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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 233 183
Rank change year-on-year +23 -50 +153
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 590 337 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.27% 1.21% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.67% 3.21% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 260 372
10th Percentile £400 £403 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +36.75%
75th Percentile £675 £748 £888
90th Percentile £753 £825 -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +34.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% - -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +25.35% - -

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 16,068 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,724 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 19 September 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
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 19 September 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 +22 439 £575 -8.00% 665
North of England -53 38 £500 +17.65% 125
South East -42 31 £616 +17.33% 82
Midlands -40 27 £513 +20.59% 50
North West -40 25 £513 +25.00% 83
West Midlands -39 23 £588 +17.50% 34
South West -36 19 £631 +32.89% 62
East of England -26 16 £380 -24.00% 17
Yorkshire -34 10 £400 -15.79% 14
East Midlands -14 4 £466 +11.83% 16
North East -50 3 - - 28
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
1 125 (21.19%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (8.31%) Apache Spark
3 35 (5.93%) Apache
4 13 (2.20%) Confluence
5 10 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.88%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.85%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.34%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 317 (53.73%) AWS
2 254 (43.05%) Azure
3 173 (29.32%) dbt
4 140 (23.73%) Power Platform
5 136 (23.05%) GCP
6 77 (13.05%) GitHub
7 70 (11.86%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (9.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 55 (9.32%) Serverless
11 47 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (7.80%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (4.41%) Fivetran
15 22 (3.73%) SaaS
16 21 (3.56%) Dagster
17 18 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.88%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.88%) Matillion
19 16 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) DSL
2 2 (0.34%) Firewall
2 2 (0.34%) Internet
2 2 (0.34%) Network Security
2 2 (0.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.17%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.17%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (33.90%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (23.39%) Power BI
3 83 (14.07%) Data Lake
4 75 (12.71%) BigQuery
5 64 (10.85%) Tableau
6 63 (10.68%) Snowflake Schema
7 61 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (6.61%) Metadata
8 39 (6.61%) SQL Server
9 34 (5.76%) Big Data
10 29 (4.92%) NoSQL
11 28 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
12 25 (4.24%) Data Vault
12 25 (4.24%) Relational Database
13 20 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (3.05%) Delta Lake
15 17 (2.88%) Looker
16 15 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (2.54%) Semantic Layer
17 14 (2.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 60 (10.17%) Git
2 28 (4.75%) JIRA
3 25 (4.24%) GitLab
4 20 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.19%) Terragrunt
6 6 (1.02%) Snyk
7 4 (0.68%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.34%) MLflow
8 2 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
8 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) ERwin
9 1 (0.17%) LSMW
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 195 (33.05%) Finance
2 169 (28.64%) Social Skills
3 97 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (12.03%) Banking
5 54 (9.15%) Retail
6 28 (4.75%) Marketing
7 22 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.22%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.05%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.88%) Front Office
11 16 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.20%) Legal
13 12 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.69%) Billing
14 10 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.19%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
18 6 (1.02%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 207 (35.08%) Data Engineer
2 121 (20.51%) Senior
3 109 (18.47%) Architect
4 98 (16.61%) Snowflake Engineer
5 76 (12.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 70 (11.86%) Senior Data Engineer
7 69 (11.69%) Data Architect
8 66 (11.19%) Analyst
9 46 (7.80%) Lead
10 41 (6.95%) Data Analyst
11 32 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.92%) Developer
13 27 (4.58%) AWS Data Engineer
14 24 (4.07%) Snowflake Architect
15 20 (3.39%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.05%) Consultant
16 18 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (2.71%) Python Engineer
18 13 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (16.10%) Terraform
2 55 (9.32%) Kafka
3 31 (5.25%) PySpark
4 28 (4.75%) REST
5 15 (2.54%) .NET
6 8 (1.36%) OAuth
6 8 (1.36%) React
6 8 (1.36%) Spring
6 8 (1.36%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.19%) AWS CDK
7 7 (1.19%) YAML
8 5 (0.85%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.85%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (0.85%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (0.85%) OpenID
9 4 (0.68%) Node.js
9 4 (0.68%) pytest
9 4 (0.68%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.42%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 18 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.37%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.86%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.69%) Life Science
12 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.36%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.36%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.36%) Taxonomies
14 6 (1.02%) Clustering
14 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.02%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.36%) Linux
2 6 (1.02%) Unix
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (44.07%) Analytics
2 229 (38.81%) Data Engineering
3 221 (37.46%) Data Modelling
4 210 (35.59%) Data Pipeline
5 207 (35.08%) CI/CD
5 207 (35.08%) ETL
6 179 (30.34%) AI
7 158 (26.78%) Business Intelligence
8 145 (24.58%) Agile
8 145 (24.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 123 (20.85%) DevOps
10 118 (20.00%) Data Architecture
11 115 (19.49%) Data Governance
12 105 (17.80%) Migration
13 96 (16.27%) Validation
14 93 (15.76%) Data Transformation
15 83 (14.07%) Decision-Making
16 80 (13.56%) Machine Learning
17 78 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
18 68 (11.53%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 345 (58.47%) SQL
2 282 (47.80%) Python
3 52 (8.81%) Java
4 16 (2.71%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.20%) Bash
5 13 (2.20%) R
6 11 (1.86%) C#
6 11 (1.86%) Scala
7 8 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.02%) Bicep
9 5 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.68%) C++
10 4 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.51%) Cypher
11 3 (0.51%) SHACL
11 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.34%) Korn
12 2 (0.34%) LookML
12 2 (0.34%) SOQL
12 2 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (8.14%) Security Cleared
2 34 (5.76%) Degree
3 28 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.86%) SnowPro
6 10 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.36%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.68%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) CISSP
12 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (27.80%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.25%) GDPR
3 23 (3.90%) QA
4 6 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.68%) PMO
6 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.51%) EMIR
7 3 (0.51%) MiFID
7 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.51%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 43 (7.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.86%) Grafana
3 6 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.68%) Control-M
5 2 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 188 (31.86%) Databricks
2 77 (13.05%) Microsoft
3 30 (5.08%) Informatica
3 30 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 29 (4.92%) Google
5 19 (3.22%) SAP
6 18 (3.05%) Oracle
7 10 (1.69%) Teradata
8 9 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
9 8 (1.36%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.36%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.36%) Talend
10 7 (1.19%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.19%) Denodo
10 7 (1.19%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.19%) Workday
11 6 (1.02%) Foundry
11 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.85%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.85%) Sage