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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 220 191
Rank change year-on-year +12 -29 +154
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 600 354 438
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.28% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 3.34% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 271 352
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £724 £875
90th Percentile £752 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +37.93%
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 16,052 10,588 11,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 38.16% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,706 7,178 7,442
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 245 157
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.09 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £69.82 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -24.57% +6.06%

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 30 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 30 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 +5 438 £575 -6.12% 536
North of England -60 40 £500 +17.65% 90
South East -43 35 £616 +20.20% 49
Midlands -26 29 £510 +10.27% 27
North West -32 27 £525 +28.05% 56
West Midlands -33 25 £550 +10.00% 16
South West -36 24 £650 +36.84% 40
East of England -28 16 £380 -24.00% 12
Yorkshire -39 10 £400 -15.79% 23
East Midlands -16 4 £466 +12.85% 11
North East -39 3 - - 11
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
1 130 (21.67%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (8.83%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.67%) Apache
4 15 (2.50%) Confluence
5 11 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
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 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (2.83%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.83%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.33%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 328 (54.67%) AWS
2 258 (43.00%) Azure
3 189 (31.50%) dbt
4 141 (23.50%) Power Platform
5 133 (22.17%) GCP
6 79 (13.17%) GitHub
7 73 (12.17%) Amazon S3
8 58 (9.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 57 (9.50%) Serverless
10 55 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (4.33%) Fivetran
15 23 (3.83%) SaaS
16 19 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (3.17%) Dagster
17 18 (3.00%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (2.83%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 2 (0.33%) DSL
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.33%) Internet
2 2 (0.33%) Network Security
2 2 (0.33%) 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
1 206 (34.33%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (23.00%) Power BI
3 83 (13.83%) Data Lake
4 72 (12.00%) BigQuery
5 66 (11.00%) Tableau
6 63 (10.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 62 (10.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 42 (7.00%) Metadata
9 39 (6.50%) SQL Server
10 34 (5.67%) Big Data
11 30 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (4.83%) NoSQL
13 26 (4.33%) Data Vault
14 24 (4.00%) Relational Database
15 19 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (3.00%) Delta Lake
17 17 (2.83%) Looker
18 14 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 14 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 65 (10.83%) Git
2 29 (4.83%) JIRA
3 26 (4.33%) GitLab
4 20 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.17%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.83%) Snyk
6 5 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.67%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.33%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.33%) ERwin
8 2 (0.33%) MLflow
8 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 193 (32.17%) Finance
2 175 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 102 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.00%) Banking
5 53 (8.83%) Retail
6 26 (4.33%) Marketing
7 20 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.83%) Front Office
10 16 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.33%) Legal
12 12 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.83%) Billing
14 10 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.17%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.00%) Automotive
17 6 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 211 (35.17%) Data Engineer
2 124 (20.67%) Senior
3 109 (18.17%) Architect
4 100 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
5 79 (13.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 73 (12.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 68 (11.33%) Analyst
7 68 (11.33%) Data Architect
8 43 (7.17%) Lead
9 40 (6.67%) Data Analyst
10 37 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (5.33%) AWS Data Engineer
12 29 (4.83%) Developer
13 22 (3.67%) Business Analyst
13 22 (3.67%) Snowflake Architect
14 21 (3.50%) Consultant
15 18 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (2.67%) Python Engineer
17 15 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
18 13 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (15.67%) Terraform
2 59 (9.83%) Kafka
3 32 (5.33%) PySpark
4 28 (4.67%) REST
5 16 (2.67%) .NET
6 8 (1.33%) OAuth
6 8 (1.33%) React
6 8 (1.33%) Spring
6 8 (1.33%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.17%) AWS CDK
7 7 (1.17%) YAML
8 5 (0.83%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.83%) Langfuse
8 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (0.83%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (0.83%) OpenID
8 5 (0.83%) Pandas
8 5 (0.83%) pytest
8 5 (0.83%) Snowpark
9 4 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 24 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 19 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.50%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.83%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.83%) Life Science
11 10 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.50%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.33%) Data Fabric
13 8 (1.33%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.00%) Clustering
14 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.50%) Linux
2 6 (1.00%) Unix
3 2 (0.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (44.50%) Analytics
2 236 (39.33%) Data Engineering
3 234 (39.00%) Data Modelling
4 217 (36.17%) Data Pipeline
5 208 (34.67%) CI/CD
6 207 (34.50%) ETL
7 184 (30.67%) AI
8 156 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
9 150 (25.00%) Agile
10 148 (24.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 121 (20.17%) Data Architecture
12 118 (19.67%) Data Governance
12 118 (19.67%) DevOps
13 105 (17.50%) Migration
14 98 (16.33%) Data Transformation
14 98 (16.33%) Validation
15 89 (14.83%) Decision-Making
16 81 (13.50%) Machine Learning
17 78 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
18 74 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 361 (60.17%) SQL
2 286 (47.67%) Python
3 52 (8.67%) Java
4 15 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.33%) Scala
6 13 (2.17%) R
7 12 (2.00%) Bash
8 10 (1.67%) C#
9 8 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.00%) Bicep
10 6 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.67%) C++
11 4 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.50%) Cypher
12 3 (0.50%) LookML
12 3 (0.50%) SHACL
12 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.33%) Delphi
13 2 (0.33%) SOQL
13 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (7.17%) Security Cleared
2 35 (5.83%) Degree
3 25 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.83%) Azure Certification
5 11 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.67%) SnowPro
7 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.67%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CIMA
11 1 (0.17%) CISA
11 1 (0.17%) CISSP
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (28.33%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.17%) GDPR
3 23 (3.83%) QA
4 5 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.67%) PMO
6 3 (0.50%) EMIR
6 3 (0.50%) MiFID
6 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) AIFMD
8 1 (0.17%) CDISC
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (7.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.83%) Grafana
3 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.67%) Control-M
5 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 2 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 191 (31.83%) Databricks
2 78 (13.00%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.83%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.67%) Google
5 27 (4.50%) Informatica
6 19 (3.17%) Oracle
6 19 (3.17%) SAP
7 10 (1.67%) MicroStrategy
7 10 (1.67%) Teradata
7 10 (1.67%) Workday
8 8 (1.33%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.17%) Bloomberg
9 7 (1.17%) Denodo
9 7 (1.17%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.17%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.17%) Talend
10 6 (1.00%) Foundry
11 5 (0.83%) Confluent
11 5 (0.83%) Sage