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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 209 198
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +146
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 556 361 415
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.31% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.49% 3.51% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 285 368
10th Percentile £411 £408 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -28.13% +38.41%
75th Percentile £671 £825 £888
90th Percentile £755 £865 -
UK median daily rate £570 £553 £800
% change year-on-year +3.17% -30.94% +38.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £67.55 £32.85 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.35% - -
75th Percentile £90.00 £37.13 -
90th Percentile - £37.35 -
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 15,926 10,278 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.18% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 6,965 7,955
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 273 230
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.01 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +3 400 £575 -8.00% 503
North of England -41 45 £525 +10.53% 140
Midlands -38 36 £518 +23.21% 70
North West -26 32 £525 +1.94% 75
West Midlands -27 32 £563 +32.35% 59
South East -49 31 £606 +16.87% 69
South West -46 17 £575 +21.05% 23
East of England -29 10 £380 -34.48% 6
Yorkshire -37 10 £550 +15.79% 26
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +10.83% 11
North East -42 3 - - 39
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
1 116 (20.86%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (6.83%) Apache Spark
3 30 (5.40%) Apache
4 14 (2.52%) Confluence
5 10 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.72%) 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 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (3.60%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.90%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.18%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 304 (54.68%) AWS
2 225 (40.47%) Azure
3 146 (26.26%) dbt
4 141 (25.36%) Power Platform
5 127 (22.84%) GCP
6 75 (13.49%) Amazon S3
7 63 (11.33%) GitHub
8 53 (9.53%) Serverless
9 50 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (5.04%) Fivetran
14 25 (4.50%) Matillion
15 24 (4.32%) Dagster
16 19 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 19 (3.42%) Prefect
17 17 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (3.06%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) DSL
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (33.81%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (24.82%) Power BI
3 76 (13.67%) BigQuery
4 75 (13.49%) Data Lake
5 66 (11.87%) Tableau
6 59 (10.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 57 (10.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 39 (7.01%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.12%) Metadata
10 31 (5.58%) Big Data
11 29 (5.22%) NoSQL
12 28 (5.04%) Data Vault
13 22 (3.96%) Relational Database
13 22 (3.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
15 17 (3.06%) Looker
15 17 (3.06%) Semantic Layer
16 15 (2.70%) Delta Lake
17 12 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
18 11 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (9.53%) Git
2 30 (5.40%) JIRA
3 26 (4.68%) GitLab
4 22 (3.96%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.08%) MLflow
6 5 (0.90%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.72%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.72%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.54%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.54%) Snyk
8 3 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.36%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.36%) Selenium
10 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.18%) GCC
10 1 (0.18%) LSMW
10 1 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
General
1 189 (33.99%) Finance
2 163 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 87 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.13%) Banking
5 49 (8.81%) Retail
6 27 (4.86%) Marketing
7 24 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.60%) Financial Institution
9 19 (3.42%) Front Office
9 19 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.34%) Legal
12 11 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.44%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.90%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (34.35%) Data Engineer
2 105 (18.88%) Architect
3 101 (18.17%) Senior
4 93 (16.73%) Snowflake Engineer
5 73 (13.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 61 (10.97%) Data Architect
7 60 (10.79%) Analyst
8 55 (9.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 50 (8.99%) Lead
10 36 (6.47%) Data Analyst
11 32 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (4.86%) Developer
13 26 (4.68%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.78%) Snowflake Architect
16 20 (3.60%) Business Analyst
17 15 (2.70%) Python Engineer
18 14 (2.52%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.52%) Lead Data Engineer
19 12 (2.16%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.45%) Kafka
2 25 (4.50%) REST
3 21 (3.78%) PySpark
4 13 (2.34%) .NET
5 8 (1.44%) OAuth
5 8 (1.44%) React
5 8 (1.44%) Spring
5 8 (1.44%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.08%) Model Context Protocol
6 6 (1.08%) PyTorch
6 6 (1.08%) YAML
7 5 (0.90%) AngularJS
7 5 (0.90%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.90%) Langfuse
7 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (0.90%) OpenID
7 5 (0.90%) scikit-learn
7 5 (0.90%) Vue
8 4 (0.72%) AWS CDK
8 4 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 15 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.52%) Fixed Income
6 14 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.80%) Equities
10 9 (1.62%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.44%) Clustering
12 7 (1.26%) Life Science
12 7 (1.26%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.90%) Derivative
13 5 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.26%) Linux
1 7 (1.26%) Unix
2 2 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (42.99%) Analytics
2 215 (38.67%) Data Engineering
3 199 (35.79%) Data Pipeline
4 195 (35.07%) Data Modelling
5 189 (33.99%) ETL
6 188 (33.81%) CI/CD
7 159 (28.60%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (26.62%) AI
9 133 (23.92%) Agile
10 129 (23.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 115 (20.68%) DevOps
12 108 (19.42%) Data Governance
13 105 (18.88%) Data Architecture
14 97 (17.45%) Migration
15 85 (15.29%) Validation
16 82 (14.75%) Data Transformation
17 72 (12.95%) Decision-Making
17 72 (12.95%) Machine Learning
18 64 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 61 (10.97%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 309 (55.58%) SQL
2 263 (47.30%) Python
3 55 (9.89%) Java
4 14 (2.52%) R
5 11 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.62%) Bash
6 9 (1.62%) C#
7 7 (1.26%) Scala
8 6 (1.08%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.72%) Bicep
9 4 (0.72%) C++
9 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.54%) Cypher
10 3 (0.54%) SHACL
10 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.36%) Delphi
11 2 (0.36%) Korn
11 2 (0.36%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 40 (7.19%) Degree
3 30 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.80%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.44%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.72%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.36%) 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
1 150 (26.98%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.47%) GDPR
3 23 (4.14%) QA
4 7 (1.26%) SLA
5 5 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.72%) PMO
6 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.54%) EMIR
7 3 (0.54%) MiFID
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) CDISC
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (7.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 79 (14.21%) Terraform
2 42 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.52%) Grafana
4 8 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.72%) Control-M
6 2 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Ansible
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 162 (29.14%) Databricks
2 57 (10.25%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.22%) Informatica
4 28 (5.04%) Google
5 27 (4.86%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.96%) SAP
7 18 (3.24%) Oracle
8 10 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.80%) Teradata
8 10 (1.80%) Workday
9 9 (1.62%) Denodo
10 8 (1.44%) Charles River
10 8 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
11 7 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.26%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.26%) Splunk
12 6 (1.08%) Foundry
13 5 (0.90%) FactSet
13 5 (0.90%) Sage