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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 232 317
Rank change year-on-year -3 +85 +109
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 388 288 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.12% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 2.97% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 188 186
10th Percentile £333 £367 £419
25th Percentile £413 £482 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £613 £725 £675
90th Percentile £725 £875 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £51.95 - -
25th Percentile £54.88 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - -
75th Percentile £79.63 - -
90th Percentile £85.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.25 - £52.50

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 13,295 9,681 12,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.52% 37.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,174 6,552 8,916
10th Percentile £309 £313 £275
25th Percentile £408 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 146 321
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.15% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £79.90 £74.63 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +44.55% +28.15% -14.16%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +19 293 £525 -19.23% 82
North of England -62 21 £400 -15.79% 31
South East -29 19 £500 +37.93% 39
North West -25 18 £347 -28.00% 20
South West -22 17 £475 -20.83% 11
Midlands -59 16 £550 +10.00% 20
West Midlands -53 13 £525 - 16
East of England -25 9 £550 - 1
East Midlands -26 3 £575 +33.72% 4
Yorkshire -65 2 £488 +5.41% 7
North East -17 1 £575 -11.54% 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 74 (19.07%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.38%) Apache
4 6 (1.55%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.77%) SAS
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (6.44%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.77%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.77%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.52%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 202 (52.06%) AWS
2 182 (46.91%) Azure
3 98 (25.26%) Power Platform
4 96 (24.74%) dbt
5 71 (18.30%) GCP
6 44 (11.34%) Amazon S3
6 44 (11.34%) Serverless
7 38 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (8.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (7.22%) Matillion
11 27 (6.96%) GitHub
12 20 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (3.87%) SaaS
15 12 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.09%) Fivetran
16 11 (2.84%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (2.58%) Prefect
18 9 (2.32%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (30.67%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (23.45%) Power BI
3 50 (12.89%) Snowflake Schema
4 41 (10.57%) Tableau
5 37 (9.54%) Data Lake
6 28 (7.22%) SQL Server
7 25 (6.44%) BigQuery
7 25 (6.44%) Data Vault
7 25 (6.44%) Metadata
8 23 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (5.67%) Big Data
10 21 (5.41%) Relational Database
11 16 (4.12%) NoSQL
12 12 (3.09%) RDBMS
13 11 (2.84%) Star Schema
14 10 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (2.58%) Looker
15 8 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (2.06%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 31 (7.99%) Git
2 18 (4.64%) GitLab
2 18 (4.64%) JIRA
3 15 (3.87%) SpecFlow
4 10 (2.58%) ERwin
5 9 (2.32%) ER Studio
5 9 (2.32%) MLflow
6 8 (2.06%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (1.55%) DBeaver
8 5 (1.29%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.77%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.77%) Toad
10 2 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.26%) Deequ
General
1 106 (27.32%) Finance
2 95 (24.48%) Social Skills
3 56 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.67%) Banking
5 21 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.38%) Retail
7 13 (3.35%) Marketing
8 11 (2.84%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.32%) Front Office
11 5 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Back Office
12 3 (0.77%) Law
12 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.52%) iGaming
13 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (35.57%) Data Engineer
2 72 (18.56%) Snowflake Engineer
3 57 (14.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 54 (13.92%) Architect
5 47 (12.11%) Analyst
6 39 (10.05%) Lead
7 36 (9.28%) Senior
8 33 (8.51%) Data Analyst
9 32 (8.25%) Developer
10 30 (7.73%) Data Architect
11 22 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
13 18 (4.64%) Lead Data Engineer
13 18 (4.64%) Python Engineer
14 17 (4.38%) Snowflake Architect
14 17 (4.38%) Tester
15 16 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (3.87%) Business Analyst
16 15 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
17 14 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.70%) Kafka
2 17 (4.38%) Playwright
3 15 (3.87%) Pandas
4 13 (3.35%) PySpark
5 12 (3.09%) PyTorch
6 9 (2.32%) NumPy
6 9 (2.32%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.06%) Spring
8 7 (1.80%) React
8 7 (1.80%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.55%) Node.js
9 6 (1.55%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.29%) JSON
10 5 (1.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (1.29%) REST
11 4 (1.03%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.03%) gRPC
11 4 (1.03%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (1.03%) SciPy
12 3 (0.77%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.93%) Data Protection Act
3 22 (5.67%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.35%) Clustering
4 13 (3.35%) Equities
4 13 (3.35%) Fixed Income
5 12 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.32%) Replication
7 8 (2.06%) Derivative
7 8 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.55%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.55%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.03%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.03%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.29%) Unix
2 2 (0.52%) Linux
2 2 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (45.88%) Analytics
2 155 (39.95%) Data Modelling
3 135 (34.79%) ETL
4 121 (31.19%) Data Engineering
5 112 (28.87%) Business Intelligence
6 108 (27.84%) Data Pipeline
7 99 (25.52%) CI/CD
8 94 (24.23%) Agile
9 77 (19.85%) AI
10 73 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (18.30%) Data Governance
12 67 (17.27%) DevOps
13 56 (14.43%) Migration
14 53 (13.66%) Data Transformation
14 53 (13.66%) Machine Learning
15 52 (13.40%) Data Architecture
16 50 (12.89%) Data Science
17 46 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
18 42 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (10.57%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (65.21%) SQL
2 206 (53.09%) Python
3 38 (9.79%) Java
4 24 (6.19%) JavaScript
4 24 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.90%) C#
6 11 (2.84%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.32%) Bash
7 9 (2.32%) R
7 9 (2.32%) Scala
8 6 (1.55%) Korn
9 4 (1.03%) Bicep
9 4 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.26%) C
12 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (7.22%) Security Cleared
2 20 (5.15%) Degree
3 17 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.84%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.29%) SnowPro
8 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.77%) PhD
10 2 (0.52%) ACCA
10 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.52%) CIMA
11 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (26.55%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.87%) QA
3 14 (3.61%) GDPR
4 6 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) FATCA
7 1 (0.26%) GAAP
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (7.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (12.63%) Terraform
2 33 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.29%) Grafana
3 5 (1.29%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.03%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 98 (25.26%) Databricks
2 42 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 25 (6.44%) Oracle
4 13 (3.35%) Talend
5 10 (2.58%) Charles River
5 10 (2.58%) Informatica
5 10 (2.58%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.06%) Google
6 8 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.06%) SAP
7 7 (1.80%) MicroStrategy
7 7 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.29%) Ab Initio
8 5 (1.29%) Murex
8 5 (1.29%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.29%) Teradata
8 5 (1.29%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.03%) Denodo
9 4 (1.03%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.03%) Sparx