £424
25th Percentile £470 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £578 £800
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% -27.81% +39.13%
75th Percentile £671 £825 £888
90th Percentile £753 £875 -
UK median daily rate £560 £558 £800
% change year-on-year +0.45% -30.31% +37.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £56.60 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £90.00 £37.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +35.00% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,045 10,267 11,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.19% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,703 6,965 7,967
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £421 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 267 241
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.17
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.34% -30.96%

Snowflake
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Snowflake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Snowflake job vacancy trend in England

Snowflake
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Snowflake in England over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Snowflake in England

Snowflake
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Snowflake

Snowflake
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake in England over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Snowflake in England

Snowflake
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Snowflake within the England region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
London +2 393 £575 -8.00% 269
North of England -61 43 £525 +10.53% 44
Midlands -32 37 £510 +20.00% 22
West Midlands -33 33 £550 +18.92% 15
North West -29 30 £525 +1.94% 24
South East -52 29 £591 +15.24% 46
South West -50 18 £575 +21.05% 19
East of England -25 10 £380 -34.48% 3
Yorkshire -38 10 £550 +15.79% 17
East Midlands -11 4 £466 +10.83% 7
North East -42 3 - - 3
Snowflake
UK

Snowflake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 111 (20.29%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (6.95%) Apache Spark
3 29 (5.30%) Apache
4 14 (2.56%) Confluence
5 10 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.73%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.02%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.91%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.91%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.91%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 294 (53.75%) AWS
2 220 (40.22%) Azure
3 145 (26.51%) dbt
4 135 (24.68%) Power Platform
5 126 (23.03%) GCP
6 75 (13.71%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.79%) GitHub
8 52 (9.51%) Serverless
9 50 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (8.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (5.12%) Fivetran
14 26 (4.75%) Matillion
15 25 (4.57%) Dagster
16 19 (3.47%) Prefect
17 18 (3.29%) SaaS
18 17 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) Broadband
2 2 (0.37%) DSL
2 2 (0.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
3 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (32.91%) Data Warehouse
2 132 (24.13%) Power BI
3 77 (14.08%) BigQuery
4 69 (12.61%) Data Lake
5 66 (12.07%) Tableau
6 59 (10.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 52 (9.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (6.95%) SQL Server
9 32 (5.85%) Big Data
9 32 (5.85%) Metadata
10 28 (5.12%) NoSQL
11 26 (4.75%) Data Vault
12 23 (4.20%) Relational Database
13 22 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (3.11%) Looker
15 17 (3.11%) Semantic Layer
16 13 (2.38%) Delta Lake
17 12 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (9.32%) Git
2 30 (5.48%) JIRA
3 26 (4.75%) GitLab
4 21 (3.84%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.10%) MLflow
6 4 (0.73%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.73%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.55%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.55%) Snyk
7 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) LSMW
9 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 191 (34.92%) Finance
2 152 (27.79%) Social Skills
3 84 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.35%) Banking
5 47 (8.59%) Retail
6 27 (4.94%) Marketing
7 25 (4.57%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.47%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.47%) Front Office
8 19 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.38%) Legal
11 11 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.83%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.46%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.28%) Back Office
15 7 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (35.10%) Data Engineer
2 100 (18.28%) Architect
3 99 (18.10%) Senior
4 94 (17.18%) Snowflake Engineer
5 75 (13.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 63 (11.52%) Analyst
7 57 (10.42%) Data Architect
8 54 (9.87%) Senior Data Engineer
9 48 (8.78%) Lead
10 37 (6.76%) Data Analyst
11 33 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (5.12%) Developer
13 27 (4.94%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.84%) Business Analyst
16 20 (3.66%) Snowflake Architect
17 15 (2.74%) Lead Data Engineer
18 14 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.56%) Python Engineer
19 12 (2.19%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.04%) Kafka
2 25 (4.57%) REST
3 18 (3.29%) PySpark
4 11 (2.01%) .NET
5 9 (1.65%) Spring
5 9 (1.65%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.46%) React
7 7 (1.28%) OAuth
8 6 (1.10%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.10%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.10%) YAML
9 5 (0.91%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.91%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.91%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.91%) OpenID
9 5 (0.91%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.91%) Vue
10 4 (0.73%) Node.js
10 4 (0.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.56%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (1.83%) Equities
10 9 (1.65%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.46%) Clustering
12 7 (1.28%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.10%) Life Science
14 5 (0.91%) Derivative
14 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.91%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.46%) Unix
2 6 (1.10%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (43.51%) Analytics
2 215 (39.31%) Data Engineering
3 197 (36.01%) Data Modelling
4 195 (35.65%) Data Pipeline
5 186 (34.00%) ETL
6 183 (33.46%) CI/CD
7 153 (27.97%) Business Intelligence
8 142 (25.96%) AI
9 126 (23.03%) Agile
10 118 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 111 (20.29%) DevOps
12 106 (19.38%) Data Governance
13 101 (18.46%) Data Architecture
14 100 (18.28%) Migration
15 85 (15.54%) Validation
16 82 (14.99%) Data Transformation
17 76 (13.89%) Decision-Making
18 69 (12.61%) Machine Learning
19 61 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
20 59 (10.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 306 (55.94%) SQL
2 259 (47.35%) Python
3 54 (9.87%) Java
4 14 (2.56%) R
5 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.65%) C#
7 8 (1.46%) Bash
8 7 (1.28%) Scala
9 6 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.73%) Bicep
10 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.55%) Cypher
11 3 (0.55%) SHACL
11 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.37%) C++
12 2 (0.37%) Delphi
12 2 (0.37%) Korn
12 2 (0.37%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 40 (7.31%) Degree
3 32 (5.85%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.83%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.83%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.46%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.73%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (27.06%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.76%) GDPR
3 21 (3.84%) QA
4 7 (1.28%) SLA
5 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.73%) PMO
7 3 (0.55%) EMIR
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS
9 1 (0.18%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (7.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (14.08%) Terraform
2 39 (7.13%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.56%) Grafana
4 8 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.73%) Control-M
6 2 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 157 (28.70%) Databricks
2 60 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.30%) Google
3 29 (5.30%) Informatica
4 27 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 22 (4.02%) SAP
6 19 (3.47%) Oracle
7 10 (1.83%) Workday
8 9 (1.65%) Charles River
8 9 (1.65%) Denodo
8 9 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.46%) Teradata
10 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.28%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.28%) Splunk
11 6 (1.10%) FactSet
11 6 (1.10%) Foundry
12 5 (0.91%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.91%) MicroStrategy