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

 6 months to
1 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 226 186
Rank change year-on-year +12 -40 +150
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 567 329 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 1.19% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.57% 3.19% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 259 379
10th Percentile £407 £406 £425
25th Percentile £469 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £800
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -31.25% +38.27%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £888
90th Percentile £756 £825 -
UK median daily rate £574 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +4.32% -31.25% +34.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £72.00 £32.85 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £35.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.35% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £37.13 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £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 15,878 10,301 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.35% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 6,975 7,846
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 196
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 1 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Snowflake in England over the 6 months to 1 September 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 1 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 +16 418 £575 -6.12% 539
North of England -45 41 £525 +10.53% 120
Midlands -43 31 £525 +25.00% 62
South East -45 30 £616 +17.33% 81
North West -35 28 £525 +10.53% 68
West Midlands -36 27 £575 +24.32% 51
South West -45 16 £575 +21.05% 53
East of England -24 11 £380 -24.00% 12
Yorkshire -33 10 £500 +5.26% 17
East Midlands -15 4 £466 +10.83% 11
North East -45 3 - - 35
Snowflake
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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
1 124 (21.87%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (7.23%) Apache Spark
3 31 (5.47%) Apache
4 11 (1.94%) Confluence
4 11 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.71%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) JBoss
6 1 (0.18%) Luigi
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.17%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.88%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.88%) Sage X3
2 5 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 308 (54.32%) AWS
2 236 (41.62%) Azure
3 160 (28.22%) dbt
4 140 (24.69%) Power Platform
5 132 (23.28%) GCP
6 71 (12.52%) Amazon S3
7 67 (11.82%) GitHub
8 53 (9.35%) Serverless
9 52 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 41 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (4.76%) Fivetran
13 24 (4.23%) Dagster
14 22 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (3.88%) SaaS
15 20 (3.53%) Matillion
16 18 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (3.00%) Amazon EventBridge
17 17 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) DSL
2 2 (0.35%) Firewall
2 2 (0.35%) Internet
2 2 (0.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) OpenFlow
3 1 (0.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (34.57%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (24.34%) Power BI
3 76 (13.40%) BigQuery
4 75 (13.23%) Data Lake
5 66 (11.64%) Tableau
6 61 (10.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 59 (10.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (6.00%) Metadata
8 34 (6.00%) SQL Server
9 31 (5.47%) Big Data
10 27 (4.76%) NoSQL
11 25 (4.41%) Data Vault
11 25 (4.41%) Relational Database
12 21 (3.70%) Looker
12 21 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
13 19 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (3.00%) Semantic Layer
15 15 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (2.47%) Delta Lake
17 13 (2.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (9.35%) Git
2 25 (4.41%) JIRA
3 24 (4.23%) GitLab
4 21 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.06%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.53%) Snyk
7 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.35%) MLflow
8 2 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) LSMW
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 193 (34.04%) Finance
2 164 (28.92%) Social Skills
3 91 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (12.70%) Banking
5 51 (8.99%) Retail
6 26 (4.59%) Marketing
7 21 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.53%) Front Office
9 18 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.47%) Legal
12 12 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.41%) Billing
14 8 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.41%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 200 (35.27%) Data Engineer
2 111 (19.58%) Senior
3 104 (18.34%) Architect
4 94 (16.58%) Snowflake Engineer
5 72 (12.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 67 (11.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (10.93%) Analyst
7 62 (10.93%) Data Architect
8 48 (8.47%) Lead
9 39 (6.88%) Data Analyst
10 28 (4.94%) Developer
11 26 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (3.88%) Snowflake Architect
13 21 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (3.53%) Business Analyst
15 19 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (2.65%) Consultant
16 15 (2.65%) Python Engineer
17 13 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.64%) Terraform
2 52 (9.17%) Kafka
3 26 (4.59%) REST
4 24 (4.23%) PySpark
5 14 (2.47%) .NET
6 8 (1.41%) OAuth
6 8 (1.41%) React
6 8 (1.41%) Spring
6 8 (1.41%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.23%) YAML
8 6 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.88%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.88%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.88%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.88%) OpenID
10 4 (0.71%) Node.js
10 4 (0.71%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.53%) AI Agents
5 16 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (1.94%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.59%) Life Science
12 8 (1.41%) Clustering
12 8 (1.41%) Data Fabric
12 8 (1.41%) Equities
12 8 (1.41%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.41%) Linux
2 7 (1.23%) Unix
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (43.21%) Analytics
2 226 (39.86%) Data Engineering
3 209 (36.86%) Data Modelling
4 200 (35.27%) Data Pipeline
5 199 (35.10%) CI/CD
5 199 (35.10%) ETL
6 162 (28.57%) AI
7 160 (28.22%) Business Intelligence
8 140 (24.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 139 (24.51%) Agile
10 119 (20.99%) DevOps
11 108 (19.05%) Data Governance
12 106 (18.69%) Data Architecture
13 99 (17.46%) Migration
14 89 (15.70%) Validation
15 84 (14.81%) Data Transformation
16 77 (13.58%) Decision-Making
17 72 (12.70%) Machine Learning
18 66 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 323 (56.97%) SQL
2 274 (48.32%) Python
3 54 (9.52%) Java
4 13 (2.29%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.12%) R
6 11 (1.94%) Bash
7 9 (1.59%) Scala
8 8 (1.41%) C#
9 5 (0.88%) Bicep
9 5 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.71%) C++
10 4 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.53%) Cypher
11 3 (0.53%) SHACL
11 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.35%) Delphi
12 2 (0.35%) LookML
12 2 (0.35%) SOQL
12 2 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.70%) Degree
3 27 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.12%) SnowPro
6 9 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.71%) SAS Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.18%) PMP
12 1 (0.18%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (27.51%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.82%) GDPR
3 23 (4.06%) QA
4 6 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.71%) PMO
6 4 (0.71%) SLA
7 3 (0.53%) EMIR
7 3 (0.53%) MiFID
7 3 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (6.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.94%) Grafana
3 5 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.71%) Control-M
5 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 169 (29.81%) Databricks
2 60 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 29 (5.11%) Google
3 29 (5.11%) Informatica
3 29 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.70%) SAP
5 16 (2.82%) Oracle
6 10 (1.76%) Teradata
6 10 (1.76%) Workday
7 8 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
7 8 (1.41%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.41%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.23%) Denodo
8 7 (1.23%) Foundry
8 7 (1.23%) PagerDuty
8 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.06%) Bloomberg
9 6 (1.06%) Charles River
9 6 (1.06%) Talend
10 5 (0.88%) Sage
774 Snowflake jobs in England