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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 235 297
Rank change year-on-year +3 +62 +140
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 371 270 268
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.03% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.00% 2.77% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 174 208
10th Percentile £327 £390 £425
25th Percentile £413 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £631 £728 £675
90th Percentile £737 £888 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -14.17% +6.19% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.20 - -
25th Percentile £34.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.38 - -
90th Percentile £62.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 - -

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 12,377 9,750 12,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.72% 37.16% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,581 6,446 9,247
10th Percentile £304 £313 £273
25th Percentile £406 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 142 305
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.73 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.48 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.31% +22.22% -6.25%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +31 283 £525 -19.23% 115
North of England -46 20 £375 -15.49% 25
South East -14 19 £500 +8.11% 59
North West -23 17 £347 -20.80% 17
South West -14 15 £488 -8.24% 7
Midlands -60 14 £550 - 11
West Midlands -46 10 £500 -4.76% 11
East of England -15 9 £550 +4.76% 6
East Midlands -24 4 £575 -7.93%
North East -13 2 £575 -11.54% 4
Yorkshire -57 1 £488 +8.33% 4
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 73 (19.68%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (7.01%) Apache Spark
3 19 (5.12%) Apache
4 6 (1.62%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.81%) Confluence
5 3 (0.81%) SAS
6 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Luigi
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (5.93%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.54%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.54%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 192 (51.75%) AWS
2 169 (45.55%) Azure
3 95 (25.61%) dbt
4 91 (24.53%) Power Platform
5 69 (18.60%) GCP
6 41 (11.05%) Amazon S3
6 41 (11.05%) Serverless
7 36 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (7.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (7.01%) Matillion
11 22 (5.93%) GitHub
12 19 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (3.77%) SaaS
14 13 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.50%) Fivetran
15 12 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.70%) Prefect
17 7 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (29.11%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (23.18%) Power BI
3 45 (12.13%) Snowflake Schema
4 42 (11.32%) Tableau
5 36 (9.70%) Data Lake
6 25 (6.74%) Data Vault
7 23 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (5.66%) Big Data
9 21 (5.66%) BigQuery
9 21 (5.66%) Metadata
10 20 (5.39%) Relational Database
11 18 (4.85%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (3.50%) NoSQL
13 12 (3.23%) RDBMS
13 12 (3.23%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
15 8 (2.16%) Apache Arrow
15 8 (2.16%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 31 (8.36%) Git
2 19 (5.12%) JIRA
3 18 (4.85%) GitLab
4 13 (3.50%) SpecFlow
5 11 (2.96%) ERwin
6 10 (2.70%) ER Studio
7 9 (2.43%) PowerDesigner
8 8 (2.16%) DBeaver
9 5 (1.35%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.35%) MLflow
10 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.81%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.54%) Selenium
11 2 (0.54%) TestRail
11 2 (0.54%) Toad
11 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.27%) Deequ
General
1 98 (26.42%) Finance
2 91 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 51 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.47%) Banking
5 16 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.04%) Front Office
6 15 (4.04%) Investment Banking
6 15 (4.04%) Retail
7 13 (3.50%) Marketing
8 10 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Law
11 3 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) iGaming
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Publishing
13 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (33.96%) Data Engineer
2 69 (18.60%) Snowflake Engineer
3 54 (14.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 48 (12.94%) Analyst
4 48 (12.94%) Architect
5 36 (9.70%) Data Analyst
5 36 (9.70%) Senior
6 35 (9.43%) Lead
7 32 (8.63%) Developer
8 23 (6.20%) Data Architect
9 21 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (4.85%) Python Engineer
11 16 (4.31%) Business Analyst
11 16 (4.31%) Snowflake Architect
12 15 (4.04%) Data Modeller
12 15 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) Tester
13 14 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.50%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.20%) Kafka
2 18 (4.85%) Pandas
3 15 (4.04%) Playwright
4 13 (3.50%) PySpark
5 12 (3.23%) NumPy
6 9 (2.43%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.16%) gRPC
7 8 (2.16%) Node.js
7 8 (2.16%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (2.16%) React
7 8 (2.16%) SciPy
7 8 (2.16%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 7 (1.89%) Spring
9 6 (1.62%) JSON
10 5 (1.35%) .NET
10 5 (1.35%) REST
10 5 (1.35%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.08%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 22 (5.93%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.04%) Equities
4 15 (4.04%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.23%) Clustering
6 11 (2.96%) Derivative
6 11 (2.96%) Replication
7 10 (2.70%) Hedge funds
8 9 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.16%) Pricing Data
10 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.89%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.62%) Reinsurance
12 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Unix
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
2 2 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (43.67%) Analytics
2 142 (38.27%) Data Modelling
3 131 (35.31%) ETL
4 107 (28.84%) Data Engineering
5 102 (27.49%) Business Intelligence
6 100 (26.95%) Agile
7 94 (25.34%) CI/CD
8 91 (24.53%) Data Pipeline
9 74 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (19.41%) Data Governance
11 65 (17.52%) AI
12 61 (16.44%) DevOps
13 52 (14.02%) Migration
14 49 (13.21%) Data Transformation
15 46 (12.40%) Data Architecture
15 46 (12.40%) Machine Learning
16 45 (12.13%) Data Science
17 44 (11.86%) Asset Management
18 41 (11.05%) Performance Tuning
19 36 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 238 (64.15%) SQL
2 193 (52.02%) Python
3 43 (11.59%) Java
4 29 (7.82%) TypeScript
5 27 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.31%) C#
7 10 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.16%) R
8 8 (2.16%) Scala
9 7 (1.89%) Korn
10 6 (1.62%) Bash
11 4 (1.08%) Bicep
11 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.27%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (5.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (4.85%) Degree
3 13 (3.50%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.89%) SnowPro
8 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.81%) PhD
10 2 (0.54%) ACCA
10 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.54%) CIMA
10 2 (0.54%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (23.99%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.77%) GDPR
2 14 (3.77%) QA
3 7 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.27%) FATCA
5 1 (0.27%) GAAP
5 1 (0.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.27%) MiFID
5 1 (0.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (7.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (11.86%) Terraform
2 30 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.35%) Grafana
3 5 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 89 (23.99%) Databricks
2 39 (10.51%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.20%) Oracle
4 13 (3.50%) Talend
5 10 (2.70%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.43%) Informatica
6 9 (2.43%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.89%) Charles River
8 7 (1.89%) MicroStrategy
8 7 (1.89%) SAP
9 6 (1.62%) Sparx
10 5 (1.35%) Google
10 5 (1.35%) Virgin Media
11 4 (1.08%) Ab Initio
11 4 (1.08%) Guidewire
11 4 (1.08%) Murex
11 4 (1.08%) SimCorp
11 4 (1.08%) Teradata
12 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg