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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 205 203
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +165
Contract jobs citing Snowflake 528 362 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.32% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.33% 3.52% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 287 359
10th Percentile £408 £407 £418
25th Percentile £470 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £580 £800
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -27.50% +39.13%
75th Percentile £671 £819 £888
90th Percentile £750 £875 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -4.35% -28.13% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £56.60 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.25 - £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 15,836 10,274 11,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.35% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 6,952 8,104
10th Percentile £325 £311 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 268 254
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.48 £49.69
90th Percentile £84.50 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%

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 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +3 380 £575 -8.00% 180
North of England -49 43 £525 +7.69% 34
Midlands -44 34 £518 +21.76% 15
North West -33 30 £525 -5.41% 18
West Midlands -48 30 £563 +21.62% 11
South East -62 24 £575 +19.48% 42
South West -45 20 £574 +11.95% 16
East of England -24 10 £380 -34.48% 2
Yorkshire -45 10 £550 +15.79% 13
East Midlands -12 4 £466 +10.83% 4
North East -44 3 - - 3
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 99 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 25 (4.73%) Apache
4 14 (2.65%) Confluence
5 9 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.76%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Luigi
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (4.17%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.95%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.95%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.95%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.38%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 277 (52.46%) AWS
2 210 (39.77%) Azure
3 136 (25.76%) dbt
4 132 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 119 (22.54%) GCP
6 73 (13.83%) Amazon S3
7 56 (10.61%) GitHub
8 48 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (8.90%) Serverless
10 44 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (5.11%) Fivetran
14 24 (4.55%) Dagster
14 24 (4.55%) Matillion
15 18 (3.41%) Prefect
16 17 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.22%) SaaS
17 16 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) DSL
2 2 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (32.20%) Data Warehouse
2 129 (24.43%) Power BI
3 73 (13.83%) BigQuery
4 68 (12.88%) Data Lake
5 66 (12.50%) Tableau
6 59 (11.17%) Snowflake Schema
7 50 (9.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 38 (7.20%) SQL Server
9 32 (6.06%) Big Data
10 28 (5.30%) Metadata
11 26 (4.92%) NoSQL
12 25 (4.73%) Data Vault
13 23 (4.36%) Relational Database
14 22 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (3.41%) Looker
17 15 (2.84%) Semantic Layer
18 12 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
19 11 (2.08%) Delta Lake
19 11 (2.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 47 (8.90%) Git
2 30 (5.68%) JIRA
3 25 (4.73%) GitLab
4 19 (3.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.14%) MLflow
6 4 (0.76%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.57%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.57%) Snyk
7 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.57%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
8 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) GCC
9 1 (0.19%) LSMW
9 1 (0.19%) Toad
General
1 188 (35.61%) Finance
2 142 (26.89%) Social Skills
3 77 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (13.26%) Banking
5 46 (8.71%) Retail
6 26 (4.92%) Marketing
7 24 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.60%) Financial Institution
8 19 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (3.41%) Front Office
10 13 (2.46%) Legal
10 13 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.52%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.33%) Back Office
15 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.95%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (34.66%) Data Engineer
2 97 (18.37%) Architect
3 92 (17.42%) Snowflake Engineer
4 91 (17.23%) Senior
5 73 (13.83%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 62 (11.74%) Analyst
7 56 (10.61%) Data Architect
8 49 (9.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 45 (8.52%) Lead
10 38 (7.20%) Data Analyst
11 32 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (5.11%) Developer
13 26 (4.92%) AWS Data Engineer
14 22 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.98%) Business Analyst
16 18 (3.41%) Snowflake Architect
17 16 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
18 14 (2.65%) Consultant
19 13 (2.46%) Azure Data Engineer
19 13 (2.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.95%) Kafka
2 23 (4.36%) REST
3 16 (3.03%) PySpark
4 10 (1.89%) .NET
5 9 (1.70%) Spring
5 9 (1.70%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.52%) React
7 7 (1.33%) OAuth
8 6 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
8 6 (1.14%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.14%) YAML
9 5 (0.95%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.95%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.95%) Langfuse
9 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.95%) OpenID
9 5 (0.95%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.95%) Vue
10 4 (0.76%) Node.js
10 4 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.65%) Fixed Income
5 14 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.46%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.89%) Equities
9 9 (1.70%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.33%) Clustering
10 7 (1.33%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.95%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.95%) Derivative
11 5 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.95%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.14%) Unix
2 5 (0.95%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (44.51%) Analytics
2 207 (39.20%) Data Engineering
3 190 (35.98%) Data Modelling
4 185 (35.04%) Data Pipeline
5 174 (32.95%) ETL
6 170 (32.20%) CI/CD
7 154 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
8 139 (26.33%) AI
9 118 (22.35%) Agile
10 107 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 101 (19.13%) DevOps
12 99 (18.75%) Data Governance
13 97 (18.37%) Migration
14 96 (18.18%) Data Architecture
15 84 (15.91%) Validation
16 75 (14.20%) Data Transformation
17 70 (13.26%) Decision-Making
18 67 (12.69%) Machine Learning
19 61 (11.55%) Data Science
20 56 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 294 (55.68%) SQL
2 246 (46.59%) Python
3 53 (10.04%) Java
4 14 (2.65%) R
5 10 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.70%) C#
7 8 (1.52%) Bash
8 7 (1.33%) Scala
9 6 (1.14%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.76%) Bicep
11 3 (0.57%) Cypher
11 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.57%) SHACL
11 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.38%) C++
12 2 (0.38%) Delphi
12 2 (0.38%) SOQL
12 2 (0.38%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 39 (7.39%) Degree
3 30 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.70%) AWS Certification
5 9 (1.70%) SnowPro
6 8 (1.52%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.76%) SAS Certification
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) CFA
11 1 (0.19%) CISM
11 1 (0.19%) CISSP
11 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (26.89%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.01%) GDPR
3 18 (3.41%) QA
4 7 (1.33%) SLA
5 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.57%) EMIR
7 3 (0.57%) MiFID
7 3 (0.57%) PMO
8 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.19%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.19%) CDISC
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (6.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 72 (13.64%) Terraform
2 35 (6.63%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.65%) Grafana
4 8 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 154 (29.17%) Databricks
2 53 (10.04%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.11%) Informatica
4 26 (4.92%) Google
4 26 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.98%) SAP
6 19 (3.60%) Oracle
7 9 (1.70%) Charles River
7 9 (1.70%) Denodo
7 9 (1.70%) Workday
8 8 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.33%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.33%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.33%) PagerDuty
9 7 (1.33%) Splunk
10 6 (1.14%) FactSet
11 5 (0.95%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.95%) Foundry
11 5 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (0.95%) Sage